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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 08:53 AM
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Discrimination against the poor by the Dems - how acceptable to you?
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While I wasn't looking the Democratic party dec;ared itself "the middle class party. I suppose this would be like an income Goldilocks litmus test: we represent people who don't have too much or too little - but juuuust right.
I used to consider the "lomousine liberals" and "liberal elite" total BS, but now I realize that there is a grain of truth in it: if you don't reach a certain tax bracket, you ain't in our club.
GOP may work for the richest at the expense of everyone else and may discriminate against anything in sight, but they are clever enough to not exclude the poor from their target demographic. Very clever indeed, as they intend to increase this demographic with their policies.
Think of it: if you are unemployed, or too poor to pay taxes, DNC is not paying any attention to you (most of their economic incentives are in the form of tax credits). But the GOP which chennels your tax money in faith based crap, will reach these people in the soup line and bamboozle them.
When Wes Clark proposed a tax program that eliminated taxes for families up to 50,000, Kerry said: "but how are they going to share their part of the burden?" "By sending their sons and daughters in wars" Clark answered Faux bimbo who, interestingly enough asked the same question. Kerry promissed with a straight face that in 3 years the minimum wage will go up all the way to...$7...Oh, glory!
I am not asking for acceptance in the middle class party - I left voluntarily as soon as I saw the income litmus test.
But as an outsider , I have a bit of advice: you may want to rethink your platform/base - because by the time BFEE is done with this country, there won't be any Goldilocks economic base left for ya. That's the one area in which I suspect they'll be competent enough to accomplish their goal.
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