Once again The
Wichita Eagle newspaper has given lavish praise to the conservative
marauders and barons who believe they can buy our political system to further
their own agenda. They also believe being the richest men in the world leaves
them the best judges of economics and politics.
The Wichita Eagle reports that Charles
Koch, who runs Koch Industries, “will launch a new campaign… to laud economic
freedom and warn the public about government overreach.”
But what does he mean by that? What is economic Freedom? This
summer I’ve looked for jobs in Wichita Kansas, the Koch’s home town, and found
that not only do I get turned down, but there are about 10 applicants for each
job I apply for. I’m pretty old so it is hard for me to compete with younger
people who are much further from retirement age. I’ve been job searching for
three months now. So where is my economic freedom? Those I owe money to are free
to send my bills to collection agencies that harass me around the clock, with
phone calls. It would be a lot easier to pay these people if I were employed.
So I really want to know from Charles Koch—where is my economic freedom? Is it
the freedom to be unemployed part of my economic freedom? This guy has a lot of
political pull in the State of Kansas and elsewhere. Maybe he thinks the debt
collectors are the ones getting some kind of freedom, but if I can’t or don’t
pay them—what kind of freedom is that?
Then there is “his topic” of “government overreach.” Does that
mean he wants to let us smoke pot? Does he want to stop the government from
spying on us, as has been revealed by Edward Snowden? Does he want us to be free of
government restrictions on how we live our lives—the right to abortion—the
right to gay marriage? Even though I’m not gay myself many of my friends are.
I’m going to guess that the answer to all of
these questions is “NO.”
What freedom from government
overreach—“HIS”—meaning “HE “ wants the right to pollute our water, our
atmosphere and he has the right to hire workers without cumbersome unions-
minimum wages or any kind of worker protections—anything that makes his mastery
over his minions of workers restricted by government regulations.
So all of his politics is really about HIS
freedom and NO freedom for the rest of us. He may believe that what is best for
him is best for all of us—but most of us know better. And as was pointed out at
the protest of his fake PAC Americans for Prosperity, a few days ago, many of
us realize that any economic freedom and freedom from government overreach will
only come to us by defeating these people and completely discrediting them in
every way possible.,
Probably the biggest joke in The Wichita Eagle article is this quote:
Probably the biggest joke in The Wichita Eagle article is this quote:
“We want to do a better job of raising up the disadvantaged and
the poorest in this country, rather than saying ‘Oh, we’re just fine now.’
We’re not saying that at all. What we’re saying is, we need to analyze all
these additional policies, these subsidies, this cronyism, this avalanche of
regulations, all these things that are creating a culture of dependency. And
like permitting, to start a business, in many cities, to drive a taxicab, to
become a hairdresser. Anything that people with limited capital can do to raise
themselves up, they keep throwing obstacles in their way. And so we’ve got to
clear those out. Or the minimum wage. Or anything that reduces the mobility of
labor.”
This is a man who spent most of his life
keeping people who work for him and other people poor. So now he wants to help
the poor—that’s a laugh and it isn’t all that funny. That’s like the Ku Klux
Klan coming up with a program to help out the black population.
If the Koch Brothers ever get their way, I
would expect to see shanties or Hoovervilles,
something we haven’t seen since the 1930s,This is the economic freedom that Charles Koch is
proposing whether he realizes it or not.
-សតិវ អតុ
-សតិវ អតុ
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