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Enough! Save the Middle Class.

ABQJournal Online » How Dare These Rich People Be, Well, Rich?

…We didn’t need to “level the playing field.” It was already level for everyone.

Some people got rich, some didn’t. Fair and square.

But now, in this new age of entitlement, the rich are being blamed for everything. How dare they be rich when we’re not? Well, go out and invent Windows if you’re so unhappy.

Of course that would mean actually doing something instead of complaining about it. But why not give the protesters what they want? Let’s have all the rich people take their riches and close up shop.

Yes, the head of General Motors should take his millions, Standard Oil should cash in, the owner of the Journal should close its doors ,as should all their evil rich cronies and retire on their millions to live the life of Riley.

Then Corporate America would dissolve. Unemployment would flourish. And when the protesters sit back smugly saying they’ve “won,” we can all ask the protesters for a job.

Until the liberal left-wingers get it into their thick skulls that it’s the rich people, not the poor people, that sign our paychecks, we are destined for doom.

SHERRY WENZ
Albuquerque

ABQJournal Online » How Dare These Rich People Be, Well, Rich?

Sigh. Such ignorance and anger. Let’s pretend the playing field once was level. It hasn’t been for a long time. Since the Bush Error, only the Rich have prospered and that was directly due to massive tax cuts plus tax-subsidized bailouts: Welfare for the Rich. Hardly “fair and square.”

Now, many people are fed up and have had enough and they are, in fact, doing something: yelling “Enough!” Our society may survive the deep divisions in political viewpoints, but it cannot survive the economic disparity between the Rich and everyone else, especially as the vital Middle Class gets crushed.

In response to Warren Buffett’s suggestion to raise taxes on the Rich, people like Wenz sneer that the Rich can donate whatever money they choose. I’ll borrow that sneer to say the Rich are free to “close up shop and live the life of Riley.” Like the Rich in other nations without a Middle Class and with outrageous disparity between the few Rich and the many poor, they will hire better security and stick to enclaves that exclude “those people.” I wonder which side of that fence Wenz ends up on.

The protestors do not want wreck the economy further. To say otherwise is either very stupid or self-serving. Apparently, Sherry Wenz belongs to whoever signs her paycheck.

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“Within the G.O.P., willful ignorance has become a litmus test for candidates.”

Republicans Against Science – NYTimes.com

By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 28, 2011

According to Public Policy Polling, only 21 percent of Republican voters in Iowa believe in global warming (and only 35 percent believe in evolution). Within the G.O.P., willful ignorance has become a litmus test for candidates, one that Mr. Romney is determined to pass at all costs.

So it’s now highly likely that the presidential candidate of one of our two major political parties will either be a man who believes what he wants to believe, even in the teeth of scientific evidence, or a man who pretends to believe whatever he thinks the party’s base wants him to believe.

And the deepening anti-intellectualism of the political right, both within and beyond the G.O.P., extends far beyond the issue of climate change. …

Now, we don’t know who will win next year’s presidential election. But the odds are that one of these years the world’s greatest nation will find itself ruled by a party that is aggressively anti-science, indeed anti-knowledge. And, in a time of severe challenges — environmental, economic, and more — that’s a terrifying prospect.

Republicans Against Science – NYTimes.com

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“You wonder if Perry is determined to make George W. Bush seem like Hubert Humphrey”–EJ Dionne

That’s the best line of the day.

Rick Perry and the ‘treason’ card – PostPartisan – The Washington Post

By E.J. Dionne

Right-wingers have always loved accusing those they disagree with of “treason,” and it didn’t take Gov. Rick Perry more than a few days to get there.

Rick Perry and the ‘treason’ card – PostPartisan – The Washington Post

Dump Duhbya, WTF?!

Obama’s and Bush’s effects on the deficit in one graph: Cost of New Policies, Bush = $5T, Obama = $1.44T

Obama’s and Bush’s effects on the deficit in one graph – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post


What’s also important, but not evident, on this chart is that Obama’s major expenses were temporary — the stimulus is over now — while Bush’s were, effectively, recurring. The Bush tax cuts didn’t just lower revenue for 10 years. It’s clear now that they lowered it indefinitely, which means this chart is understating their true cost. Similarly, the Medicare drug benefit is costing money on perpetuity, not just for two or three years. And Boehner, Ryan and others voted for these laws and, in some cases, helped to craft and pass them.

To relate this specifically to the debt-ceiling debate, we’re not raising the debt ceiling because of the new policies passed in the past two years. We’re raising the debt ceiling because of the accumulated effect of policies passed in recent decades, many of them under Republicans. It’s convenient for whichever side isn’t in power, or wasn’t recently in power, to blame the debt ceiling on the other party. But it isn’t true.

By Ezra Klein  |  01:00 PM ET, 07/25/2011

Obama’s and Bush’s effects on the deficit in one graph – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post

[hat to John Fleck]

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It takes all kinds to make mixed nuts

During the Bush Error, Darren White showed his fascist side, particularly when he snarled “let me at ‘em” about lawful protestors marching in Albuquerque’s streets to protest a war any thinking person knows was a colossal mistake. He kissed Duhbya’s ass while corralling protestors in barb-wired “Free Speech Zones” miles from His Excremancy. Don’t forget those hostile times, because the angry, ugly, small-minded tight-fists rule the Republican Party now and, amazingly, have national clout far beyond their small members (sic). Consider the following:

ABQJournal Online » Blame White’s Departure on Socialist Unions

By Jean-C. Guenette / Albuquerque resident on Mon, Jul 25, 2011

If he is anything, [Darren] White is a bold, unabashed, proud anti-socialist. Now that will get you enemies because our country is filthy with socialist, communist-inspired unions. …

Let’s not pussyfoot around this; unions are employee gangs formed to extort money, favors and special conditions from their employer. They threaten harm to the employer and the business if the employer does not comply. This is pure socialist class extortion.

White is a declared opponent of socialism and that, of course, means anti-union. …To White, I say that I’m not satisfied with his expressed reason for stepping down. To my socialist union employees, I say “you’re fired.”

ABQJournal Online » Blame White’s Departure on Socialist Unions

Seriously, “socialist, communist-inspired”? What century does this person live in? Surely, Jean-C. means unions are “elitist politically-correct Islamo-fascists.” Time to buy the latest “Sound Conservative without Thinking” (Forward by John Boehner).

Side note: Although abqjournal.com’s redesign is a huge improvement, I’m puzzled that items from today’s edition don’t appear under the various top menu categories. To find this Letter to the Editor, I had to go to the home page to the letter’s link there. When I went straight to the Letters to the Editor page, I found letters from days ago.  This letter will appear on the  appropriate page in a few days, but its URL won’t have changed. Huh? Is there intent in the delay, other than to make more work for the reader?