Pic Of The Moment: SOTU Preview: Republicans To Attack Obama For Addressing Income Inequality

[EarlG]

Obama takes on income inequality with his tax proposal

'Class warfare': GOP senator attacks Obama’s plan to close tax loopholes for the wealthy

Richest 1% may own half of global wealth by 2016

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[isobar]

1. "Class warfare"

WAGE IT !!!!!!!!!!

[Fred Sanders]

18. Yes, with Fair Tax Laws!

[AZ Progressive]

19. The Rich have been at war with the 99% for the past 40 years

They are lucky the people haven't put the pieces together all this time.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. 80 people EIGHTY PEOPLE own the same as HALF the planet

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/meet-the-80-people-who-are-as-rich-as-half-the-world/


But nobody cares, obviously.

Otherwise they WOULDN'T

[Rex]

8. True, humans will do what they always do.

Wait until we are in dire straits and then MAYBE try and deal with the issue. By then it will be far too late, but that is another thing we do so well. Wait until we cannot do shit about it or whatever IT is has run its course and done all the damage that can be done. In this case, world collapse.

[valerief]

9. Well, the most important thing in the world is to make the richest people richer.

Soldiers get maimed and die for this reason alone.

[tclambert]

10. Good article. They list them by name.

Oddly, they call 50 of those 80 people "self-made," and only 11 inherited their wealth, while 19 inherited wealth and made it grow. They must have a very different idea of "self-made" from the rest of us. Rupert Murdoch is listed as "self-made," since he only inherited 2 newspapers and a radio station from his father, and turned it into a massive media empire. Carlos Slim likewise had wealthy parents, who taught him about investing at the age of 12, and he started at a job in his father's company.

Some of the richest billionaires really did start from nothing. Those examples are what Republicans point to and say, "See? There's plenty of financial mobility."

[staggerleem]

21. There WAS "plenty of financial mobility" ...

... once upon a time. Today? Not so much.

And their arguments are composed of such logical fallacies. On "Face the Nation" yesterday, Marco Rubio said that "one group of people does not have to do worse for another group to do better," and, in a way, he was right - but NOT in the way he meant. He meant "you don't have to take money from the rich to make the poor better off", but we DO! (Where else is it going to come from??)

Where he's absolutely right is that NOBODY is REALLY going to do any "worse" - except on paper. The standard of living of Chuck & Dave Koch will not change one iota due to the tax increase. Maybe they'll rake in fewer millions next year than they did last year, but as long as you're raking in millions, what's the freakin' difference??

[2naSalit]

3. ...because THEY were going to

use that as their jingle/bait for 2016 after all, dammit.

[sammy750]

4. It is interesting to listen to the messages of the GOP Presidential candidates about income

Inequality, saying they want to address the issues and help people get better wages. Yet The GOP does just the opposite in the House and Senate. They are waging a war on middle class. Where do the presidential candidates connect with the GOP house and senate. Is the GOP so divided that they disagree on everything. We look at the bills that have passed recently and its a war on middle class and they are letting Wall Street go back to their criminal ways under George Bush. Are we waiting for another economic crash under the GOP? What is their real agenda? Its seems like they would want a strong middle class to support the states and USA, yet it doesn't seem like it?

I wonder why they continue to get elected with there agenda. DESTRUCTION OF THE USA and MIDDLE CLASS.

[Dustlawyer]

15. After they crashed the economy and got their bail out, they went and bought up all of the cheap

foreclosed properties that they caused to be in that situation. The former homeowners are stuck with debt on homes they don't own anymore unless they can file for bankruptcy! This is how insidious it is, they make money no matter what while we are mere pawns to be sacrificed!

[Enthusiast]

25. Insidious is a good word for it.

[staggerleem]

23. They get elected ...

... by the politics of division and single-issue dimwits.

Their wettest wet dream is to capture the Social Security trust funds first (either by mandated, or voluntary, privatization) and THEN engineer another crash. Then, they can say "Whoops! Where'd that trust fund money go, now? Well, we invested it in this fund that was rated quintuple-A by the agency that we PAID to rate it (even though it's really nothing more than a can of dog turds) and your Social Security retirement money just kinda went down the memory hole," just like what happened with the value of your home and the cash in your 401K after their LAST crash!

[onecaliberal]

5. You damn straight it's class warefare, the middle class and poor class are going to begin to fight

back against the assault on our jobs, our wages, our educations, our ability to move up.
The income disparity has never been greater in this country. Maybe faux viewers don't get that, but the rest of us do. We are mad, and you better believe we're not going down without a fight against the corporate puppets and their masters.

[sammy750]

17. So when are they starting to fight back, it late I think. They elected a party

with the only mission to destroy, Pres. Obama, the nation and the people. The GOP only mission is to take this nation back 50/60 years. Why did the people elect them to office?
Ernest, who will be giving a speech tonite for the GOP. She is against education, student loans. etc. She is just a pig farmer, now controlling some of the voice in the Senate. How insane.

