Bush's Class Warfare - Peter Dreier

[Union Thug]

Still waiting for the working people of America to figure this out...


"Just a week before Christmas, President Bush gave corporate America two big presents. On Tuesday, his Federal Communications Commission changed the rules to allow the nation's giant conglomerates to further consolidate their grip on the media by permitting them to purchase TV and radio stations in the same local markets where they already own daily newspapers. As a gift to the country's automobile industry, Bush's Environmental Protection Agency ruled Wednesday, over the objections of the agency's staff, that California, the nation's largest and most polluted state, and 16 other states, can't impose regulations to limit greenhouse gases from cars and trucks that are stronger than the federal government's own weak standards.

So far, no major politicians or editorial writers have labeled these actions "class warfare," although this is precisely what Bush is engaged in -- helping the already rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else. Class warfare is, in fact, the very essence of Bush's tenure in the White House. In thousands of ways, big and small, Bush has promoted the interests of the very rich and the largest corporations. Corporate lobbyists have the run of the White House. Their agenda - tax cuts for the rich and big business, attacks on labor unions, and the weakening of laws protecting consumers, workers and the environment from corporate abuse - is Bush's agenda..." <snip>

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/bushs-class-warfare_b_77910.html?view=screen

[HughBeaumont]

1. The Rich thank the moronic wing of the working class . . .

. . . who still believe Republicans and free-trade neo-lib Democrats have their best interests at heart.

http://www.namebase.org/richnote.html

[ninkasi]

2. I wonder why

Democrats are so reluctant to use the term class warfare? The rich and powerful have been waging it against us for so long now, it's about time we acknowledged that the warfare exists, but was started by the other side, and we've decided to fight back. There's not much left for them to take, and we need to start fighting back before we are slaves, instead of just poor.

When you lose your home, does it really matter if gays can marry? What use is the 2nd Amendment when you have to sell your guns to buy food? It's incredible that so many poor and middle class Americans enlist as unpaid foot soldiers for the other side.

[Spinzonner]

3. It's the new War on Poverty

Everyone who is poor is the enemy to be incarcerated, subjugated, beaten down ...