GOP TAMPA MESSAGE TO EACH OTHER BUT NOT TO YOU

The GOP convention in Tampa could turn out to be a great learning experience for the people of the United States. On FOX News talking heads, when the microphones are open, tell you what they think will advance their agenda and not what they truly think and feel. The same is true of interviews with politicians. You only hear what they think will help them. I realized this morning that in a room where they think only Republicans are listening to Republicans it is different. Liberal can learn from TAMPA. They duel one another in how far they want to shift to the right. In other words, they tell the truth about where they want to go politically and the picture is not pretty for the poor and the middle class.  Ron Johnson and Grover Norquist, for example, laid it all out. They want to cut taxes, which they say will cause business flourish that is increase growth. Think about that for a minute; if GDP goes up and taxes goes down, “where does all the money go”. I call this the Reagan Gap. It is supply side economics. There is no money for teachers, firefighters, police, roads, damns, high-speed rail or any infrastructure development, nothing that might do the general-public any good. It shifts the money from the community to the individual.

The next part of their commentary this morning, something they nodded their heads to each other in agreement, was that they want deregulation. This means they want to be able to lie, cheat, and steal to get the money and do not want a big government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” watching— with no tax revenue, the government cannot afford to watch.  What could send a clearer message to the American Voter? I know and you know that 99% of the people do not want what they propose so they will not tell them but they will tell it to one another.