I’ve been trying to tell people for years that the one percent wants to make us all serfs. The corporations didn’t move their jobs overseas because they couldn’t afford the taxation; they did it purely because of greed.

What I see happening is a major plan by the corporate owned GOP to bankrupt our federal government so it can end all social programs including Medicare, Social Security and Unemployment. They keep talking about democrats and how they want to “spend spend spend,” yet is the republicans that got us into a ten year war and gave tax breaks to the rich. Then they came up with the “debt ceiling” and introduced a balanced budget program amendment that would cause all social programs to be eliminated because we can’t afford them. Now that the corporations want to come back because they’ve found that even though they pay slave wages overseas, they are still showing a smaller profit margin due to shipping costs, and at the same time, the GOP is also trying to abolish unions. They are making us destitute and their goal is to be able to pay Americans the same slave wages they paid overseas. And if you don’t believe that, there are already those who want to eliminate minimum wage. The GOP wants to make us a land of serfs. Oh, and they are against birth control too, all the more slaves to fight their wars and work in their factories, as all those kiddies will need to eat and with no social programs, people will think slave wages are just hunky dory. Like you, I am very concerned with what’s happening in our country and where it’s all leading us, but I don’t think Obama’s the one to fear, he’s just one guy. It’s the corporate power that’s up to no good. We are heading back to the dark ages if we fall under another Republican Administration and American freedom and rights as we have always believed in and fought for will most likely be lost forever.

The GOP tell us there’s no money and the rich aren’t the blame for our predicament, yet when I see Donald Trump standing with his arm around Mitt Romney’s shoulder and hear an announcement that an anonymous donor just pledged $9 million to Romney’s campaign, that tells me that the corporations are betting on their race horse, their very own puppet to do their bidding. I have union retirement, and they are threatening to take that away from me, my house will be paid off in four months, and I‘m sure they want that too. I am a woman (they are trying to make women non persons and even want to decriminalize rape) and since I am past my child bearing years and cannot produce offspring to fight their wars or work for pennies in their corporations, they’ll probably send me to the salt mines. So I’ll come right out and say it, at this time of my life, I am a LIBERAL. Should times redefine the word and what it stand for, that may change, but I truly think that anyone with an ounce of self-preservation would be foolish to vote the republican ticket. Everyone else gets to say what they want to say, so I just said my piece.

Good stuff as usual, Jonathan. I met an economist (Stanford educated, teaches at UC Davis) who is a conservative, and he absolutely agrees with Nick Hanauer. Anything else is unsustainable.

So, if it is plain that the rich do not create jobs and the tax cuts for them did not trickle down and the Republicans are pushing for more of the same, who do we vote for? And why is the Right pushing for more of the same?