The effects of the 'vast, right-wing conspiracy' are real

The Centre Daily Times ^ | August 18, 2002 | Deb McMurtrie

[StopGlobalWhining]

Those very people who are making much ado about pledging allegiance to God are themselves morally bankrupt, soulless and inhumane.

Oh, really?

This is not a joke! A real live wacko wrote this!

These smug, pompous individuals want to either get rid of or privatize anything that works for the people.

Yeah, like public government schools and the Social Security Ponzi scheme?

[mhking]

Those very people who are making much ado about pledging allegiance to God are themselves morally bankrupt, soulless and inhumane.

Figures.

Yet another socialist heard from.

[Commander8]

People like McMurtrie are puppets for Fabian Socialists who implement revolution by installment plan and pose as moderates so as to dismiss critics as "right wing extremists."
How's that for vast conspiracy?

[general_re]

Excellent handle. I myself find that nothing soothes the nerves like a nice red whine - particularly one like this, that's been aging since 1980 or so.

I take a sip, and I know that everything's going to be okay....

[Paul Atreides]

Deb McMurtrie is a community columnist and a Bellefonte resident.

Just what is a community columnist? Is this just someone getting her screed printed in the paper?

[Bommer]

Furthermore, welfare existed for anyone who hit upon hard times. It got an especially good workout during the Reagan recession of 1981, shortly after the rich got a tax cut and the economy soured, putting millions out of work.

Putting Millions out of work? Notice no mention of Clinton who signed the Welfare reform act. What an idiot!

[dighton]

Excellent handle.

Wish I'd thought of it myself.

[Ciexyz]

Sigh, more class warfare. I have news for this woman, there are many school kids whose reading and writing skills are atrocious. I remember one case in particular that made me sad and angry--I reviewed a job application from an 18 year old who had just graduated from the Pittsburgh public school system. The young man's writing was over-large and crooked and it looked like a third grader's pensmanship. The young man was eager and willing to work, but wasn't hired due to his deficiencies in reading and writing skills.

[AF68]

I can't believe I read this demented liberal Marxist tripe!

[goldstategop]

Deb McMurtrie complains of the existence of a vast right wing conspiracy. She lists everything conservatives proposed that according to her have gone awry since the 1980s. But what solutions does she offer in their place? All of which goes on to illustrate how right Ann is that the Left hasn't had a single new idea in the last 20 years! At least conservatives have tried new approaches and all liberals can do is suggest things keep getting worse and worse. Yup, the likes of McMurtrie sound like a rather cheerful bunch.

[Billthedrill]

Odd...wasn't this the welfare reform that Clinton was so very proud of?

Even the worst welfare offender with five kids, two live-in boyfriends and an under-the-table bartending job never defrauded thousands of workers of their retirement investments.

Yes, she was. Who does the author think was working to pay for her boyfriends, her boyfriends' drug habits, her kids' bail, her own milking of the system?

Any mention of financial inequality among Americans is volleyed back by right-wing conservatives as "class warfare" as though we should be ashamed of ourselves for even suggesting such a thing.

This is simply remarkably incoherent. No one considers the mention of financial inequality to be class warfare. Class warfare is using the power of the state to coerce the transfer of wealth from one "class" to another, as if economics were all that describe class. What we see here is indeed a conspiracy, but it belongs not to the right or left, it is the conspiracy of the resentful and wilfully ignorant, convincing themselves that merit has nothing to do with inequality of wealth, and that it is the duty of the state to see that the deserving garner no more than the undeserving. This is "fairness" as defined by those who demand but do not earn.

[VaBthang4]

"The mighty rich have declared war on every tax-paying American in this country."

****DRAMAQUEEN ALERT****

[Consort]

"Community Columnist = Fifh Columnist-in-Residence.

[HardStarboard]

>>>At least conservatives have tried new approaches and all liberals can do is suggest things keep getting worse and worse.<<<

the last part should read ....all liberals can do is throw more money at failed schemes that haven't worked and will never work....except in guaranteeing taxes will increase.

Thanks for letting me hitchhike on your excellent post!

[lizma]

They pay little or no income taxes -- certainly not their fair share -- yet regularly raid the public coffers.

Say what??? She is describing the rats to a tee. What a totally brainless soccer mom statement. (One of many in this article)

"What luck for rulers that people do not think." Adolf Hitler

I think he was right about this. This article is proof that propaganda works.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Millions of kids graduate public schools every year prepared for higher education." (Centre Daily Times)

Any professor - like my late father, who taught from 1965-1992 - can convince you otherwise fast!

College students - all high-school graduates, almost all from government schools - so frequently are unprepared for college that about half never graduate. Many are appallingly unskilled in junior-high math - which is the main reason (other than disciplinary problems) most flunk out. Near-illiteracy isn't uncommon among college students.

Nearby N.C.A&T.S.U. almost lost its nursing program during the 1980s because so few of its nursing grads were passing the licensing test. Did the government schools those students went to prepare them adequately?

[mtg]

Back in the late 1990s when Hillary Rodham Clinton claimed the existence of a "vast, right-wing conspiracy," she was scoffed at by the Republicans, the press and anyone sore at the Clintons for whatever infraction, real or imagined, they might have committed.

This dizzy dame has a short memory (if she has one at all)!

[Sonny M]

Reading this, just made my day. I love it when I hear liberals crying.

[Hagrid]

In the 1992 election, Enron gave a lot more money to Clinton than to Bush. Kenneth Lay backed Ann Richards in George W.'s first run for governor. These are all more Democratic scandals than Republican scandals. The 1990s were the decade of greed.

Welfare reform was GOOD for poor people, not bad for them.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Their monthly welfare payments caused neither a huge deficit nor a recession.

Oh really?

And, their money went right back into the economy

Yeah, the drug markets....