Why You Need a "Democrat" Senator to Bring Aid to Your State in Next Few Years

An analyst writing in the Anchorage Daily News (article has disappeared from online) revealed that states who have a senator from the same party as as the national administration, always attract more aid from the federal government.

You may sneer at aid, but it is beneficial to your state and often vital in boosting the economy.

Now I know that many states, like Kansas and Tennessee, no matter who is president have had  big economic problems, many of which were exacerbated when manufacturing fled to China in the 80s (because the Reagan administration gave large incentives to industries that took jobs overseas). Even Mitch McConnell with his father-in-laws' huge Chinese shipping fleet wasn't in a position of real power when that deal went down.


But according to the analyst, states receive more assistance if at least one senator has that cozy relationship with the White House that is honed with members of the same party.

You may sneer at federal aid, in fact the uber wealthy Koch brothers do in public, but every industry they are in receives incentives and tax breaks from the feds, because it always helps whomever is on the receiving end. In fact the Koch brothers only deride it because they want to lower their tax burden, which is already lowered by breaks and other measures.

The rest of us need to play the game more wisely and attract jobs to our state, through road building and improvement, and other economy boosters.  I bet even Rick Perry wouldn't turn down aid to improve his state's roads, which apparently Texas needs.  They have a senate race this year, but it's not likely that they'll pick up a Democratic Senator, considering the history.

So if you have a chance to vote for a Democrat for senator or governor, you may want to think about it before knee jerking to the other party.

No US House member has the clout of a Senator. Governors can help influence, but aren't as close as the Senator residing for Congression sessions right there in DC.

Yours may be one of the states that is thinking of going pure Republican after years of a Senator with both seniority and the best party affiliation for the next two years.

The GOP plays with your mind if they suggest a pure GOP Senate slate is better for you.  Not for the next few years, it won't be.  You can always change later.

It's your decision.  If you like being a backwater state, by all means vote your gut.  Just maybe think twice before you complain about the conditions of your roads and highways, and your sagging economy.

Picture at top used via Creative Commons License Attribution CC by 2.0 thanks to  Jessica (righto____) at flicker.com who has no connection to this blog or blogger.

Hint: All GOP senate candidates I've reviewed have received massive Koch help via direct donations or 3rd party ads against their Democratic opponents.  I'm sure the rest will show the same aid from the environment and women harming Duo and their front groups.

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And, of course some serious action on minimum wage which would have to be raised to over $15-22 depending on region of the nation to equal what it did in the late sixties.

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Tanks for jobs?  Actually those tanks could be put to use in invading Iran.  After all Iran's military is basically 10 times as strong as Iraq's was in 2003, if you ignore the fact that Iran has a real air force, and chemical and biological weapons.  In addition, you may remember that what we needed to do in Iraq (and did partially successfully) was to turn over the nation to the majority population group.  In Iran the end goal is to turn it over to a minority group that wants serve the interest of outsiders; specifically the US and our closest ally. 

No wonder Senator Hagel says that we would have to find 100,000 soldiers to do it.   There are millions in the military, so I don't think that's what he was talking about.  He meant we would have to find 100k more American to replace those that would die in our grand adventure to "free" Iran. (Thank goodness they've already prepared us for a Universal Draft).

Of course that sounds ridiculous now, but just put a Republican in the White House, and it will no longer be unthinkable,  No wonder the GOP wants more tanks, especially when military equipment is often made by companies with a large contingent of GOP donors, and others of their donors would love to take advantage of a privatized oil structure.  Iranian oil is said to produce more gallons of fuel per barrel.  In our world that's enough for some people to start talking about regime change.

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What they are talking about is how Bush pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthy in 2001, but the economy was sliding back into recession in January 2003, only saved by the massive spending to support the war in Iraq. If you want Republicans in control you will be voting for recession or eternal war, both of which will destroy what is left of the middle and lower middle class.

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Pete Hoekstra's #Superbowl Ad More Wrong in it than the Racism

Pete Hoekstra's Super Bowl ad is a mess of incoherent right wing talking points that high lightt the hipocrisy of Republican attitudes toward jobs and world trade.

The ad itself was filmed in CA  and features a young woman with long black hair riding a bike between rice fields (yes, we do have all those props in California).  She comes up to the camera in her perfectly coiffed long "do" and starts right in with the sophomoric message she was paid to deliver (in partially broken English).

The text is straight out of the playbook of a 10th grade bully as she's forced to call Michigan's senator "Debby Spenditnow".  I bet that was a phrase order from Hoekstra himself and the articles available on this ad note that the lobbyist who wants to become the junior senator from Michigan does see himself as morally superior because he isn't interested in spending money.  Unfortunately, Hoekstra is probably telling the truth about his proclivity towards  not aiding US companies so they can compete with the highly subsidized businesses of China. But that lack of spending could be what is holding back efforts to protect American jobs from what really looks more and more like a trade war with China especially in environmental fields.

Hoekstra now says don't look at the racism of using the young actress (of Chinese descent according to Mr. Hoekstra) and her "broken" English, look at her use of English at all, supposedly a sign of superiority.  But, if Hoekstra wants more American students to learn Chinese,  he should be behind more money flowing to schools and colleges for just that purpose.

Wait, no.  Hoekstra believes you accomplish goals by not putting money into them.  What a novel idea!  It's like not paying your mortgage so you'll be more likely to keep your house.

There's only one problem with that idea.  It doesn't work.

In another report Hoekstra complained about the failure of Solyndra, yet he fails to see that once again, it appears that spending more money on American businesses would help them compete.  That fact is supported by fellow Republicans like a GOP primary candidate for a Wisconsin Senate seat, Mark Neuman, whose company, Neuman Solar Leasing has received a half million dollars from the government.  Because, Mr. Hoekstra, if Americans don't have foward looking businesses we can't compete.

And, in fact, spending money is exactly what the Chinese government did to get the powerhouse economy it has now.

Why wouldn't it work here, Mr. Hoekstra?

In fact, that money spending gimmick is also what brought this nation out of the Great Depression.  Yes, in the end the only way that the Republicans would allow President Roosevelt to spend enough to put a final cap on the Depression was to go to war.  Still the spending finally happened and it did it's job.

The big problem for the Republicans is that spending requires asking for taxes from the wealthy.   And that is anathema to the GOP.

It looks like the second half of the American game will be led by the same quarterback as the first half, and Pete Hoekstra won't be going to the Senate, if we spread the message that spending to grow the economy is the right thing to do.  We can settle up on paying down the debt later.

BTW, I have liked some of Fred Davis previous ads, like the Demon Sheep, and Christine O'Donnell's  "i'm not a witch" spot. 

That doesn't mean I'd follow their advice.

This ad, though, with its racism, sucks.

I like though that the Hoekstra camp had to pay a lot of cash to get it on the Superbowl.  I hope it depleted ol' Pete's coffers.

What we need to do is to educate our friends and families to counter the lies of such ads, then we don't have to worry about them.

Articles I read on the new Hoekstra ad:

Politico: Super Bowl ads: Pete Hoekstra's hits a nerve

AP News Break:  APNewsBreak: Super Bowl ad hits Sen. 'Spenditnow'  (at Deseret News)

On Hoekstra and Solyndra : Pete Hoekstra Predicts Michigan to Elect New Senator.


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