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The Economic and Political Gospel According to the 'New' Republican Establishment

Diane Alden
Monday, Feb. 13, 2006

The Gospel According to the Republican Establishment is creating a cognitive dissonance for many conservatives. An intellectual wedge is being driven between "learners" (us knuckle-dragging conservatives – and our current beliefs) and "reality." This is the reality created by the current and future Republican Establishment. We can go along or we can go to hell.

Conservatives, real conservatives as opposed to the big-government kind, are asking themselves: "Where is George W. Bush's head at? What is up with the establishment Republican Party? Have they totally sold conservatives out, and, if so, why? What drives them? What has changed regarding their entire reason for being in power?

The following information may offer the average Republican supporter, and some few others, a clue.

"The left-wing's demonization of Ronald Reagan owes much to the Republican Establishment. The Republican Establishment regarded Reagan as a threat to its hegemony over the party. They saw Jack Kemp the same way. Kemp, a professional football star quarterback, represented an essentially Democratic district. Kemp was aggressive in challenging Republican orthodoxy. Both Reagan and Kemp spoke to ordinary people. As a high official in the Reagan administration, I was battered by the Republican Establishment, which wanted enough Reagan success so as not to jeopardize the party's 'lock on the presidency' but enough failure so as to block the succession to another outsider. Anyone who reads my book, The Supply-Side Revolution (Harvard University Press, 1984) will see what the real issues were." Paul Craig Roberts, February 6, 2006.

"There is no doubt that the philosophical outlook called communitarianism has influenced politics in the West. Some of its major tenets have been advanced by Bill Clinton in America and Tony Blair in Britain. Described by its promoters as a "movement" (it's not: it has no popular support or mass membership), communitarianism is a public philosophy developed by a small coterie of academics who have attempted to recast American liberal-Left and European social-democratic ideologies into a new 'centrist' mold." "The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society" – book review in National Review, March 10, 1997, by John Fonte.

"Bush's inaugural address," said George Washington University professor Amitai Etzioni, a communitarian thinker, "was a communitarian text, full of words like 'civility,' 'responsibility' and 'community.' That's no accident. Bush's advisers consulted on the speech with Putnam." Washington Post Staff Writer Dana Milbank, February 1, 2001, "Needed: Catchword for Bush Ideology, 'Communitarianism' Finds Favor"

"Critics argued that we should not have been involved in either conflict, or we should have acted unilaterally. But we have learned that by acting in unison with other nations, we avoid being perceived as a global bully. Still, putting our armed forces, even in a limited and temporary way, under a supranational command is a significant step toward a new world order, indeed one that may require amending our Constitution." Amitai Etzioni, 319. "When Does Global Good Outweigh Our Own Sovereignty?" USA Today, December 8, 1999, page 31A.

[Thanks to Nikki Raapana, Anti-Communitarian League. Nikki was trained in government document research at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Raised by a career Army NCO, she and her daughter are attempting to inform the public about this "new" old Hegelian ideal.]

Economic Hijinks in the Beltway's Iron Triangle

Along with the Hegelian ideal of communitarianism, a smiley-face version of socialism combined with some aspects of a secularized social gospel, we are stuck with the Bush administration's addiction to crony corporatism. Capitalism it isn't.

Why have Bush economic policies betrayed the American middle class and the future strength of the U.S. economy? Why have these policies nothing to do with the free market or capitalism?

"America's trade deficit set records with much of the rest of the world as well. Among those records was a $122.4 billion gap with the 25-nation European Union, a $92.7 billion deficit with the nations that belong to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a $76.5 billion deficit with Canada and a $50.1 billion deficit with Mexico. Canada and Mexico are America's partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement. The deficit with the countries of South and Central America rose to a record $50.7 billion last year.

"The U.S. trade deficit with China rose to a record $201.6 billion last year, the highest deficit ever recorded with any country and 24.5 percent above the previous record of $161.9 billion set in 2004. Part of that increase reflected a 42.6 percent increase in imports of Chinese clothing and textiles, which soared at the beginning of the year after the removal of global quotas."

In January 2000, when President Bush took office, there were 111,622,000 private sector jobs in the U.S. Projected numbers for January 2005 are 110,862,000, a net loss of 760,000 private sector jobs. In comparison, in January 1997 there were 101,639,000 private sector jobs. Under Bush's watch, private sector jobs dropped 760,000, according to January 2005's job growth projections. Job growth was in GOVERNMENT at national, state and local levels. Private sector jobs were primarily in the non-transferable domestic services industry.

