ON JOHN MCCAIN
By Kermit C. Moss
Mercy me, sakes alive, and carrot coffee!
Is there a chance that John McCain may become our President? Yes, there is
such a chance and several reasons for us to beware! There, of course, is the
divorce of his first wife, who has reported that his reason was that at age 40
he wanted to be 25 again. But from here, money seems to have been his major
objective. A month after his divorce he married a 24 year old heir to a
Phoenix beer distribution fortune, and thus became a part of a rich,
politically well-connected family.
Read that closely and you can understand why he wants to make the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy permanent! But to make them permanent ignores the simple truth that this problem, if not solved, or at least diminished, may very well be fatal to our beloved democracy. In fact, a plutocracy may already be in place! Here are selected quotes from an article by the
Office of Social Justice, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minnesota: 1. The richest 1% of Americans now own more than the bottom 90%.2. The top 10% own 71% of all private wealth.
3. Over 86% of the value of all stocks and mutual funds, including
pensions, was held by the top 10%
of households. In 1998 47.7% of all stocks was owned by 1% of
Americans.
4. Bill Gates alone has as much wealth as he bottom 40% of U. S. house-holds.
5. In the 22 years between 1976 and 1998 the share of the wealth held by
the top 1% nearly doubled,
going from 22% to 38%. And during the past 7 years under the
Bush administration, although all
the statistics are not yet in, with his tax cuts and
deregulation of business, the trend has
undoubtedly rapidly accelerated.
He does not want to get our troops out of Iraq, but insists
that we stay until we win the war, and I
believe he said that we ought to stay even if it takes a
hundred years to win it. And he wants to
leave troops there indefinitely. That, regardless of the fact
that it is costing us $12 billion per
month, and it has our national troop strength spread so
thinly that they no longer constitute much of
a threat to other enemies.
He wants the insurance companies and the drug companies to
continue to run the American health
industry.
So it seems here at this keyboard that if we elect John McCain it will simply mean a continuation of the George W. Bush policies of government of the people, by the rich, for the rich.
Heaven forbid!
Kermit C. Moss
PO Box 1136
Monticello, AR 71657
PH 870-367-2486 - office
870-367-7034 - home
January 27th, 2008
