Which side are you on, boys?

Which political/economic program do you want?:

--giving more of taxpayers money to the very few wealthiest Americans, the economic and financial elite, those who need it the least?

--using taxpayers money to help create jobs, improve education, assist the unemployed, expand health care coverage, aid next-generation industries, encourage the housing market, improve roads and bridges (infrastructure)?

The Republicans are, to use an impolite word choice, solely in the business of raping the lower, working, and middle classes.  They have been engaged in a huge transfer of wealth upwards during the last couple decades, but they want to do it some more.  Apparently the lust for income and assets at the very top of the income scale is essentially insatiable.  So we read that Mel Gibson (to cite one recent example in the news) spends $600,000 each month to support himself.  Just himself.  For him, one month's income is more than I ever made by working for a decade.  I have enjoyed many of his movies, but really, this is ridiculous.

These--what shall we call them, plutocrats?--not only have wanted unlimited wealth for themselves, but they want to be able to transfer it do their heirs, tax free.  Really, aren't they trying to reestablish the kind of aristocracy that our democratic, republican nation has always opposed?

The Democrats, who once were in the position of being the protectors of the disadvantaged, now find that they have many more people to worry about.  Not only the poor and minorities, but also working families, home-owning families, small business owners.  Regular people, people like me and you..

The choice, going into the November elections, couldn't be clearer.  The Republicans transferred income upward.  Then they cheated millions of ordinary people out of their much more limited assets during their financial crisis and great recession:  homes, retirement savings, jobs, health insurance, pensions plans.

And now they want to keep the good times (for them) rolling.

Really, which side are you on?

Comments

[DoctorD42]

I think that perhaps "exploit" would be a more appropriate term.  What the Republican corporate and financial elite are trying to do (and doing very successfully) to the rest of us is exploit us.  Take our money, and send it to themselves.