What does he mean? Sam Brownback's WWII Values

[RKP5637]

What does he mean when Sam Brownback, gov. of KS, says we all have to return to WWII Values. Some question WTF is he talking about as in the below article.

The Kansas Free Press
By Diane Wahto
May 20, 2011

http://www.kansasfreepress.com/2011/05/sam-brownbacks-wwii-values.html

"WICHITA, Kan. - Gov. Sam Brownback spoke to the Rotary Club in Wichita on April 17, 2011, telling attendees that Americans should return to WWII values to get us out of our economic crisis. An excerpt of his speech appeared in the April 18, 2011, issue of the Wichita Eagle. "This is not something new to us. We know what these values are," he added. "I think we just kind of got away from it, in investing more in interesting instruments to change and trade money, rather than focus on how do I make something. We're going to have to start making more things." (Kansas Needs WWII Values)

It's not clear what Gov. Brownback means when he says, "We're going to have to start making things." He does mention that Kansas is prime territory for wind farms and for manufacturing the turbines necessary to create electricity.

Yet in early May, the governor decided to expand the area that would remain wind farm free. Some community leaders in the affected counties were already negotiating to install wind farms in their area. ("Brownback Expands Area")

Brownback's turn-around is confusing. Even more confusing is his definition of World War II values.

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I want to say it loud and clear to the Brownbacks of this world -- the world has changed. It cannot be legislated back to an era that never existed in the first place. Of course, Brownback is doing his best to turn the clock back. He has cut budgets to the bone for the most vulnerable among us. He's taken away rights for women and for minorities. I suppose he wants those people to experience WWII values, the values of doing without necessary goods and services and of women going home to be good little wives and mothers, once again. Meanwhile, the richest among us, as was the case with World War II munitions manufacturers, aren't making any sacrifices at all. Yes, let's all make sacrifices for the good of the country, unless we happen to be among the wealthiest citizens and we have at least five mansions we can retire to at the end of the day. This is the true face of World War II values."

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[Javaman]

1. Maybe he's talking about returning to the New Deal?

:shrug:

[RKP5637]

3. LOL!!! He would put a stake through the heart of any New Deal and what remains. I wish

it weren't true, but it sadly is.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Javaman]

7. I knew someone would get a good laugh at my comment. :)

Cheers!

[RKP5637]

8. Yep!!!

:toast: :hi:

[joeybee12]

2. Whose WWII values, ours or Nazi germany's?

Being Brownback, I bet on the later.

[RKP5637]

4. Definitely whatever would be the most fascist and with the most RW social engineering. n/t

[gkhouston]

5. Almost all the able-bodied men away at war, many women working

in factories, and widespread rationing? Segregation? Internment camps?

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, the return to good old WWII values. Wars, deaths, mutilations, destruction and the

whole evil period of human strife for bare survival, inflicting the greatest misery on mankind possible. I guess this means he endorses WWIII as a way to economic recovery and prosperity.

[JHB]

9. Would that be when millionaires faced 90+% tax rates, banks were regulated...

...gasoline was rationed, recycling was your patriotic duty, war profiteers were prosecuted, and rich conservatives pretty much shut the f*** up because they had been publicly praising fascism just a few years earlier? And demagoguery about "socialism" and communism was in bad odor because at the time Stalin's Soviet Union was out vital ally?

Just checking.

[RKP5637]

10. I think he selectively forgot about that part of it and probably most of

his audience would not even know ...

[JHB]

11. ...and to think I left out all the unchecked government spending!

...leading to a much higher debt-to-GDP ratio than we have now, which we got out of despite the very high taxes on very high incomes. Or dare I say, because of the very high taxes on very high incomes. At least in part.