Corporate KINGS & Welfare QUEENS
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| Fri, 09-19-2008 - 6:13am |
They have a lot more in common than politicians imagine, those corporate kings & welfare queens:
1) They believe they can make foolish decisions, and the government will bail them out;
2) They believe they can focus on short term gratification, and the government will take care of the future;
3) They don't understand that those who consume without adding value will eventually kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
It has been fashionable to make fun of the middle class. . .those amusing "little people" who get up every day and go to work, real work that requires them to be present and productive. . .those quaint "little people" who believe in God and country. . .those old fashioned little people who actually believe in living within one's means and paying as you go and saving for the future.
It has been considered oh-so-clever to look down on the children of the middle class who don't attend an Ivy League school - but who value an education nevertheless: enough to work their way through to a degree even though it may take them more than four years and their classmates may not be trust fund babies.
The intelligentsia has gleefully looked down its nose at people who do an honest day's work (oh, say work in an oil field or on a fishing boat). . .rather than lounge in an ivory tower, engage in white collar fraud, or feed at the public trough.
The media has delighted in making fun of women who don't wear designer clothes or $400 hairstyles. . .after all, how quaint not to be a purveyor of all that Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Town & Country have to offer.
Most of all, the politicians have been disdainful of the everyday people who have asked - who is going to pay for the cradle to grave society and the golden parachutes you have promised to buy the votes that keep you in power???
Of all the candidates, Gov Sarah Palin is the one who understands those old fashioned values that made the US great - the values that will save us now. . .if corrupt politicians will stop pandering to their favorite vote selling constituency and do the right thing!
What is the right thing: revise the tax code to reward productivity; stop penalizing the elderly who work after retirement; drastically revise the education system - demanding accountability from public schools and the teachers who staff them - it is ridiculous that any child can attend school for twelve years and lack basic academic knowledge or a skill that enables them to support themselves/ridiculous that total incompetents have been guaranteed employment; stop the pandering with promises of a free lunch; require those holding mortgages to renegotiate with homeowners in default wherever possible and to eat the losses they fostered if not- people who are struggling to pay for their own homes should not be forced to pay more to bail out the irresponsible; force failing industries to pay a public value price for the low interest loans they desire: elect Boards who engage in REAL oversight, prosecute those corporate kings who have breached their fiduciary duties - seize their ill-gotten gains and send them to jail (the corporate king who defrauded millions from shareholders is as much of a thief as the drug addict who robbed a 7-11); drill here and drill now and do whatever is necessary to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries who hate us.

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"Gov Palin is the ONLY candidate of either party who actually has a record of common sense in government administration - how refreshing."
Did you say "refreshing"?
LOL.
I'm not sure what I'm wrong about.
PaRrIs
If you pay more than 50% of your income in taxes then there is something TRULY you are doing wrong.
My wife and I combined make between $78,850 and $164,550, which puts us in the 28% tax range.
PaRrIs
Eh, more like $45k these days. But I knew lots of people from middle class backgrounds and a few from solidly blue-collar homes at my Ivy League school.
Caroline
Very good reply thank you.
PaRrIs
Education is essential for success. . .makes you wonder why liberal Democrats are so opposed to reforming our failing public education system.
What a load of bigoted BS.
***I'm not sure what I'm wrong about.***
I said you were wrong about this conclusion...
***You and John McCain really need a reality to check if you think someone going to an IVY League School (an average of 40,000 a year) is MIDDLE CLASS***
...Because you are in fact wrong from what I can gather from students at my own school. Granted, we are not "ivy league," but the minimum tuition for a full time student is 40K per year. That in my opinion is a lot of money for an education. Because there are people who through loans and scholarships are able to afford attending my school, there are those middle-class folks who are attending ivy league schools in the same fashion...Loans and scholarships.
If middle-class income runs from 40K-95K and the average is 100K, then their are middle-class people (along side of the very wealthy) who are keeping the average income of Harvard students at 100K. Otherwise the average income would be much, much higher.
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