with this brainchild of the republican party - the Energy Bill. Step right up, middle class America and empty your wallet into the hands of Exxon et al. For you are about to finance cash subsidies to help these oh so needy corporations. Oh, and if you disagree, Roach DeLay, coward in chief (first one to criticize - too scared to serve himself), has determined that you are pro-terrorist. Massive wealth transfers from the middle class to the rich and powerful - the core of neo-con economics. And on another domestic policy note, the SEC and Justice Department continue to send a clear message to corporate thieves: crime pays - please steal as much as you can because your fine is certain to be less than the amount you steal. Thank goodness this nation has an inherently strong economy. Because with the neo-confederates in charge, confederate economics - wealth for the privileged few (those born with it + our betters, the ruling elite - trash like hyde and delay) while everyone else is on the plantation and has no chance of moving off- is what we would have. And don't get me started on bush's legacy as the greatest protectionist of the last 50 years
Dude, what kind of communist are you? This bill will help build a Hooters restaurant in Shreveport. These are GOOD jobs, and we need them.
Sure JD, lets just stop all subsidies to corporations and tax the hell out of the bloodsucker. Then what happens? They simply move their operations to one of the many other states quite willing to offer them more favorable conditions. Good riddance and so what if a few thousand working class and middle class Louisiana citizens find themselves with no job. A few weeks ago I drove to Memphis and I noticed a huge Nissan manufacturing plant just outside of Jackson, Mississippi. It must have been almost a mile long and I must have passed 40 or 50 trucks all carrying new Nissan SUVs to their destinations. Louisiana was in the running for that Nissan plant but Mississippi offered them tax breaks that Louisiana was unwilling to provide. Must be at least a couple of thousand good paying jobs there. If you cut off all subsidies you will create the very condition you rail against. Instead of a few rich fat cats and a small yet regretably sizeable economically disadvantaged minority with most of us falling somewhere in the middle we can be just like some third world country with a very few rich folks and everybody else can either leave or learn to like being dirt poor. A lot of the offshore oil drilling tools that used to be made in Louisiana is now made in Texas, Florida, Mississippi and Florida because Louisiana imposes a tax on such equipment that the other states do not. Good thinking. We impose a tax that will bring millions of dollars to the state that we will never collect because the corporations we would collect it from have moved out of state. We don't even get the state income taxes from the workers who make it because they work in other states. We don't collect sales taxes from them because they don't live here and they buy their food, clothing, automobiles, and other goods in another state now that they don't live here anymore. No property taxes from those folks anymore because most of them no longer own property in Louisiana. But look at the bright side. The state dosen't have to waste millions of dollars for schools for their kids or providing them with services like police and fire protection and garbage collection. Pretty soon we can save even more by not providing those service for the cops, firemen and garbage collectors who will have had to move out of state to get jobs. And all those people who work in retail merchandising, restaurants and all other service industries will be gone too. Maybe everybody who is left really will have to work on a plantation for the Massa. I'm going to start playing my guitar again because there will be a hell of a market for the blues. "Dat Ole Man River, Juuust Keeps Rollin' "
This is not "policy." It is just the Republican Party paying off its debts. The oil industry, the large drug companies, the auto companies, the large energy companies, and big business in general own the Republican Party lock, stock and barrel. If Bush is re-elected, undoubtedly with much greater Republican majorities in Congress, we will finally see the end of overtime for low wage and middle class workers, virtually all effective pollution laws ended, the beginning of the end for Medicare as we know it, and the beginning of rule by the Fortune 500 companies. That is what the country had around the turn of the century, and that is what the Republican Party will return us to. They say that forty percent of Republican voters are Christian Right voters, and they will vote for policies that hurt them big time, but at least they will get a few fifteen year old girls imprisoned or executed for having abortions because they were too scared to tell their parents they were pregnant. I am sure they will think the trade off is worth it.
So you think there will be no fillibuster? No Kennedy marching orders for the 49 Democrats minus the handful who whore for ADM (Daschle, Harkin, Dayton) or those that whore for the auto industry (the Michigan Dems, Levin & Stabenow) when it comes to the emissions, or the Louisiana Dems who whore for "Big Oil"? If the remaining Dems who feel so strongly about "giveaways" to the energy industry and feign indignation about the "environment" WANTED to, they could fililbuster this bill without problem. But, they won't. I wonder why?
Re: So you think there will be no fillibuster? Well, it looks like it just got blocked. Thank god for McCain. Yeah, Daschle can be a whore, but he is only an amateur - a weekend whore if you will. Now, if you are an energy company exec, and you are looking for some cheap, easy, street corner skank, then the house Republicans will do you every time. Not too expensive, very experienced, and *always* willing to sell out the American public.
