I see that 30 years of GOP Reaganomics has only trickled down enough to fill the kids glass half way, and as usual the 1% have 99% of the cake and they’re still not happy.
Those who truly feel entitled are those who can and do demand much more fro the government than the poor. Yes, the rich who make the rules. They profit far more, yet the trickle down never happened. The more they take, and the less they pay in taxes, the worse things get for the country as a whole. They promised to create more jobs but instead took all that government money and kept it for themselves, sending jobs overseas to be done by slave labor not to be competitive but to have more money for themselves. What’s more, programs to help the poor actually get up on their feet – you know, education, government-created jobs…those have all been under constant attack by the right wing. What you really want is to cut off all help, concentrate the money further in the hands of an ever-shrinking pool of extremely rich, and let the poor live in the streets. Or die. You’d probably not care.
As long as Mitt Romney pays a lower tax rate than a Walmart worker (counting ALL taxes, not just income), the class war is still raging and the 1% is winning.
Well, first, I’m not a liberal. I have a lot of respect for my liberal friends, but I’m to the left of liberal. Second, I do believe in upward mobility, well, whatever that means…. That is, I believe that some people have been able to move up on the social ladder. My family is an example. All four of my grandparents were poor, and both my parents grew up on welfare. But they worked hard, they got good educations, they got good jobs, and we ended up in the middle-to-upper-middle class. But they never said, “Hey, we got ours, screw everybody else.” I’m all for hard work, and I’m all for education. But I don’t think that’s the whole story. There is also bad luck, and there is also an economy which frankly doesn’t provide good jobs for everyone willing to work. I don’t believe in equal outcomes, by the way, and I have no problem if some people are relatively well off. I’m not opposed to wealth, I’m opposed to poverty.
Ok, here’s how it works. Govt can’t create (an appreciable number of) jobs. We still have the same PERCENTAGE of poor as 50 years ago. What govt can do is allow businesses to operate with minimal govt interference.Why is this so hard to get? I don’t want some lame one-liner statistic or rebuttal; I’m just curious, why proceed down this road – making it even worse under Obama & the Democrats (example, even more unemployment beyond 99 weeks) – when we all know, poverty isn’t decreasing? And we keep hearing of people that work the system, staying just within the law…
PICTO over 10 years ago
I see that 30 years of GOP Reaganomics has only trickled down enough to fill the kids glass half way, and as usual the 1% have 99% of the cake and they’re still not happy.
cdward over 10 years ago
Those who truly feel entitled are those who can and do demand much more fro the government than the poor. Yes, the rich who make the rules. They profit far more, yet the trickle down never happened. The more they take, and the less they pay in taxes, the worse things get for the country as a whole. They promised to create more jobs but instead took all that government money and kept it for themselves, sending jobs overseas to be done by slave labor not to be competitive but to have more money for themselves. What’s more, programs to help the poor actually get up on their feet – you know, education, government-created jobs…those have all been under constant attack by the right wing. What you really want is to cut off all help, concentrate the money further in the hands of an ever-shrinking pool of extremely rich, and let the poor live in the streets. Or die. You’d probably not care.
lonecat over 10 years ago
You have to understand — in Doctor Warbucks’ dictionary “every thinking person” = Doctor Warbucks.
ARodney over 10 years ago
As long as Mitt Romney pays a lower tax rate than a Walmart worker (counting ALL taxes, not just income), the class war is still raging and the 1% is winning.
lonecat over 10 years ago
I don’t believe that the economy is a zero sum game, but sometimes it seems to be a zero for some game.
lonecat over 10 years ago
Well, first, I’m not a liberal. I have a lot of respect for my liberal friends, but I’m to the left of liberal. Second, I do believe in upward mobility, well, whatever that means…. That is, I believe that some people have been able to move up on the social ladder. My family is an example. All four of my grandparents were poor, and both my parents grew up on welfare. But they worked hard, they got good educations, they got good jobs, and we ended up in the middle-to-upper-middle class. But they never said, “Hey, we got ours, screw everybody else.” I’m all for hard work, and I’m all for education. But I don’t think that’s the whole story. There is also bad luck, and there is also an economy which frankly doesn’t provide good jobs for everyone willing to work. I don’t believe in equal outcomes, by the way, and I have no problem if some people are relatively well off. I’m not opposed to wealth, I’m opposed to poverty.
SClark55 Premium Member over 10 years ago
Ok, here’s how it works. Govt can’t create (an appreciable number of) jobs. We still have the same PERCENTAGE of poor as 50 years ago. What govt can do is allow businesses to operate with minimal govt interference.Why is this so hard to get? I don’t want some lame one-liner statistic or rebuttal; I’m just curious, why proceed down this road – making it even worse under Obama & the Democrats (example, even more unemployment beyond 99 weeks) – when we all know, poverty isn’t decreasing? And we keep hearing of people that work the system, staying just within the law…