From the American Dream to the American Nightmare in Four Years

 

In 2003 Mr. George W. Bush had this to say about America’s economy:

… Our first goal is clear: We must have an economy that grows fast enough to employ every man and woman who seeks a job.

After recession, terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and stock market declines, our economy is recovering. Yet it is not growing fast enough, or strongly enough.

With unemployment rising, our nation needs more small businesses to open, more companies to invest and expand, more employers to put up the sign that says, “Help Wanted.”

Jobs are created when the economy grows; the economy grows when Americans have more money to spend and invest; and the best and fairest way to make sure Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first place.

I am proposing that all the income tax reductions set for 2004 and 2006 be made permanent and effective this year.

And under my plan, as soon as I’ve signed the bill, this extra money will start showing up in workers’ paychecks. …

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/28/sotu.transcript/

The occasion was Mr. Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address.  Notice that Mr. Bush wanted to put more money in America’s workers’ pockets by first putting it in the pockets of  the wealthy. You’ll need more than “common sense” to fathom that one.

And Mr. Bush said:

If this tax relief is good for Americans three or five or seven years from now, it is even better for Americans today.

Well, by the end of  2007 the Bush team had crashed America’s economy. So the “if this tax relief is good” condition failed.  Should that impact the voodoo economics theory of the neocons? Not likely. Voodoo Economics is a defining characteristic of the neocons. The four pillars of Mr. Reagan’s voodoo economics, were never successfully practiced by anyone. If you view the below graph, you will see that the neocons’ financial “management” was exactly the opposite of the Republican centrist, the Republican Conservatives and the Democrats.

The below graph shows how the neocons spent America’s money:

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

The neocons were not spending less of what America made but more of what America made. And the engine that drove that spending is:

The four pillars of Reagan’s economic policy were to:^[2]

1. reduce government spending,
2. reduce income and capital gains marginal tax rates,
3. reduce government regulation of the economy,
4. control the money supply to reduce inflation.

In his stated intention to cut back on domestic spending while lowering taxes, Reagan’s approach was a departure from his immediate predecessors. Although his record is still debated, Reagan succeeded with lower marginal tax rates in conjunction with simplified income tax codes, and continued deregulation. However government spending and deficits rose during his administration. …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics

And the below graph shows how the neocons put money into the working Americans’ pocket:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5303590.stm#graph

EVERTBODY BUT THE NEOCONS ALLOWED THE AMERICAN WORKERS TO BENEFIT FROM THEIR IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY!

There is a huge difference between the RHETORIC of the neocons and the PERFORMANCE of the neocons. It is COMMON SENSE as to which should prevail.

Unemployed U.S.-born workers seek day-labor jobs

 

USA TODAY

By Emily Baazar, USA TODAY

Nov. 29, 2009

Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants.

The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says Abel Valenzuela Jr., a professor of urban planning at the University of California-Los Angeles.

“You had many, many unemployed construction workers who found themselves without any permanent or stable work,” he says. “Some of them have gone on to seek employment by standing on street corners alongside immigrant workers.”

DESPERATION: More seek day-labor jobs, but work is scarce

Day laborers gather at high-traffic spots such as busy intersections and home improvement stores, looking for pick-up work such as painting, laying bricks or landscaping. Contractors and homeowners describe the jobs and negotiate pay on the spot.

Valenzuela estimates the proportion of U.S.-born day laborers has at least doubled since he released a report in 2006, when his research showed they made up 7% of the day-labor workforce. At that time, Valenzuela estimated 117,600 people were looking for or doing day-labor jobs on any given day. Illegal immigrants were 75% of the day-labor workforce; the rest were legal immigrants.

“It’s becoming more ethnically diverse. On the corners, I’ve seen white people, I’ve seen African Americans and a lot of Mexican Americans,” says Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. “When unemployment benefits run out, I expect to see more.”

Among the communities seeing an increase in U.S.-citizen day laborers:

•Tucson. Staff members at Southside Presbyterian Church, which runs a center where workers can connect with people offering work, have been seeing more U.S.-born people looking for jobs in 2008, says church elder Josefina Ahumada.”We would say, ‘Hi, how are you?’ and we would learn that this is somebody who just got laid off.”

