Tom Tancredo and the GOP Our Guts, Their glory Class Warfare
Class warfare! Average Americans, and that’s most of us, have been under attack ever since the day George Bush II was sworn into office. Working Americans have been hammered and the filthy rich elite continue their assault. These elitists, and their GOP representatives, are responsible for my 401K plan being decimated, the value of my home being cut in half, ensuring that health insurance remains unaffordable, and making it impossible to find a job.
They don’t blame Wall Street Bankers for the disaster; they blame entitlement programs and immigrants (Mexicans). How do I know this you ask? Well, I got it from Tom Tancredo, that’s how. See his October 3rd post entitled Memo to GOP: No Guts, no glory (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111767).
I don’t personally blame social security payments to my mother or low income health insurance programs for children for the trillions of dollars of wealth lost by average Americans in the past year. I’m blaming the GOP for the no rules no holds barred capitalism they unleashed on us eight years ago. It was the too big to fail banks that gambled with their depositors money, and not some immigrant Mexicans that led to this economic collapse. It was not some poverty stricken child who needed health insurance that caused the value of my home to be slashed in half; it was the policies of the GOP and members of that party like Tom Tancredo.
Mr. Tancredo, you and your party, the GOP, destroyed the country because you got to run it your way, and now that Obama is president, you want to blame the whole thing on him. I tell you Tom, my memory is not that short and I’m not falling for it.
Here are some quotes from Mr. Tancredo taken from his October 3rd post entitled Memo to GOP: No Guts, no glory
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111767
“We are witnessing a grass-roots rediscovery of our constitutional traditions and a principled resistance to the expansion of entitlement spending.”
Tom, just the opposite is true, the health insurance system isn’t working; there is a hell of a lot of uproar over that. In this country health insurance is provided to workers by employers. But business has reneged on the deal. At one time they would pay for almost all of the cost of the monthly premiums, but now they either won’t offer any coverage, or pay for 50% or less of the premium.
So if business is no longer going to hold up their end of the bargain, and premiums are priced beyond what workers can afford, then Uncle Sam has to come in to rectify the situation. But you object, why? Interesting how you use the constitution as the basis for your objection. I think your objecting for a different reason.
Here is more of Mr. Tancredo:
“Obama’s radicalism has generated a genuine, mushrooming, rational fear for the future of our constitutional republic. “
Uncle Sam getting involved in health insurance is a natural response, Washington has no choice, and it is the only thing that could have happened, very predictable. This is not a case of Obama being radical, he’s dealing with a budget issue and a public health crisis, and it seems to be reasonable and responsible for a president to get involved. Again, why do you object?
More of Mr. Tancredo:
“In my home state of Colorado in the last month, Sen. McCain attempted to dictate the Republican nominee for the 2010 U.S. Senate race. … Apparently, McCain and national party leaders want a nominee who is not so conservative on the illegal-immigration issue.”
Yep, it’s those damm Mexicans, they ruined everything; we need to get them all the hell out of here. No Tom, it’s not Mexicans, the government looked the other way and allowed them in to serve as replacements for American workers who are subject to minimum wage laws and who require benefits. I get it, you want the immigrant workers, but you don’t want them showing up in hospital emergency rooms trying to get basic medical care. You don’t want businesses to have to provide them with insurance and you sure as hell don’t want them to be included in any health insurance reform. Just what do you expect these people to do Tom, die?
More from Tom:
“Yes, compromise is a necessary part of lawmaking in any democracy, but so-called bipartisanship has for too long been a one-way ticket to more social engineering and bigger budget deficits. How about a bipartisan commitment to reducing the national debt and getting the federal government out of the school classroom?”
More class warfare! Get this, social engineering created the deficits. Actually, Tom, it was the Reagan and Bush tax cuts along with Bush not wanting to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that created the deficits. You ignore the real reasons and go after essential safety net programs as the culprit. Tom, you really are delusional. You’re in denial. If you really wanted to reduce the national debt you would be clamoring for the Bush tax cuts to be allowed to expire, and calling for all the troops to come home.
But no, the GOP created the deficit with the long term intention of cutting safety net programs to cover it. This is classic taking from the poor and giving to the rich. Spit on the downtrodden and curse them for their condition. Sounds like your more out for revenge than any commitment to debt reduction. And by the way, how do you keep the government out of public schools anyway?
And lastly from Mr. Tancredo:
“We do not see a new Ronald Reagan on the horizon, and it may be a mistake to expect one. But one thing is certain: A new Reagan is more likely to emerge from the principled battles with Obama’s radicalism at the state and local level than from the back rooms of the Capitol Hill Club. Have we forgotten that Ronald Reagan’s first political battles were not in Sacramento but in the Hollywood struggles of the 1950s to unmask communist screenwriters?”
Still worshipping the Reagan god? The founder of disaster deficits; the king of deficit spending. Sorry dude but you don’t get to destroy the country with policies that have been proven not to work and then blame Obama for the consequences.
My complaint is this; the GOP teamed up with big business and took a sledgehammer to my piggy bank. My retirement fund and the value of my home were cut in half. The unemployment and foreclosure rates are alarming high, state budgets are strapped and essential services and programs will need to be cut and Tom Tancredo thinks were heading in the right direction. He wants more of the same but in higher doses.
What he wants is to cover the Reagan and Bush tax cuts, which amounted to massive wealth transference to the already wealthy, with cuts to programs helping the elderly, impoverished children, wounded veterans, the unemployed, people of color who are permanently condemned to poverty, the sick and disabled, and the educational system.
To garner support for his vision, he labels Obama a radical commie. This is blatant class warfare. I take it personal Mr. Tancredo. Your pro-business anti-government polices led to my being robbed and now you’re circling back to vulture- up on my downtrodden carcass. And like a vulture you prey on the weak and struggling to secure a capitalism that has been corrupted so that it only rewards the rich.
I’m gonna fight back this time. I don’t want people like you ever to be part of the decision making process ever again. You’re not for the common good you’re for your own good to the determent of everyone else.
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