Of An Open Letter To The Richest One Percent
Posted by 575 at 8/29/2007 12:36 PM and is filed under gop,Iran,Depleted Uranium,Open Letters,Domestic Policy,Environment,right wing hypocrisy,election consequences,darth cheney,Foreign Policy,Economy,Iraq,Liberal Majority,Richest One Percent,miserable failure,bush admin gross negligence,Hurricane Katrina 
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I Would Like To Speak Directly To Bushtard's Base Richest One Percent The Ones Who Got Huge Tax Cuts, The Corporations That Don't Pay Taxes The Ones Who So Far Made No Sacrifices But Reaped All The Rewards The Ones Who Don't Have Family Serving In Iraq But You Are Pro War All The Way Baby All The Way To The Bank, Your Profits Are Soaring While Bush, Your Hero Cut Soldiers Combat Pay And Veterans Benefits While Our Pentagon Denies That Uranium Is Killing Soldiers Yes You, Oil Vampires The Winners Of The Iraq War The Exxon Execs The Energy Meetings You Had With Cheney Sure Look Like They All Paid Off H.M.O. Owners Who Literally Drain All The Life From People Sending People To Financial Ruin, Or Death Just Out Of Your Way Defense Contractors Blackwater, Halliburton The War Profiteers |
You Make Us Weaker Our Outsourced Military A Colossal Waste What In The Hell Do You Think You Are Turning This Great Country In To? Your Tacid Support Of The Bush Admin Is So Truly Disgusting In Just Seven Years We Have Deficits As Far As The Eye Can See Military Is Depleted, Recruitment Way Down, Demoralized Catastrophes At Home Are Neglected, Ignored Death By Thousand Cuts Iraq War Is Lost Impossible Position Neocon Quagmire And To Top It Off Ahole Cheney Wants More War With Iran ASAP Real Estate Shell Game Republican Ideas Subprime Disaster Every Time In Our History, Republicans Gain Too Much Power Our Country Is Placed On The Brink Of Disaster Unsustainable You Cannot Be This Stupid, To Allow It All To Go Down The Drain |
Are You Planning On Moving To Paraguay With The Bushtard Or What And Just Let This All Fall Apart, Do You Want A Strong America I Have To Wonder Do You Have A Conscience Or Is Cash Your True God You Got Yours, So Screw Everyone Else, Is That Your Basic Logic Here America Has Thirty Six Million Living In Poverty Lack Of Healthcare Is Crippling Our Economy Cannot Justify The So Called Richest Country Is Improperly Named, It Should Be Called The Richest Country Of Greedy One Percenters Who Plundered It All You Installed George Bush To Drain The Treasury And Fill Your Big Pockets Hypocritical Republican Insanity Is Unbearable The Environment Has Been Decimated And We Cannot Ignore I Suppose That My Final Question To You Is WILL YOU STOP YOUR GREED |
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Can You Stop Your Greed Will You Stop Your Greed, Can You Stop Your Greed Right Now | ||
Anup Shah, Poverty Facts and Stats, GlobalIssues.org, Last updated: Friday, November 24, 2006
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8/29/2007 3:45 PM
buzzflash.net wrote:
Republicans have once again brought the United States full circle to the brink of disaster, almost exactly where it was in 1928 during the Great Republican Depression. Wealth has been concentrated in to the richest one percent and we hear Bush demanding more tax cuts for the wealthy. It's right wing insanity and greed at it's finest.
Interesting that the lowest figures on this Graph were attained during the time Republicans were in the White House. The most sustained sharp increase seems to have been during the Clinton years. Hmmmm obviously a Republican plot.
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Republicans are responsible for the current and former crisis. Your opinion of a chart does not change that.
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The point is not that income migrates to the top based what party holds the White House.
This graph is more useful to see the results of economic policy in general.
During the period with the lowest figures, did liberal or "conservative" economic policy prevail?
The conditions represented by this graph arguably do more to illustrate the impact of Congress than the influence of a particular President.