•Arlington, Va. Construction workers recently laid off are showing up at the day-labor hiring site run by the Shirlington Employment and Education Center, says executive director Andres Tobar: “We’re seeing people who hadn’t come to our center before who are legally here and U.S. citizens, and who are skilled workers and can’t find work.”

•Los Angeles. Citizens are replacing immigrant day laborers who had trouble finding work and returned to their home countries, says Antonio Bernabe, senior organizer of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

“These are people who used to have permanent positions,” he says. “It’s happening everywhere.”…

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-29-citizen-day-laborers_N.htm

Fired air-traffic controller still feels the sting decades later

USATODAY

By David Kiley, USA TODAY

Reagan fired more than 11,000 air-traffic controllers in 1981 for staging an illegal strike. The move was a major blow to the power of labor unions.

Ron Taylor was fired by President Reagan 23 years ago. He’s still trying to get his job back.

Taylor, 57, of Stuart, Fla., was one of more than 11,000 air-traffic controllers fired by Reagan after they went on strike for higher wages and fewer hours on the stress-filled job. In 1993, President Clinton ended the “ban for life” Reagan had imposed on former members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association, but Taylor and thousands of others weren’t rehired.

“When they talk about Reagan as compassionate, I just don’t know what they are talking about,” says Taylor, president of PATCO, which continues legal action to get members’ jobs back.

“Reagan banned us for life,” Taylor says. “Even murderers are eligible for parole. We thought we, as labor, had a friend in the White House.”

Taylor has been working as an electrical contractor since losing his job and says he and other PATCO members would need only minimal updates of their training. “More is computerized, but many other controllers and I have kept up our computer skills, and we certainly still know how to move planes,” he says.

Many PATCO members, including Taylor, are Vietnam War veterans. “We got shafted twice, and he didn’t seem to care about that,” he says.

Reagan’s firing of the controllers is viewed by many business leaders and historians as a defining act of his presidency. They say it gave corporations license to be much tougher with organized labor and put Soviet leaders on notice that Reagan was tougher than they thought. …

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-06-10-taylor-vignette_x.htm

On This Day: Reagan Endorses CIA Support of Nicaraguan  Contras

November 23, 2008

by findingDulcinea Staff

On Nov. 23, 1981, President Ronald Reagan provided the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency with $19 million in military aid to support guerrilla groups fighting Nicaragua’s Sandinista government; the decision led to the 1986 Iran-Contra affair.

U.S. Provides Military Support to Contras

Nicaragua was ruled by a leftist military government that had been established by the Sandinista revolutionaries after overthrowing Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a brutal and corrupt dictator, in 1979.

The goals of the Nicaraguan government ran counter to American interests in the region and were seen as a vehicle for Soviet political strategy. President Ronald Reagan, who believed that anti-Communist insurgents should be supported wherever they might be, allowed the CIA to fund and train Nicaragua’s counterrevolutionary guerrillas, the “Contras,” primarily made up of soldiers from Somoza’s National Guard.

President Reagan signed off on a top-secret document, National Security Decision Directive 17, which gave the CIA permission to recruit paramilitary units to take part in covert actions against the Sandinista regime.

News of the CIA directive leaked to the press in 1982; Congress acted to block these operations, and by 1984 the Boland Amendment made further support of the guerrillas almost impossible. However, members of the Reagan administration continued to push for the ouster of the Sandinista regime.

In 1985, National Security Advisor John Poindexter used a third party to send funds to the Contras, sanctioning the redirection of funds from illicit U.S. sales of arms to Iran to the Contras. The deal would be made public in November 1986 by Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa, sparking a major political scandal known as the Iran-Contra affair.

