Even if some Americans do grasp the concept of repugicans as the
ultimate takers, they likely fail to comprehend that the repugicans are
ultimately monumental givers - to the rich that is ...
There are several synonyms to describe the tendency, no habit, of repugicans’ idea of what it means to govern. Specifically, their habit
of taking everything from the American people they can lay their grimy
paws on. If Americans cannot recall, and it is likely their gross
ignorance has taken what little memory they have left, that over the
course of the past four years repugicans have attempted to seize,
confiscate, rob, deprive, impound, and snatch any and everything from
the people. Regardless if it is their pensions, clean air and water,
decent wages, healthcare, or religious freedom, repugicans have worked
tirelessly to take everything from the people.
Even if some Americans do grasp the concept of repugicans as the ultimate takers, they likely fail to comprehend that
the repugicans are ultimately monumental givers; it is that spirit of
generosity that drives their habit of robbing the people. Of course,
over the past two decades and leading up to the present, repugicans
have never had any intent to give anything to the people, but it is
important for the population to understand that their only motivation
for taking from the people, besides sheer hatred and contempt, is to
give to the people they serve; the rich.
It did not take more than a day after the midterm
election results were reported for repugicans to announce in an op-ed
the first things they intend to take from the people. No-one but an
idiot really expected otherwise. However, if the main stream media were
doing their jobs, they would have reported that in their written
admission of stealing from the people, Boehner and McConnell were
actually announcing what they intended to give to the Koch brothers, big
business, and school privatization crusaders; gifts they were promised
as recompense for their undying support and millions of dollars in
campaign contributions. And, gifts they have attempted to hand over to
the filthy fascists since the took control of the House; under the guise
of “jobs bills.”
Americans should not focus so much on what repugicans will take from them, they will have plenty of years to look
back in remorse and regret putting them in charge of the Congress, what
they need to give their undivided attention to is what they are giving
their wealthy masters. The three items Boehner and McConnell listed as
“job creation” measures, abolishing
employer-provided healthcare for part-time employees, violating the
Constitution and approving the Keystone XL pipeline, and privatizing
education under the “more charter schools” scam, will provide nothing
for the people and everything for their corporate masters.
The repugican cabal's supporters are convinced
that gaining an extra ten hours of work each week will lift them out of
poverty and make them rich because giant retailers like Walmart,
McDonalds, and Target are not required to provide basic healthcare
insurance coverage. However, they will still be earning minimum wages
until repugicans get around to abolishing it from the law; which will
likely be relatively soon, and whether their pea-brains have figured it
out yet, they are actually taking a wage cut. Walmart and McDonalds are
not going to increase employees hours, and if they do it means they will
cut their workforce; less jobs. They will also not provide healthcare
that means if a worker wants it, they will pay out of pocket and it
means their compensation is reduced. Oh, and for the trailer-park crowd assuming that because Walmart and McDonalds
pays poverty wages they will still have access to Blue-state-provided
food stamps and healthcare, the repugican cabal has already passed legislation in
the House to eviscerate those government programs with extreme
prejudice. The gift to big corporations is they still get to pay poverty
wages and avoid providing healthcare insurance and pad their bottom
line. There will be no new jobs, over a million poor Americans will lose
their healthcare, and corporations get a gift from repugicans.
There are many ways the repugican plan to violate
the Constitution’s mandated Presidential authority is a gift to the Koch
brothers, oil export industry, and John Boehner.
Never mind that unilaterally authorizing the immediate construction of
Canada’s KeystoneXL pipeline is a monumental violation of the
Constitution, as this column has reported for three years, the only
beneficiaries will be
Koch Industries’ refineries,
exporters shipping Canada’s refined tar sand to Europe and China, and
John Boehner’s stock portfolio. Remember, prior to taking control of the
House and promising “hundreds-of-thousands of American jobs” in early
2011, Boehner
bought stock in seven Canadian tar sand companies in 2010 in anticipation of the windfall from the pipeline’s construction.
The benefit to Americans is nothing. In fact, it
was refreshing, that except for one sentence buried in an interview with
President Obama, Bernie Sanders is finally telling Americans fuel costs
will rise because the Koch brothers will drain Midwest diesel reserves
to expedite Canada’s tar through the pipeline on its way to the Gulf
Coast and China to profit the
foreign export industry.
Americans will not see one drop of Canada’s oil and according to the
oil industry, at best 1,500 to 2,000 temporary jobs will be created; for
Canadian pipeline specialists and not Americans. Even the steel used in
constructing the pipeline comes from Korea, so there is no benefit to
American industry. What repugicans are taking is any hope of an
environment whether from
exacerbating climate change
to pouring poison in the air and water when the rupture-prone pipeline
begins leaking as every iteration of it has in Canada and America.
The greatest takeaway from the population, and gift
to corporations, repugicans listed in their op-ed was robbing public
school funding to increase the number of woefully inadequate and
horridly under-performing charter schools to profit the private education
industry. The repugicans claim it is a gift to parents who want their
children to be as ignorant, and biblically versed in science, as they
are, but it is a huge gift to the privatization advocates. This is most
troubling because President Obama said he and repugicans
shared a desire for “education reform” that, according to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, privatization advocate Michelle Rhee, and
President Obama
includes transferring funding for public education to the charter
school industry. More on this grossest of American abominations in
another article.
Americans will learn that anything the emboldened repugicans are proposing as helping the people” is not-so-subtle code
for taking something away. However, they should be well-aware that
although repugicans exist to take everything from the people, they are
taking it to give to their money-machine. In the case of the Keystone
pipeline, Boehner is giving his stock portfolio a big boost in worth.
The real travesty is that repugicans are just getting started and if
the people are conscious, they should cringe every time the new repugican Congress announces they are helping the people. Because the
primary reason they are “helping” by taking something away from the
people is to give it their corporate masters; it is what they tried for
four years in the House and now that they control the Senate, their
largesse to the rich at the people’s expense will be epic.
by Jenny C. Evans
