Talk of a class war grows louder (exclusive)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20111029/NEWS01/710299923#talk-of-a-class-war-grows-louder

Photo: http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=OW&Date=20111029&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=710299923&Ref=AR&maxw=600&maxh=400
Placards at the Occupy Wall Street protest encampment in New York City say class war is ahead. But scholars' more considered assessments are divided, with cries of class war likely to be more hyperbole.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By Roger Buddenberg
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Are we in a class war?

No hordes of Americans are building guillotines and brandishing torches, ready to storm the Bastille. But the idea of class war is cropping up a lot lately.

>> The president is stoking one with his plans to raise taxes on upper-income Americans, some of his GOP rivals insist.

>> The Occupy Wall Street protesters — whose slogans pit 99 percent of Americans against the richest 1 percent — are similarly accused. Their online conversations are peppered with talk of class war. Demonstrators have faced off with riot police, sometimes violently, in Oakland, Calif.; Chicago; Atlanta; Des Moines; and other cities.

FULL story and a second photo at link.

[leveymg]

1. It's only a war because the 1 percent have waged one. The violence is theirs and the police.

This is Associated Propaganda-GOP spin.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Exactly!! Class war makes it sound like a whole group ,though the aspiring

portion of the 99% , that carry their water are our enemies and allies alike.

[RKP5637]

3. Well, other than the rich asshole that almost ran me over yesterday while I was

pulling out of our driveway as he sped by in a 25mph zone ... because he thought he owned the road, taking an illegal shortcut through our neighborhood. That was damn close to a class war.

[redqueen]

4. Of course it's a class war. It was in the 20's and 30's

and it is now and has been since the 80's when Reagan started once again started pushing the tax burden onto the lower incomes and easing it off the rich.

We've been in it for decades this time and it's not hard to see who's been winning. So far. We need more Dems to be 'traitors to their class'... unfortunately most are perfectly happy soaking the rest of us so they can have more.

[RKP5637]

6. +1, n/t

[Xipe Totec]

5. Bring it on. nt