On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:07:34 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> That may be true. And, if it is the case, then we really have a huge
> damn problem, because like 2% of business owners see the long term
> consequences of bankrupting the people that buy their goods as a,
> "problem", the other 98% figure they can just keep paying people shit,
> not hiring anyone, if they can help it, doing all their manufacturing in
> other countries, and lining their own pockets. And, those people
> constitute the "backbone" of the Republican support.

What's so maddening is how the right has convinced people that they can 
live the "American Dream" and, if they (the 'little people') had money, 
they wouldn't want big bad Uncle Sam coming out with his hand out asking 
for more money to fund feeding the poor and underprivileged.

But most of those people who vote Republican aren't ever going to benefit 
from those tax cuts because the more people there are in that tax 
bracket, the less power there is to go around to those people who are in 
that tax bracket.  So it's in their interest to "keep the dream alive" 
for those less fortunate while actively preventing the less fortunate 
from actually climbing the economic ladder.

Which is class warfare.  It's funny (and sad) how the right spins 
increasing taxes on the rich into class warfare and paints it as a 'bad 
thing' when in fact they are actively engaged in class warfare and those 
who are less fortunate are told that that crap sandwich is *really* 
fillet mignon.

Jim

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