Waging class warfare

Washington Times ^ | 8/26/02 | Richard N. Bond

[kattracks]

The curtain is about to rise on a new morality play this September. Penned by the Democratic Party, it casts corporate America in the role of high-powered thieves so corrupt they make Gordon Gekko seem almost benign. In this campaign drama, Republicans get a major supporting role as the willing accomplices of business in a systematic rip-off of ordinary Americans' hard-earned savings.

[Kenton]

What Ralph Nader, Al Gore, and the rest of the Democratic leaders don't get is that the American people don't hate business or the individual success it generates. Quite the contrary. They know business creates jobs; and with nearly 70 percent of voters invested today in the stock market, Americans have a vested interest in business doing well, and they are optimistic about the country's long-term future.

There is a reason they call the places such unrealistic creatures live "Ivory Towers". Everybody gets it but the tenured professors, the professional students and the Welfare class, none of which actually contribute to society...