Great analogy. We do seem to have a Stockholm syndrom type attitude towards the corporate and wealthy elite.
And of course these same powerbrokers think the ideal income tax rate would be zero, too. But then how would the right-wing finance its wars and its anti-sex crusades?
Middle class Americans would be well served to learn the Heidi Fleiss rule: If you're going to be a whore, at least don't be a cheap whore.
learn the Heidi Fleiss rule: If you're going to be a whore, at least don't be a cheap whore.
A-flippin-men!
This investment gives companies the means to move offshore. What a bargain!
"Wow -- 36 bucks a month! That should just about cover our higher insurance premiums and increased co-pays (though probably not our increased payments for gas and utilities or the higher payments on our adjustable-rate mortgages)."
...not to mention the increased cost of food and other goods that have to be transported by gas-guzzling eighteen-wheelers. But hey, all that matters are values, and the only important values are opposition to gay marriage and abortion. That Kool-Aid must be mighty yummy. At least it provides a few empty calories.
Thank you. Get even more savage with these hypocritical anarchists out to destroy valued institutions such as the armed forces and the press. I might add that they have also created a great and ugly fissure in the broad Christlian religion in America.
Savage them. Savage can be beautiful.
People also get suckered into the idea that what's good for the rich is good for them, too, either becuase they believe the whole "trickle down economics" (note that it's a trickle as opposed to a steady stream) or they are so convinved that someday, if they work their asses off for forty years, they will become rich themselves, and therefore they support cutting taxes for the rich because they'll someday be rich, too. These cultural myths are being eroded daily and I'm glad for it. Only when the average joe realizes they aren't getting a fair shake at the American Dream, and the rich are clearly going out of their way to keep the middle class in the middle, can we do something to fix it.
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