The threat the right wing has used since it shifted its massive debts onto the Obama administration has been that dreadful curse, “we’re passing it on to our children.” Those perky kids that were not a concern when the former ruling party instigated wars and pampered its porkers in the boardrooms suddenly became the latest scare tactic. After years of neglect, now the sufferings of the wee ones – disadvantages that the right wing has caused – are intolerable. Right. If the wingers get their way, the kids will never have a chance.

Take a real look at what is facing the kids that are squeezed as their families’ salaries are razed; the kids who don’t have as good a chance of surviving infancy as many in the world; the kids that don’t have health care or even insurance; the kids that have increasingly inferior education compared to the rest of the world; the kids that have dismal job expectations; the kids that will have to rebuild the country’s infrastructure; yes, our country’s kids that have been stripped of opportunity in Wingers’ World. The kids are faced with the task of coping with a world that has deteriorated while the same demagogues – using them now for accusations against those inheriting their wasteland – cut domestic programs of every sort to offset extravagances to dole out our wealth as corporate welfare.

It’s been a right wing lodestone for a few decades now to claim great concern for life, of the blastocyst variety. While that was hoisted aloft in marches against family planning clinics and bombings of medical facilities, the U.S. rate of infant mortality soared. The pro-life bombers have taken a real and horrible toll on the children. Right wing calls for personal responsibility provided the cover to strip away the advantages this once prosperous nation had offered to its children.

What this country has ahead of it is truly dismal for our kids. The collapse of the economy took jobs away from the workers who are their parents, trying to give their children a life full of good things. The debt that the country had accumulated under the profligacy of years of winger control is being used to excuse more denial of their needs. Attacks on a real, continuing stimulus that makes inroads into unemployment are attacks on the kids’ life support systems, namely, those working to support them.

The horribly skewed politics of right wing oppression is all the more disgraceful because it is wielded under a banner proclaiming family values. Valuing the family has been the most neglected practice of the administration we just tossed onto history’s dung heap, where it belongs.

The country needs to forge ahead to rebuild our economy, even though the wingnuts continue to bray about tax cuts for the wealthy, their continuing answer to the stagnation caused by…tax cuts to the wealthy. What has been ‘trickled down’ on the kids is a nightmare, made out of what was given to our generation in the form of the acclaimed North American dream.
The nuts and bolts of the real economy are always under the threat of ideology that thinks hardships are fine for the working class as long as the wealthiest get all the benefits. The remnant of supply-side delusion is undead and still struggling to climb back out of the grave it dug for this country and its treasures. The ranting you hear from teabagging ideologues is the death rattle that will go on until we can end it with real solutions.

Then, finally, the kids will be all right.