Let’s look at some facts. Our national debt was $900 billion when Reagan took over. He expanded it to $3 trillion, created a lot of defense jobs, and a good economy on borrowed money, which made most of us better off as well as created many Republican millionaires — and he did all this while lowering the tax rates considerably for the super rich.
Next came Bush One, and he ran the debt up more.
Next came Clinton who raised taxes on the rich and the economy took off and created nearly 30 million jobs, and the national debt was being paid down.
Then came Bush Two, who lowered taxes for the rich considerably, started two unfunded wars, ran up the national debt to over $10 trillion, and when he left office we were losing jobs at about 800,000 per month.
Obama came in while inheriting the worst financial crisis since the great depression and created over five million jobs in 4 years — more than were created in the past eight years under a Republican administration.
I challenge Linda Delamare to prove any of the above untrue.
I would argue that America’s greatest danger is not socialism, but plutocracy. America has not always been the land where anyone could make it if he worked hard enough. Consider capitalism in America during the 19th and early 20th century for starters. If you are unaware of it, then I suggest you read up on it and learn about the 12-hour workdays, six days a week, with workers barely earning enough to keep from starving while the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Morgans, Vanderbilts and many more became filthy rich.
If history has proven one thing, it is that greed going unchecked will allow those at the top to get richer and richer while denying those who work on the lower scale a decent standard of living.
Ms. Delamare is right about one thing, “it cannot last.” And yes, there have been revolutions, many of them caused by improvising the masses. Just consider the French and Russian revolutions.
But I think what Ms. Delamare is really upset over is Obama getting a second term. To me it was a choice of going back to failed policies like reducing taxes for the rich, the result being each time that we ended up with a larger national debt; or rewarding companies to dismantle profitable companies while paying American workers decent salaries, then sending those jobs to China so people like Romney could take food and homes away from American families and give those same jobs to Chinese workers for .99 cents per hour, and thus enrich himself at the workers’ expense. Or, to let more companies like GM “go bankrupt” as Romney had advocated.
Ms. Delamare, I do not question your belief, but I most certainly disagree with it.
JIM FERRELL
Categorized | Letters to the editor
Response to Delamare letter: Socialism or plutocracy?
Posted on21 November 2012.
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I wonder how much this guy gets from moveon.org to write letters to the ed every few weeks. Guess its part of this rumored “Left wing take over of Pahrump,” who knows.
Anyone that can see that Obama has failed so far, is blind or blinded by partisan politics.
No kidding. Maybe we should rename this newspaper The Jim and Robert Show?
I like Jim Ferrell’s comment: George W started two unfunded wars. Since when are wars funded in advance? “We better save up! I’d like to start a war!” Laughable.
Denny W: I agree. Jim Ferrell & his buddy Robert, seem to be the two most left wing liberals who post on this site. I’ll bet neither one of them are from around here, more than likely CA or Vegas. The people who voted for Obama are just looking for the free stuff and are not concerned at all that there is no way for the government to pay for it. It can only result in higher taxes and the destruction of our nation.
@really concerned;
First of all, does it matter where I am from? I am an American just like you. And what is all this free stuff us liberals want? A good job with benefits? A level playing field? So please tell me about all the free stuff I can get. I have worked my entire life and have NEVER collected a dime from the government. Except of course when I served in the USAF. Btw, last year the U.S. spent about 52 billion dollars on social welfare programs. I wonder if you know how much we gave away to corporations during the same time period? EVERYTHING Mr. Ferrell said was correct. You of course cannot dispute any of the facts. All you can do is come in here with your very tired, lame, ad hominem attacks. Wake me when you get a clue.
Excellent letter mister Ferrell. Of course it will fall upon deaf tea party ears in this town.
Mr. Ferrell,
Plutocracy? I say BS. The majority of my ancestors came to this country in the mid to late 19th century with little more than the clothes on their back, a strong work ethic, and some basic trade skills. Within a generation, they owned successful farms and businesses and even sent a handful of offspring to college.
What exactly is your argument with Ms. DeLaMare’s essay? Do you disagree that our education system has dumbed down the masses, promising cradle-to-grave care; and that the majority have not willingly succumbed their personal freedoms for security, as sheep to the slaughter? Ms. DeLaMare’s essay was about the willingness of the ignorant and uneducated American public handing over their God-given liberty in exchange for the easy life as promised by those for whom they cast their votes.
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.” — Edward Gibbon(1737-1794), English historian and Member of Parliament
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1909
Tax the rich, give it to the poor, till there are no rich any more.
Sounds like a recipe for success to me, how could that possibly go wrong?