Monday, February, 23rd, 2015, 9:47 am
There was a time when the media, once called the Fourth Estate, was tasked with reporting the facts and truth to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”
with the goal of providing a voice for the powerless masses. Of course
those days are long gone. In fact, the converse is particularly true in
21st Century America. It is likely that because American media is owned
and operated by the comfortable, and that afflicted Americans are
incapable of comprehending that Republicans actively work against their
best interests, journalists report anything but the glaring truth;
Republican policies are failures and the reason the number of
“afflicted” Americans is growing. It is true that Republican policies
are why Americans are rapidly losing economic ground to the few wealthy
elites, but the media is not only culpable, they are facilitating this
country’s slide into oligarchy by perpetually campaigning for the rich
and powerful.
It is interesting to see the media give inordinate
attention to public figures intent on demeaning the President of the
United States by questioning his love for America instead of why
Republican-led states are in debt and cutting services for their
residents. This is particularly true of Sunday political programs that
provide some Americans with the only ‘news’ about their politicians’
viewpoints and opinions on why their constituents are suffering.
However, the majority of Americans get their news from local sources
that are as beholden to corporate advertising as the major networks
pandering to conservative economic ideology. Democrats are just as
guilty of failing to cite Republicans’ economic failings in states they
control and it certainly contributes to why voters sat out the last
midterm elections; they were unaware why their states are in economic
distress or how to correct the problem. A problem, by the way, that a
majority of Americans actually know exactly what it takes to correct.
The really sad fact is that there is an abundance of
empirical data proving that every state controlled by Republicans is
suffering economically, and conversely how Democratically-controlled
states are succeeding and leading the nation in economic growth.
However, these statistics never make the evening news, or Sunday
political talk shows and it is further proof that the media is actively
campaigning to impose conservative economic failings on the entire
population. In what is a telling narrative, recent polling demonstrates
that Americans overwhelmingly agree with the economic policies that
allow Democratic states to grow their economies, pay down Republican
debt and deficits, and create jobs. It is likely why the media is
concealing the key to Blue states’ success; taxing the rich and investing in people.
A recent Associated Press-GfK
poll
that found that the majority of Americans agree with President Obama’s
proposal to raise taxes on the richest income earners. This is a stark
contrast to the economic policies being imposed in Republican states, or
proposed by Koch Republicans in Congress, cutting taxes on the rich
and raising them on the poor and middle class. Republicans continue to
claim, like they have for over thirty years, that cutting taxes on the
rich grows economies, creates jobs, and provides incredible revenue
streams to invest in much-needed state programs.
Of course, the thirty year experiment in ‘trickle
down’ economics is a monumental failure, and there are no better
examples than most Republican-led states suffering massive debt, job
losses, and revenue shortfalls affecting everything from education
funding to road repair. Conversely, there are just as many examples of
Democratic-controlled states that rejected Republican economics and
raised taxes to increase revenue, create jobs, reduce deficits, and
allow for investment in areas important to the people; roads, schools,
law enforcement, healthcare and social services for the people.
For example, main stream media is deliberately
concealing several Republican-controlled states that drastically cut
taxes for the rich that led to unsustainable debt and deficits leading
to greater cuts in education, services, transportation, healthcare, and
lost jobs. The same Republican states, like Koch Republicans in
Congress, have either proposed, or are already, increasing taxes on the
poor and middle class to increase tax relief for the rich and still are
suffering revenue shortfalls.
Just a sampling of Republican-controlled states that cut taxes for the rich leading to budget
deficits
are; New Jersey – $2.7 billion deficit, Pennsylvania – $1 billion
deficit, Kansas – $1 billion deficit, Wisconsin – $2.2 billion budget
deficit, Arizona – $1.5 billion deficit, Alaska – $3.5 billion deficit,
Alabama -$950 million deficit, Louisiana – $1.6 billion deficit, Alabama
– $700 million deficit, Michigan – $454 million deficit, North Carolina
– $445 million deficit, and Oklahoma – $600 million deficit. Now, none
of these numbers are theoretical, conjecture, or ideological; they are
hard numbers that main stream media cannot be bothered to report on the
national level any more than the overwhelming economic successes being
experienced in Democratic-led states like California.
After twelve years of Republican economics in California, the state was left with a $42 billion deficit and high unemployment with massive program and social service cuts unable
to save the state’s economic demise. As is usually the case on the
national level, the people elected a Democratic governor and legislature
that went to the people for permission to raise taxes and save the
economy. The people had the same sentiment the recent AP/GfK poll
revealed most Americans have and they voted to raise taxes and the
results are indisputable; and not reported by the main stream media.
California’s deficit is falling rapidly, the state is investing in
education, law enforcement, healthcare, road repair, social services,
leading the nation in jobs created, and posting a $4 billion budget
surplus this year.
This economic success should be the leading economic
news across the nation and yet, even in most California media the
reports are that Obama and Democrats are intent on continuing to destroy
the nation’s economy, and jobs, by proposing higher taxes on the very
richest Americans. Sadly, even low-intellect Californians beholden to
bible-conservative ideology believe the media and oppose the same
Democratic economic policies they are benefitting from; more jobs,
services, greater healthcare access, more law enforcement, and social
services that are the reason they flock to the Golden State to receive.
Part and parcel of the dumbing down of Americans is due to conservative
media that is likely the only ‘education’ stupid California transplants,
like the Confederate states they left, will ever experience.
Many Americans are perplexed by idiot voters’ habit
of perpetually electing Republicans to enact economic policies that are
detrimental to their supporters’ self-interests. It is likely it is
because the stupid have no idea that there are proven economic successes
in Democratically-controlled states the media never reports any more
than the Republican failures ravaging red state economies across the
nation.
Republicans are responsible for the gross income
inequality killing off the middle class and sending poor people deeper
into poverty, but they would not have such an easy time without a
willing media facilitating enactment of failed Republican economic
policies. The sad fact is that journalists would not have to explain
anything to their audience; just provide a list of red states in
economic distress and blue states experiencing budget surpluses, job
growth, and increased services. However, that would entail contradicting
Republicans. If Americans have learned anything over the past decade,
it is that the media will not do anything contrary to the whims and
wishes of their Republican masters because it would mean afflicting the
comfortable.
Media Intentionally Hides Republicans’ Economic Failures And Democrats’ Success was written by Rmuse for PoliticusUSA.
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