Posted on 09/23/2011 8:44:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not yet. Marie Antoinette looked fine, too, just before they cut her head off.
The only thing in American politics that might be described as a social contract is the Constitution itself, and it says nothing about redistribution of wealth in pursuit of social justice.
There is real class warfare going on, but it isn't focused on "the wealthy", it's focused on the middle class, because it is the middle class that is the repository of political liberty. Marx hated and despised the petit bourgeoisie as an impediment to revolution, which it is. It is also an impediment to the sort of authoritarian control the Dems are now trying to sell as populism.
"The wealthy" don't really have anything to be worried about short of the return of the Dr. Guillotine. They have resources necessary to protect both their wealth and their persons. It is the middle class that is milked in every scheme ever devised by greedy redistributionists and it is the middle class that will be milked here. That's where the real money is.
But for Krugman to pretend that this public relations campaign centered around the hoary old claim that "the wealthy aren't paying their share" is somehow not class warfare is blatantly and profoundly dishonest. It is the very definition of class warfare. It is the common resort of an oppressive government to distract its citizens from the obvious results of its own corruption and incompetence. The good news, if there is any, is that it is likely to be as corrupt and incompetent at this as it is at everything else.
Good!
You mistakenly assume that a Nobel Prize has any meaning beyond political agreement with the people who award Nobel Prizes.
Only one question. Why on earth would anyone who even remotely professes to be a conservative give one hoot in hell about anything Paul Krugman might say about anything?
In the liberal telling, “social contract” means that no matter what the people want or need, it is liberalism they will get. Nevertheless, there is a genuine American social contract: freedom and self-government under the Constitution.
The Social Contract? When was that convention... 1776?
All I know is the Constitution and Bill of Rights and the left doesn’t respect that.
You mean like when government hands out cash to Solyndra and GM?
Of course he doesn't mean that
Yes, exactly. They complain that policy favors the wealthy yet THEY are the ones doling out large sums of cash to banks, large corporations and whatnot.
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