Republican's "War of Rhetoric" Election Victory!

The 2010 mid-term election was a "War of Rhetoric," pure and simple.

Republicans "took back our country," "stopped Obama's socialist agenda," and will attempt to repeal the "health care bill shoved down our throats" - all GOP/Fox News/Rush Limbaugh rhetorical talking points.

Unfortunately, rhetorical talking points do not create jobs. Long term investments in education, infrastructure, and human services do. Such has not been the case since the Reagan Revolution, and the denouement of the middle class began in 1980.

For the past 30 years, cities and towns across America have continued to decay because the investments in education, infrastructure, and human services were not made. Instead, good paying jobs were shipped overseas and the likes of Walmart destroyed their downtowns, creating minimum wage jobs that need to be supplanted by insufficient government services - health care, public housing, and food stamps.

The American taxpayer subsidizes such economic larceny and then Republicans and corporate America praise the success of low-price foreign products sold in Walmart, et al.

Two years from now, unemployment will still be abhorrently high because the middle class has been eviscerated and is no longer the consumer engine driving the economy.

America has become a corpocracy as epitomized by the recent "Citizens United" Supreme Court ruling. The Constitution no longer represents "We The People" and the Republican party has bamboozled the public into supporting the corporate take-over of the country via the Tea Party.

Until the right (tea party/conservatives) and left (progressives/liberals) unite and realize that the true problem of America is corporate Fascism, nothing will change and unemployment combined with a "race to the bottom" will continue for the middle class.

Richard McVay