Republican rhetoric sounds like it's 1930 again [View all]

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/08/doomed-to-repeat-mistakes-of-past.html

Bits and pieces of quotes from Republicans who are upset over the Inflation Reduction Act, and over the President's announcement that some refunds are forthcoming on student loans floating around the media today remind me of the same mindset and perspective they exhibited when Hoover couldn't wrap his mind around how to help people after the stock market crash of 1929. The only thing that's missing from their rhetoric today that was there during the Depression is some misplaced sympathy and some sad faces for those hardest hit, though the same stone-walled unwillingness to actually do something to help, and the same protectionism for the riches of the super wealthy, made most of that look hypocritical.

But there's no sympathy for those who endure economic hardship because some aspect of the economy, like exorbitant and unreasonable tuition costs for college, or ridiculously high medical and health care costs, get way out of proportion to the level of competition in the marketplace that is theoretically supposed to keep things balanced. That's gone, and the racism that was there during the Depression is now more vicious and rabid than it was back then.

It doesn't matter what it is, whether it is crushing student loan debt or crushing prescription drug costs due not to scarcity or supply, but to the greed of corporations who profiteer off of people's pain and suffering, Republicans don't want to do anything for anyone who isn't in their billionaires' club. They've used veterans for their purposes for a long time, trying to claim that Democrats would rather send billions in foreign aid than spend it on veterans. But it is Republicans who beat down every attempt to improve the Veteran's Administration, especially access to its health care. Who led the opposition to the burn pit bill which was aimed at helping veterans? In fact, who has voted down, ever single time it comes up, any legislation aimed at improving the financial condition of American veterans?