Heh. I'm SO glad there is still room for debate. Sweet.
I guess my one-liner would be "at what cost"...
I personally am not too surprised that big $$ business is doing better
with Walker in Office. He's done everything possible to make it so.
I wonder how much of that money comes from, say, the way "he"
dicked with the EPA regulations. Or other ways in which the system
got fucked by "the good old boys".
And I love how the average is over the last 40 years. I've never taken
any statistics classes, but I do get the basic idea. Add to the fact,
the slight miscalculation in, what was it... job growth or whatever?
You can only trust this stuff so much, if trust is the right word.
I was just bummed because I had felt like we were poised to do some
great stuff, before the Republicans got control of everything. And that,
I think, caused the real problems- a lack of balance, in general.
Now, I would blame the populace generally, since theoretically, it's
our votes that put these people in office. Generally. However, seeing
as there is more and more coming out about how the Republicans
actually /got/ their folks into office- and kept them there- and none of
it is very flattering, or even democratic... well, we do have to concede
that our system has gotten majorly shat-upon. By both D and R, but
I gotta hand it to the R- they made it an art. Or abused it till it came
out publicly, which ever you prefer.
How this ties in with the economy, and big business, is more insidious
than I like to think about.
In short, Jr. could only have screwed the pooch if the big players /didn't/
see "larger dividends" (sorry, I'm not an economist... although, a Repub
friend took some classes, and SWEARS Reagan set up Clinton to
get the deficit under control. Myself, I saw a man make a promise that
I really didn't think he could keep, on one hand, and on the other, a man
who while telling everyone they had to "tighten their belts", wasn't even
pulling his own weight (paying taxes, IIRC)-- both dirty scoundrels, I think,
but hell, look at Carnegie-- these things just aren't cut and dry) .
At any rate, I bet most folks here listen to NPR/Democracy Now, and Fox
News/BBC, so are well aware of how the same stuff looks from different sides...
I don't know. I love the Wally-World, and I love the Mom & Pop, and I love
South Park... and I love how everything is relative.
I guess the moral is, be sure you're on the side that's winning, and currently,
I'd say that's the side with the money. I'm not rich, unless you compare me
to someone with a lot less money (i.e. most of the rest of my State)... well,
maybe upper middle class, or at least middle class. Hard to tell, when it's
skewed so funkilly, like here in New Mexico ('case ye wer wondering ;).
Yeah, I'd say I'm booze-shwa, % wize... A low rung maybe, but still...
Bah. Winners, losers- good, bad- rich, poor... it's all so... what was
that "race" of people called in that show Andromeda... they were
engineered.... yeah, it's all so- that.
"Underpants!"
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