The Romney team has been criticizing President Obama for
saying he wishes to spread the wealth. No, the criticism was not meant to be a
joke; these people mean it when they say what they say. They also do what they
do not because they dislike spreading the wealth but because they want to
spread it in places which are different from those that the President has in
mind.
Whereas the middle class in America was decimated by the near
collapse of the economy as engineered by the previous administration, President
Obama wants to help it get back on its feet. By contrast, Romney and his team
seek to do something that is truly heartbreaking. As if it were not enough that
Romney spent many decades spreading the wealth of America's middle class
abroad, he now wants to fleece what is left in the accounts of this same middle
class and spread it among those who have much already, and wouldn't know what
to do with more.
Why is that, you may ask? Well, it is because this is a version
of the game that Romney likes to play. It is a challenging game that is called
class warfare where the goal is to take from those who produce, and give to
those who accumulate. You then call “losers” those who produce, and call
“successful” those who accumulate. But you do not stop here because the next
thing you need to do is accuse President Obama of waging a class war as he was
caught committing the sin of working hard to help the middle class recuperate,
and help it recoup what it has lost.
When you come right down to it, you will find that Romney
never built a factory of any kind, yet he shipped American factories of all
kind to foreign lands. He never produced as much as a pencil, yet he helped
flood the American markets with imported pencils made in the factories that
were shipped abroad. He never produced as much as a bolt, yet he helped flood
the American markets with the foreign appliances that used to be made in America . He
never rendered a service to anyone except the service that he rendered to
himself and to all his partners during that painful war game.
Never forget that the American middle class is what made of
America the exceptional nation that used to be, but is no more thanks to the
Romneys of this world and of this America. And so, because there is now a
President who is trying to restore the middle class, thus restore America's
designation as an exceptional nation, the Romney team and all its mouth pieces
are running around vocalizing that you need not be exceptional to be exceptional;
it is enough to keep repeating that you are in order to believe it yourself,
and maybe convince someone else to believe it as well.
Thus, the Romney people sent out the call for other people
to join them, and come to chant in unison their exceptional status. The idea
was to make this phony belief the litmus test by which to determine who is
patriotic and who is not. It will serve as the noise that will camouflage the
treachery that was Romney's career up to now. All the while, the Romney people
plan to keep plundering what is left to the middle class, and keep spreading
that among the exceptionally wealthy on whose behalf they work so hard and so
diligently.
Opposed to the Romney team is the Obama team which is now
forced to work harder than ever before in order to achieve two disparate
objectives. The first is to try and blunt the destructive activities of the
Romney team. The second is to continue the effort at restoring to the American
middle class the ability it used to have to produce the goods and services that
are consumed at home, and produce the goods and services that will be sent
overseas to the people who would buy the Made in America goods and services.
This is the strategy that will reverse the damage which the
previous administration had caused when it engineered the decimation of the
American economy; when it collapsed it just as the Obama team was about to take
over. The decimation was so complete that even the most pessimistic prediction
as to how fast the Obama Administration will be able to restore the economy to
its previous level, turned out to be too optimistic. Thus, the projections that
were made then turned out to be erroneous but because the Romney team has
labeled them promises, it is mounting an anti-Obama campaign that aims to
spread the word Obama cannot deliver on his promises because he does not know
how to do so whereas Romney knows how to be successful.
But what is not lost on the electorate is that when Romney
speaks of success, he means the success of taking from those who produce and
give to those who accumulate. And they wonder what he means when he says he
will now give to the American Middle class. And so they ask: what will he give
to that class? They go further and ask: Who will he take from? Will it be more
borrowing from the foreigners? Is this not what brought America to the
brink the last time around? Why would he want to repeat the tragedy as painful
as it was?
No, this does not make sense, the people are saying. The
only thing that can be said about the Romney plan – whatever final shape it
will take if a plan will ever come – is that it will aggravate a situation that
was created by the previous administration but was beginning to stabilize under
Mr. Obama. And the electorate will prefer to stay with the man it knows has
been healing it as opposed to the one that has hurt it yet promises to do
better than the one who started the healing process.
In short, the people will not trade the bird they have
securely in the hand for the ten birds on the tree which are promised by a
flip-flopper who can flip more times in a day than a bird will flip its wings
in a lifetime.