Why do conservatives protect the rich?

[Ikari]

Conservatives are like that butt kisser you meet on the job who raves how rich the owner is and how nice his car is and basically worships him. The GOP protects the rich at all cost and are willing to sink the whole ship to do it. They deny it but everything they do proves it in spades.

Every time we have tried to hold big businesss acountable for shipping jobs overseas, oil spills or income inequality the right is like a bunch of butt kissing bulldogs and will go to bat for them everytime just like they are now when we try to make the rich pay their fair share. I say stop it my conservative friends it is making you all look like the party of the rich and it these bad times that is not a label that sells.

It ain't just the conservatives. The Republocrats in general are for the aristocracy and established corporations.

 

[Stuckinred]

Down here it is more "I might win the lottery" than thinking they are or could ever be rich. Talk about frustrating.
Redneck Republicans are the backbone of the Southern Red States yet they don't fit the Demographics.
I guess it's a side effect of the "unholy" alliance between the GOP and the Evangelists. Getting poor people to vote against their interests, using social issues as bait is quite a trick. I think there is hope for Florida yet though. The new blood from the north is swinging the State more Democratic every year.

Yea, down there it's easy to wrap the flag and the Bible around something and sell it. Hell, it isn't hard in may areas up north either. You'd think people would know a scam when they see it, or are they that stupid?

 

[What if...?]

strawman...show me an engineer that makes $8/hr.

a guy who barely graduated HS does not deserve $25/hr to push a foot pedal on an assembly line and tighten a screw on a gearbox.

Here ya go.

Engineer Average Salary Income - International Comparison

If you figure 40 hoirs a.week, the chinese engineer pulls just under $7/hr.

There are several around $8/hr.

 

[Stuckinred]

Here ya go.

Engineer Average Salary Income - International Comparison

If you figure 40 hoirs a.week, the chinese engineer pulls just under $7/hr.

There are several around $8/hr.

Hell of a "career" choice when you'd make almost as much dashing sea salt over thrombosis fries at McDonalds. No 60-80K student loan to pay back either! Welcome to America, making the middle class a relic of the past one minimum wage job at a time!

 

[H. Lee White]

If conservatives didn't "protect the rich", liberals would take every penny they have.

 

[OscarB63]

If conservatives didn't "protect the rich", liberals would take every penny they have.

the tick always thinks the dog is being greedy with his blood

 

[Mathematician]

There's a lot of truth in it - it's the party for the "think they are" or "wanna be" rich. As for the politicians of both parties, they're both in the tank to big money. Republican Party - home of the pipe-dream "rich." Wanna-bes piss me off more than the real thing.

One of my biggest pet peeves is people whining about something they can solve themselves. Most of those complaining about being poor or lack of opportunity have a heck of a lot they can or could have done to work their way up. The poor liberals are the wanna be rich but don't wanna ******* work for it. Let's just redistribute the wealth.

 

[Stuckinred]

One of my biggest pet peeves is people whining about something they can solve themselves. Most of those complaining about being poor or lack of opportunity have a heck of a lot they can or could have done to work their way up. The poor liberals are the wanna be rich but don't wanna ******* work for it. Let's just redistribute the wealth.

Redistribute the wealth? We've been doing that for decades. You all make it sound like it's something Obama or Harry Reid invented. Man, I could work 24 hours a day and at my hourly rate I still couldn't make over 200 K a year, wait, make that 250K a year, which certainly isn't bad, but it isn't "wealthy." My uncle won the lotter back in 1989 and he couldn't afford to retire. And he won three million. Rich and wealthy. Interpretation of those terms needs to be understood. Christ, my uncle doesn't even consider himself rich!

Contrary to what you may say, people have to have INCENTIVE to work. Our ancestors did - either work or starve. What's the point or incentive to work when you can make more on relief? I don't think it's a good excuse but some do, and how could you blame them? I have a daughter who works her ass off for 10 an hour. She's built to work. Her neighbor maybe would say "screw that," I'll do better on relief.

 

[phoenyx]

It ain't just the conservatives. The Republocrats in general are for the aristocracy and established corporations.

Why do so few people realize this? This is a message that has been conveyed in even mainstream documentaries such as this one:




And it's been mentioned in less mainstream sources for quite some time now:

 

[phoenyx]

Redistribute the wealth? We've been doing that for decades.

Definitely; only it's mainly been going one way- the banks. Bush did it:
President George Bush signs $700bn economic bail-out plan following its approval by Congress | Business | guardian.co.uk

And Obama did as well, the only difference being that he claims to have "hated it":
Obama: Bailing Out the Banks "Was Necessary," but "I Hated It" - DailyFinance

Meanwhile, 15% of Americans have to rely on food stamps. And the way things are going, it's only going to get worse.

 

[Fisher]

capping or eliminating credits and deductions would have raised way more revenue from the rich than hiking rates, and cracking down on corporations being able to write-off so much silliness as business expenses would have as well. Raising rates really is political theater that will not generate the revenue that people are lead to believe. I heard somewhere, I forget where, that eliminating the mortgage interest deduction for the top 10% would generate more taxes than all public housing costs.

