If you support a progressive agenda, then support a progressive candidate.
"America didn't become the greatest nation on Earth by spreading the wealth." -St. John, mocking Barack Obama... both of whom voted to give $700 billion in taxpayers' wealth to Wall Street. The bailout is an example of wealth redistribution in the wrong direction.
Some whine about 'class warfare' any time a progressive politician notes the fact of structural economic unfairness. But how does wealth redistribution like the Wall Street bailout constitute anything else than class warfare against the working class?
In the view of too many Americans, welfare to help out poor people is evil socialism but welfare to help out big corporations is 'economic development.'
Individuals who screw up are 'irresponsible' and should rot in hell. Corporations who screw up deserve gargantuan sums of my money.
Parents and their kids who may be victims of unfortunate circumstances should go hungry or homeless rather than receive a few thousand tax dollars. However, corporations who make reckless decisions deserve hundreds of billions of tax dollars.
These are the positions of both St. John and the GOP as well as Obama and the Corporate Democrats.
No class warfare?
Too late.
2 comments:
read this first
http://american-platform.com/america/2008/10/18/classless-warfare/
"Certainly East and West Germany, North and South Korea, Mainland China and Hong Kong serve as stark realities as to the perils of trying to “spread the wealth”."
West Germany was in fact a good example of the kind of social democracy that progressives would like for America.
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