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Larry Kudlow will tell you, face to face, that he is a man of the people, yet lately on his show he blatantly says that 'This is a pro-business show'! Talk about hypocrisy! But this is rather common in the new market populism days. We hear people constantly talking of how the market is, by nature, the most democratic thing on earth. This of course implies that it is more democratic than any democratic gov'ts. We hear gov'ts themselves or any pro-gov't position being refered to as Communist (note: the capitalization so that the word reminds the average reader of the old USSR that, by the way, was not communist). We always hear of our 'heroes': Bill Gates and other entrepeneurs who used the free-market to attain such great wealth. CEOs now are 'People's CEOs' and to criticize them and note their impact on the polarization of wealth in the USA is to criticize the market, and, remember, to criticize the market is to criticize democracy itself. Yes, Larry Kudlow and others constantly remind us of the wonder of the pro-business world. But what of the pro-labor world? You know, that particularly radical group of Populists in the 1890's. They were for gov't regulation of the RR, something that business men in the 1890's did not take kindly to. They were for more gov't regulation, not less, and today this party of the poor would be considered elitist! Our country has done a complete 180. In the '30s, one Franklin Delano Roosevelt finally began to act on the Populists demands from 40 years prior. He created more gov't regulation, and set minimum wage standards. However, this man of the poor is now viewed by the pro-business world as a terrible man, they focus on his 'crimes against business' instead of his obvious help to the average citizens of America. But today, the Republican party is the 'party of the people' not for economic reasons, but moral. They are morally sound. The Republican party is indeed the party of the people, or so they'd have you believe. Republicans seem to think nowadays, since they're always winning elections, despite their pro-business economics, that everytime a gov't regulation comes down, the people cry out for joy. Every time a union is busted, a worker dances in the streets. This obvious want to put money 'into the hands of those who deserve it' i.e. businessmen, is somehow seen as populist today (the libertarians have even stolen that word, populist, to describe faith in the markets). Yes, now Larry Kudlow is a man of the people. It really is scary to think that, some poor people out there, tune into his show, hear the phrase 'pro-business' and think, "This guy's fighting for me". There is no conotation for the phrase pro-business. It means exactly what it says: pro businessmen. What many fail to realize is that being pro-business is, by nature, anti-labor or, put another way, anti-worker.