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Obama Caves, Sells Out Middle-Class For Wealthy

Fred_PA_2000 Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 10:13 PM

(Cont'd.) But low skilled factory work can be paid more because the machines -- that is, capital equipment -- allows the worker to multiply his/her output. Unfortunately, our society (including especially, and curiously, our working class) is hostile to paying anyone a return for providing such capital equipment. Our injuries are very much self-inflicted.

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Obama Caves, Sells Out Middle-Class For Wealthy

When a deal is bad beyond all pretext, the only thing left to do is spin. Democrats, including Senate lackeys and Administration lummoxes, spin the Senate version of the Fiscal Crap Sandwich to mean absolute victory over Republicans who have "finally" raised revenue (read "taxes.") Republicans spin that they moved to give even more people a tax break in 2013. Both obscure the reality; President Obama sold out the Middle Class for the wealthy.

Obama ran for re-election with a near exclusive message of "millionaires and billionaires" paying their "fair share." While some might have seen this as pure pandering,...

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