The Obfuscation Report

As demonstrated by the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing Depression, corporate America and the elite upper class cannot be trusted despite what Conservatives try to tell you. While conservatives taut personal responsibility and self-reliance as central themes of their ideology they seem to forget about the little guy and be very willing to bailout their corporate allies. For example, while they were all for bailing out Wall Street and the banks with taxpayer money, they tried to destroy the blue-collar workers in the auto industry wanting the companies that employeed them to collapse (i.e. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama) even though the auto corporations needed only a fraction of what the finanancial institutions needed.

What is also apparent is that conservatives (like an asshole who goes by Gouligo) thinks that everything in America is achieved based on hard work and merit. While that plays a part of it, much of it is based on who you know (i.e. Blackwater and the former Halliburton getting government contracts because of their ties to Bush and Cheney). If you do not have money and power, you have nothing. Thus, government serves the purpose of looking out for the least of us in society. Many Conservatives believe that O.J. Simpson beat the murder charge because he was black with a majority black and Hispanic jury (despite prosecutor Marcia Clark pointing out that she has had juries of Blacks and Hispanics convict other people of color to die before). The reality is that O.J. like Robert Blake and Scooter Libby have access to money and power, which allows them to beat legitimate criminal charges that the regular blue collar guy could not. The point is that the wealthy in society should pay more taxes because they get more benefit out of society. Case in point if you tried to get a meeting with the President of the United States you would get laughed at but Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Brad Pitt, or any other wealthy individual has access to the powerful in our government. So to all Conservatives who think that the playing field is level, well I guess you are really stupid or really hate your fellow Americans because you think that a social safety net is for the weak and restrictions on corporate assholes is wrong. The danger of private industry is that they can make bad decisions that affect your life and you cannot do anything about it. At least with government you have some ability to affect the outcomes through elections, protests, etc. Government has the power to counteract the bad decisionmaking of Wall Street that allows corporate assholes to borrow money they cannot afford to pay back, sell bad securities tied to bad mortgages that people of average intelligence were tricked into by unscrupulous brokers and lenders.