Watching the Faux News-sponsored tea parties protesting taxpayer bailouts of unethical financial corporations and our once-mighty auto corporations is at the same time amusing and unsettling. The sad fact is, these people wasted millions of bags of tea but, apparently, don’t get the irony of their act.
Their protest begs the following questions: Where were these proponents of fiscal responsibility when the Reagan administration began the de-regulation mania that initially led to the $5 billion taxpayer bailout of the S&L’s (peanuts compared to the current fiasco) and was continued through all succeeding administrations until being accelerated by Bush 43?
Where were these proponents of truth when Reagan ended the Fairness Doctrine through which a response was granted to verbal editorials, and whose loss has led us to network and cable news focusing on dogs and fashion rather than issues that truly impact all Americans — most of whom, I suppose, watch these new shows? It also has given us a 24-hour opinion-generated editorial network that is allowed to attach the now meaningless word “news” to their name.
Where were these thousands of people who are so concerned about the government spending their grandchildren’s money when millions in this country protested the imminent invasion and certain occupation of a non-threatening country — Iraq (no WMD=E 2s, no part in 9/11 — these were lies from the Bush and Faux News noise machine) — using our grandchildren’s money to kill perhaps hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, draining our national treasury, and obscenely enriching Bush’s defense contractor cronies? Where were they then?
These obviously under-informed beings sat on their hands while raging corporatism took control of our nation, and now they have the audacity to blame Obama for a crisis that has been 30 years in the making.
Where were they then?
Phyllis Minchew
Everett
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