Fat and unhappy (Dems and Class Warfare)

The Orange County Register ^ | Steve Greenhut

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[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Is it guilt? Jealousy of those who may have more?

The American dream is the "rags to riches" story like John Edwards.

Democrats, however, especially very rich liberals, want to limit wealth to their liberal elite pals.

They can't stand conservative success - the bootstraps stories.

As the nation becomes a more successful ownership society, their constituency dwindles.

They promote dependency to retain power.

Much of the guilt derives from wealth without work in the Kennedy mold.

Their own self-loathing is transferred to all wealthy people.

It's a neurosis that needs a cure.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Why do so many Americans buy into the Class Warfare bull of the haves vs. have nots? There are far more haves than have nots, yet well over 40% (probably close to 50%) will vote for the Dem candidate November. Is it guilt? Jealousy of those who may have more?

A large percentage of people will always let their baser instincts work against their own interests. Being a "have" or a "have not" is mostly a state of mind, IMO. On paper, it would probably appear to most that I am a "have not". I make under 30K a year, I don't own any property, and I drive a modest sudan. But I'm content with my lot right now. I can afford to eat whatever I want, drink the beer I like, plenty of free time to persue my hobbies, no debt; the list could on and on. It may be necessary for me to make more money someday (I do have the option of going to work for relatives for significantly more money, or taking a job more befitting of my education) but I like my job and enjoy the life I have right now.

[Cicero]

The real problem, IMHO, is smarmy CEOs, trial lawyers, bankers, and other super-rich liberals who pay themselves a hundred times what they're worth by battening on the stockholders of major corporations and financial firms. I don't mean Bill Gates, who has earned his money with his brains and has built an innovative, world-class corporation out of nothing. I mean people like Carly Fiorina, who come along afterwards and suck the blood out of businesses that others have built.

Even this isn't as bad a problem as the socialists and their Great Society taxes. But it's galling. I suspect the great majority of these leaches are Democrats, but somehow they manage to blame the problem of the idle rich getting richer on the Republicans.

[FoxInSocks]

According to a recent study by the Heritage Foundation, 46 percent of the technically "poor" live in their own homes, most with more living space than the average person in Paris, London or Vienna. While 73 percent own at least one car, 30 percent own two or more, and 76 percent have air conditioning. Also, according to the study, 65 percent have a washing machine, 97 percent have a color TV and 78 percent have a DVD player or VCR.

Heard Glenn Beck mention this a few weeks ago.

The FoxNews article is here: http://www.foxmarketwire.com/story/0,2933,109386,00.html

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"...The ongoing grocery dispute centers on whether well-compensated, low-skill stockers and checkers (who earn as much as $50 an hour on weekends)

Is there any wonder that many companies and corporations have moved out of the country in order to make a profit for their stockholders? Who is responsible for such disparity among skilled and unskilled labor? Why go to school beyond the 10th grade if you can make $50.00 an hour doing unskilled labor? Nursing homes come immediately to mind where the skilled labor is hard to find due to the low wages...disparity...and where it is desperately needed. The unqualified labor among the federal bureaucrats that daily cost the taxpayer trillions in red rape and waste; but then making jobs is the name of the game regardless of how inefficiently the job is done. Unions are part of the over all problem of people moving else where to make a living.

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