“There’s class warfare, all right,”

Great post. Keep up the good work! I can remember a time when we had a lot more and paied a lot less. Sadly most of us are either unrepresented or misrepresented by the two dominant political parties. Both parties are far more concerned with their own self-serving special interests and their own self-propagation than with the reality that is being lived by those whose votes they solicit. I'm leaning more and more toward the third-party scene. Thanks for the aritcle reference... good stuff.

I am trying here to make people see that there are two issues that transcend the bickering.

Media and money.

But I am reminded of trying to separate two female German Shepard's fighting for turf.

I did not win that one. But as a truck driver I have a lot of time to kill.

Thanks,

Jose

What a whiner! We (the rich) are just beginning to get what we deserve. I make more money in one year than most of you middle class jerks make in a life time. The “little people” have always been around to take advantage of since the beginning of this great country. Just because you don’t have the guts to go out in the FREE market and grab more than your share, don’t start a whine blog.

Why would you insist on the good old days of taking my ill gotten gains? I do not want to see the incentive taken away from packaging sub-prime loans for a quick $10 million. It is the new American way – one scheme after another. The big money is out there Joe, why can’t you play the game and have 4 houses and 12 cars like me? That 90% tax bracket will destroy our playground.

Let the younger generation sleep away their future, why care, just get yours. A compassionate liberal will always be working to support the high life style of the conservatives. What a bunch of suckers. We have the psychology part down pat, no way to compete with the fair and balanced machine we have working on the weak minded. We have a huge group of middle-class Americans that actually defend our greed. They think we are the heroes, the American dream come true.

Either come and get the easy money or sit back and enjoy the show, just stop whining and leave our young future slaves alone. Screw the good old days. These are the good new days.

You are right. You did win. GratZ
Problem is the game is over. Do you want to play some more?

Where did you get that money? From us. Now we are broke so of you want to play some more you got two choices. Try to get money from your neighbors which can't be easy or they would not have it. Or find some way to get us a stake. Now you want us to have the spirit to put up a good fight so we need some dignity with our money. Create the illusion that we actually earned it.

I promise you will get it back. We just want to spend it. Even if we manage to get more than we need right away, I promise we will not stuff it in the mattress. We will give it to you to hold for us. You can play with it till we want to buy a new car from you then you can loan it back to us with interest. You get the interest on the money we just gave you for the car. Nice deal, huh?

Now as for that extra tax we want from you. We promise to get it from all your neighbors, too. Level playing field. After all it is not really how much you score that counts but that you score more than your neighbors. When we spend it you have the chance to get some of what we got from your neighbor. Where is your competitive spirit? You might even get more of that from the neighbor that had more than you.

Just think of it as raising the goal from ten feet to twelve and maybe move the three point line back a bit. More challenging, huh?

Come on. It will be fun. Besides on the money's way back to you the demand for all the stuff it gets spent on on the way back will create more demand for other stuff and more jobs. So you will actually get more back. Think of it as an investment and let the miracle of a trickle up economy do it's magic.

Jose

Do you really think I am competitive? A fair market instead of a free market? No way. Not until the middle class is completely destroyed and the bottom 99% are all slaves. Then I might consider moving my factory back to the U.S. Labor needs to be taught a lesson - be put in their place. The British have always been better at that – knowing their place.

However, I do believe in more credit and printing more money. I convert mine to Euros and Yen. I follow the deity of greed and deception – King Cheney. My flag pin is just a ploy; I’m more of an international player, big time mover and shaker. Both parties are for sale and they work for peanuts, that’s as American as I need to be.

The problem with my greed is I just can't get enough. My trickle will be as scant as possible until the extreme happens. Total collapse. Then maybe we can try your logic in the ruins of the disaster. As long as my yacht can sail, I have my guns and my toys are safe – I’m a happy guy. It will always be about what’s in it for me.

Your common sense is starting to annoy me, resistance is futile - you will be assimilated.

I fear this is where we are headed with no leadership, no money in the Treasury, SPP, China and a house divided. Franklin once said, "You have your republic sir, if you can keep it." It was nice while it lasted...