Posted on 02/01/2015 5:24:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Haven’t made radios or TVs for decades.
What in real estate (the stories I could tell) and cars? Oh man, no one ever tells the truth.
Post# 2 and this one, Excellent points
My property taxes just went up again.To the tune of 900 bucks a half.
Maybe they just plan on taxing us to oblivion.
Other than the fact that it's unconstitutional for "government" to do it?
Maybe they plan on making it so only the rich can afford property.
At a minimum those.
My heart aches for my children and grandchildren (and a recent great grandchild - makes me feel really old)
When you are forced to work for the poor, that means you are their slave. Is slavery wrong?
Only five?
Huge BUMP to this topic.
Neither party, is standing up for the middle class. Neither party.
It is about time someone said this. Huge bump.
You think the politicians in Washington are not drooling right now over the prospects of pulling this one off?????
It's and old, old, old strategy, and it always works when the people have become complacent, when they have come to prefer comfort to liberty, when they value their delusions more than truth.
It worked for Julius Caesar--though, of course, it didn't get to enjoy the prize--and, if the American people don't wake up--and fast!--it's going to work for the power hungry politicians in the U.S.A.
They are salivating right now over the prospects.
They can feel it--right now!--just within their grasp!
The return of the Feudal Age. The rich land owners live up on the hill. The serfs labor down in the fields. It's just a dream come true for the political elite.
Because the middle class owns the majority of the wealth both parties need to give away to get elected. And middle class voters seldom punish politicians who act against their economic interests, because they let the MSM get them worked-up about symbolic issues and whatever the distraction-of-the-year happens to be.
The Tea Party's focus was supposed to be the driving of statists from power, regardless of their (meaningless) stated party affiliations. Many Tea Party-supported politicians, upon gaining office, immediately became distracted or coerced or bought-off and took their eyes off of their mission to shrink government, allowing the Alinskyites to successfully caricature the Tea Party as a whole as a group of wild-eyed social reactionaries (find a college student anywhere today who doesn't believe that).
An true opposition party in these times has one mission, and one mission only: reduce the power of the state. Sunsetting laws, eliminating agencies, slashing entitlements - these are the only things that matter when the middle class looks for a politician to support.
But neither the D nor the R wings of the Perpetual Asset Bubble Party is inclined to do anything about that.
Secondly, I'd suggest that Items #1, #2 and #5 are either directly or indirectly the result of policies in government and business that were aimed at giving the "middle class" an "upper class" standard of living. These three in particular -- and the other two, indirectly -- are the result of reality hitting this entire country.
I think you’re on to something.
The “middle class” off-loading their children’s education, home mortgages, college and now healthcare onto the feds in order to finance higher-class consumption might be the root of the problem.
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