It's a Class War, Stupid

"It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be."

- Warren Buffet CNN Interview, May 25 2005, in arguing the need to raise taxes on the rich.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/10/buffett/index.html

Note: in 2006 Buffet was the second wealthiest person in the WORLD ($42 Billion)
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/Rank_1.html
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Rolling Stone

It's a Class War, Stupid
Election season will be packed with distractions, but the real issue is becoming a matter of life and death
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/21830103/its_a_class_war_stupid

""I am a single mother with a 9-year-old boy. To stay warm at night my son and I would pull off all the pillows from the couch and pile them on the kitchen floor. I'd hang a blanket from the kitchen doorway and we'd sleep right there on the floor. By February we ran out of wood and I burned my mother's dining room furniture. I have no oil for hot water. We boil our water on the stove and pour it in the tub. I'd like to order one of your flags and hang it upside down at the capital building... we are certainly a country in distress................. — Letter from a single mother in a Vermont city, to Senator Bernie Sanders""

The Republican and Democratic conventions are just around the corner, which means that we're at a critical time in our nation's history. For this is the moment when the country's political and media consensus finally settles on the line of bullshit it will be selling to the public as the "national debate" come fall.

If you pay close attention you can actually see the trial balloons whooshing overhead. There have been numerous articles of late of the Whither the Debate? genus in the country's major dailes and news mags, pieces like Patrick Healy's "Target: Barack Obama. Strategy: What Day is it?" in the New York Times. They ostensibly wonder aloud about what respective "plans of attack" Barack Obama and John McCain will choose to pursue against one another in the fall.