Don Quixokie

In the milieu of Reaganite Conservative Orthodoxy  - to today's Conservative -  Reagan is the absolute final word in social and economic policy. History began with Reagan. And in the mind of Reagan, history ended with the Warren G.Harding Administration. Between the two periods, nothing happened. Nothing from which any policy lessons could be drawn. Not the Great Depression; not the struggle and value of the Labor movement; not the deficit investment in industrial expansion leading up to WW2 which was in fact the greatest economic expansion in history; not the Eisenhower tax rate, the Interstate highway System or his timely warning against the Military Industrial Complex; or LBJs War on Poverty and Great Society Programs, or the salutory effect of public education in over-coming Seperate but Equal and the enfranchisement of blacks after the abolition of Jim Crow. None of that exists, except as a horror that the Prophet Reagan saved us from. As a consequence, despite a...

When Jesus Christ comes back to Earth, I really have to doubt the reception he will receive here in America. Sure the propaganda is that America is great because God loves America...but I really have to wonder. If Christ could be said to have a social and fiscal policy, it is antipodes of that espoused by Ayn Rand and put into practice by Ronald Reagan - extending even to tax policy. "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto to God what is God's," said Christ. Caesar being the government and what is being rendered is taxes. "Tax cuts" said Reagan. "Tax cuts, tax cuts, and still more tax cuts," said Bush the Younger "We need more tax cuts," says Romney. The Wealthy. Beneficiaries of the rising tide that lifts all boats, but which doesn't do anything but drown houses and pedestrians. According to Reagan, the class that needed the most money so that prosperity would trickle down to everyone else. Those euphemistic...

Dear President Obama I humbly submit the following policy recommendations for your approval End Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind. Instead return to the Great Society Initiatives of the Johnson Administration. Our present third rate educational system and third world destiny are the products of over 30 years of Reaganomic Orthodoxy. The last time the educational system was admitted to be dysfunctional was under the policy of "Separate but Equal." The Johnson initiatives worked. Invest heavily in public education. To do education on the cheap only invests in the back-door welfare state of the Prison Industrial Complex. Need proof? Four words: Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi. Invest in a Domestic Marshall Plan. The success of the original Marshall Plan is the reason that Germany remains the economically strongest nation of the European Union. Massive deficit investment in manufacturing and assembly during World War 2, along with infrastructure and works ...

Truly, America could have done worse than to elect Romney. They could have elected a know-nothing marionette of the Koch bros in Herman Cain. A tool of the evangelical and oil lobbies in Rick Perry. Returned to the Dark Ages with Ayatollah Santorum. Have the whole nation used as a mad scientist's laboratory by Gingrich, who would have colonies on the moon while school custodians are put out of work so little Johnny can bring home what had been a fraction of daddy's salary. Voters could have elected Ron Paul who would have compromised National Security with absolute abandonment of foreign policy; overturned the Civil Rights Act; and eventually overseen the dismemberment and Balkanization of the United States of America with the destruction of the Federal Government. We could have done worse than to vote for Mitt Romney. But not by much.