The Neo-Cashervatives

Those are the politicians that call themselves conservatives while they take cash to strip citizens and small investors to their shorts…all to fatten their coffers and make the fat cats fatter. They feed at the troughs…and are the lackeys…of the new robber barons.

Now they’re laughing at those fruits and nuts out in California! They’ve got no sense of the value of a dollar, they say. Just look at how they trashed their once-mighty economy. All those social programs. Like the giant chunk of the state budget devoted to building prisons because they’re all jammed due to mandatory sentencing and the “three-strikes” rule. But is that what crashed the California economy?

Simply put, no. Actually the economy is fine. Because the labor force finds a benefit to be there. The schools, the health care. The public education (half the budget). The worker protection. The low property taxes. In fact, things were going pretty well, and still are, according to a recent story in the Christian Science Monitor.

Reality check. The debt overhang from Enron and “cashervatives” in the pocket of big oil and big energy trashed the Californian economy.

That is documents long ago proved that Enron forced up California energy prices, according the New York Times. Sure it took advantage of bad deregulation mishandled by politicians. But so what? They were getting campaign contributions from big energy to deregulate in ways that made it easy to rig the market

Are you then surprised that big energy and “cashervatives” have trashed the federal economy? It’s hard to believe that the biggest surplus in history has turned into the biggest deficit in history, probably over half a trillion bucks.

And there hasn’t been a peep out of such stalwart “cashervatives” as Tom DeLay. Wait, he called it spending driven…an actual lie.

But the former exterminator’s bald-faced ploy actually it makes perfect sense. Who is going to bother actually looking at the Federal spending patterns to figure out if he’s just rewriting history or not?

DeLay learned how to rip off government coffers with the bait and switch market-manipulating energy game in California.

Now the Republicans are taking the DeLay approach to ripping off the Federal government by shifting the blame from the deregulation robber-baron cronies to “solving” the deregulation problem by unleashing a new round of government largesse…this time federal.

“The reason FirstEnergy may be getting a free pass is because the company enjoys a close relationship with President Bush,” reports Tyson Slocum on CorpWatch. “On June 30, FirstEnergy CEO and Chairman of the Board H. Peter Burg hosted a fundraiser with Vice President Dick Cheney near the company's headquarters that raised $600,000 for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. Held at the Hilton in Akron's upscale Fairlawn neighborhood, attendees ponied up $1,000 to eat shrimp and hear Cheney speak. For an additional $1,000, they could get their picture taken with the vice president.”

And FirstEnergy is another one of those smoking guns of funny money and Republican “cashervative” politicians. ”The company is very much a product of the deregulation of the utility market over the past several years” according to the World Socialist Web Site. “In 1999, Ohio passed legislation forcing FirstEnergy and other Ohio utilities to open their transmission networks to independent power producers.”

So castigating nutty Californians for their budgetary irresponsibility starts to look pretty shortsighted…at least in the dark streets of the deregulated Northeast media corridor. And while the media continues to be a step behind the cashervative guardians of fiscal responsibility, we can only wait and wonder what grid boondoggles will suddenly appear in the congressional energy bill to suck yet more money from taxpayers and consumers into the pockets of big energy. ¶ 4:56 PM