THE TAKE AWAY MESSAGE OF THE ELECTION YESTERDAY... WAS THAT VOTERS FEAR THAT BANKRUPT STATES WILL TRY TO RAISE TAXES...
(REMEMBER OFF YEAR ELECTIONS TEND TO BE DOMINATED BY THE "PROPERTIED CLASS"...AND THE MATURE VOTER.)
IN THE TWO STATES VOTING FOR GOVERNOR...VOTERS SOUGHT TO INOCULATE THEMSELVES FROM DEMOCRATIC TAX HIKES...
NOTE THAT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS TEND TO BE THE CAPTIVES OF THEIR STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC EMPLOYEES UNIONS...
AND STATE TAXES ARE A VERY VERY BIG LOCAL ISSUE...ESPECIALLY IN STATES LIKE NEW JERSEY!
BUT IN THOSE SAME STATES VOTERS SAID HEALTH CARE WAS A TOP ISSUE...THAT MEANS THEY WANT THE HEALTH CARE LOOTING BY BIG INSURANCE STOPPED...
THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION WAS IN NEW YORK 23D...WHERE VOTERS REJECTED THE RADICAL RIGHT...FOX NEWS AGENDA...AND VOTED FOR A DEMOCRAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 100 YEARS...
THE REAL MESSAGE OF THE ELECTION WAS THAT IF DEMOCRATS DO NOT PASS A STRONG PUBLIC OPTION HEALTH CARE REFORM...THEY WILL LOSE BIG IN 2010...
HEALTH CARE IS A BIG ISSUE...VOTERS WANT REFORM...
AT THE STATE LEVEL...LOCAL TAXES ARE A BIG ISSUE...VOTERS WANT THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES UNIONS TO HOLD THE LINE...AND THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT IS WITH A REPUBULICAN GOVERNOR...WHO IS NOT THE STOOGE OF THE UNIONS...
I SUPPORT A SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM NATIONALLY FOR THE US...BUT IF I WERE A VOTER IN NJ OR VIRGINIA YESTERDAY...I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR...TO BALANCE THE STATE BUDGET WITHOUT TAX HIKES...AND TO SLAP DOWN THE GREEDY PUBLIC SECTOR "MONOPOLY" UNIONS...!
AND I THINK THAT IS THE VIEW OF A LOT OF VOTERS...
AS TO THE ECONOMY...YES, OBAMA HAS NOT SOLVED THE MESS THAT THE REPUBLICANS MADE...
BUT THE REPUBLICAN ANSWER TO THE ECONOMY IS BIZARRE HOOVERESQUE NONSENSE...LIKE "BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET" IN THE MIDST OF A DEPRESSION THAT IS WORSE THAN THE 1930S... THIS ANTI-KEYNESIAN APPROACH IS SIMPLY A REVERSION TO HOOVERISM...
IN SHORT...THE REPUBLICANS IDEA OF SOLVING THE ECONOMIC PROBRLEM IS TO BE AGAINST DEMOCRATS...AND AGAINST CONVENTIONAL ECONOMIC THEORY...
THE REPUBLICANS SUGGEST NO WAY TO SOLVE THE DEPRESSION THAT THEY CAUSED... DURING THE TERMINAL PHASES OF BUSH/CHENEY RAY-GUN-OMIC AND GREENSPAN/BERNANKE ECONOMIC LOOTING AND TOUT TV BULLSHIT.
