It's not okay. It's wrong. And yet, for some reason, telling people that the pain they are experiencing as a result of globalization is tough noughies does nothing to quell the hate-the-rich and blame-others mongering.
Since the gulf between the rich and poor is growing, and since there are many more poor, and since rich and poor alike enjoy the same franchise at the polls, tweaking them will only result in a government of socialism-heavy and outright looting, rather than reasonable compromises in such things as tarrifs, tax cuts, etc.
Your choice then, is to find compromise, so that you don't suffer as much looting, or piss many more people off and suffer greater looting, or renounce your citizenship as an American and flee to the freer markets of the PRC.
Free Trade Absolutists do not even enjoy a majority here at this Conservative chat room. Do you think the FTAs will fare better in the general elections when the dems and greenies will be added to the mix?
Bush needs to remember Reagan's blue collar faction under the big tent, or the whole matter of lowering taxes and raising tarrifs will be moot. Some dem will promise more jobs through even more regulation and simply raise both taxes and tarrifs.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to suffer four years of some failed dem experiment because a bunch of Bush's dickhead advisors are of the Scrooge, rather than the Ghost of Marley school of economics.
If Bush wants to play at compassionate conservatism then charity begins at home, not Africa, not China, not Israel.
God Bless America and my Fellow Americans - rich or poor.
That's simply not true. The rich in America are getting richer. So are the poor. It's been that way for over a century.
Free Trade Absolutists do not even enjoy a majority here at this Conservative chat room.
This chat room is conservative in some areas and totalitarian national socialist in others. There are many Buchananites here that agree far more with Ralph Nader than the GOP.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to suffer four years of some failed dem experiment because a bunch of Bush's dickhead advisors are of the Scrooge, rather than the Ghost of Marley school of economics.
Bush has bent over backwards to cave to Buchananites and Democrats on trade and commerce. Tariffs, farm subsidies, trade protectionism, etc. And they still are not happy. Hopefully he's learned his lesson and will go with good economic logic and remove the steel tariffs later in the year. Bush knows tariffs don't work and only punish the poor and cost the middle class many more jobs than they protect... but he caved to these people (like with campaign finance) and gave them what they wanted. Hopefully soon he will at least just do the right thing, whether they understand the economics of it or not.
"I love America. I just hate all my fellow Americans." -- Jim Cane, 7/15/2003.