I've finally figured out the what drives the seemingly schizoid policies of the TP/GOP - you know, the politicians who want to reduce the size of government and promote an extreme Libertarian agenda while also increasing the size of government to police every fertile woman's uterus and vagina.
Anyone remember Rev. Thomas Malthus? That witty Anglican churchman who focused on population size and resource availability as the key to a nation's economic health?
According to Malthus positive or preventative keep a population within resource limits. Preventative checks are all things that raise the blood pressure of the right but lower the birth rate, things like birth control, abortion, celibacy, and gay marriage. Positive checks are things that energize Fox News pundits and raise the death rate: famine, disease, war and Hurricane Katrina.
Gov. Rick Snyder, (R) Michigan, is the latest in the hit parade of TP/GOP governors who are leading the class war. Feeling out done by Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio, Snyder is going after Michigan's senior citizens and poor whom he believes are not '"sharing the sacrifice" with other citizens. His budget proposes a $1.8 billion tax cut for business and a $1.75 billion tax increase for everyone else. Snyder has also shoved through legislation that gives him martial rights over the state - he can suspend municipal governments and seize assets if he declares an 'economic emergency'. As you can imagine, there are a lot of people in Michigan who are plenty pissed - and who can blame them?
So, while the TP/GOP is busy legislating to keep the birth rate high, they are also busy creating a scenario ripe for public unrest, for more hungry people, for limited access to health care, for despair. The kind of thing that makes the huddled masses rise up and yearn to be free and those masses include every middle class American who hasn't swilled the TP/GOP/Libertarian Kool-aid.
So, will Wisconsin, Ohio or Michigan be the American equivalent to Tunisia? Which one of these governors will be the American Mubarek?
Anyone remember Rev. Thomas Malthus? That witty Anglican churchman who focused on population size and resource availability as the key to a nation's economic health?
According to Malthus positive or preventative keep a population within resource limits. Preventative checks are all things that raise the blood pressure of the right but lower the birth rate, things like birth control, abortion, celibacy, and gay marriage. Positive checks are things that energize Fox News pundits and raise the death rate: famine, disease, war and Hurricane Katrina.
Gov. Rick Snyder, (R) Michigan, is the latest in the hit parade of TP/GOP governors who are leading the class war. Feeling out done by Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio, Snyder is going after Michigan's senior citizens and poor whom he believes are not '"sharing the sacrifice" with other citizens. His budget proposes a $1.8 billion tax cut for business and a $1.75 billion tax increase for everyone else. Snyder has also shoved through legislation that gives him martial rights over the state - he can suspend municipal governments and seize assets if he declares an 'economic emergency'. As you can imagine, there are a lot of people in Michigan who are plenty pissed - and who can blame them?
So, while the TP/GOP is busy legislating to keep the birth rate high, they are also busy creating a scenario ripe for public unrest, for more hungry people, for limited access to health care, for despair. The kind of thing that makes the huddled masses rise up and yearn to be free and those masses include every middle class American who hasn't swilled the TP/GOP/Libertarian Kool-aid.
So, will Wisconsin, Ohio or Michigan be the American equivalent to Tunisia? Which one of these governors will be the American Mubarek?
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