Senate Republicans Don’t Even Want to Have A Debate About Jobs Bill
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell“Obama is on the ropes; why do we appear ready to hand him a win?”
-Senior House Republican Aide, speaking anonymously
Forty-six Republican Senators voted against a motion that would start debate on the American Jobs Act.
This isn’t a vote on the bill itself, mind you. Even though the American Jobs Act contains provisions supported by both Republicans and Democrats in the past, and even though unemployment remains unchanged at 9.1 percent, almost half the U.S. Senate doesn’t even want to have a debate about it.
You don’t need a political analyst on TV to tell you why this happened. Mitch McConnell has laid it out for us. Their priority – “the single most important thing,” in McConnell’s words – is to defeat President Obama in the 2012 election.
Not the economy, not jobs, and not getting American workers off the couch and out of the unemployment line. Defeating one person in one election is their goal. Everything else be damned; that includes nearly allowing our country to default on our debt, keeping unemployment high by laying off public sector workers to offset private sector growth, or manufacturing crisis after crisis to keep the attention of Congress away from the economy.
Senate Republicans aren’t in Washington to serve you, the 99 Percent. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 1 Percent.
Or should we say less than 1 Percent? Publicly, a big GOP objection to the American Jobs Act was Senator Reid’s proposal to pay for it through a 5.6 percent surcharge on adjusted gross incomes exceeding $1 million. According to a study by Citizens for Tax Justice, this affects 0.2 percent of Americans.
In other words, last night, Senate Republicans showed they are on the side of the super-wealthy, the 0.2 percent, and it doesn’t matter one bit that 99.8 percent of us are suffering.
An Alternative to Capitalism (if the people knew about it, they would demand it)
Several decades ago, Margaret Thatcher claimed: “There is no alternative”. She was referring to capitalism. Today, this negative attitude still persists.
I would like to offer an alternative to capitalism for the American people to consider. Please click on the following link. It will take you to an essay titled: “Home of the Brave?” which was published by the Athenaeum Library of Philosophy:
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/steinsvold.htm
John Steinsvold
Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
–Georg C. Lichtenberg
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