The Fool’s Game

We, the people, are not fools...

Whom do the banks, the corporations, and the GOP think they are fooling? Anyone can see that this wait-obstruct-and-stall game that began immediately after Obama took office is still as strong as ever. While these people sit on the stimulus money, refusing to fuse it into the system, America is falling into insolvency and bankruptcy. Nevertheless, do they care? Why should they? Obviously, they are hoarding resources and profit, doling it out only to the stockholders who sit quiet as they collect their dividends and watch others suffer.

I once wrote an essay titled “The Heart of The Conservative Soul: A View from the Center.” I no longer have a copy of this article, and I certainly no longer think of myself as the middle. In this essay, I made the assertion that what the GOP/conservative philosophy was lacking was empathy.  After watching the Republican nominee for the Senate in Alaska Joe Miller discussed with Bob Schieffer,   his stance on the distribution of power in the government and his support on decreasing federal aid money to states:

Schieffer, “First you say you want to phase out Medicare. You want to privatize Social Security. I have to say there are a lot of people in Alaska who are on Medicare and are getting Social Security. Isn’t that position going to be a problem for you in the [general] election?”

“I would suggest to you that if one thinks that the Constitution is extreme, then you would also think that the founders are extreme,” Miller said. “We just simply want to get back to basics, restore essentially the constitutional foundation of our country.

“That means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in basically every item of our lives,” he continued. “What that means is there does have to be some transition. With respect to Social Security, what we’ve said consistently throughout this race is that if you’ve paid into the system, if you’re dependent on the system, we have got to get the fiscal house in order at the national level so that we can continue to pay those benefits. But to suggest that there is nothing that can be done, that we have to continue as the way things are, ignores the fact that the trust fund is empty – it’s full of IOUs.” – Joe Miller

I will once again say that I was correct. We, the people, are not fools…

(This article was published first on Blogcritics, where this Face The Nation’s  video can be viewed in it’s entirety)