Posted on 01/05/2014 5:54:42 AM PST by Innovative
As we head into the 2014 midterm elections, one thing is certain: Class warfare will be the campaign stage again — it is the only way this president knows how to win, by dividing and conquering — with the tea party, Main Street and businesses large and small cast as the villains.
Income inequity will be 2014's attack line for Obama and Democrats, this election cycle's class-warfare rhetoric. The first example is their pledge to rebuild the middle class with a minimum-wage increase.
Republicans always get pegged for their supposed fidelity to the rich and to Wall Street. But the irony is that income inequality between Wall Street and Main Street has flourished under Obama and the Democrats.
The true political story today is the disconnect between the interests of working-class Americans and the Democrats' devotion to the interests of certain extremely wealthy segments of society.
It will be a tough sell to harp about income inequality when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer under this administration.
Besides, such sloganeering sounds an awful lot like income redistribution.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The GOP would do well to do something about the over taxation and over regulation that kill and prevent job creation.
Related — the Dems are already starting:
50 Years Later, War on Poverty Is a Mixed Bag
“Programs like unemployment insurance and food stamps are keeping millions of families afloat. Republicans have sought to cut both programs, an illustration of the intense disagreement between the two political parties over the best solutions for bringing down the poverty rate as quickly as possible, or eliminating it. “
It’s all the fault of the Republicans that the “War on Poverty” didn’t work, we just have to take away all the money from “the evil rich” and turn the US into a communist paradise, like Cuba.
(If anyone can’t see this is sarcasm, they really have a comprehension problem... of course the Dems would read this as absolute truth...)
The RATS think that since this worked in getting that communist woman elected in Seattle WA, and also De Blasio in New York city, this will work all across the country.
The RATS are the ones that have destroyed the working poor and middle class jobs. Now they are saying that they are the ones to bring those jobs back? They are fools, all of them, FOOLS!
It works.
“The GOP would do well to do something about the over taxation and over regulation that kill and prevent job creation.”
BINGO!
An interesting statistics in the NYT article I just posted in my post 3:
“The poverty rate for full-time workers is just 3 percent. For those not working, it is 33 percent. “
“They are fools, all of them, FOOLS!”
I agree with your general statement, but not the one I quoted above -— you are assuming the Dems are “fools”, but they are not, they know exactly what they are doing — their real objective is NOT to help the country, but to become the ruling party, in a single party system, as in the communist countries — they aspire to be like Fidel Castro and it’s DELIBERATE, not just being misguided. Some of their supporters are indeed misguided and fall for the false premises, but the core, including Hillary and Obama know exactly what they are doing.
When did the Minimum wage become the new
income standard for the Middle class?
The Middle Class does not live on Minimum wage unless the Dems are now bringing
them to their knees in line with Poverty so that those new to the work force
can think they're doing good in name only. I'm confused about this change.
And we are so outnumbered.
The people who vote for and support them are the fools.
Too many seem to think that beating up on the poor is a winning strategy. The simple fact is that its a losing strategy even in the cases where the poor deserve it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3108217/posts
Cutting people off welfare doesn’t create a single job. Tax dollars saved will just be wasted elsewhere. Sure the entitlements need to be severely cut to those who are the most in need but you’ve got to have jobs for people to go to or you end up with an enraged underclass who push even harder for socialism.
“Too many seem to think that beating up on the poor is a winning strategy.”
It seems you are buying into the Dem propaganda.
Are you the same person who posted post #2 — it has your name on it, but your current post and that one are inconsistent. Your suggestion in post #2 is the answer.
“The GOP would do well to do something about the over taxation and over regulation that kill and prevent job creation.”
all the while the former category is much less than half of the registered voters, while in a presidential 70% of the former group votes while upwards of 110% of the latter group votes.
Relevant editorial inIvestor’s Business Daily in Dec 2013:
How Much Redistribution Is Enough?
“The CBO study breaks down the country by income into five equal groups, or quintiles. It found the top 40% paid more than 100% of all the income taxes, while the bottom 40% had a negative income tax. These families got more money through various refundable tax credits, on average, than they paid in income taxes.
Even when you include payroll and other federal taxes, the poorest group paid just 0.4% of all federal taxes, while the wealthiest paid 70%.”
CBO:Top 40% Paid 106.2% of Income Taxes; Bottom 40% Paid -9.1%, Got Average of $18,950 in ‘Transfers’
Direct link to CBO Report — lots of good graphs and tables:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44604-AverageTaxRates.pdf
Republicans should be able to make something out of that...except that they are complicit in redirecting the effects of public anger away from their top contributors.
Republicans want everyone to be rich and Democrats want no one to be rich...except themselves.
Beating up on the poor isn’t the same thing as doing what it takes to ease job creation.
Take a look around FR and you will find a lot of people who seem to take a great deal of joy in bashing people for being poor. They are the ones enacting democrat strategy for the democrats.
Reagan actively reached out to the poor, not with promises of free stuff but with promises of betterment for all through jobs and a better economy.
You’re accepting the dems premise that Republicans are “beating up on the poor?” Not me.
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