Sunday, February 20, 2011

To Redirect but I'll get to Part II in a minute

Go Wisconsin, right? Apparently, our country is headed in a way that I think a lot of people don't really like. Oh, I'm sure people are truly concerned with deficits, but I find it truly interesting that it's only now that so many are, when we were sliding rather quickly into them with Dubya. Best quote from this article:

"Democrats help conservatives by not shouting out loud, over and over, that it was conservative values that caused the global economic collapse: lack of regulation and a greed-is-good ethic."

http://www.truth-out.org/what-conservatives-really-want67907?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Read this article. Maybe you'll agree with some of it, all of it, or none of it - but when was it that in our society, greed was good and helping others bad. When was it that a government "of the people, by the people, for the people" suddenly became the enemy? Because see, out government is US - well, it's supposed to be. So when did it become the enemy?

1 comment:

Mimi said...

This comment isn't really about the article itself, which although I agree with what it is saying I don't believe that is what traditional conservatism really stood for. New "conservatism" though? Absolutely.

But what I really wonder about is this: How is it the fault of public workers and teachers and women and minorites and the poor that the economy fell apart? Wasn't it really the two expensive wars, tax cuts under any and all circumstances - that benfited the rich more than anyone, and deregulation coupled with bad business decisions that led to that and the deficit? Yet now the conservative members (and some Democrats) of the government are saying that it is up to everyone to pitch in and dig the country out of the hole. But apparently it is only up to the middle class and the poor.