Mitt Romney, Class Warrior

When you think of class warfare, you probably think of inciting anger, resentment and jealousy among the have-nots against the haves. That’s what Mr. Romney has accused Mr. Obama of doing, but those charges have always been false. The truth is that Mr. Romney has been trying to incite the anger of a small slice of the richest Americans who need no government assistance but get it anyway, against the working poor, the elderly, the disabled workers and veterans, and even a significant chunk of middle-class Americans.

-Last paragraph and oh so true-

The right wing has long been whining about people who don’t pay taxes and who therefore don’t deserve a say in government. They have it exactly backward. The shame is not that those people don’t pay income taxes. The shame is how many poor people there are when the top 1 percent can amass uncountable fortunes fed by tax breaks and can donate tens of millions of dollars to political candidates to keep it that way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/opinion/mitt-romney-class-warrior.html?_r=0
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Rush Limbaugh: America's Biggest Welfare Recipient

The OxyMoron, Rush Limbaugh, is always bitching and moaning about welfare recipients (and, indeed, he slams any working person who gets any kind of assistance from the government).


But note that Rush only has a problem with poor people who get welfare. Exempt from his criticism are the rich, the politically-connected, and the corporations, who really collect most of the welfare in this country.

Indeed, the military war profiteers get vastly more welfare than all America's poor people combined. I mean, how many billions of dollars in closed, no-bid contracts did Halliburton alone receive in the Iraq War? And they're merely one of the pig-like, greedy corporations with their snouts at the trough of the bloated, wasteful Military Industrial Complex.

http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/2009/12/rush-limbaugh-americas-biggest-welfare.html

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The proof is in the yard signs. Go look. All the neighborhoods with the least valued neighborhoods are posting signs for democrats. Little good it does them.

Your blog has some issues with the facts. Limbaugh does not own the radio station or network. So whether its CBS, ABC or FOX they are the guys responsible for the bill. What any radio host, including Alan Combs, or Air America are paid is irrelevant on the issue of the value of the public air waves. Im not even sure they are or were ever free. He just says they are. But in all fairness, lets just assume the millions paid to Howard Stern were a rip off to the taxpayer. Furthermore, the poor in America are not on their own. With all the social programs, the poor are rich compare to the poor in other countries. Most have cars, two TV's and if you get around much, a lot of folks are obese. The proof is in the yard signs. Go look. All the neighborhoods with the least valued neighborhoods are posting signs for democrats. Little good it does them.

Sorry LB, not my blog.


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I take it you've never been to Kansas?

No, but you might have a point. Ive driven a lot thru Nevada and a lot of dirt poor towns were supporting Sharon Angle.

Good to know, that some of them want a better life, not a better handout.

Why do we need the government to redistribute wealth, just gave $5 to a guy in the Safeway parking lot, he needed gas or bus money or food.