Posted on 02/08/2009 9:41:39 AM PST by Steelfish
Why There Won’t Be a Revolution
Americans might get angry sometimes, but we don't hate the rich. We prefer to laugh at them.
The poor you will always have, the good book says, but as for the rich man, he will wither away like a delicate flower in the midday sun.
The first prediction has certainly been borne out, but the second part (James 1:11) had not yet come to pass by the Panic of 1907, when Theodore Roosevelt warned of a coming reckoning against the "malefactors of great wealth."
Nor by 1990, when former Nixon aide Kevin Phillips predicted that Americans would rise to extract revenge on "the rich who got the benefits of the go-go years" of the 1980s.
As late as 2001, no less an authority than, uh, NEWSWEEK wrote in the wake of 9/11 that "the arrogant wheeler-dealer ordering a $600 bottle of wine with dinner … has vanished utterly as an icon," which remained true until approximately 2002.
Well, listen up, you rich guys, this time we really mean it. The president himself is repelled by your rapacious greed, your kids are ashamed to admit that their mom is a banker, even your girlfriends are sick of your whining about your bonus, and you're going to have to learn to live on $500,000 a year like a normal person.
Oh, and by the way, nice watch. Is it Cartier?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Previously posted February 7, 2009
I found it with title search.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180728/posts
If there is a revolution,it won’t be the rich people that Americans will be after.There are much more deserving targets out there.
It’s not the rich that will be the target of any American Revolution. It will be the usurpers and commissars. It will be against those domestic enemies who violate the most basic and well understood terms of the Constitution.
Not a revolution, but they may have to remove some stars from the flag...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2180357/posts
Yeah, but now America has open borders and we no longer teach Americanism in the public schools.
2008/11/05/former-russian-kgb-agent-explains-how-a-marxist-like-obama-could-win-the-election/
Just ask Yuri Bezmenov.
I agree, but I'd approach it differently. Instead of secession, how about expulsion for the deadbeat states?
“we don’t hate the rich.”
Oh, they are talking about a Marxist revolution again. I don’t think that is the kind of revolution they should be worried about. More likely, it will be an anti-Marxist revolution. Chop off a few politicians heads, as in the French Revolution. Since the Marxists are now in control, they will be on the losing side.
It will be the bureaucrats and liberals I’ll be after.
Of course, the ones who will be subject to the Progressive Reckoning will be those of us like "Joe the Plumber". Refer to Cambodia, 1975, if you want the game plan.
IMHO, the gray panthers and WWII babies a/k/a/ “Baby Boomers” aren't going to let socialism happen to their children and grandchildren.
Upper, middle or lower income folks our age remember what the USA stood for and I believe will fight for the rights to save America as we knew it growing up and growing old.
That is rich, you think the rich would live how long if there were no police to protect them. We do have about 30 million illegals in Americans?? Actually, I wonder all the time about the fools that build out in the country in their Mini Mansions, should just hang a sign out and say come and rob me.
I agree.
I wonder what will set things off.
'Rich' or 'Fabulously Wealthy'. There are many 'rich' conservatives.
All 'Fabulously Wealthy' people are koolaid drinkers and/or raving moonbats.
Which states do you have in mind?
Likewise, there an awful lot of them that are only concerned with their medical benefits and their "government entitlement" pensions (SS) and what happens to them versus the real cost of how these benefits will come to be and at what cost to their progeny.
You’re counting on the Baby Boomers to save America from socialism? Tell me you’re kidding.
Oh the rich will have some real problems for sure.But it won’t be true Americans that pose a threat to them.The criminal class don’t deserve to be called Americans in my opinion.Those people will be doing the looting/murder.
If you are responsible to yourself, they have no impact on you and they can't tempt you with the wealth of others. They can't get you to be selfish, because you already take care of yourself. It's not 'rich' against poor; it's something much more insidious.
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