The GOP Is Engaging In A Pogrom Against The Poor

[TheMastersNemesis]

All of this vilification against the poor and vulnerable has no place in a decent society. People who support and even take comfort in such cruelty are unAmerican. And I is a shame that any voter rewards such politicians.

In the absence of a safety net our country will look like some parts of India where people are dying in the street. America has gone downhill a long way since Reagan.

[Ellipsis]

1. (sp) pogrom

[B Calm]

7. Must be a new word?

[MindMover]

2. The core is getting smaller and the peripheries are getting larger ...

"The core part of their nations may be suffering a bit less, but that's only because the peripheries suffer more. This is a general pattern. Money today can only be made by taking it away from other people, who - paradoxically or not - don't have any to begin with. Our economies only managed to "grow" in recent decades, since about the late 1970's, because we borrowed from ourselves to buy products produced by people working for wages only a fraction of our own, and when borrowing from ourselves was no longer a viable option, arguably 10 years ago, though 30 years might ultimately prove a better estimate, we started borrowing from our own futures and those of our children. While the core, the financial and political system, which had accumulated by far the biggest part of the debt, escaped the blame and often even fortified itself by taking more and more away from the periphery."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023812797

[jsr]

3. The French used to have a mechanical contraption for this problem.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. And 20+ years later,

after the Reign of Terror and Napoleon's failed attempts at empire, they wound up right back where they started-- with a Bourbon on the French throne.

[TeamPooka]

5. They've got theirs, God loves them more than you so screw you. nt

[Prophet 451]

6. They have been for some time

And it's not just the GOP. The conservatives here (the UK) are doing it as well. This constant vilification of the poorest and the welfare they rely on in tough times.

[RandiFan1290]

8. Did you read DU during Katrina?

They are here, too.