The LCLI (Liberal Cost of Living Increase)

NRSC email ^ | August 7, 2006 | Mark Stephens

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...Something we already know?

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[potlatch]

Reid's excited!!

[Iris7]

Heavy inflation now showing in raw materials. It has been building for some time. Oil is just one example.

Raw material inflation (according to Austrian School economic theory) is the final step before retail inflation. Seems likely to me, though the future is of course unknowable -

If this comes to pass I don't think income will remotely keep pace. Too much to the American "Liberal" advantage.

I am hearing increasingly Marxist talk amongst blue collar workers. Such people are sure that the high oil prices are caused by the rich and the rich people's President and the rich people's Republican Congress. The tremendous influx of south of the border types is caused by the Republicans intending to subjugate "everyday Americans", you know, "the working class", and reduce "us all" to day laborers, that is, to a "proletariat".

The Left project is to obliterate the middle class. "Bourgeois" ideas, culture, and politics must be destroyed, don't you know. "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" here we come.

I think more likely than 2nd, 3rd, and 4rth International type Marxism - Leninism is what Leninists call "fascism", that is, "socialism in one country." Mussolini followed by Hitler, that is.

[ntnychik]

It looks like Harry is even picking Leaky Leahy's pocket!

[dufekin]

The "logic 101" course offers nothing more than a simple example of transitivity. The problem with this logic unfolds because most Americans polled (usually restricted to current and recent employees of The New York Times because the unfolding severe economic crisis there renders broader polling utterly unaffordable) deeply desire to pay personally more taxes. Even those enormous hordes of former Times employees now destitute and starving in the streets throughout America still strongly embrace liberalism and blame their sorry state on President Bush. According to C-BS, these surveys accurately represent a cross-section of American public opinion (outside Oklahoma, a bubble of prosperity in a sea of depression).

On a more serious note, the "liberal cost of living increase" extends far beyond increased individual taxation to a socialistic regulatory burden that prevents companies that produce goods and services from adapting easily to changing times, increasing efficiency, and lowering their costs of doing business. Government-inflicted regulations and corporate and other business taxes (and "fees," a euphemism applied to certain random "taxes") cost companies more money to produce each unit of consumable goods and services. Companies then must either pass the economic burden to consumers in the form of higher prices; force their employees to bear the cost in the form of depressed wages and declining benefits; lose profitability and cause investors (often widows, orphans, and other ordinary people, not the tax-avoiding super-rich Massachusetts senator caste) to lose money; or capitulate to relatively unregulated Chinese slave-labor competitors.

Our economy simply cannot withstand significantly increased regulatory burdens that liberals would inflict upon it. If you really want to see the Great Depression unfold again before your eyes, elect liberals. The annals of history show that Herbert Hoover vastly increased government spending (with or without increasing taxes), turning a sharp market panic into a decade-long depression. A prosperous economy would result from a lessened regulatory burden on companies that produce actual goods and services for domestic or foreign consumption, lower taxes, and fewer trial lawyer parasites. Liberal socialist economics results in only inefficiency, stagflation, idiocy, malaise, melancholy, and misery--the yearning desires of any honest Democrat.

[potlatch]

LOL, you are the very first one to notice that!!

[Petruchio]

Dear NRSC,

When you close the Borders, I will think about donations. Until then . . . Kiss my backside!!!

[Smartass]

I apologize Seadog...I miss posted this on
another thread.   It was intended for here!
I'm putting my flame proof suit on and
calling it quits for tonight!

and the Democrats

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[devolve]

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[potlatch]

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[potlatch]

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LOL. All you need now is Tiny Tommy Daschle popping up from the bottom of the frame along with some reference to Tommy's 'comeback plan', so we can all see what Hazardous Harry is so 'exercised' about.

[potlatch]

Tommy is kindof tied up right now!!

[devolve]

Cannot stump you on a graphic

Rush used to have a great parody on his show after he lost his Senate seat and leadership position:

"This is the Tom Dasche Show"

"Anyone can call in now...."

"I'll be right back - I have to..."

(interlude music here)

"....All right! I'm Tom Daschle and this is the Tom Daschle Show!"

[potlatch]

Good thing I hang on to some of those old ones!!

Wonder what Tommy is doing now, probably making big bucks somewhere!

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RE: "I am hearing increasingly Marxist talk amongst blue collar workers."

Yes.   I believe others, particularly in California, may have noticed the same thing...

[driftless2]

Liberals are already costing average Americans billions by their failure to allow drilling in ANWR and other places. The lack of more oil on the market means higher prices at the pump. The next time some Dem or lib wails about the high price of gas, tell them to blame their own elected Dem leaders who continually vote down oil exploration and drilling.