EXAMINING REAGAN AND NEO CONSERVATISM

CLICK ON THE TITLE TO GO TO BRIGHTMOOR INSTITUTE WEBSITE As we continue in this military position in Iraq, which is unclear even to the brightest pundits as to its genesis or advisability or its likely terminus; I will go back to the election of 1980; when I supported Ted Kennedy and we ended up with Reagan. This was a big disappointment for me. I was disappointed in Carter whose management of the vote at the New York convention, holding all delegates to primary results; tolled the death knell for conventions as anything but TV politico-variety shows. I still believe Kennedy would have got the nomination if delegates had voted their conscience and Kennedy would have won the general election and this country would be on a differant footing altogether. The stacking of the court vis-a-vis the Roe abortion decision is a sideshow that diverts attention away from the reality of the court's role in our commerce. The Cargill decision entered by the Reagan court in 1985 still controls more, as it turned antitrust statutes on their head and opened the floodgates to the merger mania of the last generation; put millions of Americans out of work, dispossessing and diminishing the living status of those whose emplyment cannot recover from the subtraction of major corporate jobs. These are too many too mention; but Sears KMart is the latest. All these mergers do is reduce cost by eliminating labor. An old slogan: "Welfare for the rich and free enterprise for the poor."; the truth of these words is apparent to many of the working poor. The so-called press belongs to the outfit; they are invested in the stock market and anything to drive up the share price is acceptable losses to them. That is what we are seeing daily in Iraq. Acceptable losses. It is acceptable until the Army comes to knock on your door with a folded flag. DEFICIT SPENDING The common folk are fed a daily platter of deficit talk and the discussion of a debt they are led to believe has analogy to household finance. When the House fails to tax at a level they appropriate funds this generates activity in the bond market; whereby people pay for what the government does today with a guarantee they will get their money back later. It is a political pay-off; like running money off on a xerox machine which of course means prison in the real world. TAX CUTS The folly and fable of the tax cut to generate jobs should someday be apparent enough that we shall hear of it on a TV network. Just letting people keep their money doesn't guarantee anything in the American economy where so much labor is performed overseas. It is interesting that China who loves to hold our paper on the deficits also makes everything that Walmart sells, about. AS DELPHI FALLS INTO ITS BANCRUPCY AND THE EXECUTIVES ARE PAID OFF WE HAVE TO WONDER How many more times; like the Led Zepplin song; How many more times? Treat me the way you wanna do? I beieve the only salvation for the Us is a larger House of Representatives. I describe this at the website, click the title to go there.