Why Can’t “Progressives” Just Be Honest?

J.J. Jackson* | October 5, 2005  |

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Here’s an article at Center for American Progress that is a window into the soul of a Marxist. The problem is that they tell you what they want but time and again with each thing they want they never give any citation for the actual authority to have it. They candy coat what they believe as compassion but never just admit that hey, their ideas are not allowed under the Constitution.

To summarize:

displaced and poor Katrina victims could obtain housing?sometimes in middle-income neighborhoods near jobs?through the use of existing Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers. This was the approach the Clinton administration used to help house the displaced victims of the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California. The Bush administration has worked to cut funding for Section 8 for years. Already there is a shortfall of 100,000 vouchers in the Section 8 program because of the funding shortfalls caused by the Bush cuts.

Translation: They think somewhere in the Constitution there must be a clause that allows the federal government to take money from the citizens to house the “poor”. Problem is, their isn’t. This is class warfare which is part of the left wing, communist, socialist, Marxist philosophies - someone else has your stuff and government should get it back for you!

the contracting rules for Katrina represent the same toxic stew that led to abuses in Iraq, where billions of dollars of money for reconstruction were misspent. First, there will be massive no-bid contracts, many totaling in the tens of millions of dollars or more.

Translation:How dare we hit the ground running and start rebuilding! We need to have government make work projects and go through long bidding processes to keep bureaucrats employed and spend money on their salaries.

post-Katrina Gulf represents a paradise for contractors, it is a nightmare for ordinary workers who lack the protections of prevailing wage laws that have existed since the Great Depression. In the Gulf, prevailing wages under the Davis-Bacon Act will never make people rich: A laborer in New Orleans would receive $10.40 per hour in wages and fringe benefits. But the Bush administration?s suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act can and will drive down wages beyond government contracts and perpetuate the poverty so vivid on our television screens in the last two weeks. By suspending the act, contractors will be able to effectively set low wages since they will be a large percentage of the employers in the region.

Translation:How dare the market decide what the wage should be! Free markets suck - man. Government should tell employers how much to pay their employees. Basically government should control private industry - gee, again sounds like many of the previously mentioned ideologies.

And what do the authors suggest we do to correct these inequities?

Maximize employment of Katrina victims in reconstruction projects. To date the Labor Department has authorized only 40,000 new jobs; Katrina cost at least 400,000 jobs nationwide.

Too bad there is no part of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that says anything about Congress being in charge of creating jobs. And left wingers out there want to try to find it?

Ensure that workers also obtain marketable skills

To bad there is no part of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that says Congress is in chage of educating people.

Guarantee adequate health care

Again, nothing in Article I, Section 8 about health care for the people either.

Enable Katrina victims to save

Do I need to keep pointing out how there is nothing in the Constitution about this authority being granted to the federal government?

Guarantee that Katrina victims?and all Americans?who work full-time will not raise their children in poverty

Hmmm … another power they want but that is not granted.

Clean up toxic pollution post-Katrina in a transparent, thorough way

Anyone able to find that power in Article I, Section 8? I didn’t think so.

And it goes on and on and on with tripe like this to the end. So why can’t “Progressives” just be honest? Why can’t they stand up and proudly say “WE DON’T LIKE AMERICA AND WE HATE THE CONSTITUTION!” Because in a round about way that is exactly what they are saying by promoting the federal government take on Unconstitutional powers after unconstitutional powers to promote their agenda which has been tried and failed miserably. Soviet Union - remember that?


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