Does Democrat Mark Fernald do the letters to the editor follow up over at Fosters Daily Democrat or is he just complicit? Amidst a series of letters posted on January 14th at Fosters.com is a smarmy bit of left wing drool authored by one Hugh Jidette. Fernald liked the letter so much that he shared it on his email distribution list saying…
Here’s an excellent letter from Foster’s Daily Democrat. I encourage all to write their own letters to expose what the right wing is up to.
Mark Fernald
Forget what the right wing has been up to, what has Fosters and Mark Fernald been up to?
Hugh Jidette is a false name. Huge Jidette (Huge Debt) appears as a fake Presidential Candidate to deliver awareness ads about out of control spending and the risks of borrowing on the scale the democrats embraced. Hugh was all about borrowing money. But Some on the left spun that and sold it to their peeps as proof that the Republicans were lying about taxes and using the campaign to justify slashing the deficit to punish hard working civil servants. That exact same theme has found its way here in the letter published in Fosters, by a Hugh Jidette from Rochester, but with a local spin. The national left wing meme viewed through a granite state filter.
But we have no way of knowing if it was written by Fernald himself, Kathy Sullivan, Ray Buckley, The Center for American Progress, ‘Norris Cotton’ over at Red Hampshire, or by Fosters Editorial Staff.
One thing we do know is that the person vetting letters over at Fosters should change their name to Hugh Jihass, and that by forwarding it as if it were written by an actual local resident, Fernald looks like a Hugh Jihass as well.
Once you have finished giggling, and before some democrat named Huge Jidette from Rochester comes forward to take credit, the text of Fernald’s Email is available on the jump, followed by an example of some original video put out in the debt awareness campaign.
From: mark@markfernald.comDate: January 22, 2011 2:08:51 AM ESTSubject: An excellent letter for you to consider
Here’s an excellent letter from Foster’s Daily Democrat. I encourage all to write their own letters to expose what the right wing is up to.
Mark Fernald
Foster’s Daily letter:Shot throughTo the editor: If some people had their way they would pay no local, state or federal taxes. They seem to think all the services they get from local, state and the federal government are free or that someone else should pay for them. Surely if taken away they’d be the first ones complaining about lack of government services. "It’s OK to cut government services as long as they’re not mine" is their ideology. It is interesting that people continue to complain about high federal taxes, when in reality they are at their lowest levels in 60 years. Many complain about Obama tax hikes, but can’t name a single tax that has affected them personally. Taxing us into the stone age is their hollow battle cry!People like to complain about higher health-care costs and blame Obamacare. Well in reality health-care costs have been going up steadily for decades, so how do they explain that?For over 40 years, the right wing has mounted an irrepressible campaign to discredit the very concept of government in the United States.The wealthy elites that dominate the American Right have financed the campaign to demonize government because they want the opportunity to pursue a very different group of values that have nothing to do with America’s founding principles. They want the right to concentrate more and more wealth and power into their own hands. Unfortunately many middle class Americans have been bamboozled by their propaganda.The reason state and local budgets are in trouble simply has nothing to do with their spending on public employees. It’s about the financial crisis which triggered the Great Recession. Millions are unemployed and not paying taxes. In 2009, the recession dipped state tax revenues by 1/3. There’s no way on earth to attribute that to public workers. The obliteration of state revenue is entirely to blame. And the folks who created and sold toxic mortgage instruments and sucked trillions in wealth into a high-risk vortex shoulder the burden. And yet they are not shouldering any of the responsibility; those danged public workers are.Public servants are convenient scapegoats. Republicans would rather deflect attention from corporate executive pay that continues to rise as corporate profits soar, even as corporations refuse to hire more workers. They don’t want stories about Wall Street bonuses, now higher than before taxpayers bailed out the Street to get out.It’s far more convenient to go after people who are doing the public’s work — sanitation workers, police officers, fire fighters, teachers, social workers, federal employees — to call them "faceless bureaucrats" and portray them as hooligans who are making off with your money and crippling federal and state budgets.The story fits better with the Republican’s big lie that our problems are due to a government that’s too big.Above all, Republicans don’t want to have to justify continued tax cuts for the rich. As quietly as possible, they want to make them permanent.But the right’s argument is shot through with bad data, twisted evidence, and unsupported assertions. Just look their track record from 2001-2009!Hugh Jidette, Rochester
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Borrow Like There’s No Tomorrow from Hugh Jidette on Vimeo.
