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Thread ID: 13115 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-04-10
2004-04-10 22:14 | User Profile
[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1][URL=http://www.counterpunch.org/werther04102004.html]http://www.counterpunch.org/werther04102004.html[/URL][/SIZE]
Werther is the pen name of a Northern Virginia based defense analyst.
Great article! Here is an excerpt:
iii. Jerusalem, my happy home. Despite the unmistakable Father Coughlin note during much of NR's existence, it is unlikely these modern-day Conquistadores would have consciously betrayed American national interests to Madrid. But something happened in the 1980s both to change the location of NR's foreign utopia and intensify the fanaticism of its editorial devotion. While several of its writers - Joseph Sobran and Patrick Buchanan, most notably - were political Catholics of the more-or-less militant type (one recalls reading in Buchanan's autobiography that Franco was a household icon when Pat was growing up), around the time of Iran-Contra and the Jonathan Pollard affair, NR's Falangist faction fell rapidly out of favor.
By the end of the decade, they had been purged by Buckley himself, a man whose ultramontanism is exceeded only by his cynical opportunism. In a meandering NR pronunciamento that was breathtaking in its betrayal, Buckley not only convicted the two of the gravest political crime in modern American jurisprudence - they were roundly disliked by Jewish neoconservatives - but managed to indict his own dead father of the same crime! So the old deities - Generalissimo Franco, Cardinal Mindszenty, Ezra Pound, Pious XII - were pulled down from Mount Olympus, to be replaced by new objects of worship: Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon. The Alcazar was out, the Third Temple was in.
Not only was the shift in the party line abrupt, with the purged heretics declared unpersons (so like Communist Party feuds familiar to NR's numerous "former" Trotskyite writers), the rhetorical amperage was increased several notches. Whereas NR's former defenses of Austro-fascism were labored apologias, like G.K. Chesterton writing a Life of St. Francis, the new NR read more like Communist Party propaganda during the Popular Front period. The dissipated Buckley now seems to have lost all interest in NR, leaving it to a dreary cabal of Zionist lunatics.
Americans have seen this phenomenon before. From the Bolshevik Revolution till the end of the cold war, members of the CPUSA stood in much the same relation to a foreign power that the Zionistas at NR (and Weekly Standard and other pseudoconservative organs) do. It is worth noting that William Z. Foster, head of the CPUSA in the 1930s, stated that "Communism is twentieth century Americanism." Doubtless the commissars at NR would say something analogous about Zionism in the twenty-first century.
The reader might ask what harm it does to the national interest if the pseudoconservative oligarchy does well by doing good. Contrary to current mythology, the Internal Revenue Code (26
According to the General Accounting Office, corporate tax receipts have shrunk significantly as a share of total federal revenue in recent years. From an average of around 30 percent of all receipts in the first term of the Eisenhower administration, they had fallen by 2003 to just 7.4 percent. The basic federal corporate tax rate for large corporations is 35 percent. But GAO found that 94 percent of large U.S. controlled corporations (those with at least $250 million in assets) had tax liabilities of less than 5 percent of their total income. A large number had no tax liability whatsoever. (3) The most regressive federal taxes are payroll taxes for programs like Medicare and Social Security. They fall overwhelmingly on middle and working class Americans. During Eisenhower's first term they made up a little over 10 percent of all federal receipts; by 2003 they reached 40 percent, nearly matching the amount received from individual income taxes. (4)
The pseudoconservative propaganda network, which never fails to strike populist "man of the people" note about the sorely tried, overtaxed, and overregulated common man, somehow manages to avoid mentioning the true correlation of power in the most fundamental aspect of politics: who gets what. We are supposed to believe the middle class taxpayer is beset by welfare queens, college professors, foreign aid recipients, and other straw men from the Limbaugh demonology, rather than Enron, Halliburton, or MCI/Worldcom Do the promoters of family values seriously believe the United States will remain a middle class nation with middle class mores if the income structure more nearly resembles Regency England?[/FONT]
2004-04-10 23:14 | User Profile
The comparison between Moscow and Tel Aviv was masterful. But the parts about taxing corportations were pointless. Somehow the middle-class benefits through higher corporate taxes?
The real isssue is of course the outlays and military preparations done at the behests of various corporations. Taxes are not the issue. The fewer taxes corporations have to pay, the better off we are. What we need is not more corporate taxation, but less government spending -- and more transparent tax breaks for corporations and individuals alike.
2004-04-11 01:29 | User Profile
"The fewer taxes corporations have to pay, the better off we are. What we need is not more corporate taxation, but less government spending -- and more transparent tax breaks for corporations and individuals alike."
By "we" do you mean the nation as a whole?
Under American National Socialism, "corporations" as international entities will cease to exist, anyway. Everyone who has received a bonus of over 15$ per head kill will be executed for reasons of obscenity of existence. Then you won't have Skilly Willy ripping peoples clothes off yelling "FBI!, FBI!"
Only those whose general procedures and conduct are responsible to American workers in their role under a planned balanced budget economy will exist. Nobody will get rich working for a corporation, they will be essentially government owned, comrade. Seig
2004-04-11 02:51 | User Profile
Was this all a joke? There is some reason to mock the Nazi's here? They are, after all, utter failures, and recognized as such by most.
Nonetheless, they had some good ideas about race and culture mixed in with all the sh*t. We need to make clear that their overall failures and insanity in no way tarnish these ideas, which are logically distinct.