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Friday, May 22, 2015
Cycle of Death for the American Republic
by Brian T. Lynch, MSW
This has been business as usual in the cycle of America elections. We have spiraled into moral bankruptcy and lost the ability of government to meet the basic needs of the electorate. We have made a mockery of self-rule. In issue after issue, huge majorities favoring or opposing government policies are ignored by the representatives they elected. The cycle of ever growing special interest government is why states and the federal government have no money to spend on roads, schools, healthcare daycare, parks, public projects, etc. Here is how this cycle operates:
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This graphic, which applies generally to all American politics, also applies specifically to the dismantling of New Jersey Public Worker Pensions. Christie have given huge tax breaks to his millionaire friends and big business donors and then cries that there is no money to put into the public employee pension funds. This is a scam that has been going on for years, even before he was governor. It is part of a larger national plan to kill public sector unions in my view. If it isn't the pensions that's targeted its SNAP, or welfare, or public education or any other target where there is poorly organized opposition. We need to see this pattern for what it is and begin an organized movement to rescind tax breaks to prosperous corporations and ultra-wealthy political donors.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't take many election cycles like this to evolve into an oligarchy.
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