OBAMA, VETO THE FUNDING BILL

Now it is time for the American people to set back and complain about what the people they elected in the past are doing. They chose the people and now hate those they chose—somehow this makes sense to them. The big issue of the day is the question of “emergency” passage of the government funding legislation. It is interesting that people seem universally disgusted with the way politicians they voted for are handling this issue as indicated by a 12% approval rating for congress. This gives credibility to the thought that people fully understand this figure means 88% and truly do not approve of what they are or are not doing.

The current Republican majority in the House of Representatives wrote this bill, which is a window opening on the future. The amazing thing is that the People when they go to the voting booths do not seem to realize that like past legislation, this current legislation reflects of the “philosophy” of party in charge of that body. The age-old idea is that what happened in the past is the only way we have to predict the future. Despite knowing what happened in the past and complaining bitterly about it, the American voters chose to put Republicans in control of both houses of Congress. We can engage in a debate concerning who voted and who did not vote etc but in fact, we, in spite of Republican efforts designed to keep some of us from voting, most Americans had the opportunity to vote and they know by choosing not to vote, is a way of voting.

They designed the centerpiece of this current legislation to eliminate regulations that protect the people from excesses of big business; things that affect people in their daily lives. The Republican Party steps back, as a Party and claims it is not them. Mysteriously, the people pick this up by claiming “corrupt politicians” are responsible and not the Party. When people like me point out that Republican are responsible for passing these laws; the vote tally clearly shows 100% Republican voting for the legislation that hurt the people;  the inevitable retort is “no it is not”, it is crooked politicians from both parties that pass these laws. When a flock of geese flies over and there is one duck flying with the flock, for me it is still a flock of geese. The important point is that this current legislation is the very legislation people complain about as being the result of corrupt politicians.

The legislation will allow derivative trading which is the very same thing that led to the economic collapse of 2008. They have cut taxes to the point where we have a huge nation debt. Our public schools and universities are terrible underfunded by shifting the funding responsibly to student tuition to benefit lending institutions. We fill our prisons are  with mentally retarded and the insane that should be in more expensive publically support facilities design for them but closed by Reagan to cut taxes. In other words, the American voter elected to put government in the hands of people they have been complaining about for corrupting “their” government. Even our armed forces are privatized and on the verge of collapse. They are working on destroying Social Security and increasing old age poverty to benefit Wall Street.

The most ironical thing about this legislation is it reflexive; it contributes to the very thing that leads to more corruption of politicians in the government—raise individual donor limits.

Here is the test of the accuracy of what I say. Read the tally of “R” verses “D” voters in support of this funding bill. My message may not be clear so let me explain. If a group of citizens gathers and one or two in the group are bad or in the current context, corrupt, is the group corrupt.  What I am saying is that if the group agrees with those who are corrupt, the group is corrupt. If the group eschews the corrupt ones, the group is not corrupt. It is as simple as that. I am truly sorry to have to report that we are about to find out if the Republican Party is corrupt. By following my own advice and examining the past, I think they are. As costly as it will be to shut down the government, our only hope of preserving our democracy is for the President Obama to veto the legislation.

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