Having read the laughable article about working-class garbage diva Ronsanne Barr's abortive run for the White House on the Green Party ticket, I found myself asking another question "though no laughing matter": does the Easy Reader' readership really regard the campaign of a 90's sitcom star turned small-time South Bay resident as newsworthy or noteworthy? Other than her previous residency in El Segundo, what reason did Easy Reader have for printing such outrageous, misinformed, and hackneyed drivel?
This woman claims to be running an "anti-winning" campaign. If she was describing her personal political philosophy, I would not be alarmed. However, this uncandid presidential candidate actually suggested on live television that all the wealth people in this country, a number which is diminishing daily because of high taxation and over-regulation, should be executed by guillotine. Apparently, she slept through history when the French Revolution was taught, or she would have recanted favoring the methods of political movement that killed far more of the fare which populates the Occupy Movement of today.
She claims that her detractors, which I am convinced are growing in pace with this country's national debt, are "ignorant" and the political process is rigged to "rob them blind." Barr castigates the transfer of wealth upward over the past three years, yet she fails to recognize that most of this wealth is being sucked up by government entitlements and pension obligations, both of which have crippled state governments and bankrupted municipalities.
The comedienne who should have stayed in working-class Chicago claims to support a limited government that creates green jobs. This country has already witnessed the corrupt boondoggle of green energy -- read "Solyndra" -- which wasted half a trillion dollars of taxpayer revenue, without creating one job. Where does Ms. Barr intend to get the wealth for investing in 25 million green jobs? Does she think that money grows on trees? Has she harvested a special strain of "green" to paper over her ridiculous schemes? Her grating ignorance of economics would either bankrupt this already overwhelmed country, or inflate every citizen and wealth-creator's cash stock into oblivion.
Indeed, she is right to denounce the bank bailouts of 2009, but instead of attacking the true culprit, Big Government in the Hands of Crony Capitalism, she audaciously assumes that forgiving student loans and nationalizing the wealth of the 1% with $100 million or more would help this country. Policies like these are driving away businesses, investment, and jobs. They would also force more banks to close, and with their demise would disappear the dwindling wealth of the 99% which still rely on financial institutions.
Barr denounces the upper class as a bunch of amoral parasites, yet she owns a multi-million dollar macadamia nut farm in Hawaii. If anyone is seeking a symbol for the hypocrisy of staunch, wealthy elites pressuring the middle class into giving up more of their hard-earned wealth, they have found the perfect spokeswoman in this crass, corrupted, and cranky comic from Utah.
While her publicity-politicking may amuse some, readers in the South Bay deserve economic and political commentary from mature, educated, and experienced pundits, not from unwinning, or rather "anti-winning" environmentalists whose push to expand government would wreak more havoc for all, including the elusive, amorphous "99%."
Hardly "anti-establishment", Roseanne Barr's "uber-establishment" mantras for spreading the wealth and demonizing Wall Street are simply basic principles out of President Obama's playbook of illiberal progressivism, just taken to such heinous extremes, that even the alternative media should be ashamed for giving this sometime actress another fifteen minutes of fame.
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