Oligarchy or Republic?
America's Choice in 2004

by Mike George
© Copyright June 17, 2003
Heisson, Washington

President Bush's record $350 billion tax cut of 2003 was tilted heavily to wealthy households, while Republican trickle-down ideologues and a deepening recession have left us with rising numbers of unemployed and a federal budget deficit of $984 billion this year alone. But the diversion of our tax revenues into the pockets of the rich and powerful affords the President other more dubious benefits. Campaign 2004 is about to begin, and like a pinstriped snake devouring its own tail, this self-serving and irresponsible tax cut siphons revenue from what might have been earmarked for services--funding for fire and police, education, rapid transit, public works, and other infrastructure, job creation measures all--and diverts it instead to the hands of the few and the wealthy to do with as they please. An estimated $250 million of this potlatch to the rich will feed the ravenous campaign appetite of George W. Bush.

When Thomas Jefferson drafted The Declaration of Independence, elephantine profits were not listed among life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In this Jeffersonian Republic supreme power is held by citizens qualified to vote through elected representatives and executive officers. Oligarchy is defined as government in which power is concentrated in the hands of the few. To the degree the powerful few manipulate the President and the Republican controlled Congress--who then legislate to divert revenues back to the benefit of their wealthy constituency--are they given license to sacrifice our democracy to the concentrated forces of greed, extravagance and corporate rule. Meanwhile George W. Bush engorges his war-chest for the media blitzkrieg of election season 2004. It will remain for Americans to cast either a Republican vote for those who would willfully bankrupt Social Security, Medicare and our public education system, among other government programs . . .OR put an end to the insanity of the Bush White House and vote Democrat in support of the fundamental rights of the people of the United States of America and the 'Republic" for which our flag stands. Oligarchy or Republic-the choice is still ours in 2004! Vote Democrat!

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