Comments on: The Big Sell-Out Must Stop Now

A Strategist For John Edwards Says Democrats Must Emphasize Economic Fairness

[tylenol6]

Our dictator Bush knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
It is called the New World Order. Look it up.....
Everything seems to be falling into place. The
rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. We have no one to protect us - not even
the idiots in Congress. All I have to say is be
very careful who you vote for in the next election. Find out who voted for illegal immigration, free trade and the iraq war, and vote their big fat ***** out of office. That is, if the American people can get Hitler Bush out of office in the next election. Have you noticed Bushite doesn't go out in public?? Hmmmm....I wonder why?

[peter776-2009]

I agree with yuor comments, SarnCedar. The big problem with our current political system is that it has only two parties, and both parties have become ossified tools of the wealthy and loudmouthed. Our democarcy has essentially been hijacked by a tiny number of people, most of them wealthy. In pre-Civil War America, political parties formed around big issues like trade and slavery. Once the issue of the day had been resolved, the party would disappear. This is no longer possible because of the entrenched positions of the Republican and Democratic parties, whose only real goal is to perpetuate themselves at any cost. Voters need to take government back unto themselves by voting crony politicians out of office, regardless of party affiliation. Then maybe politicians will start doing the people's bidding instead of permitting themselves to be bought off (cheaply) at their constituents' expense.

[sharncedar]

The article makes some nice points, it is true that Americans will flock to an economic fairness message. The trouble is that any candidate who dares to present an authentic message of this type will be attacked and destroyed by the elite media, who represent fully and only the interests of the most wealthy.

On of the aspects of concentration of wealth is that it has been achieved through concentratino of power, and the elections are solidly fixed at this point by the enormous disproportionate power of the wealthy. For example the power to control the message of all media outlets in a sychronized fashion, the power to hire the best and brightest and thereby use their mind the strategize against the public, the power to control the military, all branches of government, all quasi-governmental institutions such as insurance compaines or stock exchanges.

This kind of unbalance in power becomes self-perpetuating and only is dispersed through cataclysm. Which will be a series of events and struggles much greater and much worse than a presidential campaign.

[sharncedar]

How can the Democrats claim to be for economic fairness when they are backing open borders and unlimited immigration, which hurts those with few job skills the most? Clinton's immigration policies are the single most responsible element in the current crisis in the inner city, in which low-skilled males cannot get even a start at a decent wage paying job, and out of necessity get drawn into the only paying occupatinos in their community which is gang-related drug sales. Poor teenagers have the same problem.

The Democrats immigration policy, or lack thereof, punishes those with low skills or those new to the job market. Not everybody is a rocket scientist with a PhD, and even rocket scientists have to start somewhere usually with a low-skill summer job such as construction or agriculture. The Democrat's friends to Hispanics have taken all of the these jobs, pressuring an eual 30 million young and poor Americans out of the job market altogether.

I guess there is nothing more evil than a Democrat. At least George Bush is opne and up front about being a sleazy crook, Democrats like Pelosi make a lying, hypocritical pretense of condescending to the "poor" while they do everything they can to ruin their lives.

[peter776-2009]

We are fast becoming a third world country. One hallmark of a third world society is pronounced income inequality and concnetration. From this many ills follow: Lack of respect for the law. A corrupt judicial system. Brutalization of the poor. Naked police power.Trash on the streets. Few or no government services. Poor education. Infrastructure that is not maintained or repaired. Now with our country being invaded by illegal immigrants, nearly all of whom are unskilled, uneducated, poor and non-English speaking, the wealth concentration trend will accelerate, especially if the immigration bill backed by King George is enacted. Our very democracy is now in peril.And whose interests are served by what is now unfolding before our eyes? The wealthy few, and no one else (except for the 30 million illegal aliens who will wind up as citizens and who will push our social programs and government into bankruptcy in short order). We need to wake up and put a stop to both of these trends NOW if our democracy is to be preserved. King George has done so much damage to this country that we may never recover. But then, what would you expect from a "man" who has never had a real job, a real boss, or ever had to be accountable to anyone? It's great to be rich at everyone else's expense, isn't it?