WHAT THE OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTEST IS REALLY ABOUT
Posted on 10/18/2011 6:47:01 AM PDT by PENANCE
Cantor: Republicans agree there is 'too much income disparity' By Julian Pecquet - 10/16/11 11:15 AM ET
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said repeatedly Sunday that Republicans agree that too few people control too much wealth in America.
"We know in this country right now that there is a complaint about folks at the top end of the income scales, that they make too much and too many don't make enough," Cantor said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, toning down his earlier criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
"We need to encourage folks at the top of the income scale to actually put their money their work to create more jobs so we can see a closing of the gap," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
No. It means the GOP is still run by a bunch of Inside the Beltway tools.
I live in a company town. The one or two remaining families who are owners of factories, are not Liberal.
They support the community and struggle to keep their doors open. Without them, there are NO paychecks in this town.
Without them, MANY local charities would be finished.
These people are not Liberal, have NEVER supported our enemies and do not HATE America.
They are the ones I know personally. I can’t speak for the rest.
I live in a company town. The one or two remaining families who are owners of factories, are not Liberal.
They support the community and struggle to keep their doors open. Without them, there are NO paychecks in this town.
Without them, MANY local charities would be finished.
These people are not Liberal, have NEVER supported our enemies and do not HATE America.
They are the ones I know personally. I can’t speak for the rest.
Ding, ding, ding!
“We simply have to stop fearing these progressives/marxists and call them for what they are...and what history proves them to be...destroyers of freedom and wealth for the individual, and tyrants who garner power and wealth to themselves to administer as they please.”
Hi Jeff: I love your posts..have saved this one to give to my Lib friend who berates me for not giving enough to the poor(saps who are sitting in their mother’s basement watching TV with oatmeal dribbling down their tee shirts, ala Mark Levin :-)
Actually, we hardly speak anymore. I can’t take her mindless rants and demonization of the “haves’ (the top 10% who pay 70% of the income tax revenues).
Speaking of Levin, he spoke passionately yesterday(naturally!) about how America has HAD it with the Left! And how with our concerted and focused efforts next year, we are going to capture not just the presidency but the Senate and other vital Congressional races as well.
It’s a reminder that we need to concentrate our efforts locally in ‘12 to make sure CONSERVATIVES are elected to office nationwide in a landslide.
Keep it up protestors!
Your outrageous behavior=We the People Take Back Our Country.
If you live in a company town you should understand the problems with concentrating wealth.
I don’t care about any individuals absolute wealth. I care about the trend towards more and more concentration of wealth.
This is as much a legitimate concern of the right as it is the left (though our solutions are polar opposites). We shouldn’t be played for saps by the wealthy statist elites.
Cantor is advocating free market capitalism as the best mechanism to help the poor. This should be one of our core messages. Wealth creation creates wealth for all. Grow the pie.
This is pretty basic stuff. No conservative should be taken to task for saying any of it.
The very title of this thread contains a lie. Cantor did not say that there is too much income disparity. The headline puts a quote into his mouth that he did not say.
Does this mean that the Republican Whip is a communist?
Not at all. Cantor isn't calling for the rich to GIVE UP their wealth to the non-rich. He's suggesting that they INVEST in ways that will create jobs for those who are non-rich so they will have the opportunity to create their OWN wealth.
I hope Cantor and the Republicans beat the drum that it is government regulations that make it difficult, if not impossible, for wealthy individuals to do that, right now. Those regulations need to be altered or abolished in order to make it possible for wealthy people to use their money to create the opportunities for jobs.
Good catch. It is NOT income disparity, it is the accumulation of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.
And it is a problem. if the left stands alone recognizing this as a problem then it also stands alone suggesting “solutions” which include more and more of what is causing the accumulation - big socialist government.
The right needs to admit there is a problem so they can be part of the solution - limited constitutional government and minimal regulations.
What an idiot. He would do better to point out all the rich democrats and their hypocrisy. Running a corpoartion vs. hitting a ball with a stick or acting in a crappy Hollywood movie, etc.
The class of people that are most handcuffed these days are the ambitious non-rich who have the hunger and drive to create wealth. The elite-rich sense this as a threat and are adept at using the levers of state power to keep them down.
Our focus shouldn’t be on “helping” the poor but on freeing this class.
“Where does he get the idea that most Republicans agree?”
>>You really need to consider the possibility that he is correct. Certainly the results of the nominating process in 48,52,56,60,68,72,76,88,92,96,00,04, and 08 suggest that he is.<<
Of course he is correct. If you narrowly define what constitutes a Republican, like any trained lawyer does, his statement is most assuredly true, hence the results you pointed out.
As far as whether there is too much “income disparity” right now, with all this unemployment and the masters-of-the-universe being saved from bankruptcy back in 2008, and not sharing the effects themselves of the business recession their bad decisions brought on, perhaps most of those Repblicans do feel that there is too much “income disparity” right now.
Folks, there *are* problems with Wall Street (insider trading, pump and dump, etc.). Just as there are problems with health care insurance.
Obamacare was exactly the wrong “solution” to the problems with health care insurance, and the “occupy Wall Street” crowd has the wrong solutions to the Wall Street problems.
But that doesn’t mean there are no problems. And if the Republicans go around denying any problems, they will just be shooting themselves in the foot.
The problem is not the wealth of the few--although some of those few have gotten away with some questionable means to get as well off as they are. The problem, however, is in precisely what your "solution" addresses. We have not been allowing the free society that brought America to the peak of human success, to continue to work.
We need to get Government off of the back of the productive citizens; and out of the practice of subsidizing the wrong paths that lead to abject failure on the part of a growing dependent class.
The ideal is a population that saves, that invests; a population with family resources to weather hard times, and build on a capital base, when times improve. In short, we need to get back to the America that worked so very well before World War I, and the advent of massive bureaucratic encroachment.
We need to recognize that our problems result from political confusion. See Social Reform: Confusion Or "Unintended Consequences?".
William Flax
I agree. Of course, if the poor get helped along the way, I hope that will not be too much of a problem...
I thought he said Republicans agree there is a complaint that there is 'too much income disparity'.
Big difference.
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