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The rich seem to be winning the class war. They have been successfully dodging tax increases. And then some of their businesses, like GE, don't even have to pay taxes.
Of course they are. And they'll keep winning. Of course, that is music to a Repub's ears.
Dude, where have you been? Class warfare is all he campaigned on, and all he has worked to deliver. From straight out wealth redistribution, punishment of success via higher taxes, and all-out verbal assaults on those that have been successful, it has been a constant theme. What is depressing is how much it has appealed to a lot of people with little self esteme, honor or sense of justice.
People that support these policies look at the rich and think that they should have the ability to take from those that have more than they do. What they fail to realize is that, no matter how pathetic they may be, there is always someone with less. Which makes them the next target. As such, we reward incompetance rather than ability, laziness rather than hard work, stupidity at the expense of the intelligent.
We have created quite the race for the bottom, where the most useless are rewarded the most...the most capable, punished the most.
Dude, where have you been? Class warfare is all he campaigned on, and all he has worked to deliver. From straight out wealth redistribution, punishment of success via higher taxes, and all-out verbal assaults on those that have been successful, it has been a constant theme. What is depressing is how much it has appealed to a lot of people with little self esteme, honor or sense of justice.
People that support these policies look at the rich and think that they should have the ability to take from those that have more than they do. What they fail to realize is that, no matter how pathetic they may be, there is always someone with less. Which makes them the next target. As such, we reward incompetance rather than ability, laziness rather than hard work, stupidity at the expense of the intelligent.
We have created quite the race for the bottom, where the most useless are rewarded the most...the most capable, punished the most.
Welcome to the new America.
"""""They think that it's ONLY class warfare when the average American fights back....they ignore the war that the Republicans and the Uber-wealthy have been waging on the American middle class for years....it makes them feel all cozy....""""
It is sort of ironic when you come to realize that the Tea Party is as much an outgrowth of class warfare as anything else in recent years. The anti-bailout fervor, the cries about control of Congress by corporate lobbyist; I find it hard to hide the class nature of these complaints regardless of the denial by the tea party folks and their spokespersons. "Class warfare" exists whether it it is acknowledge as such or not.
Class warfare has been happening for far longer than President Obama or any of the rest of us has been alive. The upper classes have been winning this war for years. One of their tools is to repeatedly claim that it never happened until the Liberals, or anyone else supporting a prosperous working class, starts talking about it. Then they blame the talkers for what they have been doing all along. They do not want their victims to get out of the Denial stage.
What working and small business class people have to do is realize they are being robbed and figure out a way to elect people to represent them, not the big campaign contributors or the corporate corrupters in Washington DC. That will be a very difficult thing to do unless we accidently elect a Theodore Roosevelt.
You guys are funny. We've been having class warfare since the beginning of classes. Which is basically the beginning of civilization. lol. Basically its a war between the Greedy and Envious when it comes down to it. I'll let you figure out who's who. Also this isn't a Democrat Rebublican thing. That is just a mask to the reality.
Sorry I just don't see it that way. All he's really asked to set the highest tax rate back to where it was under the Clinton administration.
On the other hand it's the Republicans that want cut Head Start, cut Pell Grants, cut Food Stamps at a time when more Americans need them and other programs. These programs form only a small part of the federal budget yet the Republicans never mention any serious cuts to defense spending. At the same time they are pushing for MORE tax cuts for the highest income earners and corporations.
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