rock the casbah...

'the king told the boogeyman, you better let the ragga drop...'

there is a lot of ways to interpret the words of Joe Strummer, i choose, in the context of this post, to interpret them this way...

fiscal conservatives unite, and let the Bush tax cuts fade off into the sunset...

mr. Obama, you have lost a vote today. that deal you have tentaively made with republican party leaders will drive this country further into debt, eliminating the what's left of the middle class in 10 years and effectively drive this Democratic Republic into an oligarchy. in the great tradition of blind supply side economics score yet another one for the upper 2 percent. That's two more years of swiping the credit card for free...

Obama has effectively given a bump in the credit limit for the wealthiest people in this country, with no interest rate, and no payments to make ever. America, the lower 98, will make the payments for them. That's us—U.S...

our payback?, the shiny apple? The unemployed will not lose their benefits over the next year. Wow, thanks, guy, but i'll tell you what. You can have my benefits. Take 'em, i don't want them anymore. i'd rather lose my dignity and take a job swabbing up jizz at the Bunny Ranch, then to put this country in $900 Billion more in debt over THE NEXT TWO YEARS!...

that's TWO YEARS!! nan one of us got that kind of scratch on this rock!...

i guess you are going to roll over and let them kibosh the newly minted health care bill so we can add another $10 billion to the bill. yea, that's the part they didn't tell you about 'Obamacare' folks, that it kind of pays for itself. de-funding it would lose the billions of dollars in medical industry payments that are part of the bill. so the minute we finally got the free market to actually foot the bill for something we grab the check from their hands, real nice, morons. Pray tell, what is in that tea of yours?...

but really, TWO FUCKING YEARS!!..

unemployment insurance has been proven to stimulate local economies. this money is not saved by folks, it goes to grocery stores, and pharmacies and the like and nieghborhoods get to keep their local market rather than get another abandoned building. continuing to approve unemployment insurance extensions is a no brainer. its stimulus money, as far as the nation's budget is concerned, its already been spent, but republicans have chosen to use it as a bargaining chip...

some of you might believe that by calling someone a fiscal conservative that they are republican. not so. the republican party has not been fiscally conservative since the days of Jefferson, not that his rebublican party was in any shape of form similar to today's or even Goldwater's republican party. jefferson had the caveman lawyer John Adams and the free market mercenary Alexander Hamilton still kicking around the halls and making trouble. No, a fiscal conservative, in the context of the American economy, is to pay down and ultimately eliminate the deficit so the country's currency remains strong and provides all Americans with purchasing power. Imported goods will become more accessible, people will have the ability to own their land and live their life filled with liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Currently we have 'fiscal conservatives' telling us that extending the Bush-era tax cuts will stimulate businesses to expand and therefore create jobs and stimulate the economy. Really, what they are saying is that they want to continue to keep the dollar weak so they can export cheap goods and collect profit, and in the event that they actually expand, they will hire you but a a dirt wage to make sure you live hand-to-mouth waiting for your liberty and your pursuit of sort of OK. Republicans, and i say this generally, think you're stupid, and guess what you are, but apparently that's what Obama thinks we are too...

i'm not a socialist, and i don't play one on TV. i simply believe in taxation without representation. don't you? i'm not being represented. if you are reading this, chance are you are not being represented either. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates Sr. are being represented, and they are more than willing if not begging the the government to tax them. Haliburton, JP Morgan, Chevron, Phillip Morris, Disney, etc. they are all represented, but you don't here much from them do you. Probably because they are too busy smarting from the amount of money they put in electing some of these tea party freaks while hiding behind the feckless McCain-Feingold (both for extending the tax cuts) capaign finance farce, i mean law...

point is, isn't THIS why we our forefathers threw a bunch of tea into Boston Harbor? Isn't THIS why Crispus Attucks dies for us white people?! Sorry Crispus, we've all failed you, even one of your own, that is if he isn't really and Arab, i mean they said he was on TV, he must be right...

i don't think mr. Obama is an Arab, i think he's a republican...

i was happy in 2008, not because of Obama, or the landslide change in the House or the Senate. i was happy because i thought, 'finally, we can get rid of these goddamned tax cuts.' i have never been a man of means and i don't benefit from any tax cut, 3 percent of shit is still shit, but i know when my country is fiscally healthy, then problems get solved...

so this is my call to all. fiscal conservatives unite! middle class unite! those with a soul unite! let's do everything in our power, while we still have what little is left to fight extending these extensions. vote against this deal with the devil and let the tax cuts lapse, let the republicans explain why the they are cutting our social security benefits (oh, they didn't tell you when you get a 'break' on your FICA tax that means you lose out on that portion of your benefits for the future as well—oops!), our health care and giving the 2 percent a pass, $200 and a get out of jail free card...

let's have a REAL tea party...

'sheriff don't like it. ROCK THE CASBAH, ROCK THE CASBAH!'...