It is interesting that the people complain the loudest about taxing the rich...are not rich people, heh. But they've bought into the propaganda that the rich people represent the success they themselves might be able to have someday if they work hard. They don't want to admit that the wealthy aren't interested in sharing the wealth, even if you do work hard.
Well, most of them are also stock holders... the most elite of the elite are the Neo-Cons... the left think they're so smart... but no matter how smart and smug they pretend to be, there's nothing compared to the smugness of a Neo-Con.
Way I see it, as far as traditional cons and neo cons go, at least traditional cons believe in their belief system because they were raised to. Neo-Cons just use traditional cons to get votes. It's those very Neo-Cons that tout the importance of morals, provided they don't have to ever follow them.Lying, cheating, stealing, supporting their corporate masters... a far cry form the Christianity and morality the traditional cons hold so dear. But it doesn't matter, the Neos use the propaganda machine to control the Traditionals with fear. The Neos are the ones that tell the Traditionals that it's great that the beast is feeding on them. They're the ones that send their kids to fight wars they profiteer from. Why aren't more Traditional conservatives banding together against the Neo-Cons?
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven." There is a reason that's in the Bible.
I'm going to have to be one of those who say (and I hate saying this) business isn't evil... shady, shifty, gluttonous, cheating, lying, untrustworthy... but not evil. And not in general (but, let's face it... for the most part).
Once again, I must say, it shouldn't be a rally against corporate greed... it's a rally against corporate gluttony. These companies are literally hoarding their wealth, not sharing it by capitalist means of creating jobs and expanding, but rather begging Uncle Sam for OUR money (again, tax cuts that cause revenue to come mostly from us as well as corporate welfare) so they can take that money overseas, pay sweatshop prices, and then pass NO savings onto the consumer. They want no government involvement in regulations when, if they were honest enough to regulate themselves, it wouldn't be a problem either way. That's like telling a kid to do what they're supposed to do and expect them to do it. Unregulated companies are like children without supervision... they're a danger to themselves and others. YET, they keep begging for more money to do what they're supposed to do only not to do it.
So basically a kid who wants no parental supervision and keeps getting a generous allowance for (for the sake of the analogy) flunking classes, bullying students, having a filthy room, not feeding the pets, and just generally being on their worst and laziest behavior. I ask you, if you were a parent, would you keep rewarding a misbehaving brat? Why should the government?
I hear all these anti-government involvement in corporations people, and I'm agreeing to their sentiment on my terms. If companies can be trusted in self regulation, the government should step aside. But that's not going to happen. But the Government should ALSO not give OUR money to bribe companies to make jobs, even if they were using that money to actually create them. How come more Traditional Conservatives aren't banding together over industrial subsidies? Rules of capitalism, these companies need to use their OWN capital to create jobs.