In June 1986, the International Court of Justice ruled that the U.S. violated international law by providing aid to the Contras. The court ruled that the U.S. owed compensation to Nicaragua, but the Reagan administration ignored the verdict and the case for compensation was dropped in 1991. …

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/international/On-this-Day-Reagan-Gave-CIA-Authority-to-Establish-the-Contras.html

Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion

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Dealer’s sentencing postponed.
More TV and radio appearances by Gary Webb.
Last updated: Sept. 16, 1996
Continuing coverage

Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in early ’80s to help finance war — and a plague was born.
Published: Aug. 18, 1996
Stories

How a smuggler, a bureaucrat and a driven ghetto teen-ager created the cocaine pipeline, and how crack was “born” in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1974.
Published: Aug. 19, 1996
Stories

The impact of the crack epidemic on the black community and why justice hasn’t been for all.
Published: Aug. 20, 1996

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

Reagan, Class and Organized Labor: “One Of The Most Damaging Presidents In American History”

We speak with Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers of America and Francis Fox Piven, one of the country’s leading sociologists, about class and organized labor during Reagan’s presidency. [Includes transcript]

As we move to the issue of workers right’s and labor under Ronald Reagan. Many critics of the former president recall with great anger the policies of Reagonomics. His administration was one of the worst in history for organized labor. And his track record was consistent almost from the beginning of his career in the public eye. In the late 1940’s, as president of the Screen Actors’ Guild union, Ronald Reagan testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on so-called “subversive activity” in Hollywood, reporting on actors, directors, and screenwriters deemed Communist sympathizers.

And in the 1960’s and 70’s, as Governor of the State of California, Reagan fought the efforts of migrant farm workers to win union contracts, vetoing the Agricultural Labor Relations Act, a bill granting farm workers collective bargaining rights. In one well-publicized episode, then-Governor Reagan appeared on television eating grapes in defiance of a union-sponsored boycott against miserable working conditions in California’s vineyards. …

http://i3.democracynow.org/2004/6/11/reagan_class_and_organized_labor_one

Five key points about the GOP Purity Test

Cleveland Republican Examiner Mike Seuffert

Nov. 24, 2009

Democrats are up in arms that Republicans have the gall to want to actually nominate, fund and elect Republicans to public office.

Ten Republican National Committee members are submitting a plan to impose what’s being called a purity test on future Republican candidates. According to the proposal, anyone who doesn’t agree with at least 7 of the 10 statements could be denied campaign funding.

The idea borrows an idea from Conservative icon Ronald Reagan, who once said that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent.
Here’s the list:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;

(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;

(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;

(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;

(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;

(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;

(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;

(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;

(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and

(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further.

http://www.examiner.com/x-28387-Cleveland-Republican-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Five-key-points-about-the-GOP-Purity-Test

A political party that has been in power for 24 years needs to “TELL AMERICA” what it stands for? That fails the “common sense” test. Why shouldn’t America know the neocons by their PERFORMANCE. What’s the RHETORIC for?

The neocons’ RHETORIC is a distraction. It is used to cover-up or hide illegal performance. And the neocons have “needed to hide” a lot of their illegal performance – from trying to kill a minority community  in Los Angeles California through the sale of the illegal drug cocaine – to an Iraqi war that looks illegal(to the eyes of the world) to possible illegal behavior in their handling of detainees from the Iraq war. To say that – if the neocon government did it – it is legal – defies common sense. With respect to the country there are national laws and with respect to the world there are International laws. And the neocons did not, in reality, get to “pick and choose” what laws they would obey and what laws they would dis-obey.

It is an absolute requirement that there be rule of law where people share common resources. It is morbidly absurd for the neocons to have displayed the “civic example” that they did. Their behavior is not lost on “street level hoods”. And the idea of dedicating “cocaine selling politicians” to a place of honor in a political party is strange – very strange.

A fool and his country are soon parted

Why is Microsoft “Mad” at Google?

What is the real reason that Microsoft may be “mad” at Google?

If you had something that you relegated to the “trash heap” and along came someone who took that something out of the trash heap and made a WORLD CLASS attraction out of it – how would you feel?

If you had a “something” that you decided was cast-aside quality  – and you cast it aside  and a neighbor found that cast-aside something and made it “sparkle” – how would you feel? I mean REALLY feel? Is it possible that the next something that you cast aside would be trashed so that it was in no condition to be reborn?

High Tech companies are known to be highly creative. For their own personal satisfaction, they must not ignore or overlook the potential of any software. It could be embarrassing if a piece of software one high tech company overlooked – was picked up by another high tech software company and used to make a WORLD CLASS piece of software. Google Maps is world class software. Google made the Internet a “must visit” destination. Google used JavaScript to make web-page response almost like desktop response.  The idea of refreshing a part of a web-page was born.

