Dick Morris Comes Out and Says It

[paft.livejournal.com]

Dick Morris on Sean Hannity, 2/28/11:

We may at long last have a way to liberate our nation from the domination of those who should be our public servants but instead are frequently our union masters and free our politics from their financial power…What is at stake here really is freeing our schools so that we could keep good teachers and fire bad ones, freeing our state government so we don’t have high local taxes (and exactly how are those good teachers going to be paid?) and obliterating the financial power base of the Democratic Party.

The money quote is underlined above. This attack on collective bargaining is not about helping kids. It’s about establishing what amounts to a one-party system. Eliminate the power of unions and the G.O.P., with its corporate backing, gets to run things pretty much unopposed.

These people do not grasp the most basic principle of an open society – equal access to the political process as a voter and as a candidate.

Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes

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Comments

Sorry to spoil the fun, but...

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

It is an oligarchy in its extremest form. For instance, the very institution which has the monopoly on the formation of federal-level fiscal policies, despite its title, is not a state institution but is essentially a private bank cartel which, when asked to whom its accountable, answers with silence, because the fact is, it only answers to its shareholders and no one else.

Re: Sorry to spoil the fun, but...

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

As much as we dislike the fed, that's not really how it works here. It's accountable to the government, to the Congress in particular. Is it accountable enough? That's up for debate.

This is why I'm saying there appears to be a patent misunderstanding among foreigners about how it works here.

Re: Sorry to spoil the fun, but...

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

On paper, it all really looks beautiful. I watched the Bernanke hearings in the Senate. Total farce.

Re: Sorry to spoil the fun, but...

[existentme.livejournal.com]

Isn't this just the exact thing your adversaries are saying in this argument?

To explain: when you say "the Fed (or Goldman Sachs or whomever) is accountable to the Congress," all this really translates to (thanks at the very very least to campaign financing, electability, pork-barreling and the entanglement of all of these) is that the Fed (or Goldman Sachs or whomever) is accountable to themselves, alone - they pay Congress, period.

I really don't think it's that difficult or complicated to understand at all. Sure, I guess some people actually don't think the Fed (or whatever other oligarch) is accountable to anyone, but I think most thinking people, even foreigners, recognize that accountability ends exactly where the printed currency begins.

Re: Sorry to spoil the fun, but...

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

The Fed is not Goldman Sachs, first.

Sure, I guess some people actually don't think the Fed (or whatever other oligarch) is accountable to anyone, but I think most thinking people, even foreigners, recognize that accountability ends exactly where the printed currency begins.

And I think that's where they're completely wrong. Accountability and money aren't really related, if I'm reading the complaint properly.