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State of The Union address
I almost never agree with the president on history, the present, or the future. I see his history as an education in socialism, his present, a way to implement socialist ideas, and his future, as a future I do not wish to live in, nor do I want my descendants to be subjected to a half-century of dictatorship before the socialists consume all that capitalists built, before simple-minded drones voted Marxists into the highest offices in the land.
There is one place I agreed with him on and that was that we have lost almost all the high paying jobs that allowed a flourishing middle class to exist. They have mostly disappeared, and the disappearance accelerated under his tenure as president. He was wrong about the time period it took. He said the last 30 years, but it is more like 50 years. Union membership reached its peak about then, and union leadership started to demand more than industries could absorb. One by one, whole industries either transformed or disappeared, and along with it, the unions that represented them.
A few examples that come to mind were trucking, glazing, plasterers, bricklayers, and others until we are down to government employees and a few scattered businesses who are unionized. Surviving businesses had to move to states where “right to work” laws existed. Citizens who work in these states are the new middle class, and the rust-belt cities are waste lands holding onto antiquated ideas and ruled by the democrat party, without any opposition.
The idea of a union is a good one, but it’s like the camel with his nose under the tent, “never happy” until his whole body is under it. It started with the court’s ruling that a National Union was not a monopoly. It was and still is, but they had money to give the “K” Street lobbyists to spread around to congressmen and women disguised as campaign contributions. If anyone thinks congress represents you, then think again. They represent anyone who can donate to their re-election committee and no one else.
If Mr. Obama is as intelligent as the media says he is, he’d know this, and I suspect he does, except he lets his ideology rule instead of his intelligence. For instance, he knows the income tax was first suggested by Karl Marx to destroy the middle class. Our founders prohibited it, in the founding document. Marxists got an amendment to the constitution in 1913 when Marxism was sweeping the world. Now it is killing the country. Over half of the citizens pay no income tax and have no stake in its existence as a capitalist country. We will only survive if congress passes the FairTax but that would dry up the “K” street money, so they won’t pass the FairTax.
On second thought, suppose we don’t agree on anything. He believes in Marxist/Socialist, redistribution of wealth, and I believe in Capitalist creation of wealth, unlimited for those willing to work for a living, instead of vote for a living.
Wilton Jere Tidwell
Sun City resident