 

[nota bene]

Redistribute the wealth? We've been doing that for decades. You all make it sound like it's something Obama or Harry Reid invented. Man, I could work 24 hours a day and at my hourly rate I still couldn't make over 200 K a year, wait, make that 250K a year, which certainly isn't bad, but it isn't "wealthy." My uncle won the lotter back in 1989 and he couldn't afford to retire. And he won three million. Rich and wealthy. Interpretation of those terms needs to be understood. Christ, my uncle doesn't even consider himself rich!

Contrary to what you may say, people have to have INCENTIVE to work. Our ancestors did - either work or starve. What's the point or incentive to work when you can make more on relief? I don't think it's a good excuse but some do, and how could you blame them? I have a daughter who works her ass off for 10 an hour. She's built to work. Her neighbor maybe would say "screw that," I'll do better on relief.

What's the incentive? Self-respect.

 

[TurtleDude]

Conservatives are like that butt kisser you meet on the job who raves how rich the owner is and how nice his car is and basically worships him. The GOP protects the rich at all cost and are willing to sink the whole ship to do it. They deny it but everything they do proves it in spades.

Every time we have tried to hold big businesss acountable for shipping jobs overseas, oil spills or income inequality the right is like a bunch of butt kissing bulldogs and will go to bat for them everytime just like they are now when we try to make the rich pay their fair share. I say stop it my conservative friends it is making you all look like the party of the rich and it these bad times that is not a label that sells.

this bait thread needs flushing but why do left wing whiners who complain about the rich often vote for filthy rich liberals?

 

[TurtleDude]

Nor is sending millions of jobs overseasand paying 15% tax rate like Mitt Romney.

why do people who pay far less actual dollars and pay lower effective rates than 15% whine that others are not pay more?

 

[TurtleDude]

Is there a law against outsourcing?

the law of economic reality demands it in some cases.

 

[Stuckinred]

What's the incentive? Self-respect.

Well, yea. Some people don't have it. Way it's always been, way it always will be. Even your Bible talks about that.

 

[Stuckinred]

this bait thread needs flushing but why do left wing whiners who complain about the rich often vote for filthy rich liberals?

Right, good point. Which is why both parties can kiss my ass in the county square.

 

[ksu_aviator]

They protect people really?

Yes.

Lets see are they protecting the a womans right to choose?

They are protecting the baby that has no say in the matter. Democrats chose to protect the voter and buy votes, Republicans chose to do the noble thing and protect the baby.

The Ltgb?

Yes. I know you probably think that ransacking religion's right to administer their ceremonies and institutions is a noble cause, but ask yourself why?

Are they protecting the right to vote?

Oh, absolutely. Dilution is the biggest threat to the right to vote facing America. We want to insure that those that vote have the right to vote and that those that don't have the right to vote don't dilute the legal voter's influence.

You say Conservatives are protecting people really what people?

Yes.

White people?

Well, they don't want to hurt white people. Do you? Is that the implication here? That if the Republicans aren't harming white people they are in the wrong?

Because over the last few years Conservatives have been blaming alot of people who are not the same skin color, religion, or sexuality as they are.

Like who?

The sad part is you thing Conservatives are protecting people. I have to laugh at this ignorate statement. Do we need to give you a refresher course in the B.S. Conservatives have tried to pull over the last four years.

I have to laugh at the bold statement. I'm not one to point out spelling errors...but when the spelling error is in that sentence fragment...I don't care who you are, dat rite dare is funny!

 

[ksu_aviator]

It is IMPOSSIBLE to.lower taxes enough to offset $2 a day labor.

The meme that jobs are outsourced due to taxes and regs is nonsense.

It isn't just taxes, it is free trade too. I've been a proponent of tariffs that are based on wages/QOL to promote higher wages/QOL in third world countries.

 

[OscarB63]

I have to laugh at the bold statement. I'm not one to point out spelling errors...but when the spelling error is in that sentence fragment...I don't care who you are, dat rite dare is funny!

yeah, dat's some damn fine irory right dere. If you are going to call someone's statement "ignorant"...the very least you can do is not misspell "ignorant". dat be like Jerry Sandusky calling Michael Jackson a child molester

 

[Stuckinred]

this bait thread needs flushing but why do left wing whiners who complain about the rich often vote for filthy rich liberals?

Dude, this isn't a bait thread. It's a damned good question if you ask me. I mean how long are people going to be fooled by these asswipes?

 

[H. Lee White]

Dude, this isn't a bait thread. It's a damned good question if you ask me. I mean how long are people going to be fooled by these asswipes?

Do rich pople have rights?

 

[Stuckinred]

Do rich pople have rights?

Gee, I'll have to think about that! What's that got to do with millionaires installing our "elected" officials? What's that got to do with minimum-wage people who think these millionaires actually care about them?

 

[H. Lee White]

Gee, I'll have to think about that! What's that got to do with millionaires installing our "elected" officials? What's that got to do with minimum-wage people who think these millionaires actually care about them?

That's what I thought.
You aren't interested in an actual answer to the question, you just want to ramble on with a bigoted, partisan rant.
Carry on.

 

[iguanaman]

Because they are not socialists and support free enterprise, that a person should reap the benefits of their own success, and generally see more money for government - regardless of where it comes from - as a negative.

Considering that Romney wanted to GROW the defense budget, how can Conservatives not want more money for their pet projects? What "Conservatives" want is to spend tax money on things that benefit themselves or their buddies not on the people that need the help. You know, the "deadbeats".