Note the period between roughly 1940 and 1980. Liberal economic policies dominated during that period, regardless of who held the W.H.
Liberals in Congress then would be labeled Socialists now. 1950 Republicans would be branded economic liberals today.
Coincidentally, the middle class was created during this period, America was nearly universally recognized as the world leader in nearly every respect, and ALL boats, not just the yachts, were being lifted, (if you were white, anyway, but that's a different issue).
When the oil cartels inflicted their punishment on our economy and humiliated Carter, the scene was set.
Enter the "Reagan Revolution" and, more importantly, a radical rightwing Congress. Under the influence of the "greed is good" crowd, the mogul funded think-tanks, the newly put upon working class rednecks and the religious nutcases, the entire political paradigm careened to the right. Tax, labor, trade, environmental and social welfare policy; everything.
The result of this macro economic upheaval, not who was President, is what this graph reflects.
The Clinton period was illustrative of what republicanism had degenerated to by that time. The rightwing economic infection had done it's damage by then. Congress was far more conservative, (even the Dems), and it would have taken one hell of a more liberal president than Clinton to level the graph.
The "dot-com" revolution also had a part to play in the "spike" during Clinton's term.
In the last 13 years, productivity has increased 30%. 80% of the population has seen almost none of that reflected in their incomes. What does that tell you? 80% of the people aren't working hard enough?
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The article nailed it 110% The PUTRID REPUBLICAN RATS HAVE RUINED OUR COUNTRY.
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nice letter...although we all know that most liberals are closet republicans...they are just too afraid to admit it. embrace the goodness that flows within you and come out as a republican.
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Let's see....
without the 'richest' 1% there would be virtually no jobs for everyone else. Why? Because they are the ones that took chances and opened businesses and are rewarded for their success. It's called capitalism and it's awesome.
Studies have shown time and time again that the richest people in America are mostly made up of first generation success. Capitalism tends to redistribute wealth over time, not socialism.
You repeatedly criticize the military but I've found that almost all of the people I know currently serving are staunch Bush fans...
Capitalism is not greed and being poor does not grant righteousness.
I do commend you on your haiku structure though. You are able to convey a lot of information with them, however misguided.
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I may be mistaken, but I believe Carter was in office at the lowesest point. I may also be mistaken, but I also believe he was a Democrat. However, with history being an unstudied field of endevour for most repugents, I forgive you for makeing such a sophamore mistake.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. My question is: How much more will we take and what WILL it take to finally stop the madness before we all go over the brink?
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Huey Long, the much meligned populist governor of Louisiana had words of his own for the 1% -
"Now what can this one man do with what is intended for ninety-nine? He cannot eat the food that is intended for ninety-nine people; he cannot wear the clothes that are intended for ninety-nine people; he cannot live in ninety-nine houses at the same time; but like the dog in the manger, he can put himself on the load of hay and he can say:
'This food and these clothes and these houses are mine, and while I cannot use them, my greed can only be satisfied by keeping anybody else from having them.' " Huey Long Biography
As Huey said: "Every Man's a King, No Man Wears a Crown"
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I think you have hit the nail on the head - its fits!!
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Why is anyone surprised by these statistics? And WHY do the rightees ALWAYS bring up Clinton - no matter what the subject, his name is always thrown out there. He was no angel, but I will take him ANY DAY over the corrupt administration we have now.
IMPEACH
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Republican class warfare has been destroying the fabric of America since 1968. It really picked up in the 1980s and under Bush, the Gilded Age, Hooveristic consequences of raw crony capitalism and class warfare has put tens of millions of middle class Americans who were once financially comfortable 1 paycheck or 1 health care catastrophe from bankruptcy.
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This is one of the times in our history, what has to us, we are so morally corrupt we fall for the BushCo..bs and watch like the rest of the world see us continue to ignore our own...Katrina shouldn't still be the issue it is. What is wrong here.
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