Lette to the editor: Wallin

Letter to the editor:

People who are not rich voted for Republicans because they want the rich to get richer? Because they  need more super rich Americans to be proud of? If we tax the rich at higher rates, will they decide they would rather be poor? How silly, but I heard a Republican Senator say that. The Republicans as a block have vowed to stop all legislation if the Bush tax cuts for the rich are not retained. That would add 900 billion to the National Debt, more than the bailouts and saving GM combined, but that doesn’t matter to the hypocritical Republicans who have feigned concern about the debt up to now.

Or did people vote Republican because they listen to the unprecedented political propaganda of Fox “news”, The Limbaugh insanity, and Republican politicians and they don’t have enough common sense or knowledge to realize when they’re duped? Are they Republican voters because they were raised Republican-as if it were a religion? It is baffling when people vote against their own self interests.  And generally, these are Republican voters.

To extend the Bush tax cuts for the very rich any farther is stupidity. Obama just proposed doing that in a compromise with Republicans so they would also vote for an unemployment benefits extension for the recently unemployed. This has brought the wrath of his own party onto him, and likely a protracted fight between the parties-one to help the super rich, the other to help the unemployed and destitute. Amazing.
All Republican politicos, Fox and Limbaugh (the rich) propaganda keeps telling us that jobs are created with those tax cuts. That’s not the case. The rich save it while the unemployed spend it to live, pumping the economy more. Spending circulates and multiplies. The 9 years of Bush tax cuts for the rich hasn’t created jobs. We still have around 10% unemployment.

In spite of continual Republican opposition and the vicious and disgusting name calling and lies directed at a president by Republicans: Obama is not a citizen, he’s a socialist, a Marxist, a Communist, a Muslim, a terrorist, a liar, Hitler - it goes on and on, Obama is still an optimist trying to tolerate and work with Republicans way beyond what any normal person could do-and now to the dismay of his own party.
One wonders when if ever he will have had enough and will fight the low life opposition he will always face. The Republicans, and tea partiers especially, use those underhanded tactics to bring out the latent racism that dwells inside most older and many young white people to ease their willingness to believe the ridiculous of Obama aided by the incessant attacks by Fox (34 warships and 200 million per day India Trip??)

Fox is a political propaganda machine owned and run by Australian right wing billionaire, Rupert Murdoch, who because of his Fox empire propaganda has more influence in American elections than any other group of Americans.

Gary Wallin