"Compassionate Conservatives . . . ."
Speaking of things I've never seen . . . I never saw 12-year old kids working 12-hour work-days, death-traps operating as factories, workers-ants with no rights beyond "just be happy you've got a j-o-b, and shut the hell up." America in the infancy of the industrial revolution . . . Aristocrats unleashed.
"Ludlow" and the "Haymarket Riot." America - before organized labor had an impact.
But now, upon observing the Republican Party attempting to inch-across a high-wire called "hypocrisy" - somehow claiming a brotherhood with the everyday Fred n' Barney impacted, devastated by the Gulf oil eruption - while rationalizing, minimizing, justifying, even defending the good name of British Petrol.
See Senator Joe Barton . . . and all his defenders
If these elitist political pimps can sell-out and sell-down-the-gulf their own GOP-WASP constituents . . . that tells me exactly where my Black ass sits - still 3/5ths a man . . . at best.
One would conclude, after the gulf turns to tar, pure 100% Texas Tea - there ought-not be any doubt all of the GOP, and about half the Democrats . . . little more than bought n' sold political prostitutes going to the highest bidders - hoes in a stable. Ivy League enlightened whores . . . willing, wanting to do anything for an all expense paid 2 weeks in Tobago, Berlin, Rio . . . .
My momma raised some ugly kids . . . but she didn't raise no fools . . . yet, I just don't understand how the rank n' file Rednecks fail, miserably-so, to grasp this elementary fact; The Republicans you've put in power to represent you, to protect you from the moral-less Niggers and Wet-backs . . . these Ultra rich greed-driven White men - are actually the bastards screwing you . . . .
The guy bending you over, stabbing you in the back . . . ain't Black and he speaks the King's English flawlessly.
It's Landon the lawyer in the four-grand suite.
It's called "Trickle Down Economics" . . .Voo-Doo Economics.
Believe it or not, your tight bond, your White-male brotherhood took a back-seat to cold cash. The Thurston Howell III tier of the Republican Party betrayed the Archie Bunker rank n' file, left them stranded on a deserted isle. Yes, the fat-cat's fleeced Ricky Bobby and Gomer - sold them out - for their Northern Yankee brethren on Wall Street, up there in New York, New York . . . so nice, they named it twice.
Andy, Barney, Aunt Bee, Opie, Floyd, Gober . . . hoodwinked, bamboozled by their rich cousins from the big city, the crocodile skin-loafer clad lounge lizard who orchestrated the exodus of breadwinner jobs to the four-corners of the globe, and allowed the entry of long-deprived and already exploited Mexicans in search of the elusive American Dream - to undercut, break what was left of organized labor's spine - in order to maximize profits for the "investors class."
If White America fails to hear the 2:37 AM wake your ass-up call, ringin' off the wall . . . then the US Empire remains in serious, grave peril. If the good decent hard working White folks of the Gulf Coast can't see the GOP is more concerned with covering the reckless and careless asses of these Gulf Coast pirates - then they are of making the situation economically right for the proud yet powerless Rednecks of the Bayou
The GOP . . . Greed Over Principles.
It's the Republican Party, "The Establishment" which is holding-up, denying crumbs off the table for the long term unemployed, worker-bees, those abandoned by the US manufacturing/ industrial complex - who packed-up and moved because they couldn't afford to pay a decent living wage, so they now pay some cat 2 bucks a day to make a widget they still sell for 50% more today then 3 years ago.
Unquestionably, it is White folks who must, sooner or later open their eyes to - it's not really about race nor religion - the biggest headaches confronting this country aren't centered on Billy and Jack getting married. At the end of the day, the elitist who govern the "Right," use these Puritan phobias as Trojan Horses, like camouflage, enabling them to escort all the money out of middle class white America's wallet and into their "bottomless" inter-continental pockets.
Ladies, gentlemen, the GOP has no allegiance to the little people of America.
America's self-anointed nobility have "their" best interest first, their own individual personal financial whims are explained, defended and amplified by corporate mouthpieces like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Glen Beck and Sean Hannity who pimp and exploit those societal hot buttons, create distractions so the multi-nationalist can steal you and I blind.
