The contradictions and lies of the left on the fiscal cliff negotiations
This morning I was nauseated by this article Schram: Demand that your lawmakers stop playing games with 'fiscal cliff'
I'll save you time: It's the SOP regurgitation of "everything is the GOP's fault because they love to protect 'the rich'."
After the cut is a letter I sent to partisan propagandist Martin Schram.
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Mr. Schram,
You spent a good deal of your recent article talking about how uncertainty is harmful. I agree!
"Bailing out" GM by means of government nullification of contract law, to hand the company to unions, that's uncertainty. Bond holders no longer know what they own. What was once a secure investment is now up to the whim of a President deciding to quasi-nationalize an entire industry.
The constant influx of new regulations is uncertainty.
The regular stream of lies and contradictions from this administration is uncertainty.
Most of all, demonizing "the 1%", or "the rich", along with support of Occupy Wall Street by Democrats, that's uncertainty. Elizabeth Warren's popular, viral rant that basically states all money is owned by government, and producers of wealth trying to keep any is evil, that's uncertainty.
Obama now demanding he have (effectively unconstitutional) control of the debt ceiling, the raising of which effectively devalues the dollar in every bank account, that's uncertainty.
Sixteen *t*rillion dollars in deficit, that's uncertainty.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) rules, from a law no one read before passing, that no one understands, and is still being written as we speak, that's the ultimate uncertainty.
Yet after spending a good chunk of your article talking about the harmfulness of uncertainty, the only uncertainty you seem to find harmful is these current negotiations prior to the "fiscal cliff".
You then move on to the thinly veiled point of your article, that Republicans refusing to capitulate to Obama's demands is what's holding up this entire negotiation. That's an interesting view.
It isn't Keynesian to raise taxes on *anyone* in a down economy. Democrats can't hide behind Keynes for this one. Part of how I know this is because...
*Obama himself* spent four of the last five years saying the tax increase he now demands would be bad for the economy. Talk about uncertainty! Kudos to our mainstream media for fulfilling their ethical duty of questioning this blatant contradiction... oh wait.
Other means of addressing the tax code would give Obama and Democrats exactly the amount of revenue they say they want. Yet they insist on the tax increase.
The tax increase Obama demands, and you condemn Republicans for denying, pays for 8 *days* of government spending. No one asks what the Democrat plan is for day 9, onward. How strange. Again, uncertainty.
Your article is, of course, just another repetition of the standard talking points of the left. As I've just touched on above, it's astounding in its deceit or zealotry.
I don't know which you are, sir, a liar or zealot. If the latter you won't be able to consider any of this. If the former, I would submit to you that if your ideology requires constant deceit, how do you not grasp that it's worthless?
Melvin Udall
I'll save you time: It's the SOP regurgitation of "everything is the GOP's fault because they love to protect 'the rich'."
After the cut is a letter I sent to partisan propagandist Martin Schram.
______________
Mr. Schram,
You spent a good deal of your recent article talking about how uncertainty is harmful. I agree!
"Bailing out" GM by means of government nullification of contract law, to hand the company to unions, that's uncertainty. Bond holders no longer know what they own. What was once a secure investment is now up to the whim of a President deciding to quasi-nationalize an entire industry.
The constant influx of new regulations is uncertainty.
The regular stream of lies and contradictions from this administration is uncertainty.
Most of all, demonizing "the 1%", or "the rich", along with support of Occupy Wall Street by Democrats, that's uncertainty. Elizabeth Warren's popular, viral rant that basically states all money is owned by government, and producers of wealth trying to keep any is evil, that's uncertainty.
Obama now demanding he have (effectively unconstitutional) control of the debt ceiling, the raising of which effectively devalues the dollar in every bank account, that's uncertainty.
Sixteen *t*rillion dollars in deficit, that's uncertainty.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) rules, from a law no one read before passing, that no one understands, and is still being written as we speak, that's the ultimate uncertainty.
Yet after spending a good chunk of your article talking about the harmfulness of uncertainty, the only uncertainty you seem to find harmful is these current negotiations prior to the "fiscal cliff".
You then move on to the thinly veiled point of your article, that Republicans refusing to capitulate to Obama's demands is what's holding up this entire negotiation. That's an interesting view.
It isn't Keynesian to raise taxes on *anyone* in a down economy. Democrats can't hide behind Keynes for this one. Part of how I know this is because...
*Obama himself* spent four of the last five years saying the tax increase he now demands would be bad for the economy. Talk about uncertainty! Kudos to our mainstream media for fulfilling their ethical duty of questioning this blatant contradiction... oh wait.
Other means of addressing the tax code would give Obama and Democrats exactly the amount of revenue they say they want. Yet they insist on the tax increase.
The tax increase Obama demands, and you condemn Republicans for denying, pays for 8 *days* of government spending. No one asks what the Democrat plan is for day 9, onward. How strange. Again, uncertainty.
Your article is, of course, just another repetition of the standard talking points of the left. As I've just touched on above, it's astounding in its deceit or zealotry.
I don't know which you are, sir, a liar or zealot. If the latter you won't be able to consider any of this. If the former, I would submit to you that if your ideology requires constant deceit, how do you not grasp that it's worthless?
Melvin Udall