>>>More government entitlements and less productivity. Is this good for rich Americans?<<<
Sure it is. Rich Americans are the ones who can command and control (to use a phrase on purpose) the decisions of the federal bureaucracy. The rich have the time and the knowledge to manipulate the rules and laws on their behalf.
In the old Soviet Union, the party apparatchiks created a nation filled with entitlements that wasn’t very productive. However, they were on the top, so they didn’t mind. They had their dachas and trips abroad. Our bifurcated system has evolved a little more naturally, but it means the same thing. The rich can go back to McLean and Westchester County, and if they run into tax problems, they know a guy who’s an expert in these kind of things.
The difference between Obama and Mittens is then a matter of approach, not degree. Obama takes the academic approach, in which people attend endless meetings and glacial change ideology to eventually overwhelm all opposition. Mittens takes the business approach, in which people use money and influence to affect government rules to their benefit. It’s elite vs. elite.
Like Charles Murray says in his recent book “Coming Apart” (on my bedstand right now), the rich live in a bubble insulated from most of the American people. Sadly, I’d probably be in that same bubble if it wasn’t for my job - I work as a high teacher in the Alaskan Bush, so I’m obligated each day to meet, greet, and interact with everyone. However, if I had the same job in suburban New Jersey, for instance, I could teach rich kids and go home to a swank house and never run into working class or poor people at all. I have family in that rich category, and their ignorance of the rest of the country is astonishing; Murray backs up my observations.
Sadly, the current situation is actually pretty good for rich Americans. When it collapses due to its own intertia, though, God help them, and us.
Obama will ratchet up the class war rhetoric tenfold from now until November. And despite all the filthy rich Dem donors. Strange, people still fall for that. So and so has a dollar more than I do, AND IT’S NOT FAIR!!! When I was young we had eight of us living in a basement house on one small income. I never thought that our financial problems were due to the fact that people like the Kennedys had scads of dough. There always was jealousy of people who had more, but now it’s getting worse.
Obama will ratchet up the class war rhetoric tenfold from now until November. And despite all the filthy rich Dem donors. Strange, people still fall for that. So and so has a dollar more than I do, AND IT’S NOT FAIR!!! When I was young we had eight of us living in a basement house on one small income. I never thought that our financial problems were due to the fact that people like the Kennedys had scads of dough. There always was jealousy of people who had more, but now it’s getting worse.
Three words...POWER, MONEY, SEX.....the top three things mere man wants but does not know how to use them unless they are a Christian......twas a great sermon we heard only months ago...
There are two motivating forces: Liberalism as Religion, and Fascism -- where Fascism is defined as a partnership of government and elite interests, like in China, for an accumulation of wealth and power. Every one of Obama's elite donors expects to be another Solyndra.
What is not clear is whether Obama is using Fascism as a means to achieve Socialism, or vice versa. Or maybe he just wants to destroy the US.
Politics has nothing to do with it.