And we’re surprised by the Bush administration’s economic policy/priorities?
Get real, this has always been and always will be a world of “them that got give to themselves and those like them.”
Why else would fraternities exist?
No big deal except of course for the fact they sell us this bill of goods every few years at election time. But most Americans are too lazy or uninformed to vote their interests.
I blame the mass media for that since their role is now twofold: first, reporters etc. clamber to acquire the ‘fame’ necassary to command high earnings; and second, to sell advertsing space not disseminate accurate information.
In this country we don’t vote issues, we vote feelings.
So a majority of ‘wanne-be-rich’ folks vote as if they are, or soon will be. Most are sure their riches are just around the corner.
I ask a simple question: how can anyone who earns less than $100,000 a year ever vote Republican?
Can it be those lower income voters actually believe the hype of values, etc. the Republicans so cleverly use advertising to spread?
Or do those voters actually believe the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys of the radio/television waves?
Posted by Chris Stevens on Oct 6, 2003 at 11:54 AM
America for Americans! As an outsider it seems that what America wants is more domestic government. It sounds and can be boring, but in the big picture is more satisfying than tax dollars and large deficits for foriegn adventures. America is admirable, but it needs to carve up that sacred cow, the Pentagon’s budget, or you can expect more of the same.
Posted by Doug on Oct 6, 2003 at 1:29 PM
What everyone seems to overlook in this egregious and wanton abuse of the least empowered among us, as they grow exponentially…is that, as the number of lower middle class income families that slip into the poverty zone increases, the greater becomes the probability that a critical mass of resentment, hatred, and intensity of reflexive, enraged retribution against all who are percieved as the, “haves”, will occur.
Despite those many who’ve been deluded into thinking that their paradise of wealth is within plucking distance, a greater number of folks live in a limbo of dread and anxiety, worry, and paranoia about their future financial solvency. When THES people become aware of the fact that, as the wealthiest few, somehow, despite all the talk of defecits and cut-backs for social programs become wealthier and wealthier at a break-neck rate of speed…THEIR brainwash-enduced confusion at the comparison between their own dread of insolvency and this lurid amassing of huge fortunes will, despite the brainwashing-reveal that they’re being fleeced, conned, flim-flammed, ripped-off, swindled, and suckered by those they’ve entrusted to use their forced tax contributions for traditional governmental purposes: That is, of improving their opportunities, protecting their environment, assuring their childrens’ education, maintaining our vast and now deteriorating infrastructure, ensuring the development of new programs for their assistance, and the improvement of the general standard of living…When THESE people begin to start drawing their own conclusions and cease heeding those of the bought and paid-for shills of propagandists of corrupt interests…then and only then will there be a purging and accounting for all the abuses those who THEY voted for perpetrated upon them. Until then, the roll call of the poor will increase.
For why should those without human hearts or souls, for one minute, say to themselves, “if not for the grace of God, I too would be homeless and standing in line for a bowl of soup”?
Posted by Dominick Mastroserio on Oct 6, 2003 at 6:03 PM
“I ask a simple question: how can anyone who earns less than $100,000 a year ever vote Republican?”
This is a sentiment that comes from a lot of democrats and progessives. There are few reasons why:
1- The republican party’s ideas are much more affordable than the democrats ideas, from a tax point of view. Most working Americans (working can be defined a lot of ways, I define it by those who have a job) pay less to the government (the only ones who don’t are those who don’t pay fed income tax). So it is cheaper to be Republican.
2-A person agrees with their social issues, how Republicans approach education, abortion, war, etc. (by the way, bush is pro-choice, as he’s done nothing to stop abortions)
3-Here is the big one, I once argued that republicans look out for those that worked their way out of a bad situation and dems support those still in a bad situation. It’s all on your point of view.
Posted by brad on Oct 6, 2003 at 7:26 PM
this is the central question….why do those at the low end of the income ladder vote Republican (and really, why do they vote democrat….there isnt much difference)? The political coma of the average american is a product of failed public education and marketing and an age of manic consumerism….and you end up with Bush and arnold and a waste economy built on militarizing everything….and colonial occupation. Its a quite sad situation.
Posted by John Steppling on Oct 7, 2003 at 5:07 AM
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And we’re surprised by the Bush administration’s economic policy/priorities?
