The GOP Exclusively Serves the 1%—20 Aphorisms to Win the Debate

[Scuba]

http://bricksoftruth.com/2011/11/13/the-gop-exclusively-serves-the-1%E2%80%9420-aphorisms-to-win-the-debate/



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James Madison—the “Father of the Constitution” and our fourth president—argued that our government must be designed “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” The GOP fully agrees: it uses all of its power to strengthen the 1% while it oppresses the 99%. To see this reality, examine these 20 aphorisms.

1) Reaganomics is a failed religion. Ronnie’s merry men robbed the lower and middle classes to assist the rich, swearing the wealth would trickle down. It did not. The rich now own far more than ever. So why are they not making things? They are not doing so because the “trickled on” lower classes have too little cash and credit left to buy stuff. This dilemma will get worse: further production cuts will lead to higher unemployment, poorer buyers, and even more production cuts—a perpetual spiral down to ruin. Ronald Reagan’s worshippers should halt their deification efforts while the world assesses the costs of his class warfare.

2) For families, it now takes two incomes to provide what one did four decades ago. Both parents must work these days, which leaves inadequate time for them to properly raise their children. This has led to the fracturing of our family structures—and to emerging fault lines that have spread across society. Since the economic policies of the GOP were dominant throughout this period, we can see that Republican values are to blame for this disfiguration of family values. In other words, the GOP double-crossed them.

3) By comparing each class’s share of national after-tax income, we see that the gap between the richest 1% and the lower and middle classes is now greater than at any period since before the Great Depression. Despite this, the GOP keeps crusading for further tax breaks for our economic victors. I submit that nothing short of a master-slave gap will ever satisfy it.


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[postulater]

1. Read later. thanks.