What Eric Cantor will say today in his “important speech” is predictably not true. Time after time, he and other republicans have told the American people they are fighting to make this country better. That is true, but they are fighting to make this country better for them, which is not the same as making things better for you and me. They invariable become gushy over how they want to help the poor and the middle class. Look at example after example.
Education: they say they want all children to be educated. What they do is to try to privatize public education. Get rid of the Federal government’s department of Education. The greatest thing about public schools is that when the doors are open everyone one welcome. When the “owners” of a private school opens their doors, they decide who is welcome and what their employees teach. The thrusts are biases religious, racial, and economic. For example poor children from a poor neighborhood in a rundown school with a leaky roof receive a better education in science when compared to the education of children in an evangelical school teaching biblical law.
Higher education: they say they want all children to have an opportunity to go to college. What they do is create university industrial complexes that turn colleges into hatcheries for start up companies at the expense of teaching. To support the enterprise, which requires more professors than student, more research space than classrooms, they raise the tuition to a level where only the rich can afford it. Borrow money to pay $50,000 a year tuition for your three children you say? No way, the cost of student loans sly rockets to allow loan companies to make a big profit, which is why the fight government loans unless it is in the form of government insurance in case the loan is not paid back. Their suggested solutions to solve the problem of less than stellar education is to staple a "green card" to PhD degrees held by immigrants.
Equal economic opportunity for all: They want all costly government programs that help people to vanish. They have a strange way of doing his. What they do are such things as halve unemployment benefits at the same time they raise executive salaries. If you the reader say that is not true; look at the first month of Republican government in North Carolina. All high level appointed government employees receive a substation increase in salaries while unemployment benefits have been cut in half—I should say that it is unemployment insurance, which means we all paid for the benefits during hard times, especially the unemployed.
Promote business to increase job for everyone: Again look at North Carolina. The Duke Energy Company wants to build a new facility to “generate more energy cheaply” to benefit the people. Here is how the newly merged Progressive and Duke energy companies propose to pay for the new expansion of capability. Increase the rates people pay for the energy by an outlandish 10%. They can do this because they have control of the state government utilities commission. Has anyone looked at their books? They are making record profits and should take the money out of the profits to fulfill their dreams of a bigger and more powerful company and not the people who need the electricity at an affordable rate. If they took the money out of the profits, it would hurt the share-holders, who happen to be the board of directors. That is how they are fighting to make the State better.
Decrease regulations so business can flourish and create jobs: Without regulations, they can do what they want to do with out oversight. Did I mention work place safety or OSHA. Do I have to mention environmental protection or EPA? Should we get into along discussion about labor unions and the falling wages? Did I mention that none of these things hurt the CEOs.
Eric Cantor, I know exactly what you are going to say to day as surly as I know it is all a lie just as I knew George W. Bush was deceitful when he claimed to be a compassionate conservative, or what Ronald Reagan dishonest when he sold the American people on the idea that top down economics creates jobs. The fools among us might buy your mendacity but I and my blog reads will not, at least I hope they will not.
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