Liberal Communism

Published in El Mundo
(Spain) on 7 February 2012
by Pablo Pardo (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Brandee Bilotta. Edited by Gillian Palmer .
The woman in the photo below could be retired. Her banner reads, “Cut your budget, not mine.” However, if Obama cuts the budget, he will cut her pension. In front of her, a man is dressed in 18th century style; at that time, the gold standard backed currency.

This attitude is very common: We all see how the states squander with the others. “Have I earned my Medicaid?” I said to an African-American taxi driver belonging to the tea party. Medicaid is the health assistance program for the poor. The taxi driver will retire in 2013, and will have to depend on Medicaid and Medicare (health assistance for the elderly). Those people are a wreck for the public accounts of the U.S. This way, the very conservative taxi driver will be a hole in the states.

The diagram that begins this post is equally significant, in my opinion. Red? Red states are the Republican states. Blue? The Democratic states. You see this diagram and conclude that the Republicans, who always talk about the evil that is the State, live at the expense of it.

It is like when Mitt Romney, two Harvard degrees, $250 million in assets, criticizes the elites. Or like when Newt Gingrich, with a half-million-dollar line of credit at Tiffany’s and $3 million in income last year, does the same.

The facts are from 2004, but I do not think they have changed much. Just in case, North Dakota, which is living in a petroleum boom, will now be a little better. But aside from that, things will have changed very little.

It is liberal communism.


La señora de la foto de abajo podría estar jubilada. Su pancarta reza: ?Corta tu Presupuesto, no el mío?. Sin embargo, si Obama corta ese Presupuesto, le cortará la pensión. Delante de ella, un caballero va vestido al estilo del siglo XVIII, era en la que estaba vigente el patrón oro.

Esa actitud es muy común: todos vemos como el Estado despilfarra? con los demás. ?Yo me he ganado mi Medicaid?, me decía un taxista afroamericano del Tea Party. El Medicaid es el programa de asistencia sanitaria para los pobres. El teaxista se jubilará en 2013, y pasará a depender del Medicaid y del Medicare (asistencia sanitaria para los ancianos). Esas personas son una ruina para las cuentas públicas de EEUU. Así, el taxista ultraliberal será un agujero en el Estado.

El cuadro con el que comienza este post es igualmente significativo, en mi opinión. ?Red? (rojos) states son los estados republicanos. ?Blues? (azules) los demócratas. Se ve ese cuadro y resulta que los republicanos, que siempre hablan de lo malo que es el Estado, viven a costa de él.

Es como cuando Mitt Romney?dos títulos por Harvard, 250 millones de dólares de patrimonio?critica a ?las élites?. O como cuando Newt Gingrich?medio millón de dólares de línea de crédito en Tiffani?s; tres millones de ingresos el año pasado?hace lo mismo.

Los datos son de 2004, pero no creo que hayan cambiado mucho. Si acaso, Dakota del Norte, que vive un ?boom? del petróleo, estará ahora un poco mejor. Pero al margen de eso, las cosas habrán cambiado muy poco.

Es el comunismo liberal.
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