Let the word go forth...

[misanthrope]

...that this is a great example of what life in the cesspool known as Mobile, Alabama is like.

A special Easter editorial was in today's daily newspaper and listed in the Top News section of the Website. It's from the publisher, Howard Bronson, Jr.

Excerpt:

"Our economic troubles were brought on by a political class that, in order to buy votes, decided everybody should have a home whether they could afford it or not. It was a nice sentiment, but one that could only lead to a housing bubble when the bills came due. The result has been the collapse of the housing market and the economic downturn.

"Now we have an administration whose dream is to install every social program that any liberal has ever dreamed of into our American way of life — the same programs that have socialized and stagnated Europe's economy for years. The cost of these programs, as analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office, would take the sum of all the deficits run by all of the presidents up to this current time, and double it.

"The game plan for this administration is clear: Institute all of these social welfare programs, run up a tremendous debt and then let inflation pay down that debt with our savings. The net result will be that all the people who have worked, been responsible and saved will lose everything that they have accumulated. Taxes on our children and grandchildren will have to be so high to maintain these programs that the standard of living in this country will have to go down."

He goes on to summarize that Obama is about to destroy our democracy once and for all.

No words on civil liberties, on the rule of law or materialism or greed. No it's the new melanin-enriched POTUS and his hordes of followers that are the singular problem.

This is typical. Mobile's society is terribly fractured. Among the county's elected representatives, all the African-Americans are Democrats and vice versa on most every level. The only prominent white Democrat is the district attorney and he is currently under fire from a variety of sources.

Sadder still, the alternative press in Mobile considers the daily newspaper part of the "liberal media conspiracy" and spends its time fomenting racial discord and playing political assassin with Democratic pols.

Watch "The Order of Myths." Read "Like Trees Walking." This place is a dung pit, always has been. No matter what you do, stay away from Mobile and spread word about what a blight it is.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Deluded

Dems weren't the ones who made the risky mortgages. It was practices by the GOP that have caused this mess. But then I'd say that there is more than a little bit of racism and racist fear in this article.

Any time I've been in Alabama I've felt very uncomfortable--it was as if I could feel the hatred and divisiveness all around me.

[misanthrope]

2. Ya' think?...

...Gee, this couldn't be coded language could it? "The net result will be that all the people who have worked, been responsible and saved will lose everything that they have accumulated. Taxes on our children and grandchildren will have to be so high to maintain these programs that the standard of living in this country will have to go down."

Why didn't he use the descriptive "hard working" in there? Isn't that the new euphemism for "white?"

I'm only surprised there was no mention of "states rights" in the body.