When you take the time to peruse unemployment figures state by state, some of the most populous states – California and Michigan, for instance – have huge unemployment rates of 7 percent or above. In California, 41 counties (i.e., county or county-city areas) have 7 percent or MORE, according to Department of Labor stats provided by the states themselves. Much of the jobs increase has been in GOVERNMENT. So much for Republicans downsizing the leviathan.

In fact, about 25 percent of January's job growth (seasonally adjusted) was outside the private sector. Read government jobs created. So much for Republicans restraining growth of government.

Wages are stagnant and have been for some time by most standard measures. Rises are miniscule but advance the working class little beyond inflation. People survive, the middle and lower class, because two members of the household are working or holding down more than one job.

When you add the pressure of nonstop labor migration from around the world through the misuse of the work visa and illegal migration, THAT puts yet another pressure on American wages and benefits. Even old Alan Greenspan admitted last year that unrestricted immigration helped keep inflation down. Milton Friedman called it a subsidy for corporations.

Only a total Kool Aid drinker for the Republicans would not see or admit "We have a problem, D.C." Regardless of their feelings, Republican grassroots loyalists need to understand this administration is no more representative of conservative or limited government or constitutional principles of constrained federal or executive branch power than Madonna is a virgin. Nor is it concerned about our continued growth and independent economic viablity.

Moreover, many of the jobs they brag about being created are in low-wage, low-benefit sectors of the economy: couriers and messengers, food service, temporary help and retail. The BLS {Bureau of Labor Statistics} said 25,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in January. Nonetheless, the U.S. Senate is considering adding thousands of H-1B and other visas to the thousands already in place and no one seems able to stop this from happening.

Economic jobs activist, Zazona's Rob Sanchez wrote recently: "Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, is jumping on the Bush bandwagon. He goes one up on Bush by not only saying we need to get rid of all limits to the number of H-1B visas that are issued, he wants to skip the H-1B process by giving automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from our universities."

"We should just staple a green card to every advanced degree granted to a foreign national from a US university in science and engineering." [Rob Sanchez - Zazona Newsletter]

The much-touted, by the Bush administration anyway, 4.9 unemployment rate does not indicate a "healthy" economy. It indicates that millions have stopped looking for a job or are working part time or under the table. When you look at Department of Labor stats state by state – California and Michigan, for instance – both have 20 to 40 county-city areas with "surplus" labor. Honest people call it unemployment that is between 7 and 20 percent. As they say, figures can lie or be spun and liars can figure.

More and more high-paying manufacturing jobs in the car industry, 60,000 recently, are going to China, where Ford and GM have invested multibillions of dollars in plants. Not particulary to sell cars to Chinese but more likely to send to us. Where does that leave US in the future? Selling pottery to each other at Wal-Mart or becoming a financial analyst for Goldman-Sachs? Likely it will end up neither one.

In the case of the computer industry, for instance, whatever Bill Gates wants, Bill Gates – and the feckless U.S. Chamber of Commerce – get. Pick a company, U.S. or international, where that is not the case. The U.S. Congress listens when a major contributor, a corporate sponsor, demands more cheap labor. There is NO end to their needs and demands. That means U.S. workers are in deep trouble.

There is no loyalty to this nation, its economic future, or to our ability to remain economically strong, able to create our own substance. An example of what happens when you are dependent on others for that substance – think OIL.

Americans and dyed-in-the-wool Republicans, in particular, must remember that prior to World War II, at least 26 American companies, banks and economic interests helped in the industrial rise of the Third Reich. Much as some of these same companies are helping build the empires of China and India today.

The Truman Commission called many of these outfits traitors. Standard Oil was one of them. Today they include Cisco Systems and Microsoft and/or Ford. Henry Ford had no problem advancing the cause of the Third Reich. It was just business, after all. Neither did IBM, neither did GE and other "great" American economic empires. Keep that in mind next time someone calls you protectionist or anti-free trade or, worse, anti-capitalist. This stuff has nothing to do with capitalism.

What this has to do with is a "new" vision that must have been obtained smoking funny cigarettes or spending too much time at the American Enterprise Institute' Project for a New American Century, or listening to the policy wonks who belong to the Council on Foreign Relations, or hoisting a few with the Davos creatures that attend numerous weekends of the powers-that-be here and abroad.

Perhaps that is the trouble with the "new" Republicans: They have too much Davos and not enough Cleveland or Detroit in their souls to be worth warm spit for America these days.