Change? - Sun 2008! It's 2010, babe - Anger is all the rage. It looks bad for the Democrats and their congressional majority. Midterm elections, mid-term for President Obama and his party. No more talk of embracing change. The Americans, they say, are angry - and that can really only mean From ballots to think about.
have the Last Angry White Males the Democratic Party 1994 M ehrheit cost in Congress. At that time ruled Bill Clinton (with his woman) in the White House. Bill and Hillary wanted to introduce a health insurance for all U.S. citizens. But the Republicans with Newt Gingrich at the helm made "Hillary Care" to the "referendum on big government" - with a landslide victory. Bill Clinton now had to govern with a hostile majority in both houses of Parliament. (Some say today, the Democrat Clinton was then the most efficient Republican policies have left the country ever had.)
Obama has least attempt it soon enough, a health reform, a bit of banking regulation and a dollop of tax relief. Not that he or his party would thank that. The tax cuts, most have not even noticed right. Wall Street continues as usual, is the great balance it is not economically so great. Large infrastructure projects, new rail lines, tunnels, bridges, new energy networks, new Jobs Nothing to see. And Obama Care "many had never much left anyway.
Well then anger, rage and frustration about "big government". Feed for the Tea Party, which is, in fact no party with a program and its own candidate, but a loud protest movement, often with racist undertones ugliest. Anger in America called the cartoonist, a drawing for Tea Party for International Herald Tribune Chappatte. "There's something about a Democratic White House and Congress that brings out this ugliness," wrote Steve Kornacki in Salon - whether the president is now a man of color with an African father and a white Southerner .
Nothing new, so we could appease. And not taken seriously especially this anger, by the American writer John Irving ( The World According to Garp, Last Night in Twisted River ). In the interview the magazine Cicero he wants to know the U.S. is not "after the Mom developed most visible group assessed. "One must take into account that more interesting for the media radical political currents than the balanced forces. While I rub on my country, but so much sense, neither [Sarah] Palin have the Tea to choose the party, I do not trust America to well. "
reason versus anger, upset calm down instead of: No easy bid in the media democracy - may be but this " hysterical and panicked Information System " (Peter Sloterdijk ) conviction only by constant self-stimulation from the fact that it actually exists. Especially basically in the same excitation event taps, who in all the" anger "nothing sees as a conspiracy of the Right - CONNECT up by demagogues like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, funded by big business. But you can just assume that this anger without any "grass roots" is rampant? There is nothing more than a product of the political "rage machine"? is
Rob as pretty much the opposite of what my husband Palatine a "Zornickel" calls. A bear of a guy who grew up in rural Pennsylvania, down to earth and a bit grumpy. morning he brings his youngest daughter walk to school and picks them off again in the afternoon. One day, Rob decides
be house To renovate . It builds from the attic and an extension to it. Not a little of it on their own work because money is tight. "Once we were done, the tax estimator was at the door and has set our annual property tax by $ 3000 after the top," says Rob. Justification: Construction and renovation has increased the value of the house. "Fair enough," as Rob takes time. But shortly after the town can be the value of all homes in the city re-evaluate. Although the real estate bubble burst already been a year ago, Rob's house is now once again clearly be worth more than before - and the "property tax" increase by another $ 3300th "That made me so mad," says Rob.
Or take Jerry D. Davis, of the just the New York Times has reported. Davis manages the pension fund for municipal employees in New Orleans. The money is JP Morgan Chase, and one day beat the banker Mr. Davis before a business: The fund lends the bank money so they can speculate with it. Raises the income from investment, JP Morgan and share the profits of the fund. On a loss of pension funds but would sit alone. As Davis says no to put the screws to the bankers: in this case, they would have to consider higher fees for the fund. Davis relented.
With the financial crisis of 2008, losing the fund $ 340,000. Overall, JP Morgan gambled half a billion from the retirement accounts for IBM, the State of New York and other employers. The Bank does not matter. She is involved only in profits, not the loss. Moreover, it has secured in advance in addition, has bet against their own customers - and also from the loss nor profit made. A "win-win situation" for the bank. And what is the pension fund do? Shares mau. Interest on savings is it as good as any. Real estate? Better not!
Whether small or large fund savers: all are dependent on investment income for retirement. In the meantime, however, only with high-risk investments at all income possible, as they dropped before federal loans or fixed income securities. This self-solid savers are urged to Hasardeursgeschäften. And if it goes wrong - well, tough luck.
In large and small, federal or municipal level, Joe and Jane Average will feel all too often and systematically sold out. You try to sound economies - and come to nowhere. You play by the rules - and see that the policy changes the rules. Not in their interest, but according to the requirements of lobbyists, whether now for the financial sector or for the teachers' unions . Work With all the knowledge of the original American emotion against "big government": If this is not a reason to be angry, I do not. And so are probably not all who cherish sympathy for the Tea Party, of the sort that Obama want to hunt as a "white-hater" and "Muslim" to the devil.
turns in a legendary TV series The West Wing a row for a businessman from the Midwest, who visited with his daughter, whose dream colleges. In the evening he sits melancholy before the second whiskey at the hotel bar. There he meets Josh and Toby, two advisors of President Josiah Bartlet on series-election campaign, and pours them from his heart. How can he tell his daughter that in her dream, nothing can be? His income is not enough for the tuition fees of expensive private universities. He has a son who will go to college.
"I will have no idea that it is not difficult," says the man from America's "Heartland". "I like it when it's hard. But it is to become heavy. Even someone like me can do no more." His only wish for the policy: "If they would just a little bit easier Let us a little air, so that we can do it again."
The presidential advisers are actually so impressed that they push a new law: Tuition will continue to be tax deductible. But, guess what, you better plan fails. It is ground into the deals and power struggles between political parties, Congress and the White House. Not even on U.S. television, it is possible that something from a piece of policy for its own sake must.
anger changes nothing in these conditions? Perhaps. In a small town near Los Angeles citizens have just chased her hopelessly corrupt city council, including Mayor from office. Without anger inside is not. Also, Rob has just given the "anger" the drive to knowledge making and to challenge his tax increase. "I got a relief," he says. This applies to both - taxes and anger.
At least where he is not blind rages, can "anger" so be politically very productive. Perhaps he is even a (last?) Hope for "change".
(Princeton Post XXXIV)
