Child Abuse

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By David Podvin

The United States is experiencing a profound moral crisis
that has nothing to do with Janet Jackson’s
breasts and everything to do with this nation’s conversion
to the religion of materialism. American morality
has eroded to the point where many people now believe
that avoiding an increase in their taxes is more
important than protecting the well being of their children. It
is a demographic shift that has been a boon to the
Republican Party – there are more egocentric parents in
America than there used to be, and they are
attracted to the GOP’s libertine message of spending
today and letting someone else pay for it tomorrow.

The conservative policy of imposing massive debt upon the
children of this country is about to face a major
test in California. On March 2, voters will decide the fate
of Proposition 57, a fifteen billion dollar bond
initiative designed to shift the burden of solving the state’s
budget crisis from adults to toddlers. The outcome
is likely to have profound consequences for the nation as a
whole: if 57 passes, it will be a victory for the
advocates of deficit spending, foremost of whom is the
Pablo Picasso of red ink, George W. Bush. But if the
initiative fails, it may indicate that Americans are willing to
repudiate “Reaganomics”, the hedonistic creed
that rejects fiscal discipline and advocates forcing the next
generation to subsidize the excesses of the
current one.

The author of Proposition 57, Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, took office after his corporate sponsors
had bankrupted the state treasury with a phony energy
crisis. The robber barons skillfully exploited outrage about
the resulting budget deficit to manipulate the electorate into
recalling Democrat Gray Davis and replacing
him with a puppet of big business. Davis intended to
pursue the profiteers through the courts in order to
recoup the billions of dollars they had stolen, so he had to
be supplanted by someone who would instead
extract the money from the public. As Machiavellian
machinations go, it was not particularly subtle, but it was
extremely effective because the average citizen wasn’t
paying attention.


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Podvin nails it. Der Gropenfuhrer should not be given a free ride and allowed to both hack services to the bone and eliminate cancer treatment for the poor and children while pawning off budget problems to future generations and then reaping politial benefits while someone else has to clean up the mess. No effort of course by der Gropinator to go after the power companies who pillaged the state. That would of course offend his backers who are banking on him, literally to let them slither away.
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