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Trickle up poverty makes more sense to today's Democrats.
I don't know why, do you?
We have seen how powerful centralized governments have kept 10 - 20% of the well connected and the fairly well connected riding around in limos with nice country homes and personal tailors.
The rest line up for goods in short supply. "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us," is the reality in the actual societies which have tried to play redistribution and government control over any period of time.
Isn't it interesting that most of the top Obabamabot donors do not rely on income. Why should these oligarchs, like Penny Pritzker and George Soros, who just want peace from the rabble they fear, worry about income taxes when most of their wealth is secure? They want a friend in Washington who will protect their trusts and offshore accounts, just like Obama's fellow Chicagoan, Dan Rostenkowski, did.
I think they are playing a dangerous game too. Didn't Putin murder or jail those billionaire oligarchs who dared to differ with him?
But that is not the worst part of this. Those who are left out of the top cadres and who dare to protest and disobey are eliminated. They are either murdered (as Putin had some of his harshest critics murdered) or expelled to gulags.
The typical Saloonik is a person who fancies herself or himself as an idealist who wants a better society.
Stalin called you "useful idiots."
How is Bawaak H. Obaba that different from Stalin, my frems? Doesn't he share a certain cold, calculating streak with Uncle Joe?
Why can't you see that this guy is the personification of The Manchurian Candidate?
You don't want anyone raining on your "change" parade?
You may be useful idiots, but you are caught up in the liberal bullshit of the moment?
Shipping jobs overseas is one of his mantras.
Do you ever think, my dear librals?
Don't a lot of what we do so successfully DEPEND on foreign trade? Who will buy Deere harvesters, CAT tractors, Apple ipods and laptops, rice, head and shoulders shampoo, corn, and the wonderful Cummins Engine fuel efficient diesels if we start a trade war?
Are you folks really looking forward to a TRADE WAR?
Hello!
Hello!
Notice the entitlement, the hatred.
If Obama wins, I and tens of millions like me, will get up early Wednesday, just like we always do, and go to work, just like we always do, because we have a job to do, a family to feed.
If Mc Cain wins, Ethelbert will not believe it. He will riot all night long and place many lives in danger.
The Ethelberts of the world are thinly disguised goons. They demand stuff, and get violent when they don't get their way promptly enough.
I hope they are put in their rightful place before I go to work six days from now.
How about jail, Mister E?
You'd look great in a cute little jumpsuit, sweetie.
If you are still a libral, it won't be because you think your progressive policies make any kind of sense.
If you are still a libral, it will be for brilliant personal reasons such as:
Roosevelt was so good for the Jews!
I wanna government job!
All my frems in Ann Arbor and 90210 are librals!
I need easy answers and immediately recognizable enemies like big oil and pharma companies!
I want a black president even if he and the wifie hate America.
I watch Katie KooKoo and she's an Obamabot too!
Did you catch her in "Planet of the Apes?"
She's the one who required no mask and no makeup.
Forest cannot see the forest for the trees.
Like most well bred liberals, he's a very polite person, and he does not yet realize how badly frucked he has been by the Chicago Obamabot Machine.
He woke up very sore back there, but who knows, it could just be the occasional hemmaroid flare up. (spell check!)
Maybe he isn't so virtuous, and is thinking if he plays his cards straight, Obama and Daley would allow him to not only run for Governor, but allow him to actually win, because, they decide who wins and who looses in the Great State of Illinois, (which hasn't been the same since Lincoln was murdered).
Forest has not realized and may never realize that he should not be a Democrat, especially in the slimy banana republic of Cook County, Illinois.
This is how liberal fascism begins, my frems.
It is like a frog in warm water. It can't be that bad, you know. Hey, mister froggie can actually like the warmer water for a while. Who knows, it may just stay just a little too warm until it naturally cools off.
By the time they start rounding up the Jews and other subversives, nobody notices. Everybody's too busy waiting for the next hand out, in a society where the basic material goods like bread and salt just mysteriously evaporate.
I prefer Laura Ingraham to Rachel Maddow.
What, you never heard of Laura?
Well, I never heard of Rachel before today.
Where have you been?
Where have I been?
Do we all live in our own self referential worlds?
That would be OK if you Obamabots were not on the cusp of bring down the world we all have gotten kinda used to: You know, the world where hard work and thrift pays off; the world where America is a beacon of freedom to the world; the world where we are the last stop before fascism or communism turns us all into slaves?
OK?