Today’s email comes from Jason Rosenbaum, DSCC Director of Online Communications. And he’s quite concerned. It seems evil is afoot, and greed has taken over the universe:

Jeff,

Last week, every Republican senator filibustered President Obama’s bill to put 400,000 educators and police officers back to work.

You read that right: Teachers. And. Police.

They’re getting ready to do it again. Soon, the Senate will vote to create good construction jobs by rebuilding America’s crumbling roads and bridges through a tiny surtax on incomes over $1 million.

But getting people working again isn’t the GOP’s top priority. Protecting millionaires, billionaires and corporations is their only priority.

Republicans will do whatever it takes – filibuster every bill. Mangle the economy. Just to appease the top 1 percent. They’re playing hardball – we can’t lob softballs. We have to stop them, protect the Senate, and back President Obama. That means raising $100,000 by our monthly deadline in just 6 days.

Can you pitch in $5 or $10? If we fall short 6 days from now, it could mean a total GOP takeover. Period.

Remember: 37 states have taken steps to disenfranchise 5 million mostly Democratic voters. This is enough votes to take the White House and Senate. If we don’t have the resources to overcome this right now, we can’t stop the GOP takeover.

Republicans are more than willing to toss American workers, families and communities overboard in their calculating attempt to coddle billionaires and destroy President Obama. Think that over, then help with $5 before it’s too late.

Best,

Jason
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Jason Rosenbaum
DSCC Director of Online Communications

My. Things do sound dire, don’t they? But rather than give to the Democrats so that they can spend our money campaigning on a platform of, well, taking and then spending our money, I have other ideas:

Dear Jason --

Wait, how did they manage that, exactly? -- this filibuster of the President's bill? Didn't the "Jobs Act" fail to pass the Senate? And aren't Democrats the majority in the Senate?

Also, aren't teachers and police hired locally? Doesn't funding for that come from the states in which they're needed? What does a federal "Jobs Act" have to do with hiring teachers and police? Or is what you're up to asking for yet MORE tax money from those who create jobs in the private sector so that you can collect it nationally, then bundle it off to your preferred union constituencies (while holding Americans hostage, suggesting that if they don't pony up even more in taxes, the streets will be left unguarded, and rapists will roam the land -- but only now that the Jobs Act hasn't passed?).

Isn't that centralized control of the market? Isn't that, in its very essence, crony capitalism -- where you take money from the private sector and then redistribute it to the teacher's unions, who in turn collect dues that go right back to the Democrat party? Wasn't this tried before -- in California -- with the result that no new teachers were hired, but instead, the union used taxpayer money to shore up their own pension fund?

The top 1%, as you join the anti-semites, communists, anarchists, Marxists, Leninists, Maoists, and nudist vegan drum circlers in calling those who already pay 40% of the tax burden, are Americans; they follow the law; they pay what the law requires them to pay; and their wealth didn't just one day appear, nor is there a limited "wealth pot" from which they're hoarding.

In fact, as a percentage of GDP, the 1% as you call them, accounts for less of the wealth today than they did, say, 100-years ago.

The way to put teachers and police back to work -- and honestly, it's like you fetishize these two groups, because politically, you feel we're all too stupid to recognize how you like to demagogue the shit out of everything -- is to grow the economy. Which doesn't happen when the government takes from one sector and gives to another.

The government can't grow the economy. The government has no "wealth" that it doesn't first take from the governed (unless it prints phantom wealth, then works to control interest rates in a dangerous manipulation of currency).

This idea that, even as we move to more than $17 TRILLION dollars in debt, and even as our yearly budgets (by the way, when is the last time the Senate even offered a budget?) contain the baseline from the last "stimulus" -- and extra trillion dollars annually -- we cannot afford to fund education and law enforcement, is a testament to just how inept government is at redistributing wealth for "fairness."

Want wealth distributed fairly? Let the non-ideological, non-political invisible hand of the market decide. Move government out of the way. Take the bureaucratic reins off of business and industry. Lower corporate tax rates. Incentivize investment in this country. In short -- get government the hell out of the way.

Republicans aren't looking to "toss American workers, families and communities overboard"; in fact, they want to reinvigorate them, get them working again, return them to self-sufficiency, and pull them off the government teat.

There's a reason that, as American workers have lost over 2.5 million jobs, the government has grown, and DC has replaced Silicon Valley as the wealthiest per capita living space in the US.

Government is growing. And simultaneously, more and more people are growing dependent on government.

Not everyone realizes that this has been the "progressive" plan all along, but some of us do.

Thankfully for you, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and other candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 have proposed reforms to the tax system that will "take away loopholes for millionaires and billionaires"; that will simplify the code, and therefore take away the power of lobbyists (remind us, how much to Jeff Immelt's GE pay in taxes last year?) to conspire with lawmakers to write themselves sweetheart deals.

President Obama has been running around the country saying he wants things "fair." What can be more fair than a flat or fair tax -- one that asks everyone to pay their fair (and equal, by %) share? What can be more fair than to ask that everyone "have skin in the game"?

No, you don't have to "stop Republicans" -- though there are plenty of statist Republicans that need to be held to account, as well. Instead, what you need to do is admit that, because the government cannot create wealth, the entire governing philosophy of the DC status quo consists of legal plunder provided the veneer of moral rectitude by self-righteous and presumptuous temporary politicians who believe themselves more capable of running an economy than the free market left to its own devices.

That they enrich themselves in the process, while entrenching themselves in power, well, that's just one of the perks, isn't it?

So no, I won't be donating money to the cause of my own enslavement. But don't worry: I'm sure there are plenty of useful idiots out their still in thrall of that bogus "Hope and Change" jive that will throw you what's left of their disposable income.

And if they don't, I'm quite sure that plenty of Wall Street types, realizing that the have to pay tribute to the regulators and lawmakers, will throw you some big bucks -- just as they did in 2008.

With revulsion,

Jeff Goldstein

If this government were at all competent, they would have taken me off their lists by now. Don’t you think?