Posted on 08/22/2010 11:52:59 AM PDT by Cardhu
How about them political elites, huh? Five million bucks for Chelsea Clinton's wedding, 15K just to rent the air-conditioned shitters -- huge chrome and glass babies with hot water and everything. No gas masks and waxy little squares of toilet paper for those guys.
Yes, it looks big time from the cheap seats. But the truth is that when we are looking at the political elite, we are looking at the dancing monkey, not the organ grinder who calls the tune. Washington's political class is about as upwardly removed from ordinary citizens as the ruling class is from the political class. For instance, they do not work for a living in the normal sense of a job, but rather obtain their income from abstractions such as investment and law, neither of which ever gave anybody a hernia or carpal tunnel. By comparison, the ruling class does not work at all.
Moneywise, Washington's political class is richer than the working class by the same orders of magnitude as the ruling class is richer than the political class. This gives the political class something to aim for. To that end, they have adopted the ruling elite's behaviors, tastes and lifestyles, with an eye on becoming members. Moreover, it is a molting process that begins with the right university and connections, and culminates in flying off to Washington with the rest of your generation's most privileged and ambitious young moths.
They make enough dough to at least fake it until they make it. Fifty-one of the 100 members of the US Senate are at the very least millionaires -- probably more than that, since multi-million million dollar residences and estates are exempt from the official tally.
(Excerpt) Read more at joebageant.com ...
I hate it when the peasants mouth off like this. They really should remember their place </sarc>
Sounds like a pinko to me — the pointless vulgarity is usually a tip-off.
There’s radical liberal elites - and the borderline criminal underclass that keeps them in power.
Then there’s conservatives workers ...
The next time a lib tells whines about wealth-inequality and that we need to raise taxes on the rich, you can point out how their love of Big-Gov't caused exactly the thing they hate most.
And I was totally sure that they used only one square per visit. Silly me...
Looking at reality isn't pinko, I wouldn't change the system; I will acknowledge it's shortcomings.
“Meaning everybody in his class, the educated liberal class. Hard to believe their predecessors were the point men and women for the Scopes trial, the eight-hour day, unions, anti-McCarthyism, Cesar Chavez, Negro civil rights.”
I have trouble with this part of his article. Is he giving liberals credit for these? Is he being sarcastic?
I know this man - he used to live in the same town in Virginia. He is a super-ultra liberal. A group of us used to hang out at the local pub and talk politics until I couldn’t stand it anymore.
Arrrgh! he has found his to Free Republic.
Sorry - forgot the word “way”.
He’s a whiney pinko mouth from Winchester, VA with an axe to grind and apparently a failure in just about everything he’s tried.
He hates suburbanites, the DC metro in particular, worships the poor in foreign countries as authentic, and just WHINES about everything.
If you think "Big-Govt" wasn't created of by and for the extremely wealthy, you don't know your history.
And I hope and pray that I can witness the “ruling class” folks receive the same end as did those who formerly ruled during the French Revolution.
Really...death is actually a just end for these folks ...given what they are knowingly doing to us.
Coolest head shop I have ever been in was in Winchester. Coincidence?
Here’s a great line. Actually, two.
“Side effects of Risperidone include a mild speed like buzz, a super erection lasting hours, lactation and suicidal tendencies. Phew!”
Just what America needs. Give it free to all of the Queer Nation crowd. They will like the “mild speed like buzz”, will they certainly appreciate (and unquestionably find socially unacceptable uses for). The “super erections lasting hours”, will be popular, by definition. And, the trans-gendered and most of the rest of Queer Nation will find perverse uses for the drug induced lactation.
For the rest of America, the “suicidal tendencies” part of Risperidone holds out some hope of eventual societal relief.
Big Pharma may become popular again.
;-)
Please forgive the typos. Afternoon coffee needed.
Ditto! Leftist...Big time...a hate filled and profane parasite who talks like a defeatist and falls flat on his big fat liberal butt.
A French Revolution rerun may actually happen in the next few years and Leftist parasites like the author above may have their heads on the chopping block first.
I am a populist in the sense of believing the rich will always get richer and dump on the little guys, but I differ in that I know that attempting to remedy these inequities by means of government only makes them worse. Big money and big government are certainly bed mates.
The only thing that gives the little guy hope of having a good life is freedom, the rule of law, and property rights.
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