This from a multi-millionaire who hires non-union labor. Do as I say, not as I do.
This was a good article. Thank you for posting it.
Webb is right about the economic issues.
Dead right.
The Republican model is skewed towards the top.
The Democrat model has been skewed towards the bottom.
Politicially, the right thing to do is skew the tax structure and job security towards the middle.
Bolshevism is plenty progressive. It's been Progressive for 90 years! How much more Progress do you want?? Resdistribution of Wealth, Class War, Political Elite leading the Proletariat ... It's all good, bro'. We'll catch up to Cuba one of these days.
Oh, so he's a Marxist who thinks we need to redistribute income huh?? Hey Senator Elect Pervert, here's a hint: Let in 12 million illegal aliens and encourage rampant illegitimacy through our welfare policies and you're going to naturally create income disparities between those who play by the rules and those who don't. Don't blame the producers for that. Blame society's illegals, misfits and short-sighted.
Below was a posting that I wrote last week when responding to another Freeper.
The Northern Pacific States have Microsoft, Boeing and tourism. The same goes for California. Texas has energy, tourism and shipping. Nevada has gambling. Florida has tourism and great weather; Chicago, the epicenter of finance and marketing. The Eastern seaboard has shipping, fishing, government, tourism … etc.
What does the Midwest have? Good weather year round, hell no! Pretty girls skating down the boardwalk on a beautiful February afternoon, hell no! Movie industry jobs, nope! How about agriculture? That too has been erased.
The problem is that the Midwest made things, but because of globalization those skills are no longer needed. Hence the powers that be are trying to substitute with the insurance, medical and bio-tech fields. Those noble professions still are not providing the stimulus to grow the regions economy. So what does an underemployed populace do? They go to the ballot box and vote themselves a raise. I am in absolute disagreement of this, but it is in effect what is happening. Ohio, PA, IN, IL and New York will become more blue because of the afore mentioned.
Reagan figured this out and by him spending heavily on defense; a lot of those dollars were spent in the Midwest, which garnered him a win in 84. The rest as they say is history.
Remember, all politics are local and people vote their pocketbook.
The recovery that most this nation has experienced has not come to the Midwest and actually has come at the expense of this regions economy. Regretfully, the GOP has over estimated the Midwest Social Conservatives loyalty to the GOP. It may result in the Presidents impeachment, time will tell
Typical "Nation" writer. Can't imagine someone caring about the issue not being a Marxist.
But that strategy will work only if the Democrats can enforce real party discipline and prevent socially conservative Dems from defecting on key issues such as... immigration.
Ol' Karl Rove will not be remembered for his biggest and most unlikely success...stampeding liberals to support "comprehensive" immigration reform by playing upon their feelings of superiority and need to hate conservatives.
If it wasn't so sad it would be hilarious. You can take the Democrat out of the socialism but you can't take the socialism out of the Democrat.
The economy is hotter than Catherine Zeta Jones.
What are these people talking about?
If he wants to talk about socialism, why doesn't he just come out and say it? That's what unionism is today. Maybe that isn't what it always was, maybe there was a need in the beginning of the industrial revolution, but unions have long since out lived their usefulness.
i'm not sure how the blacks, latinos and single women who lose their jobs at the wal-mart due to increased minimum wages will see any benefits.
I voted Republican, but only because I knew the alternative was even worse, not because the current Congress gave me any reason to reelect them. Unfortunately, other voters were harder to convince. If the Pubbies ever want to get back into power again, they'd better rediscover their principles, start acting like conservatives, and come up with policies that reward average Americans for working hard. Trying to convince someone that the economy is booming by pointing at the Dow when the person you're talking to is having his house foreclosed on is not a formula for winning elections.
Of course, because they have invested the most in the economy.
Later read.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
There are a few TROLLS on this thread. I am for the flat tax....everyone pays the SAME rate. What could be more FAIR than that!
The capitalists create jobs that empower the many to use their labor instead of just living in abject poverty.
IMO that's a fair trade but not a free trade. The cost is income disparity wrongly publicized as 'exploitation' by a resurgent Marxist media.
BUMP
"Everyone"...
So typical of leftists (The Nation ragazine).
They consider themselves to be the entire universe of people.
I'd rather see Webb just shut his pie-hole, and stop his endless class warfare against the productive people of America.
What the vast majority of people reading this article seem to miss is that the purpose of this article is to provide a rationale for the Democrats to claim a "mandate" on economic issues. The article itself is thinly-disguised fiction. But if the last vote was only about Iraq, then Pelosi and the nuts can't start raising taxes. So the MSM needs a bunch of articles about how this is about more than just the war, so she can raise taxes, claiming that's what people voted for.
Jim Webb didn't win because of his economic policy. Not one bit. But the MSM will be happy to lie about it to create a mandate...