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All those protests in Wisconsin? Don't mean a thing. Back to the weekend regatta in your private lagoon. Oh. Wait. The Wall Street Journal said what?
Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution
Commentary: A ‘Super-Rich Delusion’ is leading us to ruin
Tax breaks for millionaires and corporations, shared sacrifice for the rest of us. Too bad Obama doesn't have the guts to fight the trend.
Not raising taxes on the rich has wide bipartisan support.
Of course - both parties are marching to the same neoliberal drumbeat.Quote:
Originally Posted by coyotes_geek
"Not raising taxes on the rich has wide bipartisan support"
In Congress compromised and corrupted by "rich" money. Human-Americans are for taxing the rich.
Fucked, unfuckable, VRWC, Repugs.
That should just about cover it. Take the rest of the day off.
Damn VLWC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt Bringdown
My accurate VRWC sure beats sterile debating about minutiae that obscure the big picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23
Grimmtons needs his own reality show. I mean, really.
Your supposedly accurate description is the night in which all cows are gray. As a description and as a discussion, it blows.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Being a broken record blows.
:rollinQuote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Minutiae is all you're good for. You're basically just a wind-up doll who spouts off "VRWC" anytime someone pulls the string in your back by opening up a new thread.
The possibility of a revolution is long gone. Unlike the 30s, the establishment did not expect a tightening of credit and liquidity, but the reverse. If this cluster was going to collapse, the opportunity was in a rapid and vastly more severe deflation brought on by the credit crisis.
Further, calls for revolution from the lower 99% who themselves live in a society in which the main anxiety for the majority is whether or not they can afford a daily Starbucks run is a bit much. Or, get over yourselves and see how the rest of the world lives.
The 'Wall Street Journal' didn't say dick, some Marketwatch commentator did. The guy's pretty much a Johnny One-Note:Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt Bringdown
More Paul B. Farrell
March 22, 2011 New Civil War erupts, led by super rich, GOP
March 15, 2011 Toxic Charlie Sheen virus infects Wall Street
March 8, 2011 The 2008 crash isn’t over, only covered up
March 1, 2011 Four time bombs that will blow up Wall Street
Feb. 22, 2011 Market Crash 2011: It will hit by Christmas
Further, holding up public sector unions and their comfortable sinecures secured at the expense of the people by the politicians they purchased before their apple cart was overturned as some kind of plot by the "Super Rich" to stick it to the people is absurd.
Cheerleading the immiseration thesis -- ghost dance for mechanical materialism?
So true. So fucking true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23
Neither party wants to bite the hand that feeds them.Quote:
Originally Posted by coyotes_geek
Affording a daily starbucks is a bigger concern than having a job, being able to afford a mortgage/rent, or coping with out of control medical and education costs? Are you serious?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Bryant
Sure. It doesn't fit the fairy tale, but then neither does life, and given the shallow self-centered society we live in, a lack of affluence is of greater concern than providing for the basics of life.
Our gripe with the "Super Rich" appears to be that they can afford more nice shit. Naturally this would be the type of revolution America in the 21st century would birth.
Marcus, like WC, says the UCA Human-Americans should compare themselves to Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Chinese peasants, and STFU, and let the VRWC continue its thieving predations.
Starbucks? how about finding enough money to keep the utilities on? or make the rent? or buy gas a couple gallons at a time?
croutons, like the rest of would be American latte revolutionaries, assumes any critique of his arguments to indicate support for the bogeymen of his conspiracy theory.
You know something is bad when it's supported by all the assholes in congress and not just half of them... the bailout, the Iraq War resolution, No Child Left Behind, and so on.Quote:
Originally Posted by coyotes_geek
Wow, that article had just a tad of hysteria, didn't it?
MB, the VRWC is real.
Your placing the blame for the fucked up UCA on the citizens is typical shilling for the VRWC, just like WC criminalizing the poor.