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Re: Tuesday ramblings--Romney hood!

By: joe-taylor in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 08 Aug 12 5:27 PM | 60 view(s)
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CF,


We don't normally disagree with much that you write. Having said that, however, we do wonder if the people who perpetuate the neoconservative causes will ever die out. When we look at Mitt Romney, we see his five sons, each with a twenty million dollar nest egg ready to carry on his ideas until their children come along in their turn to do the same thing. George Romney, Mitt's father, began the tradition of full disclosure that his son is now brutilizing because he simply doesn't want us to know what he has done with his money over the years. From what we know, George Romney gave his son a good Harvard education and a path forward in this life. Mitt Romney has given his children a fine inheritance and a further reason to perpetuate the belief that those with money should live by a dijfferent set of rules than the rest of us. If Romney were the only one doing this, it might not be so bad. However, it is going on all over and the wealth advantages that these people are acruing through no effort of their own make them, like George's son, feel even more entitled than their parents ever though of. They like to speak of the entitlement problem, however, their own sense of entitlement to passed down wealth is far more serious to the nations future than anything else that we see on the horizon. This has led to so many of the problems that threaten the nation, including the belief that there should be no inheritance laws to prevent what is going on from perpetuating itself, not to mention a tax code, as you mention, that favors the rich and further lines their pockets with what could be considered ill gotten gain.

This nation was built on hard work and intelligence and sacrifice and people like Mitt Romney and his sons have contributed very little, in our view, to that heritage.

IOVHO,

Regards,

Joe


To say that "God exists" is the greatest understatement ever made across space and time.


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Re: Tuesday ramblings--Romney hood!
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Tue, 07 Aug 12 7:01 PM 		Msg. 09172 of 54959

There was a conservatism of small-scale entrepreneurialism. Or at least an intention of that type. It was a useful force to level against the kind of fat and unconstructive unionism that was pervasive in the late 1970s. Companies need the ability to manage themselves and to bend around intransigence.

But this new conservatism is on its surface simply ideological, which is to say it gives not a damn about truth; and in its depths it is mainly about having rich people keep the maximum amount of their income and letting the less rich "toughen up" in a brutal, safety-netless society.

As to the ideology. There is no trickle down - these principles produce little benefit at the bottom and almost all the benefit at the very top. Inequality is the obvious output of a regressive tax code. The incentives don't work because they don't put surplus wealth into the middle, so few are able to invest in their ideas. Charity is not sufficient to replace government welfare - when the economy recedes, so does largesse. Low taxes create poor infrastructure as well as a harsh landscape. High incarceration rates solve one problem by creating another. The right wing model simply doesn't produce what it claims.

At some point, the folks who believe in these bizarre theories will die. Until then, I guess they have enough money to buy influence and perpetuate their ideas. But the right wing pendulum is going to swing towards sense and moderation at some point. You cannot sustain fiction forever.

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