Jerry Miskulin – 10/30/09

This page was last updated on October 30, 2009.

We’ve all seen this before in America; Jerry Miskulin; Beaver County Times; October 30, 2009.

I encourage you to review Mr. Miskulin’s body of work in the archives. Mr. Miskulin has written at least 50 letters since 2004 (I didn’t critique all of them.). Most (all?) are illogical and full of falsehoods (not just wrong).

In recent letters (here and here), Mr. Miskulin expressed displeasure with the tea parties and proclaimed “Rush Limbaugh is a propaganda minister.”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“Back in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s, they called the Jones & Laughlin steel plant in Aliquippa ‘Little Siberia.’”

[RWC] This may be nitpicking, but it was my understanding all of Aliquippa was referred to by this nickname by some, not just the J&L works. That’s because J&L effectively ran much of the community.

“It was a rather apt title. Although supposedly a free-market concern, it was run along Stalinist lines.”

[RWC] Given Mr. Miskulin’s left leanings, I don’t know if he considers this to be good or bad. As a reminder, much of the left still tries to whitewash Stalin’s USSR.

As for running J&L “along Stalinist lines,” what does this mean? Stalin and his fellow communists didn’t believe in private ownership. In Stalin’s USSR, J&L wouldn’t even have existed.

“The problem with the Great Depression was only 90 to 100 families basically controlled the stock market. There was too much money in the top 5 percent and very little in the lower 95 percent.”

[RWC] Written as a pure lefty. Fortunately it’s not true.

“Today, the industrial sector has been hurt by the mass defection of corporations overseas. Our government thinks some new jobs are going to happen overnight, but there are only so many jobs, and how you divide them up is crucial.”

[RWC] Note Mr. Miskulin doesn’t get into why there may be a “mass defection of corporations overseas.”

“President Obama has a tough job ahead because he campaigned on a change platform, and change isn’t always good.

“America is rotting from the inside out, and if the top 5 percent don’t get what they want, they pout.

“All of this happened once before. Just look at Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. It seems like Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

“Like in Little Siberia, our boys and girls aren’t getting paid. Instead, they’re paying for it.”

[RWC] The last several paragraphs are even worse gobbledygook than usual for Mr. Miskulin.