In his campaign to take over the White House and set things to his right, Mitt Romney allows, “the last three years have held a lot of change, but they haven’t offered much hope. The middle class has been crushed; nearly 24 million of our fellow Americans are still out of work.” Romney made no mention of the ever fewer who have been doing quite well and have amassed a crushing amount of the nation’s wealth, which has left the middle class flattened and millions out of work. As part of the 1 percent, Romney looked down on the other 99 percent and came up with a put-down that goes a step further than Queen Marie Antoinette’s quip, “if they have no bread, let them eat cake.”
Adding insult to disregard of injury, Mitt would have them eat humble pie to mute what he derides as “the bitter politics of envy.”
Romney proclaims, “our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.” Although Mitt is not insisting on formal amendment to the constitutional blueprint’s stated purpose, his top-down social engineering pares down membership in “we the people” that will be overseeing “an ever more perfect Union.”
Apparently the first Republican president, Abe Lincoln, had it all wrong when at Gettysburg he suggested that the Constitution had established government of the people, by the people and for the people. Mitt sees governing power held more firmly in hands like those of the masters of ole-plantation times. There and then, a privileged few were unswervingly certain that God had entitled them to own people as slaves and keep in their place white trash who looked like them but had disproving calloused hands from doing the heavy lifting for little.
During the past decade of test run, this new order has been working just fine for the political money changers who plan on raking and taking more. They’re in the money enough to put millions into Mitt’s mitts as political seed money that will yield a bin-busting harvest.
To ensure that those who can afford charity have what life lets them, Mitt ought to get rid of that potentially threatening song his campaign is using, “Born Free.“ It is not a good idea to remind folks of the contention in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal under the law. Mitt should strut proudly his born-wealthy status to the tune of “We’re in the Money.”
Sam Osborne, West Branch, Iowa resident
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