I'd rather be a "bleeding heart Liberal"

than a heartless conservative.

If we can't produce the geniuses who are the smarts behind revolutionary products, then we can't support the country can we? A society that is declining and losing it's edge will have a hard time giving the have nots a semi comfy life through redistribution.

Cheer for the innovators who we all depend on.

Are you JOKING?

:rofl:

Please ...in a country where 93 percent of all financial wealth is controlled by the top 10 percent of the country?

You're concerned about the so-called "innovators" on whom we all depend?

:rofl:

Why are you even posting on this board, don't you have some
utopian innovator's paradise to run?

And make sure "We the People" are educated.

Redistribution? Comfy life? WTF? We lived through the redistribution already, so I'm not really sure what you are talking about.

their wealth other than be born, at the same rate as The Little People (TM) will solve that problem PDQ.

Because otherwise, WTF.

He also supported Arizona's immigration law, among many other chestnuts of wisdom.

apparently, this one is bulletproof, because they commonly argue from the other side.

Step 1. People with money finance the election system and offer back-end incentives for politicians to do what they want. You can't get elected without their money, if you give them what they want while in office, they give you a cushy job for millions of dollars a year when you leave office.

Step 2. Massive government contracts are handed out to these donors. They become even wealthier because of them. Also, the minimum wage remains stagnant and well below the cost of living, people are required to spend every penny on health care or die, and a system of deregulation combined with too big to fail lets big banks take all profits but makes the taxpayer pay for any major losses.

Step 3. Tax code is essentially written by the lobbyists hired by these rich people and corporations, filled with loopholes for them and secret costs transferred to the rest of us. Then the rich can keep complaining about their high tax rate, while actually paying a lower percentage than the rest of us.

End result? The wealth that the majority owns, controls, and produces, is taken from them by the government under the control of rich donors and corporations, and shoveled into the coffers of the already rich. You have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and you have a straw, and I have a straw, and my straw goes aaaaaaall the way across the room, and I drink your milkshake. I drink it all up.

This is how wealth redistribution works. What we need now is a little wealth restoration back to the people who produce that wealth.

Maybe I'll make it an OP so you can.

On edit: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1084323

And far from being a teacher, I actually have no education at all.

:)

I'm disgusteded out.

It seems like a group of angry people are dropping the chips from their shoulders into DU:GD.

... but you seem to have inventors confused with capitalists. Most of our really clever products are being made elsewhere to maximize the profits of the people who put up the money to market them. The "geniuses" are not the people who end up rich here.

and I have said this out loud in mixed company.


Tikki

...............spineless, brainless, soulless, and in most cases, dickless. HOPELESS.

As in "those stupid libruls always pretending to have empathy." Shows their true colors.

but can fess up to it.

they think it's too much trouble to heed whatever suffocated emapthy-transmissions their withered conscience can squeeze out. Greed--and the fact of being on the positive side of systemic discrimination (and thus encouraged to continue stomping on peeps)--can make a satan of a saint.

bravo!!!!!

Than a 'spend everything, then spend more, then borrow some, then spend all of that and more for zero national gain' Republican.

to waste money & blood on.

Any day of the week.

k&r:dem:

Or, as the late Mike Ryoko once wrote: "It's harder to be a liberal than it is to be a conservative...because it's easier to give someone the finger than to give them a helping hand."

:applause:

. . . because it becomes increasingly more evident how conservatism has failed us all.