Posted on 01/25/2003 10:41:37 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The White House and its Republican allies say they do not believe the Democrats' class-warfare attacks against tax cuts for upper-income earners carry the political firepower they once did.
Even some Democratic officials argue that such attacks by their party's leaders, pitting lower- to middle-income groups against the rich, do not work and have not worked for several election cycles.
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Boy, is that ever the truth. In reality, liberalism is the ideology of the american elite. Conservativism is the ideology of the american middle class.
As an undergrad at an ivy league university, I was confronted immediately with that dreaded species that inhabits the northeast: limousine liberals. The school was filled with spoiled rich kids who mouthed a pile of socialist garbage.
I spent a long time pondering this phenomenon (I was one of the most conservative students there...but I was also of a much more modest background than most of the lefties).
My own theory is this: these kids grow up with an enormous material prosperity that they haven't earned themselves. They see others in society with far less. As a result, they begin to feel guilty.
Now...there are two possible paths for them to take at this juncture:
1) Honest: Simply refuse to take the handouts from daddy. They can decide that they will make it on their own in life and not spend the rest of their lives sponging off of their daddies' wealth.
2) Dishonest: These are the ivy league liberals. They feel guilty that they live in a lap of luxury that they haven't earned themselves...but they lack the honesty to pass on all of the goodies. So, in their subconscious, they decide that its OK to take the goodies--despite the fact that they are unearned--so long as they mouth slogans and ideologies that show compassion for the "poor". Their ideological convictions become a moral permission slip for them to enjoy fabulous unearned wealth.
Absolutely! The dims have nothing to offer, they wouldn't recognise a new idea if it kicked them in the @ss. Even their rhetoric is worn out, hitlery paraphrasing Churchill and edwards (that ambulance chaser) rolling out the old duck line-hey johnny "quack-quack".
And dashal's economic plan is a flat out laugher. Let's give everybody a check, whether they paid taxes or not, and let's "target" taxcuts for businesses so they do what we think they should do. We'll create a new market out of thin air. Lame, absolutely lame.
I'm voting for Al Brawley, er Sharpton.
She can analyze the history of economics yet took years to locate a box of billing records?
That's because the income necessary to be define by the Democrats as "rich" is the income generated by a two income family with solid middle class jobs.
The Democrats are urging Americans to wage class warfare on the dreams they have for their own children.
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Actually, this was the common condition of society until the advent of CAPITALISM!!!!You idiot Marxist!
Most hispanics I know.... (like all my family) find Hispanic a joke and laugh about the grouping. Do they mean Hispanic like er.... uh.... illiterate immigrants from the mountains of Chile or Peru... or farmers from El Salvador or Guatamala, or doctors and business owners who fled Cuba, or urbananites from Puerto Rico...via New York or ... Mexican laborers from Chiapas, Parras or Saltio..
the group classification is a joke. but that shouldn't stop the Dumbasocrats from lumping us together. Most of the immigrants on the border want jobs... they are just like everybody else.. want to feed the kids and aren't parasites... however the "sytem" uses them and then they in turn have learned to use the system. Ag businesses and others use the federal/state governments to subsidize the health care insurance for the workers...
....if the US was serious about illegal alien workers... fine of $20,000 per worker, make it federal and minumum mandatory of $5,000.00 for illegal worker even if good faith attempts at documenting status. Jail time for repeat offenders...
Then the private sector would have a vested interest in documenting workers.... and Zoe Baird and other Shi'ite spewing libs that have gardners,maids and nannies would have to pay for their hypocrisy.
A few weeks back I read some stats on donations to each party. Off of the top of my head it was someting like this:
Average donation to Dems was well over $1,000.00 with a significan portion of total donations being in excess of $10,000.
Average donation to the Republicans was in the area of $250.00. Yet the Republicans raised more money and had a larger number of donors.
The stats tend to confirm your above statements.
If somebody has the real figures please add them, to correct my statement.
As for the rest of your post, we're on the same page.
(There, now we disagree again. All is indeed right with the world.)
Regards,
L
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