The gap between the wealthy and the middle class has kept expanding and it seems that those few who benefit just aren???t ever satisfied, always wanting more. They look at the poor and the declining status of the middle class and accuse anyone wanting help as promoting liberalism and they offer that their own success doesn???t have anything to do with their abuse of power but rather is the natural result of conservative philosophies. When checking the facts, we see something different as is clearly demonstrated by what has happened on Wall Street, in the financial industry, so many times in corporate America and in general, where those with power and influence take advantage in arrogantly flaunting unchecked greed, self-indulgence and gross dishonesty. The real problem is that they have been encouraged, condoned, excused and even helped by politicians who they then support, contribute to and promise after office compensation (kickbacks) to. It doesn???t have anything to do with conservatism versus liberalism, which is the subterfuge they hide behind, but rather it is a blatant abuse of power always for money with the politicians being co-conspirators. They simply treat the American people as if they think everyone is stupid and easily manipulated.
Right now we are hearing a lot of rhetoric from many Republicans who strongly tout conservatism, rationalize all of what the Bush-Cheney administration did and try to fault the Obama team as being too liberal. Their actions, in contrast to the deception they offer, really tell a different story. In remembering the last eight years we recall their lying about: the value of tax cuts for the wealthy; privatizing Social Security; bringing drugs back into the USA as being unsafe; Global Warming as not being a problem; the value of unchecked deregulation; the allowing of massive exportation of American jobs and taxes; and on and on always benefiting Special Interests and a select few. We saw their deception in saying they were keeping America safe while actually focusing on Iraq and ignoring pre-9/11 warnings, in taking resources from Afghanistan to initiate the falsely justified Iraq War, in manipulating reporting on both wars, in unchecked spending with favored vendors for the wars and for Homeland Security, often providing limited value, in departing from American values and Geneva convention to authorize abuse and torture of prisoners, thereby putting our troops more at risk, in trying to sell our port security to Dubai Ports, and again on and on significantly benefiting a few and always with arrogance and an unconscionable, self-serving sociopathic mentality. All of these actions were totally and stubbornly supported by the Republican Party who now offer no apology or any promise to correct but rather only rhetoric to disguise and justify a return to more of the same.
As an ex-registered Republican, a moderate conservative, I think we really need a strong and responsible Republican Party to p









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