C'mon White people! Helene Keller and Ray Charles could see that, why can't you folks with two good eyes see this?!
You may not dig this, but dig this; In the eyes of the folks who spend extended stays at the Broadmoor or Del Coronado, that top 2% to 5% tier of this nation, who vote their pocket book first, who actually have decision making power - they can purchase politicians and media outlets . . . the fattest of all the fat-cats, who reside in the fraternal Country Club, the guys who can "base their family" for 4 weeks at DisneyWorld in a few of the Grand Floridians Suites . . . and not blink at the check-out bill.
Let's face it - they whole-heartily, unabashedly believe rich people are better then poor people. No, let's go a step farther, the top-tier of US society believes Money is God . . . and God is money.
Yep, and even if you too are staying on "Disney property" say the "Contemporary" where the Monorail glides through the lobby - you ain't rich enough. You're measly 277 grand a year don't mean jack to the guys in this frat-house.
I'm one of those cats making that desperate plea, just another over-feed, long-haired leaping-Nome, placing that early morning phone call to White America - "Whitey . . . your killin' us!!"
Didn't Bush say it all in Fahrenheit 9/11 - "This is an impressive crowd: the haves, and the have-mores . . . Some people call you the elite, I call you my base . . . . "
You can slap me, slap the Black off me if I'm wrong, but good lord, sweet mother of Jesus . . . it seems clear as hell the GOP, today governed by the "have-every-damn things" refuses to heed the creed - "I am my brothers keeper." Nor do they adhere to any mindset along the lines of "All for one, one for all . . . we're all in this together."
No instead it seems they march lock n' step to the tunes of; "Everyman for himself" "I got mine, you get yours!" "Survival of the fittest, strongest . . . richest!"
"Women and children first!" I don't think so, not this Republican Tea Party - which personifies and exudes a self-centered, greedy, insecure, weak, micro-penised mentality which would first have to determine if that mother and child . . . had their proper papers, and what do they bring to the table? Can they cook n' clean?
TEAM -Together, Everybody Accomplishes More . . . it's an alien concept to the guys on top.
You know, I'm going to take this moment to erg you to approach your White associates and co-workers and simply ask them if they understand that in the eyes of wealthy White Aristocrats . . . they're Niggers too?" They've no real value beyond what they can contribute to Donald Trump's profit sheet.
Ask them if they understand this is an another gilded American era of unbridled, unchecked capitalism . . . and if you ain't got no serious capital . . . well boy, you are expendable, having no value beyond what you can be pimped and exploited for.
The guy bending your wife over Mr. Tea Bagger isn't a thug-of-color, it's the private college legacy brat who got into the school your folks couldn't afford for you, couldn't pull enough bread out their suburban home for to cover the outlandish cost of tuition and fees. The slick dude with all the right credentials.
It's Landon the lawyer in the four-grand suite.
I'm not advocating class war-fare, the greedy bastards already won the war. I'm just asking for the little people to stop believing rich people are better then poor people . . . and fight back, check n' balance these con-men so the rich stop getting richer on the backs of the poor, who are getting poorer every damn day. . . and that's not by happenstance nor coincidence.
It's called "Trickle Down Economics" . . .Voo-Doo Economics.
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I do believe we are our brothers keeper.
Compassionate conservative? Isn't that an oxymoron?
I say that with tongue in cheek. I know it is not.
My father being that compassionate conservative.
My father and I never shared political opinions. I don't think, we never discussed them. I am sure he voted Republican.
As for the compassion, he showed me by example. I never saw him drive past anyone in obvious trouble. He always stopped and at the least gave them a ride to the nearest place where they could get help. If he could he would help them repair what needed fixing.
Conservatives today are nothing like the man who taught me by example. A man of pride, ethics and integrity. He instilled these values in me as if by osmosis.
Thanks for your post.
"When you're rich like us, you won't want to pay taxes for those lazy s.o.b.'s who didn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps like you are going to someday!"