Paul Ryan and Inner
City Culture
On
Wednesday, March 12, the House Budget Committee Chairman, Paul Ryan said on the
Morning in America radio show , “We have got this tailspin of
culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just
generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and
the culture of work. There is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt
with.”
He is absolutely
right! But, this man who was a candidate for vice president of the United
States of America in the 2012 election; this snot-nosed, immature, slow and
late bloomer in life, his high degree of intelligence and education
notwithstanding; either has no clue as to the real causes of this problem or is
disingenuous to we the people whom he serves, just another servant of our Shadow Government by the Power Elite.
It
is a fact of life that there are those among us who are sucker’s, leaching off
the rest of society who work and are self-sustaining; so let us agree on that
and put it behind us. As we come to that understanding, however, let us also
understand that these people exist among the rich as well as the poor and those
in the inner city ghettos. There are bottom feeders and there are top feeders.
Just as the bottom feeders capture our welfare dollars, the top feeders steal
from all of us through rents, corporate welfare, and tax avoidance and evasion.
They downright refuse to pay their fair share of taxes in accordance with their
ability to pay. On August 8, 2013, I wrote in this blog a posting titled “Our
Underclass–The Bottom Feeders”, in which I discussed in detail, the bottom
feeders and the top feeders in our economy. Scroll down to August 8, 2013, and
you will find it.
Next,
everyone should understand that our inner city culture is composed of whites
and Hispanic peoples, as well as blacks. No one has a monopoly on this, their numbers
notwithstanding. Again, on March 4, 2014, I wrote a posting to this blog titled
Our Underclass in which I emphatically stated that our underclass must be
eliminated to the fullest extent possible–certainly not by genocide, but by
helping them to help themselves thereby upgrading their status in society up
into the middle and upper classes. I made several recommendations for accomplishing
this. Again, scroll down in my blog to March 4, 2014.
What
has really angered me about Paul Ryan’s statement is the horse’s mouth from
which it came, Paul Ryan. That man, a responsible leader (I should say irresponsible)
in our House of Representatives completely ignores the causes of our problems
in the inner cities, the ghettos. In fact, he has, in conjunction with his
cohorts, done everything possible within the realm of his responsibilities to
suppress the people (call it the 47%, the 90%, the 99%, or whatever) of this
country into poverty.
What has he and
his partners in crime done? They have forced cuts in spending in the middle of
this recession (or depression–ask Paul Krugman) when we should be increasing
spending to stimulate the economy and put people back to work. You immediately
point to our giant deficit and national debt. Where do you think our deficit
and debt came from? When Jimmy Carter left office, our national debt was under
$1 Trillion. I submit to you. That is as close to zero as we will see in the
next several generations. When George W. Bush left office, 28 years later, our
national debt exceeded $10 Trillion, an increase of 1,004%. Bill Clinton
reduced our deficit to zero, with a surplus forecasted for years ahead. Alan
Greenspan was even worrying as to how he could manage monetary policy without a
national debt for support. And what did his cohorts do with the help of Paul
Ryan? They spent money like a drunken sailor on shore leave, literally
exploding our national debt. This isn’t prejudice or bigotry I’m expounding,
folks. These are facts. And why did they do it? I now submit to you my opinion.
They wanted to enrich themselves, the rich, at the expense of the poor. This
should be obvious to all. All one has to do is look at the exploding inequality
in income and wealth within the past thirty years. Next, they wanted to put our
nation on the verge of national bankruptcy so that our nation would be forced
to the position of where we now are–force us to eliminate Social Security,
eliminate national healthcare and Medicare, eliminate welfare, food stamps, and
the public safety nets in order to reduce our deficit while, on the other hand,
maintaining a defense budget greater than all the other major nations in the
world combined. Do you think not? Aren’t these items discussed daily in the
news media? It appears these people, including Paul Ryan, actually believe this
world was made for the sole benefit of the Corporatocracy
and Power Elite. Also, I haven’t mentioned in this posting the unnecessary closing
down of our government at a completely wasted cost of $28 Billion to the
taxpayer. Oh well. Just charge it. We can't help our poor, but we do have money to burn.
I can’t close
this out without mentioning the huge spending of Barack Obama. Far be it for me
to defend him–he doesn’t need me, but what else would one expect with the
carryover of such an immense deficit, the deepest financial crisis since the
great depression, jobs and money being outsourced to slave labor abroad , twenty
million unemployed or underemployed, forty-seven million on food stamps,
millions sleeping in cars, on the streets, or under bridges, another twenty
million committed to privatized prisons, and the minority leader of the Senate
vowing to defeat every program which he, President Obama, would set forth–not
to mention half the world hating us, the result of an “us vs. them” foreign
policy. Are you kidding me?
Surely, no one
as smart as Paul Ryan can be so ignorant. I can’t believe it. But, what is the other side of the equation? He certainly isn't representing the people.
Ronald Miller
Books to Read on these matters:
The Price of Inequality by Joseph
Stiglitz
Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
When Work Disappears by William Wilson
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