Get real, this has always been and always will be a world of “them that got give to themselves and those like them.”
Why else would fraternities exist?
No big deal except of course for the fact they sell us this bill of goods every few years at election time. But most Americans are too lazy or uninformed to vote their interests.
I blame the mass media for that since their role is now twofold: first, reporters etc. clamber to acquire the ‘fame’ necassary to command high earnings; and second, to sell advertsing space not disseminate accurate information.
In this country we don’t vote issues, we vote feelings.
So a majority of ‘wanne-be-rich’ folks vote as if they are, or soon will be. Most are sure their riches are just around the corner.
I ask a simple question: how can anyone who earns less than $100,000 a year ever vote Republican?
Can it be those lower income voters actually believe the hype of values, etc. the Republicans so cleverly use advertising to spread?
Or do those voters actually believe the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys of the radio/television waves?
Posted by Chris Stevens on Oct 6, 2003 at 11:54 AM
America for Americans! As an outsider it seems that what America wants is more domestic government. It sounds and can be boring, but in the big picture is more satisfying than tax dollars and large deficits for foriegn adventures. America is admirable, but it needs to carve up that sacred cow, the Pentagon’s budget, or you can expect more of the same.
Posted by Doug on Oct 6, 2003 at 1:29 PM
What everyone seems to overlook in this egregious and wanton abuse of the least empowered among us, as they grow exponentially…is that, as the number of lower middle class income families that slip into the poverty zone increases, the greater becomes the probability that a critical mass of resentment, hatred, and intensity of reflexive, enraged retribution against all who are percieved as the, “haves”, will occur.
Despite those many who’ve been deluded into thinking that their paradise of wealth is within plucking distance, a greater number of folks live in a limbo of dread and anxiety, worry, and paranoia about their future financial solvency. When THES people become aware of the fact that, as the wealthiest few, somehow, despite all the talk of defecits and cut-backs for social programs become wealthier and wealthier at a break-neck rate of speed…THEIR brainwash-enduced confusion at the comparison between their own dread of insolvency and this lurid amassing of huge fortunes will, despite the brainwashing-reveal that they’re being fleeced, conned, flim-flammed, ripped-off, swindled, and suckered by those they’ve entrusted to use their forced tax contributions for traditional governmental purposes: That is, of improving their opportunities, protecting their environment, assuring their childrens’ education, maintaining our vast and now deteriorating infrastructure, ensuring the development of new programs for their assistance, and the improvement of the general standard of living…When THESE people begin to start drawing their own conclusions and cease heeding those of the bought and paid-for shills of propagandists of corrupt interests…then and only then will there be a purging and accounting for all the abuses those who THEY voted for perpetrated upon them. Until then, the roll call of the poor will increase.
For why should those without human hearts or souls, for one minute, say to themselves, “if not for the grace of God, I too would be homeless and standing in line for a bowl of soup”?
Posted by Dominick Mastroserio on Oct 6, 2003 at 6:03 PM
“I ask a simple question: how can anyone who earns less than $100,000 a year ever vote Republican?”
This is a sentiment that comes from a lot of democrats and progessives. There are few reasons why:
1- The republican party’s ideas are much more affordable than the democrats ideas, from a tax point of view. Most working Americans (working can be defined a lot of ways, I define it by those who have a job) pay less to the government (the only ones who don’t are those who don’t pay fed income tax). So it is cheaper to be Republican.
2-A person agrees with their social issues, how Republicans approach education, abortion, war, etc. (by the way, bush is pro-choice, as he’s done nothing to stop abortions)
3-Here is the big one, I once argued that republicans look out for those that worked their way out of a bad situation and dems support those still in a bad situation. It’s all on your point of view.
Posted by brad on Oct 6, 2003 at 7:26 PM
this is the central question….why do those at the low end of the income ladder vote Republican (and really, why do they vote democrat….there isnt much difference)? The political coma of the average american is a product of failed public education and marketing and an age of manic consumerism….and you end up with Bush and arnold and a waste economy built on militarizing everything….and colonial occupation. Its a quite sad situation.
Posted by John Steppling on Oct 7, 2003 at 5:07 AM
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