本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛PART 5 --- WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
Author,Perfectly Legal David Cay Johnston:
One of the geniuses of the right in United States is they founded these 12 big Washington organizations. Institute,for the causes of their donors.
Narrator:
Heirs to six of the largest family fortunes in the United States used their private foundations to fund organizations that would promote unregulated markets.
Working in unison, the 6 families used their private foundations to shape business schools and manipulate the media.
Most of all, they wanted to restructure government to serve their own interests.
They're not think tanks. These are not academic research organizations.
These are ideological marketing organizations.
FDR 1939:
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America.
What they really complain of is that we seek a way to take away their power.
Exec. Diretor, Center for Community Change : Deepak Bhargava
Even in the Great Depression when 25%of Americans were out of work, you had these apologists for free market fundamentalism argue against increased government spending, increased regulation, strengthening the hands of unions, stronger safety net.
The same thing is happening today.
Former Fellow, The Heritage Foundation :David Brock
The motive was ideological, putting millions of dollars into funding right wing ideas factories.
But then those ideas needed to get pushed out into the media.
Reagan Campaign Ad (1980)
My plan will give businesses tax incentives that result in plant expansion,greater output,and more jobs.
It will remove regulations that shoot up the cost of doing business.
Strong creative leadership can restore America as the mightiest industrial nation on Earth.
The time is now for Reagan.
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos: Robert Kuttner
It all comes together in the election of 1980, where the right had build up this powerful political, financial, intellectual infrastructure; and it all comes together under Reagan.
By the time Reagan takes office, there is an army of policy wonks who have a whole game plan that can be put into effect very,very quickly to deregulate everything that hasn't been deregulated under Carter.
NARRATOR:
America saw Ronald Reagan as someone trustworthy.
The newly elected president handed out the Heritage foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" to every member of his Cabinet.
For the next eight years, this anti-government policy guide drove the Reagan Administration's makeover of federal government from protecting the public good into working for the rich and powerful.
Author,Perfectly Legal: David Cay Johnston
Ronald cut taxes for those at the top. Instead of balancing the budget, he ran the biggest deficits in history.
Then he presided over the passage of a series of tax increases on ordinary people, only he didn't call them that.
The Washington press corps went along with the White House Calling these, "revenue enhancements."
Ronald Reagan (1981)
Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
President, United Steelworkers: Leo Gerard
He was attacking government, attacking the institutions of government, and trying to make it as a system that doesn't work.
And in reality, rich folks don't need governments.
They live in their own gated communities, they have their own security, they swim in their own swimming pools, they go to their own private schools.
Rich people take care of themselves.
Dean,Case Western University Law School: Lawrence Mitchell
The ideology of the free market that said that if we allowed them to just use their own creativity and be able to do what they want, that the wealth they created would trickle down to create jobs and create consumer goods and make American an even richer and more prosperous society than it was.
Well, all that was beautiful theory.
The whole idea of a free market is a myth to begin with.
Markets are structured based on laws, and the real issue is who the structure benefits.
Sanders:
One of his first acts was to destroy the air traffic controllers which was a signal for all American businesses that is was open season on unionism.
They understand that it's not just about labor supporting the interests of members of labor unions, but it has been the labour movement that has supported the interests of all workers.
You wouldn't have social security, you wouldn't have unemployment compensation, you wouldn't have Medicare, you wouldn't have all of these things, which are not just for labor union members.
AT IT'S HEIGHT IN THE 1950s:
1 in 3 private sector workers were in unions.
TODAY, THAT MUMBER IS :
1 in 14 private sector workers are in unions.
Robert Kuttner:
He was able to pull off an ideological counterrevolution.
And by the time he was over, most of the New Deal had been dismantled.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Author,Perfectly Legal David Cay Johnston:
One of the geniuses of the right in United States is they founded these 12 big Washington organizations. Institute,for the causes of their donors.
Narrator:
Heirs to six of the largest family fortunes in the United States used their private foundations to fund organizations that would promote unregulated markets.
Working in unison, the 6 families used their private foundations to shape business schools and manipulate the media.
Most of all, they wanted to restructure government to serve their own interests.
They're not think tanks. These are not academic research organizations.
These are ideological marketing organizations.
FDR 1939:
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America.
What they really complain of is that we seek a way to take away their power.
Exec. Diretor, Center for Community Change : Deepak Bhargava
Even in the Great Depression when 25%of Americans were out of work, you had these apologists for free market fundamentalism argue against increased government spending, increased regulation, strengthening the hands of unions, stronger safety net.
The same thing is happening today.
Former Fellow, The Heritage Foundation :David Brock
The motive was ideological, putting millions of dollars into funding right wing ideas factories.
But then those ideas needed to get pushed out into the media.
Reagan Campaign Ad (1980)
My plan will give businesses tax incentives that result in plant expansion,greater output,and more jobs.
It will remove regulations that shoot up the cost of doing business.
Strong creative leadership can restore America as the mightiest industrial nation on Earth.
The time is now for Reagan.
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos: Robert Kuttner
It all comes together in the election of 1980, where the right had build up this powerful political, financial, intellectual infrastructure; and it all comes together under Reagan.
By the time Reagan takes office, there is an army of policy wonks who have a whole game plan that can be put into effect very,very quickly to deregulate everything that hasn't been deregulated under Carter.
NARRATOR:
America saw Ronald Reagan as someone trustworthy.
The newly elected president handed out the Heritage foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" to every member of his Cabinet.
For the next eight years, this anti-government policy guide drove the Reagan Administration's makeover of federal government from protecting the public good into working for the rich and powerful.
Author,Perfectly Legal: David Cay Johnston
Ronald cut taxes for those at the top. Instead of balancing the budget, he ran the biggest deficits in history.
Then he presided over the passage of a series of tax increases on ordinary people, only he didn't call them that.
The Washington press corps went along with the White House Calling these, "revenue enhancements."
Ronald Reagan (1981)
Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
President, United Steelworkers: Leo Gerard
He was attacking government, attacking the institutions of government, and trying to make it as a system that doesn't work.
And in reality, rich folks don't need governments.
They live in their own gated communities, they have their own security, they swim in their own swimming pools, they go to their own private schools.
Rich people take care of themselves.
Dean,Case Western University Law School: Lawrence Mitchell
The ideology of the free market that said that if we allowed them to just use their own creativity and be able to do what they want, that the wealth they created would trickle down to create jobs and create consumer goods and make American an even richer and more prosperous society than it was.
Well, all that was beautiful theory.
The whole idea of a free market is a myth to begin with.
Markets are structured based on laws, and the real issue is who the structure benefits.
Sanders:
One of his first acts was to destroy the air traffic controllers which was a signal for all American businesses that is was open season on unionism.
They understand that it's not just about labor supporting the interests of members of labor unions, but it has been the labour movement that has supported the interests of all workers.
You wouldn't have social security, you wouldn't have unemployment compensation, you wouldn't have Medicare, you wouldn't have all of these things, which are not just for labor union members.
AT IT'S HEIGHT IN THE 1950s:
1 in 3 private sector workers were in unions.
TODAY, THAT MUMBER IS :
1 in 14 private sector workers are in unions.
Robert Kuttner:
He was able to pull off an ideological counterrevolution.
And by the time he was over, most of the New Deal had been dismantled.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net