It wasn’t Microsoft “what done it”. It wasn’t NewsCorp “what done it”. It was Google who did it!

JavaScript

… JavaScript has become one of the most popular programming languages on the web. Initially, however, many professional programmers denigrated the language because its target audience was web authors and other such “amateurs”, among other reasons.^[13] The advent of AJAX returned JavaScript to the spotlight and brought more professional programming attention. The result was a proliferation of comprehensive frameworks and libraries, improved JavaScript programming practices, and increased usage of JavaScript outside of the browser, as seen by the proliferation of server-side JavaScript platforms. …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

Goggle is good!

Google is good!

Google is good!

Google is good for me. Google is good for you. Google is good for the world.

Google is good!

Iran hints it could withdraw from nuclear treaty

Lawmaker, news agency make statements; discussion set for Sunday

Ap Associated Press

Nov. 28, 2009

TEHRAN, Iran – A conservative Iranian legislator warned Saturday that his country may pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty after a U.N. resolution censuring Tehran — a move that could seriously undermine world attempts to prevent Iran from developing atomic weapons.

Iran’s official news agency quoted a hardline political analyst who made the same point, another indication the idea could be gaining steam.

If Iran withdraws from the treaty, its nuclear program would no longer be subject to oversight by the U.N. nuclear agency. That in turn would be a significant blow to efforts to ensure that no enriched uranium is diverted from use as fuel to warhead development. …

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34185680/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Iran has a real problem with the United Nations. The Zionist threat to Middle East land continues while the United Nations does nothing. The Zionists can take Palestinian land whenever it wants. The Zionist has bombed a Syrian facility while the United Nations did nothing. The Middle East is now at the mercy of Zionist Israel. And the only thing the United Nations is interested in doing is making sure no Arab country, impacted by Zionist land grabbing, can effectively fight back.

The League of Nations beckons to the United Nations. If the United Nations can’t exercise its motto and can’t exercise its mission statement then perhaps the United Nations should make way for a new organization. Granted – it is not easy trying to “un-bias” a huge number of nations but the blatant bias displayed by the United Nations should be laid to rest – right beside the League of Nations.

Trying to Kill or Tame Google But Leaving FOX NEWS Alone

After 24 Years of a Fascist Leaning Government, Can Business Ignore a non-Fascist Leaning Government?

America has lived under the control of the fascist-leaning neocons for 24 years. During that time business enjoyed much “leeway”. Business saw 11,000 control tower workers fired and told not to come back. Business saw labor loose the positive tracking of wages and productivity. Business had the gall to suggest that the minimum wage increase, won by workers after many years of trying – be taken out of the workers tips. Essentially, the minimum wage workers would then be paying for their own “wage increase”.

But wait … there may be more coming. A “dying business” may be able to ally with a live robust  business to kill-off its business competition while government plays a passive role of observer. Who “woulda thunk” that the death of the word “monopoly” would advance business to such “lofty heights”?

The concept of business monopoly is dead. Business can now get as BIG as it likes. And diversification does not have to be an ingredient in business ventures  unless the shrewd business types wants it to be. Since monopoly is dead, business types are free to corner the market in anything they want to – including newspapers.

Newspaper readers have passed judgment on the quality of news content. And readers don’t seem to think much of the quality of news content anymore. Newspapers today are highly political – perhaps that’s because the neocons “needed fer” to back away from the liberal press. And back away they did.

Here is hoping that Microsoft does not align itself with those whose politics are “worn on their shirtsleeves”. Here is hoping that Microsoft stays out of the right wing politics of the neocons and their TELL AMERICA news sources. In today’s world you don’t corner the news-market if you don’t have a political message. Microsoft should keep its name out of politics as it competes with Goggle.

The idea of being a Microsoft customer should not imply that you are supportive of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. News Corp. made its bed – why should Microsoft sleep in it? Perhaps Mr. Murdoch mis-understood Microsoft’s use of the word “KILL” in reference to competition.  Even FOX News should live and die on its own “merits”.

Fascism in America?

The Neocons Abhors Socialism – But Do They Feel the Same about Fascism?

