Phil Krinkie, St. Paul, column: Americans voted their own — not the nation’s — pocketbook
November 14, 2012 at 12:00 am in Grand Forks Herald
When most Americans cast their ballots, the voters did so the candidate they believed would best protect their individual economic situation. Continue Reading
“…giving Romney the chance to produce a more vibrant economy in the future.” BRahahahahahahahahaha… hahahahahahahah…
That’s funny coming from someone that supports the Congressional leadership’s gridlock whose only stated purpose is to make Obama a one term president. There is nothing, absolutely nothing in the Republican’s politics about caring for the well being or the welfare of the average American citizen.
Mitt Romney got rich by dismantling companies and sell off the pieces, thereby costing many hundreds of thousands of people their livelihoods. Pensions going “Poof” in the process. Leaving families destitute, losing their homes. Of the jobs left, most of those got shipped overseas. How does that produce a more vibrant economy here at home? The less Living Wage Jobs there are, the worse Main Street does.
“A more vibrant economy”? Really? We saw what the Republicans version of a more vibrant economy is during the Bush years and it will be decades before we fully recover.
The Republican’s idea of a more vibrant economy is to bankrupt the middle class, while making the rich richer. No thank you.
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America has been voting its pocketbook (private pocketbook) for 230 years. Did you know at the time of the tea party tea was cheaper in the new world than England? We had less taxes.
I hope this guy does not try to publish or trademark his observation. He is a little late.
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Fly, I always enjoy your perspective, but I don’t necessarily agree with you that the revolution was all about the price of tea and taxes on it. It was about the lack of representation that pushed them over the edge.
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You are correct: it was about representation. I brought up the price of tea because the average 3 grade classroom, the last time most people thought about it, teaches it was a tax issue.
The colonists refused to pay King George’s tax so they dressed up in Kabooki makeup, kidnapped the guards, stole the tea & threw it overboard.
In effect it was not about the tax per say, but as you correctly point out, how the tax came into being.
Remember, at this time there was no online petition advocating secession. They still considered themselves good British subjects.
Treason came later. This episode was nothing more than a run of the mill political demonstration. The Brits called it a terrorist attack but that characterization never gained traction.
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Thanks Fly. I am your average grade 4 teacher and I do teach “taxation without representation”. (Yes, we are “revolutionaries” in 4th Grade – LOL.)
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