On January 27, 2013, Paul Krugman writes an op-ed in The New York Times saying:
When it comes to substance, the G.O.P. is more committed than ever to policies that take from most Americans and give to a wealthy handful.
Consider, as a case in point, how a widely reported recent speech by Bobby Jindal the governor of Louisiana, compares with his actual policies.
Mr. Jindal posed the problem in a way that would, I believe, have been unthinkable for a leading Republican even a year ago. “We must not,” he declared, “be the party that simply protects the well off so they can keep their toys. We have to be the party that shows all Americans how they can thrive.” After a campaign in which Mitt Romney denounced any attempt to talk about class divisions as an “attack on success,” this represents a major rhetorical shift.
But Mr. Jindal didn’t offer any suggestions about how Republicans might demonstrate that they aren’t just about letting the rich keep their toys, other than claiming even more loudly that their policies are good for everyone.
So when Mr. Romney made his infamous “47 percent” remarks, he wasn’t, in his own mind, saying anything outrageous or even controversial. He was just repeating a view that has become increasingly dominant inside the right-wing bubble, namely that a large and ever-growing proportion of Americans won’t take responsibility for their own lives and are mooching off the hard-working wealthy. Rising unemployment claims demonstrate laziness, not lack of jobs; rising disability claims represent malingering, not the real health problems of an aging work force.
And given that worldview, Republicans see it as entirely appropriate to cut taxes on the rich while making everyone else pay more.
The reality is that both the Republicans and Democrats are guilty of extracting and transferring wealth through taxation and national debt obligations to enrich themselves and their political support special interests.
While I am not a Fox News supporter, the network has doen an excellent job at describing this problem in a special edition of the Hannity Show “Welcome To ‘BoomTown’ Washington, D.C., (http://news.yahoo.com/video/welcome-boomtown-washington-d-c-024536776.html). The bi-partisan special raises the question: Who’s getting rich off your money? But, not surprising, solutions are not put forth.
Washington controls the money flowing throughout the nation. BIG MONEY and influence are the prime movers of the economy. While politicians and the national media, as well as academia, advocates JOBS CREATION, this is a diversion as the people remain oblivious to how people become wealthy. Their interest and business model is bigger government based on tax receipts and borrowing. In the meantime, globalization propelled by slave labor and tectonic shifts in the technologies of production are destroying and devaluing jobs, with Americans experiencing decreasing income and economic insecurity, increasingly dependent on government welfare, open and concealed.
The solution is not a focus on JOB CREATION but a focus on OWNERSHIP CREATION. There is a solution. The Just Third Way Master Plan for America’s future is published athttp://foreconomicjustice.org/?p=5797.
The fundamental economic solution is to create income for EVERY American by simultaneously broadening private, individual ownership of FUTURE productive capital economic growth and fully paying the profit dividends to the new American owners of the income-producing capital assets of our corporations.
Support the Capital Homestead Act athttp://www.cesj.org/homestead/index.htm andhttp://www.cesj.org/homestead/summary-cha.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/opinion/krugman-makers-takers-fakers-.html?_r=0
