Welcome to Lego LandWhere you are taller than the buildings.
Like Lego Land, Republican thinking is full of mirages, only believeable if you suspend your natural intelligence for a while as people in many states found out after the 2010 elecrtions.
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But Michelle Bachmann is willing to go much further if you vote for her. Bachmann has offered a package of a familiar, tired, Trickle Down Theory, including the further idea of eliminating the the minimum wage law.
Trickle Down produced not one private sector job between 2000 and 2010, and the only thing that temporarily propped up the economy was two disastrous wars that removed part of the population from the private workforce by dragging National Guard members to the Middle East to fight and die.
The trickery around the bad house loans was also essential to making parts of that decade not appear to be the usual soggy economic conditions that surround Trickle Down Theory economic results. Remember how Bush was pushing home ownership for everyone? He was not a victim of bad home loans, he was actively relying on them. Without the home as piggy bank scams, we would have slogged through the 2000s like we did the 80s under Reagan's Trickle Down. (The right have crafted volumes of lies about Reagan's economy making a brief semi-recovery into "Morning in America" and then pretending that covered all of the Gipper's tenure.)
But go ahead and elect her and let you or your family members get stuck in $2 an hour jobs or worse.
I know so many parents desperate to help their kids get into jobs that will allow them to have a middle class lifestyle. But Ms. Backmann wants to help them get into jobs which won't even support some kind of homeless assisted living arrangement.
You'd better be a millionaire to even think of voting for this woman. She cares nothing for you or yours. She cares big time for the money that billionaires can use to help her get elected thanks to the Citizens United decision by a court on which two judges at the least are way too friendly with fat cats.
See Bloomberg report about Bachmann's words on Face The Nation today (Sunday June 26, 2011) at SF Gate.
