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For Boston Globe, 'American Dream' = More Big Government
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 07/24/2006 6:34:33 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
07/24/2006 6:35:07 AM PDT
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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posted on
07/24/2006 6:38:29 AM PDT
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governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The senior editors and staff of the Boston Globe live in Chestnut Hill and Weston,among the $3 million "bungalows" and summer on Martha's Vineyard along side the Kerrys,the Clintons and the Cronkites.
What could they *possibly* know about *achieving* the American Dream,as opposed to having it handed to them by Mommy's and Daddy's trust fund?
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But from 1968 to 1998, income inequality increased." Gosh, that just happens to coincide with the implementation of indentured constituency: the programs of the Great Society.
So what doth the Globe recommend? More of the same!
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posted on
07/24/2006 6:41:06 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(Islam offers three choices: fight, submit, or die.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Perhaps the Globe should put its capitalist money where its mouth is and distribute its paper for free...
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Here's a link to the Globe editorial. Read it if you dare! I'm already stupider just reading the synopsis!
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posted on
07/24/2006 6:44:04 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Watch out. these income inequality figures are directly controlled by government programs. It is those who live on the government programs who are at the bottom of the heap. I know old women living on $450/mo Social Security and some welfare payments are less. That has nothing to do with capitalism, and it is going to get a lot worse as baby boomers retire. Average Social Security is $1000/mo and ave senior income is $15,000/yr vs ave sal of $43,000. Yet Dem's won't fix the kink in the system that leaves $25% of elderly women very poor. They woiuld rather demagogue the issue with pilgrimages to a statue of FDR.
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posted on
07/24/2006 6:46:10 AM PDT
by
ClaireSolt
(.)
To: gridlock
LOL. You might want to read a couple National Review editorials or the like as a quick antidote ;-)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The resulting blueprint for change could be a simple idea -- such as put children first. The goal is to pull the American Dream back within reach in seven areas: housing, employment, diversity, justice, access to technology, education, and healthcare. I think this guy has The American Dream confused with The Canadian Dream. If this is your dream, buddy, hop in your car and drive North. When you start seeing more moose than people, stop. But if you're going to stay here, keep your hand out of my pocket!
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07/24/2006 6:48:49 AM PDT
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gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
To: gridlock
"I think this guy has The American Dream confused with The Canadian Dream." LOL - too true!
To: governsleastgovernsbest
while the income of regular folks stagnated." Just who are these "regular folk" that they're talking about?
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07/24/2006 7:03:08 AM PDT
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Lou L
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The Boston Globe's version of the American Dream translates to "middle class lifestyles for working class intellects/skill-sets" - something that was briefly possible in the wake of WWII with the rise of American industry, but was mistakenly accepted as the new norm (and as their just due) by unions and New Deal leftists. Now the Left is willing to spend any amount of government money necessary to get back to those halcyon days...when the only thing likely to create them again would be for the USA to fight and win WWIII (or WWIV, if you prefer). Redistributing wealth to accomplish those goals has already proven to be a total failure over the last forty years.
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:12:13 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: ClaireSolt
"They woiuld rather demagogue the issue with pilgrimages to a statue of FDR."
Yep. FDR = patron saint of American socialism.
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:20:33 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Taglines for sale or rent. Good "one liners", 50 cents.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Come out of the closet Democrats. Just admit it. You are European style Socialists in everything but name
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:22:03 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Democrat "Logic": Kill the innocent/save the guilty)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
To: Lancey Howard
Thanks as always, Lancey! The editorial really does provide a good insight into the liberal mentality, doesn't it? They basically don't believe people can accomplish much without government.
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By the way, I presume this Globe editorial is simply part of its effort to help the Democrats unveil their
American Dream initiative?
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P.S., By the way, I love the ending of the editorial where the Globe bats its eyes at communism:
It is not actually a matter of recovering a dream, but of restoring the reality of shared American prosperity.
Equally "shared", I'm sure - - you know, "From each according to his means to each...", etc.
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