What Did Senator-elect Jim Webb Mean?

American Thinker ^ | 12/5/2006 | Christopher Chantrill

[Luis Gonzalez]

Christopher Chantrill is a frequent contributor to American Thinker, and blogs here . His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

[FreeReign]

Great article. Too bad few will read it.

Nowadays, the AP and NY Times seems to have become the choice reading of more than a few Freepers.

[marktwain]

Nice summation.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

steady drift toward a class-based system,

One example is that we have the ruling (government) class and then the "little people." Government employees, on average, make more than private sector employees and have better benefits - all by taking our income from us.

Try standing up to the ruling class and their wrong doings and you end up bankrupt before it's through. Again, they simply spend your income that they take from you.

[bvw]

"Too few will read it." Only 15% can. At least according to the article, a figure which seems awfully suspect to me.

[Leroy S. Mort]

We private-sector workers, fully exposed to the risks of globalization and outsourcing, earn a lot less than tenured, sheltered, Democrat-voting government workers. Where's the fairness in that?

Their ultimate goal is to make EVERYONE a government worker, comrade.

[DTogo]

How many Democrat Senators know what it means to struggle or work for a living: Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller??

[KevinDavis]

Workers Of The World Unite!!!!

[o_zarkman44]

Class warfare. Rich people make too much money. Poor people are being deprived of opportunity because the rich people own everything.

Name brand politicians. Elite political families passing on the torch of government service to their children, who are being bred as the ruling class.

So we have the classes of Midevial times.

Royalty. Serfs. Landlords. peasants

Peasants do the menial tasks and farm work. Landlords own the land, or at least control the land on behalf of the serfs. And royalty helps themselves to the best of everything while supervising from the ivory tower.

The democrats champion class warfare. This is a page right out of socialist training guides.

[KevinDavis]

The sad part is that a lot of people here buy this crap....

[fieldmarshaldj]

Racist, Anti-Semite, Pedophilia Author, Short-Fused, Socialist. Congrats, Virginia, you got yourself a Senate Moonbat.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Oh... I didn't even see this last paragraph. He covered what I said...

Right now, according to Steve Malanga , the average state-and-local-government worker gets paid about 40 percent more than a comparable worker in the private sector. We private-sector workers, fully exposed to the risks of globalization and outsourcing, earn a lot less than tenured, sheltered, Democrat-voting government workers. Where's the fairness in that?

[sageb1]

Have you been to DU lately?

[ClaireSolt]

The two most important characteristics of American society are social mobility and classlessness. Don't confuse income level with clas. Classes are set in stone, usually legally. People are born and die in classes. Look around. Some of the richest Americans came from modest homes.

Jim Webb is just part of what I call the self-appointed elite. They are really delusional, as politicians and media types are the least admired people.

[ChiMark]

Leave it to a Democrat lefty to tell us how horrible is the free-market. Mr. Webb would love to put the top bracket back to 85% undo everything Ronald Reagan did. The truth never penetrates the dense Democrat/socialist mindset.

The only reason gooberment workers get paid more is that the
thieves called politicians steal from the prosperous
private sector.

Jim Webb going backwards to the 1930's
Thank you Virginia!

[Cathy]

Jeez - that is the truth. Webb is not only a moonbat but an incredible Ass.

[KevinDavis]

How dare you critize a man who once worked under Ronald Reagan.. /s

[DarthVader]

"They are really delusional, as politicians and media types are the least admired people."

They are absolute scum and have a special place in hell reserved for them.

[NeoCaveman]

Racist, Anti-Semite, Pedophilia Author, Short-Fused, Socialist. Congrats, Virginia, you got yourself a Senate Moonbat.

That's worth repeating.

[Hawk1976]

I think that what happens when the upper levels of a society become so insulated from anything that is negative or harmful to society as a whole should be considered. Historically, that has been very bad for those societies where this has occurred. The rich don't care about wars they will profit from. The rich don't care when citizens lose jobs to factories closing or job displacement caused by importation of cheaper workers. The rich really don't care about public education, it doesn't really matter to them. They also tend to think any barbarian can be bought off, never realizing the dangers of a new Alaric emerging from the barabarians.

At the height of their empire, Rome had a very small, extremely wealthy and powerful elite, a small hard pressed middle class, and a very large percentage of the population who were either slaves or fared no better than slaves. We are not the Romans, so the question is how do we avoid the failures of the Romans? That is if they can be avoided.