Plantation owners take it seriously when the slaves try to escape.
Rahm Emanuel has to swim in the same sewer he helped create. Chicago is headed to the same place Detroit and other liberal enclaves are at....they have run out of other peoples money. Union thugs and corrupt politicians have stolen their present and their futures. This is the reality of the liberal promise. The cause is not just the corrupt pols and union thugs but the class of voter that expects something for nothing....they are known as democrats!!!
—— Imposing regressive taxes which disproportionately fall on low-income families——
Such a politician is a regressionist. I’m a regressionist. I think the poor should be taxed more.
“Director’s Law says democracies tend to take from the rich and the poor and give to the middle class.”
Unless the middle class is referred to more and more as “The rich” by today’s left.
Funny - it looks like they don’t think Rahm is Leftist enough. If these folks were at Jonestown, they would be mixing their own Kool-Aid....
.....economist Aaron Director pointed out years ago that democracies tend to take from the rich and the poor and give to the middle class.....
REALITY CHECK Democrats brag about their tolerance and compassion and the high-sounding progressive remedy of "redistributing wealth".....
But history tells us they are not averse to making themselves wealthy in the process---taking most of it off the top for themselves.....
Whatever meager crumbs are left, Democrats make a big show of their "tolerance and compassion" for the less fortunate.
One would think that the "urban poor" would side with Emmanuel and demand better education even if it meant raking over the featherbedding and incompetence-coddling teachers' unions.
The poor apparently value the unions as exponents of syndicalism and the right to organize against The Man, even if the unions have also failed to protect basic competence among their members. Somehow, the syndicalists have to overcome knee-jerk abreaction to proper demands by school boards that teachers perform to a standard. Unions need to stop extending syndical protection to failure cases.
The current crop of NEA and AFT teachers' unions won't discipline or weed out these godawful teachers we hear about, the ones organizing cheating on State-mandated student competency tests like Texas's TAAS/TAKS and its successors and resisting teacher-testing as a way around seniority arrangements that have failed to deliver for students.
That would be poor and minority students, by the way, who are trying to work their way up into the lower middle class.
SOURCE: cnn.com
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And let's not forget---Dem stronghold Illinois just elected (horrors) a REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR......
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Mayor Rahm "raised" and spent zillions of campaign monies.
BACKSTORY Since leaving the White House as President Obama’s chief of staff in 2010 to run for mayor the first time around, Emanuel (cough) raised about $30 million..... $15 million alone for this election-----an eye-popping four times as much as the total of his four challengers combined. Emanuel is spending freely, nearly $7 million to monopolize the airwaves with ads.
Rahm ran 4,600 TV ads since Nov.......while his opponents are nearly invisible.
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THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD shortly after quitting his powerful WH job as Obama's COS, Rahm held a presser declaring he "just remembered" he really, Really wanted to be Mayor of Chicago. Then Rahm announced he had magically "raised" $30 million for his campaign in "just a matter of weeks." (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down).
Ya gotta wonder how much the cunning onetime Wall Streeter wired offshore when Obama put Rahm--in a dual role---as his COS....... AND in charge of the entire US Treasury.
Taking from the rich mainly means taxes. But what does it mean to take from the poor and give to the middle class? It means five things:
1). Closing off job opportunities in order to protect the employment of solidly middle class workers from competition from people who would like to make it into the middle class.
2). Closing off education opportunities in deference to middle class teacher’s unions.
3). Closing off access to the marketplace for such essential services as housing, transportation, and medical care – again for the purpose of protecting entrenched (middle class) special interests.
4). Imposing regressive taxes which disproportionately fall on low-income families in order to fund services for people who are definitely not poor.
5). Catering to the bureaucracies that administer what we loosely call the “welfare state,” rather than looking out for the people who are supposed to be helped.
From my point of view it’s the middle class that gets shafted nearly every time. Too poor and working their butts off to make enough money to live on as well as pay their exorbitant taxes on everything associated with making an income as well as having a domicile and the ‘services’ to run it.
The ‘Rich’ are also heavily taxed too, don’t get me wrong there. But they can afford accountants to reduce their tax load and they have the ‘Leisure time’ to get involved in every cause they like as well as running for political office.
Best of all once in Political office or in a Non Governmental Agency/Association they are in the position to do ‘good’ things for those who aren’t in their position. Mostly that takes money though. They’ve got theirs and they want to keep it. The poor have time to scream and yell for more and aren’t afraid of being destructive to show they mean it.
The Middle class is worked to death, to tired to complain and have no time or energy to devote to causes and politics. Guess who gets shafted from both ends of the financial spectrum?
Look around you today... Do you see a vibrant middle class?
Me neither.
Chicago’s in an interesting dilemnma - it’s likely to go all Detroit on us no matter who wins, it’s largely a matter of timing and how broadly the pain will be spread around.
Most people hate Emanuel for the arrogant POS he is and he woulld be as dead as the fish he sends out to his opponents if it weren’t for the Machine and for his connections with the rich and powerful. He’s got so much campaign money the broadcast channels are almost non-stop with commercials that try to humanize him (with little success). But he is competent in a slimy sort of way, and with his buddy Rauner in the governor’s office, could probably keep the city on life-support until he tries to move on to the next target of his voracious ambition, which would probably be national in scope. My personal hope is that he dies a slow and lingering death at the polls.
His opponent Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is a hopeless lib on the scale of that moron who runs New York City (my favorite comment on a local blog: “Rahm is so bad that this Jew (the poster) is going to vote for Jesus”). With Chuy the slide into bankruptcy is likely to accelerate, as one can expect him to double-down on all the progressive idiocy that destroyed the city in the first place. But he had enough sense to promise to eliminate red light cameras the day he takes office, and that will win him a bunch of votes - but only among the living. Plus he’ll win Hispanics, some of whom may even be eligible to vote - but even that may not be enough.
On the plus side, popcorn sales are up.
Of course, obama has no intention of ever DOING anything to help the middle class or any other class, for that matter. Crushing the middle class is as necessary for obama's agenda as it was for Stalin's.
As for Emanuel, he reminds me of McGovern when McGovern bought into that hotel years ago his group wanted to renovate. They ran face first into a regulatory blockade he created. His only comment was, "Maybe we went a bit too far."
He didn't speak in reality, that is, "Liberal policies will always do much more harm than good and will fulfill the plan of keeping, so called, beneficiaries exactly where they belong because they trusted us."