[onecaliberal]

24. Vote Suppression and purges elected these poor excuse for humans to office.

Dems received more votes and lost. The GOP knows it can't win without cheating because of demographics. Why aren't the elected dems doing anything about it. When POTUS was re-elected he said he would fix the 6 hours in line to vote but so far I've seen nothing. The south elected Earnst, people too ignorant to understand the very people they vote for are trying to destroy us. The majority of people in this country are NOT represented by her and never will be.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Yes, Fox News refers to it as "Slut Shaming" CEOs, or some shit.

[geretogo]

7. I say burn in Hell Hatch . When you meet your maker you will have to justify your all out war on the

poor .

[Rex]

11. May!? LMAO! As in maybe?

Total nonsense, the richest 1% will own ALL the wealth and demand we pay them back for letting us exist on their dime, with interest! We will do NOTHING to stop them, vulture capitalism wins. We all lose. Game over.

We won't make a stink when they charge us for water and air, THEY will have paid for mouthpieces (like the do now) DEMANDING we feel like shit for using up the riches air and land and water. WE SUCK and should be thankful for the table scraps of the table scraps we are promised to get one day soon.

The people I blame? Those in office that can stop this takeover by a select few. I never thought the world would except slavery under low wages and dire living conditions, but I now know better.

Class warfare is out and the owners won hands down.

[Ferd Berfel]

12. ....WHen we fight back

Call Whine-1-1, get a Whaaaambulance !!!






The Great American Class War
Plutocracy Versus Democracy

By Bill Moyers

[Martin Eden]

13. Class Warfare has been WAGED and WON by the One Percent for decades.

Orrin Hatch is little more than a paid mercenary in that war.

[Initech]

35. And they overthrew the government with Bush V Gore and Citizens United.

Too bad there was no Smedley Butler to stop them this time around.

[Martin Eden]

39. They are not so much overthrowing the government ...

... as they are purchasing it.

[Initech]

40. True, you don't have to overthrow the government when you can just buy it.

[pansypoo53219]

14. they only say class warfare when WE fight back.

[ProudProg2u]

16. "Horse Feathers"

[LongTomH]

20. Why do Republicans always have expressions that look like they have terminal constipation?

Maybe a good laxative would solve their - and our - problems?

[ProudProg2u]

22. Cons

Cons have no soul. They lack the gene that makes them human. They are the "I got mine jack" Crowd. They are the bane of caring intelligent people . They are the people who destroy in order to make themselves feel good. They could be an alien breeding experiment (Ancient Aliens) that went wrong.

[lovemydog]

26. If lowering tax rates on the majority and raising them on the rich

is class warfare, then please give me more class warfare.

[merrily]

27. Didn't Mitt recently say he was going to fix income inequality?

Of course, Mitt was for income inequality before he pretended to be against it.

Still, it's rude of Republicans to throw poor Mitt under the bus just to get at Obama.

[elleng]

32. Yes he did,

and it's good mitt can be quoted.

[merrily]

33. Since his recent statement was consistent with the rest of his life to date,

I feel very confident we can rely on it.

[father founding]

28. DUMB Rich people

Why would anyone live in a country with such burdensome regulations and crushing taxes when you could live in Somalia which has niether

[czarjak]

29. More wealth for the wealthy...

Huh, Orrin? Party of the rich. Tax cuts pay for themselves. Trickle down. Like Senator Cruz says, "stand strong", even if you're wrong. Pricks.

[Indydem]

30. OxFam's Report is Misleading

Do you make $32500 a year?

You are in the richest 1% globally.

[elleng]

31. They attack POTUS now,

especially because Mitt Romney has recently discussed the bane of poverty and income inequality I guess. Should be interesting, now and at primary and general election time.

[Initech]

34. We need to start calling it what it really is wealth addiction.

The upper1% is addicted to their wealth. And just like any other addict, they don't care whose lives they destroy to feed their addiction.

[BlueMTexpat]

36. You've gotta love the response of Andy Borowitz ...

A new Oxfam report indicating that the wealthiest one per cent possesses about half of the world’s wealth has left the richest people in the world “reeling with disappointment,” a leading billionaire said on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters in Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic Forum, the hedge-fund owner Harland Dorrinson said, “I think I speak for a lot of my fellow billionaires when I say I thought we were doing a good deal better than that.”
Calling the Oxfam findings “sobering,” he said that he hoped they would serve “as a wake-up call to billionaires everywhere that it’s time to up our game.”
“Quite frankly, a lot of us thought that by buying politicians, rewriting tax laws, and hiding money overseas, we were getting it done,” said Dorrinson, who owns the hedge fund Garrote Capital. “If, at the end of the day, all we control is a measly half of the world’s wealth, clearly we need to do more—much more.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/richest-one-per-cent-disappointed-possess-half-worlds-wealth

[blkmusclmachine]

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[Cha]

38. Adopt a Rich Republicon..

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/01/20/an-essay-on-free-speech-in-tweets/

Thanks for the SOTU preview, EarlG

[RoccoRyg]

41. Don't hurt the rich!

Conservative pundits keep saying, "You can't help the poor by hurting the rich."

Like the rich are so easily hurt. All these taxes will do is force them to get the large yacht instead of the extra-large yacht. That money is much more economically viable in the hands of the middle class consumers who buy products.

[Gothmog]

42. This is great