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The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Babies, and They're Old Enough to Vote

11/24/2012

 
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DEVIL'S TOWER, WYOMING
       The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Babies,
              and They’re Old Enough to Vote
    Shortly before election day, Mitt Romney promised he’d get out of politics for good if he lost, but two days after his “gracious” defeat speech, in a typical switcheroo, whined that he’d lost only because Obama promised “gifts” to the lower classes, parroted by Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and lunatic Glenn Beck, who hinted at armed insurrection. Actually, it’s the wealthy who’ve been getting gifts they now believe to be their birthright.
    In Wyoming, our least populous, and one of our whitest (85.9% ) states, ranchers, businessmen, and professionals are baffled by the election. [NY Times, November 19, 2012, A10.]  “I thought Romney was a shoo-in,” said Laramie County commissioner. Lee Hausenauer, who owns a tree-trimming business. He believes that the election was stolen by “voter fraud,” although most others attribute it to: 1) non-white, non- Europeans taking over the country, and 2) Obama promising “gifts.”
    The first has some truth, a demographic shift like the one that happened when white Europeans stole the country from Native Americans, although the present newcomers neither steal land nor displace those already here.
    The second, however, is a flat lie. Since the early 1970s, when the last remnants of WW-II, including Baby Boomers and the “Me” generation faded, laws were passed shifting tax burdens to the middle classes. If you want specifics, David Cay Johnston’s Perfectly Legal, has plenty in its 327 pages.
    One is the legal right to transfer patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property to companies in overseas tax havens, then “renting” them back. Income from the property flows tax-free into the tax-haven and at the same time lets the owner deduct rental costs from the U.S. tax bill.
    Another is a law reversing earlier laws that made every partner or board member responsible for laws broken by any other. A mighty barrier to corporate malfeasance swept away in an anti-regulation frenzy, it led to Enron, Worldcom, and other frauds, where even if one or two go to jail, most are free to cheat again.
    Third is reversing the original aim of the income tax, when only income deemed “surplus” was taxed, capital gains more heavily than wages because it was considered “morally offensive” to tax money earned by the sweat of one’s brow. The falsehood that “job creators” would not create jobs if taxed, stood that noble idea on its head. And now the howl to keep low tax rates for the rich is part of a desperate struggle to let the plunder continue. Sufferance by the non-rich, including the Romney crowd in Wyoming, easy prey for those who pander to their resentment of an imagined lost ownership of the U.S.A., is a testament to the power of lying PR hammering away over many years.

rs
11/24/2012 01:30:35 am

personel prosperity works for us (especially has for the arts)...kennedy lowered tax's.....fortunately, obama likes to travel, so the real work goes to biden, clintons, and panetta :spending must be cut..

Urbisoler
11/24/2012 04:52:22 am

When will Dems (read Liberals) ever stop playing the race card? [Never! Why should they? It works!]
Why are they so upset that Wyoming is mostly - - - WHITE?
Are they waiting for a Close Encounter (hence Devil's Tower) to bring in more illegals? Excuse me, er, "undocumented"? [Isn't "undocumented" the equivalent of "illegal"? At least for laymen?]
The cosmic demographic shift is, of course, the primary reason for the GOP defeat. I suspect it is not reversible. The Europeans didn't "steal" it from the native populations. They took it by force of arms and intellect.
[It is the way of the world in spite of Liberal attempts to play nice. We are an aggressive species. It is in our selfish genes. Evolution may resolve the dilemna, but not yet. Not yet. When the time comes that we agree that we "can all just get along" we will be bored out of our heads.]
The newcomers can't "force or steal" their way into an already fully developed society. They don;'t have the arms or the intellect. Instead, they come in "illegally' while a liberal society looks the other way.
I wouldn't mind so much if the illegals were PhD's in math, science or technology [too many Americans do not need to learn because they are handed what they need by a liberal society] but, alas, too many who enter, "illegally", are uneducated as well as undocumented.
The handwriting is on the wall. The laws will be rewritten to make the achievers (read wealthy) pay MORE than their fair share [especially since it is impossible to define what is "fair"]. And, of course, conservatives already know that there will NEVER be enough revenue for a voracious Liberal society. So, the incentive to "achieve" will be a lost cause and the U S of A will join the ranks of the historical imperative that defines the Rise and Fall of Nations. The good news is that I won't be around to witness the denouement.

Ciao!

Martha
11/26/2012 05:17:56 am

Good to hear your political voice again, Stuart. Another interesting point, noted by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show: that after the election, Bill O'Reilly lamented the passing of a "traditional" America, without a thought to the history of the Irish (as in "O'Reilly") in the 19th century: that Anglo-Saxon Protestants back then lamented the arrival, politics, and power of that immigrant group.

rs
12/4/2012 06:12:58 am

the constitution says it all....freedom from government is a biggie !

Heather link
10/1/2013 05:23:35 am

Found this blog from Weebly's index, nice!


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    Being 90 years in this world,  with great kids,  great grandkids, great wives (two, one at a time) and great memories, I wonder why some people seem to have stopped loving the U.S.A.? I will wonder in print right here. If you wonder too, or can provide some answers, please comment.
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