Posted on 02/01/2014 9:07:42 AM PST by Olog-hai
I didn't look at it that way but you're right.
Fire Boner. Fire Cantor. Fire McDonalds. Fire Ryan. Fire...Everyone.
You are correct.
It’s the entitlement army that is in control.
Growing larger every day.
The left is the left. They call Christians “extreme” merely for believing in God, but their false god Marx is infallible to them.
The left is the left. They call Christians “extreme” merely for believing in God, but their false god Marx is infallible to them.
You would think from all of their rhetoric about science that the left/Marxists/progressives etc. would a least consider, test, whatever, Pascal's Theorem. Right?
The democrat convention in Charlotte 2012 denied G-d three times. Could be a problem, a big problem for the rank and file democRATS..
5.56mm
They were forced into accepting Georges Lemâitre’s theories on the origin of the universe when red shift proved the universe’s expansion; IIRC, before that, the godless “science-ists” thought the universe’s existence to have been eternal.
That’s an epiphany that’s been a long time coming in the GOP. Now if the talking heads on the Right would figure this out and start talking like paychecks are more important than dividends and stock values to most Americans, we might be able to swing some voters.”We shouldn’t miss the chance to talk to these people,” Cantor continued, according to the source, “which is why we will present and pass our plans to relieve the middle class squeeze.”
That’s a great soundbite. The real issue is the extent to which the existence of paychecks depends on dividends and stock values. Or said differently, the absence of dividends and stock values presages the absence of paychecks. Democrats like to pretend that businesses can just arbitrarily “give America a raise” without negative side effects. In reality such a process implies first the absence of dividends, then the decline in stock values, then the end of paychecks. That is why it makes sense to concern yourself with the effect of regulations on dividends.Of course there is also the small matter of how it is possible to provide for future retirement, or exist in retirement, if there is no benefit to savings and investment. A war on the profit in investment is a war on the prospect of future profit in investment - and, ultimately, a war on hope. It’s why the New Deal exacerbated the Depression, which lasted until the start of WWII caused FDR to yield on “Dr. New Deal” in favor of “Dr. Win-the-war” - which happened long before Pearl Harbor.
Dr. Win-the-war began initially with the British doing things like commissioning the design/manufacture of the P-51A and any other armaments they could buy in America, but accelerated after the Fall of France in May 1940, when the British sent plans for the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine which became the in-line design for front-line fighter use by America, the Whittle jet engine, the cavity magnetron radar tube, and everything else they hoped to get produced in America. FDR recruited William Knudsen, who had built Chevrolet from an also-ran to the equal of Ford, and he managed the 18-month transition to a wartime economy, which entailed infrastructure buildup and machine tool production.
- Freedom's Forge:
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Arthur Herman
Nobody wants to say this in today's political climate, but the biggest factor in the decline of America's middle class is that the definition of the "middle class" has changed dramatically. Today's "middle class" has a standard of living that would have been the envy of royalty even as recently as 30-40 years ago.
Our "middle class" is disappearing because its expectations have become very much "upper class" in almost every respect.
Sorry I think Buchanan is correct. Middle class is not voting GOP with today’s under/unemployment.
“What was wildly wonderful for Corporate America was hell on Middle America. But the Republican Party had made its choice. It had sold its soul to the multinationals. And as it went along with NAFTA, GATT, fast track and mass immigration, to appease Corporate America, it lost Middle America.” [Pat Buchanan]
No.
Are you saying that we should render our expectations so low as to be fine with living in utter squalor?
“Entrepreneurs?” Many people would make useful products if not for the anti-competition regulations, and the laws that divide and destroy families.
Eric Cantor may have just tapped the “money spot” that may lead to a political “boom”.
When Republicans talk, they tend to reach small business owners because those small business owners know Conservative and liberal policies affect them through first hand experience. And unless you have that experience, you are going to be just another person looking for a way to make money, period. So while the job providers have all the insider know how, the workers for them do not (nor may not care). This places workers in a strange position because in their ignorance, and their will to make money, they will gravitate towards anyone who they think will make them more money. This is where class warfare gets “populism” and people feel as though they are going to get something at the expense of “the greedy.”
What I find occurring on a daily basis is that many young people who need jobs are having tremendous difficulty right now trying to find a good one because of their state of mind, but they don’t realize that their state of mind is the root cause of their problems.
For example, some of my friends who voted for Barack Obama expected a lot from him. But the problem is, he is a socialist. Not realizing what that is, they expected him to help the economy and award them jobs. But no, that is capitalism, so in essence you have a population of people who are voting for socialists, and ideally hate capitalism, but subconsciously know (by simply living in America) that they need capitalism (not realizing that this is so), and are tremendously upset when they pursue capitalism.
And if you want your own place, want to produce your own income, and start a family, then those ambitions alone qualify you as a Capitalist.
It is too unfortunate that an entire population of people have been conditioned to accept the Marxist’s definition of capitalism. This is how the mainstream views it, because that perspective is the most common and communicated.
most Americans are not homosexual either, but they get focused on a lot
What is “utter squalor” to you?
Eric Cantor wants illegals to work in banks, armored trucks and gain clearance to use explosives at mines.
“They’ll be able to immediately apply for much better jobs than they currently have,” Sessions warned of illegal immigrants set to join the pathway to citizenship. “Maybe they were working at a restaurant part time. Now they’re going to be truck drivers, heavy-equipment operators competing at the factories and plants and we’ve got an unemployment rate that’s very high.”
“Look at the exit polls of 2012. Romney won those making 50-100k by 8 points.”
That should have been much higher than that; he was running against a communist exposed as such by his first term. The fact is that when Americans are able to get into that income range, forces are scrambling furiously behind the scenes to either send the work overseas or bring foreigners here to do it for less. I don’t know what that demographic thought Obama would do about it, but they clearly didn’t think Romney had any answers.
At this point it seems much of the middle class is supporting the communist because they fear they’re going to end up making $8 an hour in the near future as well (needing food stamps and such), regardless of their current income. These job losses are leaving scars that won’t soon heal, and it is showing in elections.
I don't believe these people were ever really Republican voters at all.
The question really is, what are “upper-class expectations” to you? I don’t know too many middle-class folk that eat beluga caviar from gold plates on a daily basis, after all; no royalty even from the middle ages is envying them.
Today, you could probably live comfortably with the standard of living commensurate with a "middle class" family in the 1960s with a job that pays about $10 per hour.
Bingo!
Plenty of guys can’t even hunt or fish without thousands of dollars worth of engines and electronics. They’re as stressed out ‘relaxing’ as they are at work.
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