You simply don't understand conservative philosophy: I've got mine, fuck everybody else.
Posted by gay veteran at January 31, 2009 02:04 PMGV sums it up very succintly. The fascists who in reality run our country and control our economy are both too stupid and greedy to "allow" "their" wealth to be used for the collective good..dontcha recognize the dreaded socialism when you see it?
Posted by headxray at January 31, 2009 03:33 PMSee anus onar above..
Posted by headxray at January 31, 2009 03:35 PMBush gave it to the haves and have mores - and look where we ended up. Educate and get a job for the guy at the bottom and the guy at the top benefits - every time.
Posted by jmac at January 31, 2009 09:42 PM"Another cause of long-term unemployment is unionization. High union wages that exceed the competitive market rate are likely to cause job losses in the unionized sector of the economy. Also, those who lose high-wage union jobs are often reluctant to accept alternative low-wage employment. Between 1970 and 1985, for example, a state with a 20 percent unionization rate, approximately the average for the fifty states and the District of Columbia, experienced an unemployment rate that was 1.2 percentage points higher than that of a hypothetical state that had no unions."
Posted by Muck at January 31, 2009 10:51 PMThe GOP, the whole right wing noise machine, and certainly the economists and Wall Streeters are simply traitors - who all rabidly supported their 21st Century King George. Ego, selfishness and hate is all they know. We know they would rather have children, mothers, families die horrible lingering deaths because they can not afford health care. So of course they are all for turning minorities and the poor --and now the middle class-- into a permanet second-class, the new serfdom of those who can't get credit, or a mortgage and can't find a high paying job.
Remember that with great gusto the Republicans and economists carefully designed our current system of out of control banks, multi-national corporations that pay no taxes, and all jobs paying shit wages that won't feed and house one person, let a alone a family.
Only little people pay taxes now. I think that was the reason for a revolution around 1775 or so... Wasn't it?
"It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy."
Rush and the rest of the far-right do not believe in the common good, or the rights of all. Which are more reasons why are they are, simply, what our Founding Fathers would call 'tories', that is, traitors to our country.
"Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds."
Posted by Tom The Patriot at February 1, 2009 09:07 AM