SikUvTheRite's Blog

Today is an unprecedented day in American history.

Today, we became a nation of socialism for the wealthy.

There isn't even a term or name for it.  Privitunism?  Socialenterprise?

But regardless of what you call it, it's still a pig!  Today we are the only civilized, industrialized nation in the world to socialize big business and investment banking!  Our government, which is supposedly you and me, today just took the risk out of investing.  And that changes everything!  We can't call our system "free market" anymore.

Our government is guaranteeing profits for the wealthy!  Taking away the risks of bad investments - but not for you and me, oh no, only for the wealthiest, Wall Street tycoon.  All that talk of Main Street?  Just like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz, phony.

Most countries who practice any socialism (which is most) usually take the "social" part pretty seriously and use it for things that benefit EVERYONE.  Most countries would have TAKEN OVER the failing industries and nationalized them before handing them welfare money as we have.  Which really is the same thing, except we let the rich owners continue to rake in the profits while failing - the right way would be to remove leadership who fails pififully and give the people ownership stake in the companies.

Make no mistake, this is a non-partisan issue.  Today, we started a new welfare program.  Today, we started a "New Deal".  Today, we started socialized welfare for the richest investment tycoons.

Today may be the beginning of the end of the prosperity of average Americans as we know it.  WE'LL be paying taxes to HAND OVER to people worth 5, 10, 25, 100 MILLION dollars!

Too bad we started this downward spiral by electing an oil tycoon con man and a Republican Congress in the name of religion and guns (religious groups and the NRA, after all, are what got Bush and Republicans elected to begin with).  Too bad we made the same mistake twice.

But it will be a national tragedy if we make the same mistake three times.

I was actually surprised but pleasantly pleased to hear the reckless, irresponsible trooper involved in killing those two teen girls by driving 120MPH is being charged with reckless homicide!

Yes, maybe there IS some justice in this country, every now and then!

Our thanks should go to the Grand Jury on this case, who heard the facts and made the decision to charge rather quickly!  Kudos to them!

We the people have spoken, loud and clear!  This is the way justice is supposed to work.

Now it's up to a jury of his peers.  Let's hope they also do the right thing and punish this guy for taking two innocent lives.  Put him away for a while so he can't hurt anybody else!

Well, it's a done deal.  Not that there was ever any doubt about it.

The Ballpark Village developers got their government entitlement handout of about $30 million from - yep, you guessed it, you and me the average taxpayer.

Because this is roughly "in the ballpark" of the amount of profit an investment of this size would generate over a couple of years, this essentially means the State, along with the previous City handout, guarantees their profit for this venture.

And remember how we were all going to get a state income tax break from all that money Blunt and the Republicans saved by slashing Medicaid earlier in this legislative session?  Well, now we know where the money was REALLY intended to go.  Truly disabled people were displaced and neglected, yet: Where is our state income tax break?

Isn't this taking from the poor and giving to the rich?  A sort-of Reverse Robin Hood?  Maybe Communism in Reverse, where the state guarantees profits for the rich?

And where are those fiscal conservative Republicans, so up in arms against any kind of entitlement program, so against any form of welfare?  "Personal responsibility" is their battle cry!  "Work for it", they say.   Hmmmm - where is the "personal responsibilty" for the profits of their venture and why don't they "work for" their success, I wonder?

This should prove to even the most cynical that Republicans are not truly against "wasteful tax and spend" welfare programs, they just send the cash to a different, elite crowd.

This is a government entitlement program, a welfare program, for the rich, pure and simple.

Wow.  The Iraqi Parliament wants to take a two month vacation!

Now, if that doesn't prove how full of it they are, what else could you want?

Can any of the remaining minority of you who still support this war really believe we are doing any good over there for anybody?

To those of you so worried that pulling out will lead to more attacks on the US: Isn't that what our "defense" is for?  Remember, we call it the Department of DEFENSE, not Department of OFFENSE!  IF we had excellent intelligence (of course, under Bush that's questionable, quite frankly) - but IF we had excellent intelligence, then we should, for about .01% of the cost of this war, be prepared for any attack and kick any attacker's butt to kingdom come.

We CAN prevent attacks on our soil -  without giving a rat's butt what happens to them kooks over there.  That's why we spend $500 BILLION a year on defense, isn't it?

Of course, if you believe as I do that the REAL worry about leaving Iraq would be the threat to Israel, I say - let Israel defend itself with the $10-20 BILLION a year military aid we give them.  I'd say that should be enough to prevent rock throwing and crude fireworks-level rockets from hurting them, don't you think?

I have an idea.  I think ALL our troops and support needs to take a two-month vacation!  Send all our troops and military gear and money home for two months.

And then let's keep them here.