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism–ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power…Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The above FDR quote and a post entitled: The Fascist Roots of Corporate America(And the Bush Family) can be read here.

The neocons have been vocal about socialism – but not about fascism. Is one more acceptable than the other. Are both a threat to America’s Democracy – as we know it? Read the article posted by THE MORMON WORKER and written by STEPHEN WELLINGTON.

The ‘00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell

 

TIME cnn

By ANDY SERWER

Nov. 24, 2009

At exactly two minutes after midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, an alarm sounded at a nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Japan. Government officials and computer scientists around the globe held their breath. Was this the beginning of a massive Y2K computer meltdown? Actually, no. It was an isolated event, one of a handful of glitches to occur (including the failure of 500 slot machines at two racetracks in Delaware) as the sun rose on the new decade. The dreaded millennial meltdown never happened.

Instead, it was the American Dream that was about to dim. Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era. We’re still weeks away from the end of ’09, but it’s not too early to pass judgment. Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade. Call it whatever you want — just give thanks that it is nearly over. …

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1942834,00.html

Terrorist not withstanding, the neocons have done more damage to America and perhaps the world, than anyone in recent memory.

The neocon attack on labor was almost fatal. The neocons relaxation of controls on the financial industry was almost fatal.

And all the time, the neocons seem to be in “LA-LA LAND”. Was there any left over cocaine from the sale of cocaine in America’s minority neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California?

Are Microsoft and News Corp Hatching a Very Bad Idea?

Microsoft’s need to beat Google and Rupert Murdoch’s desire to help newspapers survive could lead to an online news ice age

PCMAG

By Lance Ulanoff

News Corp. is shooting itself in the foot, and now Microsoft may be helping to aim the gun. Today, under the category of strange bedfellows, we have the story of Microsoft possibly offering to help delist News Corp. content and sites, such as The Wall Street Journal from Google‘s search index. Doing so will, as I understand it, pull the content not only from the Google index, but search results and Google News as well. This, as Rupert Murdoch sees it, is progress.

For months, Murdoch has been telling anyone who will listen that Google News and other aggregation sites are going beyond the Fair Use Doctrine. His plan, already well under way, is to gate content—like The Wall Street Journal—and only allow paying subscribers to read the stories online (it’s actually been this way for a while, but until recently, you could get around the gate by searching for WSJ stories in Google News). I understand the desire, if not the act, of gating content—especially in today’s print-snuffing economy. However, Murdoch and Microsoft’s latest plan—if true—makes no sense at all. …

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356245,00.asp

 

U.S. was ‘hell bent’ on Iraq war, U.K. envoy says

Bush administration didn’t care about getting U.N. support, he tells inquiry

AP Associated Press

Nov. 27, 2009

LONDON – The United States was “hell bent” on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.

Jeremy Greenstock, British ambassador to the United Nations from 1998 to 2003, said that President George W. Bush had no real interest in attempts to agree on a U.N. resolution to provide explicit backing for the conflict.

The ex-diplomat, who served as Britain’s envoy in Iraq after the invasion, said serious preparations for the war had begun in early 2002 and took on an unstoppable momentum.

As diplomats frantically attempted in early 2003 to agree upon a U.N. resolution approving a military offensive, Bush’s key aides grew impatient — criticizing the process as an unnecessary distraction, he said.

‘Waste of time’ alleged
Grumbling from Washington “included noises about ‘this is a waste of time, what we need is regime change, why are we bothering with this, we must sweep this aside and do what’s going to have to be done anyway — and deal with this with the use of force,’” Greenstock testified before the inquiry into the Iraq war. …

… Jeremy Greenstock, British ambassador to the United Nations from 1998 to 2003, said that President George W. Bush had no real interest in attempts to agree on a U.N. resolution to provide explicit backing for the conflict.

The ex-diplomat, who served as Britain’s envoy in Iraq after the invasion, said serious preparations for the war had begun in early 2002 and took on an unstoppable momentum. …

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34172972/ns/world_news-europe/

There is a reason why the start of the Iraq war is unknown – six years after it happened. The Iraq war, center-piece of neocon wars, was almost like a private war waged for private reasons using America’s resources and claiming lives “everywhere”. And like the plundering NAZIs of WWII, the neocons show no remorse. Actually the neocons have always blamed others for their “bungling, illegal” activities. Effectively, they have “thumbed their noses” at the world’s system of justice. And they have gotten away with it.

