Steve Newton, one of Delaware’s ablest analysts, issued the warning early in the year… I have since been on the lookout for what he called…. I believe…. The Great Distractor”….
This is a outrage so great, it dominates all discussion, to the extent no controversy can exist beyond it… It gets covered in the News Journal. It is the sole subject for weeks on end on the talk shows… etc…
Even bloggers take up the outrage, so inflamed are they and smelling blood, all want some credit for a kill….
Meanwhile, real bills that transfer the building blocks put in place over centuries of public schooling , get pulled and shuffled over to private enterprise….
Bluntly put, the rich get richer by picking all our pockets while we focus on the bar fight taking place on the floor directly in front of us, little realizing the entertainment is completely staged for our own fleecing…..
Yesterday the same topic dominated both the morning show, and afternoon show on WDEL…. Jonathan Starkey’s piece in the News Journal had done its part…..
There was considerable buzz; legislators were being called up on air, and duly pitching their outrage to get their name out in front of the voters….
The controversy is over the unclaimed property issue… Basically everyone is upset over how the government can claim unused gift cards… Yes, if you listened… that is what the entire controversy boiled down to. , The Republicans think they have an issue. The Government is taking private property because…. they can….
So let us pop this “distractor” and get back to reality… All this controversy is about who should own unclaimed property… Two people see a dollar bill in the road… Who should get it? Why does one have more right over it than the other? Should corporations be allowed to keep money that is not theirs? If I find a wallet with $500, should I keep it and spend it on me? Or should I turn it in to the police, and if no one comes and claims it, they then get to use the proceeds in their service to all….
Obviously, the latter is the more fair. I certainly have no right to that wallet, except by some made-up rule …. finders-keepers. Who does that money belong to? It belonged to someone, one of those who are protected by the police, and who are an individual just like me… Who is more likely to get an inquiry requesting whether anyone turned in a wallet with $500? A random stranger (me)? Or the police?….
Again, it is obvious to which one society would benefit having ownership of that dollar found in the street….. And the amounts of money are paltry… dollar bills for the most part….
Oh, but the outrage!! The Outrage! The outrage…..
“Look, Buzz, an alien…… Ha, made you look…… ”
There are some rather serious crises currently nibbling the foundation of the Markell and Democratic party.. Primarily they are two fold. The economic folly of cutting taxes on the top 1% of Delawareans, who should be funding the state with their windfall capital gains earnings, and that folly’s impact on stifling job growth…. and the crises of building charter schools for “Friends of Jack Markell” by dismantling the public schools that have carried Delaware to prominence up to this point……
They almost need this distraction… In a very bad way….
- Meanwhile they they insist on pushing forward the TDC, to the detriment of all those 30,000 Newarkians who will soon be breathing cancerous particles 24/7….
- Meanwhile they insist on pushing a Charter School agenda forward when next year’s charter schools can only muster 40% capacity.
- Meanwhile they insist on pushing Common Core, by now a completely debunked curriculum, that was so obviously created to summarily give one educational-material corporation an advantage over all others….
- Meanwhile, Delaware’s budget shortfall grows as the economy suffers under too low taxes and way too few government jobs.
- Meanwhile, Delaware is seeing global warming increase all costs statewide, while those wealthy who were to blame for it, get to keep a majority of their earnings off of it, tax free…
- Meanwhile, Delaware is giving far to much of our precious few resources to corporations who repeatedly, had always failed to deliver any return for our investment….
- Meanwhile, Delaware is destroying the 39th best teaching school in America, the educational department of the University of Delaware, to water it down to the abysmal Common Core standards…..
What this administrations sorely needs….
Is ” A Great Distractor”……. “Look, Buzz, an alien!”
Instead we should be watching out for……..
- House Bill # 334
- HB #333
- SB #210
- Looking forward to the necessary modifications to SB 51 and HB 165.
- And the fact that during these 8 years… Delaware’s children in poverty…. DOUBLED!
- Meanwhile, our cronyism allows our top income earners, to pay little or nothing in taxes……
That last one…… is the real outrage.…. one future generations will hold us accountable for decades to come………
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May 21, 2014 at 2:27 pm
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The great distractor, the data center
and the real outrage – the fossil fuel agenda
The fossil fuel powerful, their interests and their hugely over sized, gas power plant with smokestacks to the sky, (right up and out of their imaginary ‘engineering ‘ illusions) – over shadow a college town – (the latest ‘red line’ district) where tens of thousands of Delaware’s finest young people with fried hopes of a smarter future, would walk hopelessly to classes – if they don’t just check out altogether.
Welcome to the hoaxy propaganda world of the ‘mindless,’ over powerful – the fossil fuel greed world of deadly CO2 pollution.
The same sort of devils showed up hell bent for the ‘Coastal Zone’ refinery of tar sand trains and so forth..
So what, if the tens of thousands of kids are to come to campus to face their diminished futures, hock their lives for tens of thousands of debt, walk miles to classes in Red Alert Air – the deadliest environmental error of all time- climate change. How’s the future look, Mr. Markell.
So what, if the greediest of humanity refuse to look beyond their personal greed as the devils’ servants, as greenhouse gases cause the global temperature to rise, sea levels to rise, currents to change; the Arctic and yes, the Antarctic to melt; as vast stores of unstoppable methane release from the frozen, permafrost state; acidification increases, infrastructure and cities flood, crops fail, etc. It’s the devilish job to serve corporations and their Weapon of Mass Destruction – more released CO2. (And Newark’s got just the distraction, to release more.)
Let’s pretend a misrepresented, over sized fossil fuel plant, wouldn’t add CO2, excessive of the need to operate a data center.
Can’t do it. The devil’s in the details. The world’s foremost, legitimate climate scientists are warning us, billions of deaths (most likely human extinction) will be human caused by collective greed and stupidity. (A college campus – is just the place for denial, greed and stupidity, right?) So have the State of DEnial and it’s University ‘lead’ the way, telling us, more CO2 is called – “progress.” (Oh forget that cutting back on excessive CO2 releasing, is THE progress – ‘that critically matters’ as deadly feedback systems fall in place by the dozens.
Get in the back seat and grind on, greedy workforce ants. Yes, we hear you moaning over ‘your’ job. Mine it, frack it, drill it, pipe it, burn it baby, as these are the very reasons mankind faces extinction – the excessive release of the fossil fuel by-product – hazardous waste CO2.
Own it, own the flaming greed, the outrage of huge smokestacks that carry the hazardous waste to the 400 ppm CO2 and rising, atmosphere, as if global climate change really is a hoax.
Tell us, hoaxters,inc, how blooming holy good, excessive CO2 is, (Never mind what happened to coastal wind power or the tens of thousands of promised solar panel roofs, sustainability, massive conservation efforts, etc) We get to pay for more fossil fuel energy instead, plus climate change losses and damages.
Stand up, be counted, without scientific proof in hand – claiming all the world’s legitimate climate scientists are wrong.
“It’s free CO2, more is better, the crops done grow faster, it’s good for da economy, EPA is a communist plot, I breathes CO2. Da earth is cooooling.
Echoes of a town hall lady in red, now float over the University of DEnial science and technology campus. Don’t look now.
Lookie here! A data center!
But what about that enormous, excessive gas power plant, Mr. Markell.
This is what ignoring scientists does. This is what denying does.
Unstoppable, abrupt climate change. This is what the legitimate scientists said would happen. This is what deniers denied. Don’t look here:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27381010
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