Re: Conservative Club II
I had no way of knowing if you meant it seriously or tongue-in-cheek. I responded in a neutral manner. :)Originally Posted by Strike For The South
No one I have ever heard of supports the bailout, besides Wall Street spokespeople and Wall Street and banking representatives. No one. No Republicans, no Democrats. That doesn't change the fact that the people now needing the bailout and their political allies insisting we must, MUST, MUST HURRY AND PASS A BAILOUT PACKAGE NOW!, are the same right-wing conservative interests who have been an active part of the GOP and lobbied for deregulation and the continuance of banking deregulation for years. Which makes them hypocrites. And the entire justification for saying we "must" bail them out is a fear tactic, that if we DON'T, we face economic meltdown and the poor individual American workers will suffer. As if that is a concern to Wall Street and big banking executives who took their golden parachutes and now work as overpaid lobbyists for the companies they used to work for. Quote from Real Time, there are no foxhole atheists and there are no recession libertarians.
I think totally equal distribution of all wealth is pretty far to the left, yes. I think though that a lot of right-wing ideologues categorize anything to the left of monpolistic deregulated free-market economic feudalism as "Socialist/Communist" insisting on full national ownership of all property, execution of dissidents and no disparity of income. This is because trying to paint something like our present system resulting from years of insisting that greed is good and that deregulation and free market will self-regulate and fix all ills is such an incredibly poorly conceived argument with such little bearing on real world truth that it requires the forcing of false choices in order to appear at all viable. Out of first world countries, we have one of the LARGEST disparties in distribution of wealth between very rich and very poor. So we are at the polar opposite extreme, closer to medieval Feudalism in terms of our economic distribution than most other first world countries. That's pathetic in the "richest nation on earth" that you have some people taking a one-time 300 million dollar goodbye gift leaving their job as CEO while you have other people working two jobs at minimum wage and not going to the doctor about that funny lump under their armpit because they know they can't afford to miss work or cancer treatments anyway. It's beyond pathetic, it's immoral. I think there is a LOT of middle ground between what we have now, and pure "Communism", and a lot of those models in the middle have worked very well for a lot of other countries and which we refuse to even consider out of some irrational idea that there is no middle ground, there's what we have or there's Leninism.
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