On August 12, 2012, Bill Keller, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, writes an excellent article on the nature of a Romney presidency if elected.
BRACE yourself for weeks of chatter about Mitt Romney’s running mate. Vice presidents matter, as we have been spookily reminded by the recent re-emergence of Dick Cheney on our TV screens. And Paul Ryan matters more than most. (See below.)
But these days you don’t just elect a ticket of two; you elect a whole package. Presidents come with a cast of advisers, think tanks, lobbyists, legislators, donors and watchdogs. Some in the entourage end up in key jobs; others operate as a kind of shadow cabinet, vetting choices and enforcing doctrine.
This is especially true of Republicans, who have spent decades building a disciplined conservative infrastructure that recruits talent, culls dissenters and lays down the law. Compared with Democrats, who are scattered left and center, a Republican administration is more than ever a conservative turnkey project.
Every indication points to further ownership concentration of America’s productive capital assets and a widening divide between the minority wealthy ownership class and the American majority left to fend off of disappearing or degrading wages and salaries under a Romney presidency. The loathing of regulations of any kind will be the tool to further enrich the rich. Additionally, huge tax cuts with the promise of a bonanza of jobs in the 12 million range, will be the rally call, but this is nothing more than a charade.
Romney and the Republicans, as well as the Democrats, have completely failed to address the BIG ISSUE that is at the root of our nation’s economic and social problems: the ever-widening gap between those that the rigged system perpetuates as capital owners and those that are left to fend for a livelihood on wages and salaries under attack by job destroying and degrading tectonic shifts in the technologies of production––shifting production off of people onto to “things” embodied in productive land, structures, human-intelligent machines, superautomation, robotics, digital computerized operations, etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/opinion/the-romney-package.html?_r=1
