Nicholas Ruiz III
for U.S. Congress 2012
FL District 24
For the new wave of American progress.
Bachmann, Adams and Strawberry Milk
by Nicholas Ruiz III

Sandy Adams (FL-24) is a proud member of Michelle Bachmann’s
Tea Party Circus. Oops, I mean ‘Caucus.’

But Michelle Bachmann (MN-6), is the face of the Tea Party Caucus,
and rightly so. I don’t know what it is, but her face just seems to fit.
And the Newsweek cover flatters her so.

In the spirit of political satire, we may say, Michelle votes with her
looks and Sandy votes with her hooks. Michelle gives a wink, and
Sandy a nod; two tea party huckleberries, two peas in a pod. Iowa
Republicans? Well, they like what they like.

Together, Michelle and Sandy like to shake it up and make things
happen, like shutting down the reauthorization of the Federal
Aviation Administration; one part budget mugging, with a dash of
Reagan-style, union busting. All-American gothic, eh?

Michelle and Sandy like Fair Taxes, too – you know the kind of ‘fair’
taxes that let the corporate class pay less, while the middle and
lower classes pay more. Michelle and Sandy want to let loose and
quash regulations, and set the clock back to the roaring 1920s, so
we can repeat the wild excesses of the pre-Great Depression era
spectacle of the early twentieth century. Back to a time where
nothing was regulated, so charlatans could sell tapeworms for diet
pills, and arsenic for health tonic. Who needs regulation when you
have free-spirited commerce!?

To celebrate their victories, the Tea Party Caucus being so beyond
Kool-Aid, perhaps, elevates instead with the fantasy of corporate
strawberry fields (and campaign contributions from postmodern
Standard Oil barons) forever.

But people have to pick those strawberries.

And as the San Francisco Examiner recently reported, regulation is
so lax on growers to this day, that six to twelve year old children
can still be found picking strawberries in Washington and
blueberries in Michigan. What’s the Tea Party Caucus response to
that? Loosen corporate regulations even more? Reward multi-
million dollar corporate child abusers with tax cuts and a blind eye?
Got kids? Know kids? This is the reason we have strong federal
regulations. Because people cannot be trusted to police themselves
when millions of dollars in profits are at stake. That is what
government is for – not to function as a business – but to provide a
legally just and fair structure for society to safely and equitably
conduct things like business, or art, pursue a livelihood, and
flourish. To protect one another from humanity’s worst impulses.

Like their good friend, the imam of common bigotry Herman Cain (R-
GA), said Saturday morning in Iowa, “Too many people just ain’t got
no sense.”

In 2012, when I am elected U.S. Representative in FL-24, here is
what I’ll do:

I’ll start a New Deal Caucus in our U.S. House of Representatives.

The New Deal Caucus will embody every successful aspect of
FDR's New Deal, with upgrades for the 21st century circumstances
that we face, such as a new Works Progress Administration, that
puts people to work doing jobs they can do, to help our country and
to help one another to survive, prosper and move ahead in these
difficult times. We’ll implement a realistic minimum wage that will
incrementally scale up to where it should
be, year by year, until we hit baseline parity with the buying power
of the dollar during the 1950s …around $15 per hour in today’s
dollars. Yes, we’ll have to subsidize smaller businesses as we scale
this new law into effect. Then, we peg the minimum wage to the
Consumer Price Index, so it rises like a fishing bobber with the ebb
and flow of inflation. We’ll also work toward the institution of a
federal Public Trust, so Wall Street can add to the balance sheet of
Main Street. And that is just the beginning.

The Tea Party Caucus is enthralled with generic, big box retail
solutions for everything, from tax cuts for people who don’t need
them to private prison expansion that alchemizes profitability from
imprisonment - ideas I do not support in the least. In direct
opposition and contrast, the New Deal Caucus will practice a
boutique-style politics that recognizes a new tailored vision for the
problems we face as a country, rather than the one size fits all,
industrial-era Tea Party Caucus perspective that practices a
sledgehammer politics of middle and lower class destruction, with
their only aim being the status quo preservation of the corporate
class, regardless of who or what is commoditized in the process.

We must always remember the New Deal did not end with FDR – it
simply began. We have to work toward its cultivation and
completion. And clearly there are forces opposed to it – like the Tea
Party Caucus – that would destroy it in favor of feudal and Bronze
Age hypocrisies. We will not yield to their offense.

We need your help. Strong, early endorsements. Volunteers.
Contributions.

Whatever you can do to put a progressive Democrat in Congress –
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