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CreativeDominant -> RE: White House advisers say Fox News is not news (10/24/2009 1:11:40 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales
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Certainly not all of us though. Most of us were just suspicious of the agenda when this crowd came in and have seen nothing yet to allay the suspicion that this administration is doing its best to move a capitalistic country to a socialist model.
Social issues such as who fucks who or who marries who? Who cares? Not me. But take more and more of my money to help those who won't help themselves or who feel that I somehow...by being white, by being college-educated, by having two parents who stayed together, something...got a break that they did not? That pisses me off and I'm tired of it.
ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
The ruling class of this country has always used the ability to divide the majority to it's advantage and it's sad to see how well it's worked. The model of the "lazy bums who won't help themselves" is a myth used very well to the advantage of those who want to protect their inherited wealth. All you have to do is find a couple of welfare cheats, or a drug addict getting something from the government and there you have it, proof that the money of the "working people" is being taken to support the undeserving. If that's all it was, Spinner was a couple...I seriously doubt that anyone would be complaining. But when even social activists note the problems of the "welfare mentality" that many in this country seem to have, then it is more than a myth.
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If the right wing actually took any less of the money that the average working person made, I might be far more sympathetic. However, the current trends show a revers Robin Hood model. They steal from the middle class to give to the rich. While they do so, they talk meaningless phrases about smaller government and less taxation and some follow along as if that was really a likely outcome.
There are far more people who are just looking for a level playing field than a handout. It is a shame that that is overlooked in this "I don't want to help the undeserving" mindset. Surely...with all the laws against discrimination based on race/gender/religion in the fields of employment and education, with programs and organizations such as the Equal Opportunity Act, Title IX, the Negro Scholarship Fund, the NAACP, N.O.W. and on and on and on, you aren't going to tell me that the field still isn't level enough? Unless you advocate taking away companies, organizations, wealth from individuals who either built it themselves or whose families built it and redistributing it? Unless you advocate just kicking out the heads of companies and replacing them with women or minorities not based on their merits but simply on their gender or race?
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