An Open Letter To The Republican Party: The Line In The Sand
By Jamie Jacoby
No more beating around the bush. I don’t work for you, you work for me. Got it? Do you want my vote in November 2012? Here are my terms:
1. If you nominate retread insider George Allen to be the Virginia senate candidate, I won’t be voting R
2. If you raise the federal debt ceiling under any circumstances at all, I won’t be voting R
3. If you nominate a former central banker (Herman Cain), some national retread insider (Romney, Gingrich, etc), or someone who writes cheat notes on her hand for an interview (Palin) as your presidential nominee, I won’t be voting R
4. If you don’t press forward aggressively with Congressional investigations and state-level investigations into foreclosure fraud, I won’t be voting R
5. If you don’t press forward aggressively with Congressional investigations into endemic Wall Street fraud, or vigorously assist Senator Carl Levin with his, I won’t be voting R
I will no longer vote merely for the lesser of two evils. Establishment R’s: yes, this means I believe you are evil, just slightly less so than the Progressives. From now on, I am going to vote for what I really want, even if I have to write it in. By not voting R, am I helping the D’s? Perhaps, but I am also helping myself. Here’s how I see it: the difference between the downside associated with D’s holding office and with establishment R’s holding office is so small that it is meaningless, except that the D’s accelerate the federal fiscal collapse. Neither D’s nor establishment R’s truly oppose the things which are ripping us apart:
1. Trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to bailout banks, even foreign ones
2. 16 trillion dollars of wealth transfers to individuals and a blind eye to flagrant and well-documented Wall Street fraud, even fraud that’s been stipulated in regulatory hearings
3. A rapidly advancing and ever more threatening surveillance state
4. Attempted preservation of the status quo through destruction of the currency once known as the dollar
5. Endless foreign wars savaging our young men and women and sapping our national strength
6. Constant happy-talk lying about the state of the economy
If you provide me the opportunity to vote for what I actually want, then I have a chance to move the ball in the direction I want it to go = Win. If you fail to do so, and the D’s retain power, the process of federal economic destruction is accelerated. Since I am convinced that the political chaos resulting from a federal fiscal collapse would also provide me with an opportunity to reclaim the liberty that is my birthright, an acceleration towards such a collapse moves my calendar forward. And while it does move it forward in a less desirable manner, this is also, for me = Win.
I win either way, and you lose. Sucks to be you.
Do you think my ideas about the perilous condition of American economy, and the political causes of it, are too radical? I am far from alone; this article describes the financial collapse-path to the opportunity I described: Things Are Spinning Out Of Control.
You’d probably be surprised how common this sentiment has become among well-known economists, investors, and hedge fund managers, admittedly ones you’ve never heard of. You’ve never heard of them because their opinions don’t fit in with the MSM dialog of “economic recovery”:
Jim Grant
Hugh Hendry “I suggest you panic”
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get real and get over yourself, G Allen is not as bad as what could be there. and you need to see the bigger picture, I agree with all your presidential nono’s except Palin. At least if you base cheat sheet notes as some canidates give out questions so they know how to reply and/or have a ear piece so thier staff can feed them the “proper reply”. I refuse to put a bleeding heart liberal or jackass demorcrat in any office. Democrats have destroyed this nation and the economy of this there is no denial. I am a RN that was happily employeed until all the crazy Obamanightmarecare!!!!! All the cut backs and such have left me and so many others on the hunt for scarce jobs just like other industries. Let repeal and put this country back to where it was decades ago.
Fussy little narcissist, aren’t you? You may do as you wish, but I doubt if most folks are willing to follow your example because they recognize that life is not only a series of imperfect options but also a group of threats varying in magnitude. The imperfections of those on the right are dwarfed by the thought of the massive damage that can occur from four more years of Barry.
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way to whatever cave you plan to live in. Bye.
EF, Tucson, AZ
Read carefully what you’ve written.
“…G Allen is not as bad as what could be there.”
“some canidates give out questions so they know how to reply and/or have a ear piece so thier staff can feed them the proper reply…”
Is this what you really want in office? Ask yourself honestly. Will you continue to accept less than what you really want / less than what is really needed, or will you insist on someone who really knows what they are doing? If voters don’t insist, who will? As long as we show them we will settle for less, we will get less. That’s how it works. As long as we let them scare us into “keeping out the democrats” we’ll continue to have fools, stooges and socialists-light offered as our only alternative.