The reason for the start of the Iraq war has been a mystery for some six years. The Bush team wasn’t talking after that initial assertion about Niger selling uranium oxide to Iraq fell into “disrepute”. The “Left Coaster” posted a Jul 30, 2005 article here.  And CBS’s 60 Minutes posted a  Tyler Drumheller article here.

The mine that was supposed to have produced the uranium oxide was said to be under French management and as you’ll see in the Left Coaster post, one mine was said to be under water. And some in the CIA were puzzled how 500 tons of  uranium oxide could be smuggled out of a French managed facility.

But the neocons have been politically strong in America – strong enough to force their wrong-doings to be “swept under the rug”.

However, it’s beginning to look like the British are serious about the truth. And if that be the case, a powerful voice will make statements about the start of the Iraq war – which is the only war that does not have an official, truthful reason for its start.

And another interesting point is that the British people can bring war-crimes charges against officials. Recently an Israeli official “high tailed” it out of Britain after discovering that British citizens were waiting for him with a war-crime charge. There was political talk of taking that right away from the British people but I never heard that happened.

Palin to Headline ‘TEA Party Convention’

November 25, 2009

ABC News’ Teddy Davis reports:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is planning to headline an event which is being promoted as the “First National TEA Party Convention,” according to Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton.

The “TEA party convention”, which is taking place in Nashville, Tenn., from Feb. 4-6, is an understandable target for Palin.

In her new book, “Going Rogue,” Palin repeatedly heaps praise on a TEA party movement that vigorously opposes the tax, spending, and borrowing policies of President Barack Obama. …

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/palin-to-headline-tea-party-convention.html

And the neocons keep displaying their RHETORIC talents. Not  a one, starting from the original neocon has a positive, constructive performance to show to America. And likely none would want investigative reporters hanging around. But it’s ok for FOX News people to show up as cheerleaders in their FAIR and BALANCED coverage of the news. And if the FOX news family can KILL Google prior to the “event”, perhaps the world will be forced to PAY for the fair and balanced reporting of FOX News.

And apparently the neocons have decided that Ronald Reagan is the most brainy of their lot. They want to dedicate the Republican Party to the original neocon - Ronald Reagan. His administration, in addition to selling cocaine to America, must have sold the neocon idea.

How in Hades can a political faction, start out selling cocaine and end up by crashing America’s economy – still picture itself as a viable political faction? One might reasonably wonder if they retained some of the cocaine that they intended to sell to minority Americans. The IN-DENIAL idea is inadequate to explain neocon behavior.

The Palin type neocons want to brainwash America into believing they are fiscal conservatives. If Americans believe that – then America deserves what it gets from the neocons. It is truly difficult to save America from itself! When we meet the enemy – and the enemy is us, then we have a problem.

Obama is spending on America’s population. Neocons are likely to call that socialism. What the neocons want is something that is the image of fascism. Putting money in the hands of America’s citizens rather than America’s businesses is not the idea of neocons even after the neocons bankrupted many in America’s population. The neocons, with perhaps one exception, are in a class by themselves.

Some politically connected companies “made out like bandits” as a result of the Iraq war. And the Iraq Oil! Anyone who believes the Iraq war was not about Iraqi OIL may be a neocon. The Halliburton Company made out nicely in Iraq’s hydrocarbon industry.

It is appalling how little the brains of the neocons thinks of the brains of Americans.

But, actually, the neocons are taking a page from Winston Churchill’s book: Never give up; Never Ever Give Up; Never Ever, Ever Give Up. However, the neocons are nowhere near Winston Churchill’s performance but – neither has Satan given up. And so long as the neocons have escaped prosecution for tons of illegal actions, why give up? Why not pull America DOWN to the neocons level?

Palin will headline – FOX News will likely byline. And America will once again be fed a dose of neocon RHETORIC. AT NO TIME WILL THE NEOCONS GIVE THEIR PERFORMANCE AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DO SOMETHING. And they have been leading America’s government for twenty-four years. Surely, they must have accomplished something of note – RIGHT?

A fool and his country are soon parted