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2016: Romney’s America
KONK REACTOR column
[Published in the KONK Life newspaper on October 25, 2012.]
2016: Romney’s America
She closes the National Park Camping Reservations app on her cell after finding her favorite campground has been shut down to make way for exploratory oil drilling. She’d been looking forward to sharing with her kids the experience of the glorious parkland that she and her parents and her grandparents had held so dear. The kids have been heartbroken over their father’s recent tragic passing, and a visit to the pristine woodland would have done them good. Oh well…
She thinks about how their father passed away not long after his union job with health benefits had been off-shored and he’d had to accept one of Romney’s promised new jobs – barely above minimum wage with too few hours to qualify for any kind of benefits. At least she, too, was able to land one of those jobs to fill in the family budget gaps. But with the repeal of Obamacare her husband’s treatment for his pre-existing liver problem had to be dropped along with the old medical plan. It’s amazing how important the liver is to your well-being….
Perhaps it’s just as well that they have to cancel the trip — the $16 a gallon gas would have put another big bump onto the rising credit balance. She isn’t sure whether the rising minimum payments or higher interest or the resurgent patchwork of hidden fees are going to push her into insolvency first. The disbanded consumer advocacy offices are no longer able to help keep the sharks at bay.
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And what about that gas price, huh? It had skyrocketed after Romney ordered the attacks on Iran because they were “3 years closer to a nuclear weapon” than when he took office — and he couldn’t have that albatross around his neck for the upcoming election. His gambit had turned into a major disaster when the rest of the world — after years of incessant disrespect – had turned their backs on the alliances that just might have been able to keep Iran from effectively shutting down the Persian Gulf’s oil flow many years before America would be able to come close to drilling their way into “energy independence”. And the lack of new solar or wind initiatives didn’t help either.
She thinks back to how much changed after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed and Romney got himself a solid fifth hardcore conservative onto the Supreme Court. Their quick ruling on the new “Corporations United” case had rapidly further freed the corporate oligarchs – with full complicity of POTUS — to openly sponsor legislation to reverse most of the workers’ rights that had created the great middle class. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has already widened considerably and there seems to be no turning back. Historians and analysts are showing how 50% of Americans are being pushed into jobs more similar to those of 1900 than of 2000. “Maybe I can put the kids to work…”, she thinks with a nervous giggle.
Later in the day she returns home after a short disappointing trip to the community school. The class that could have helped her land a desk job and get off her feet all day has been cancelled due to yet another of the rampant cuts to education budgets. She’s also been noticing how much trouble her kids have had with their homework – the underpaid teachers with too many students, and her own overtime just can’t give them the attention they need.
She thinks about how Romney’s tax cuts haven’t helped any more than Bush’s did back in the day — especially when the cost of the war is added in. The national debt is growing more than ever, and poverty is on the rise. She knows the Occupy movement is growing rapidly now in response, and even the blue-collar conservatives are waking up and realizing they’ve been sold a bill of goods. But she does worry about the impacts of the inevitable riots to come…
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