We’ve been relying on the “conservatives” to represent us for decades. They haven’t. Allen was a disaster as a senator.
How do you think we got where we are right now? We got here by accepting the fools, stooges and socialists-light the national Rs continue to throw at us.
I know there will be an organized national push on the web (in fact I think it’s already begun) and on the idiot box to get the independents back into the two-party thing so they will hold their noses and vote R. I know that fear will be the motivator.
I am resolute. I am resolute because I DO see the big picture: there is very little substantive difference between the dems and the establishment Rs. There hasn’t been much real difference for a long time, and they’ve gotten away with it until now. We have to force them to change if we want genuine representation. There’s no one else to do it besides us.
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I am sorry you lost your job. The core the the American economy has been hollowed out over the past twenty years. By “core” I mean the productive sectors, those parts of the economy that actually make products. Most manufacturing has left the United States for cheap labor and loose or nonexistent regulations overseas.
Asia has hundreds of millions of people who need jobs and are willing to work for very low wages. Environmental and labor regulation in China is almost nonexistent, and where it does exist it is very pro-business. These factors, combined with U.S. tax and other policies, caused the productive sector of the U.S. to flee overseas.
This job loss was papered over by a financial bubble, deliberately blown by the Fed and Congress. Congresspeople who don’t understand economics, and who think they don’t have to understand economics or other important issues, made this possible. This is why I don’t want people in office who need to write notes on their hands. They are too easily misled and manipulated. Obama, for example, knows nothing about economics. Absolutely nothing. He is forced to place total trust in advisers who are usually bought-and-paid-for party hacks. He is incapable of ever telling them “No, that’s wrong.” Obama does whatever Wall Street wants him to. Period. So would Palin.
We all felt wealthy for awhile. Now the bubble has popped and the suffering has begun. Virtually no one in either major party is talking about strategies to bring productive sector jobs back to America. Everyone is just talking about “jobs.” We don’t need more service sector jobs that don’t produce wealth. We need manufacturing, mining, energy. The productive American spirit has been bludgeoned by high taxes, shackled in a maze of regulations, and mystified by monetary uncertainty. In other words, you’d have to be certifiably crazy to try to build a manufacturing business here. Mining? Good luck. Energy? If not doubly-expensive economy-destroying “green” energy projects, fuggetaboutit. Monetary stability? Not while there’s a board of wise men trying to manage the economy at the Fed.
If we have no productive sector jobs, we don’t need and can’t afford any service sector jobs, because it is the productive sector jobs that make it possible to pay for the service sector. That’s how it works.
Want your nursing job back? Pray to whatever god you choose that the regulatory state will be shredded, that the Federal Reserve will be abolished, and that taxes will be lowered across the board. That’s the only chance any of us have. And no one is talking about it, because it would require Washington DC to give up all of its power over us.
How likely is that?
Emil:
“The imperfections of those on the right are dwarfed by the thought of the massive damage that can occur from four more years of Barry.”
You are willing to overlook “imperfections” that I am not; I listed some of them above, such as these and others:
1. Passing and then reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act: both parties.
2. Socialism versus Socialism “Lite”: both parties.
3. Ten years of middle east warfare with no end in sight: both parties.
4. A constant ramping up of the power of the imperial presidency: both parties.
5. TARP and ongoing massive bank bailouts, lying about bank balance sheets: both parties.
6. Endemic Wall Street corruption: both parties.
7. Until just now, passing ever-increasing federal debt limits and shackling the American people with debts they can never repay: BOTH PARTIES. (Was the impetus for this resistance standard D/R politics, or was it something else? Is this just an “imperfection”?)
In other words, “status quo uber alles.” If the majority remain willing to overlook all of this and characterize it all as mere “imperfections,” nothing will ever really get better, only worse more or less quickly. That mindset is how we got here, and that path only leads deeper into the woods, not out of them.
I find it amazing how many people are still stuck in the familiarity of the two-party paradigm, trapped by fear and unable to think for themselves.