Monday, June 18, 2012

My Name is Elmer J Fudd Milwionaire, I Own a Mansion und a Yacht!


Elmer J. Fudd, Millionaire by tobiagorrio

Dear Dick Bergman, thank you for your kind words last week regarding my contributions to the Standard Press, I’m glad that you enjoy my writing and that you look forward to more of it in these very dark times. I do try to inject a little humor in with the serious and substantive issues I address, to try and have a little fun and maintain a positive outlook, as difficult as that is these days.
Speaking of dark times, I just read that the Koch Brothers plan to use the Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Extreme Court to funnel as much as $400,000,000.00 through organizations they control to advance their corporatist interests and their rightwing agenda during the 2012 elections. How much money are you going spend to advance your interests Mr. & Mrs. John & Jane Q. Public? Do you think the government they ordain will represent your interests? They already write and VOTE on the laws that rule you through their organization, the feudal American Legislative Exchange Council (fALEC) and their representative Robin Vos, Wisconsin’s Public Sector fALEC chairman. Is that what freedom feels like?

Americans for Plutocracy (AFP) spent three millions dollars from people like the Koch Bros to help their hero Scott Walker keep doing their work. Heck, Scotty recently raised a million dollars from four out of state billionaires. One of them was Robert Benmosche, you know the CEO of AIG the deregulated global insurance behemoth that helped tank our economy and that George Bush had to bail out with your tax dollars in the Republicon crash of 2008. Is this what plutocracy feels like?
Mr. Benmosche has been thinking about you Mr. & Mrs. P. In a recent interview from his seaside villa in Croatia he said that “Retirement ages will have to move to 70, 80 years old,” “That would make pensions, medical services more affordable. They will keep people working longer and will take that burden off of the youth.” Yeah the burden of jobs off our youth as geezers continue occupy jobs keeping young people from being able to enter the work force, start careers, marry and have families. Talk about your out of touch elitist, but what does he care? He is the rich and the rich are getting richer! Meanwhile, the average net worth of American families dropped by 35% from 2005 to 2010, according to the Census Bureau. No wonder consumer demand, the ONLY “Job Creator” is down. Thank you Greedy Oligarch’s Party (GOP)!

But enough substance, now for the humor part. Just how dumb or ill-informed does one have to be, to be working or middle class and vote Republicon? Yeah, Mitt Romney and his NASCAR team owning friends are going to look after the interests of us average income folk out here, right.
Wait a minute, maybe it's not dumb at all, maybe it's just plain crazy. I've got it! Here is how you can convince yourself that the GOPsters are on the side of your shrinking middle class chances. Repeat after me; "My name is Elmer J. Fudd, Milwionaire, I own a mansion und a yacht." Again! "My name is Elmer J. Fudd, Milwionaire, I own a mansion und a yacht." Keep going, if you can be convinced that the plutoctopus is on your side, you can be made to believe ANYTHING! Right Elmer? Freedumb!

10 comments:

  1. Here is the text of the letter I responded to, the caption read: Letter Writer's rants are comic relief during tough times.

    Body: Now that the recall is over, I believe it's time to congratulate the Standard Press and its associate comic editor, Sean Cranley.

    Mr. Cranley's weekly comic rants have served a worthy purpose in providing your readers with many hearty laughs during this time of tension and political unrest.

    Perhaps Mr. Cranley can be induced to apply his awesome sense of humor as applied to the political process along with his considerable knowledge of history to the next dark tiimes when we all need to smile. Dick Bergman, Burlington

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  2. sean, those that value reason over hysteria take issue with the "substance" section of your post. According to the Fed, Americans saw a 40% plummet in wealth from 2007 to 2010. To somehow attribute this to the GOP is strange in that during this 3 year period it was progressives that were large (especially Jerrold Nadler, heh!) and in charge. To expand this period back to 2005 is just a sophomoric attempt to smear mud on the Republicans.

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  3. Nemo, this is your last anonymous comment on this blog.

    If you want to continue to make inane, baseless 3 sentence statements like that above, that pass for "arguments" among the indocrinants to the Cult of Con and that I've knocked down already at least a half dozen times elsewhere, you're going to have to own your own foolishness by posting under your real name, not a character from Jules Vern or a cartoon.

    You've been put on notice, no more anonymous troll posts here. You're going to have to take personal responsibility for your GOPropaganda addled mental drivel.

    The seeds of the Great Republicon Recession were sown long before 2007, or 2005 for that matter. But you won't acknowledge that because the gospel according to the Cult of Con teaches that one should not question the wisdom and "benificent" (for themselves) rule of your wealthy overlords, but rather embrace the inky GOPlutoctopus and all it's suckers. FREEDUMB!

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  5. The above comment was deleted not because it was full of the ussual lies and nonsense, but because the author posted anonymously contrary to the stated policy here. The author is not banned, simply his practice of anonymous comments.

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  8. Comments can be posted here by people who use their real names, willing and able to stand by their free speech, not by those hiding behind pseudonyms.

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