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Oh to heck with all the limited gov’t crap! Don’t you frigging GOP idiots get it? You got booted out because you have lost your humanity and don’t give a crap about real, down-to-earth human beings. You think all the poor people are abunch of bums, when really only a part are. You think that Wall Strett and big business guys are some kind Knights of the round table. About the same way your typical starry-eyed liberal sees JFK or now, Obama.

Trickling wealth down from Massa to all the peons out on the plantation seems like a good idea to you, but you never thought about percolating wealth up. What it would take to cure you is either re-education camps or make you work at a Wal-mart type job for about six months so you could learn what’s its like to work your tail off and not be able to pay your bills, or not be given enough hours for medical coverage or have to pay $27.50 everytime you bounced a check or pay $5.00 to cash your paycheck at a bank where the check is drawn or go thru the million other little daily humiliations that most people go thru.

parsy, who is on his sopabox today.

It sounds like RC is projecting his populism. Conservatism does favor and indeed fosters percolating wealth up. It is called equality of opportunity. The redistribution of wealth which you favor is called equality of outcomes. I take your point in one of your posts to the effect that when the folks lose faith in the fairness of the system, the system is doomed. I do not think we should confuse faith in the rule of law with faith in equality of outcomes.

All things are a question of degree, at least there comes a time when excessive commitment to any ideology so distorts the system so as to destroy it. Of course we have to help those people who are unable to cope. Indifference to the plight of the unfortunate can be caused by excessive commitment to ideology and must be guarded against. But that is different from punishing the rich for their wealth. That is different from regarding the poor as noble and the rich as ignoble. That is different from setting class against class which is as vile as setting race against race.

I take your point that conservatives must be cautious lest they offend through condescension or, more likely, the appearance of condescension.

Nathan Bedford who does not want to be reconstructed in Obama's Friedman's Bureau.

Hey Parsi ... when your new leftist leader has you dependent on government for all your needs - and takes your individual freedom away - your freedom to move up and make something of your crummy life - please, dont come groveling back here. This experiment called trickle up was defeated long ago, because it is a failed social experiement. Go live in Cuba and get a taste of it yourself.