Friday, August 12, 2011

viva la revolution





This bullshit article was in the local paper, but they don't publish the column on its website, this is from the Chicago Tribune, followed by my commentary.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-09/news/ct-oped-0809-thomas-20110809_1_credit-rating-credit-score-s-p

Cal Thomas continues to support and defend the wealthiest Americans and the wealth and power of Corporate America from contributing anything to America's fiscal mess. Defending those who are, in fact, the real free loaders of our society. Thomas and arguably all conservatives and republicans do everything they can to prevent the very wealthy and corporate America from contributing and sacrificing anything approaching their fair share to get the country through this economic mess. A mess, that was largely and in most part a result of conservative and republican majorities during the Cheney/Bush administration. Remember...two unfunded wars, unfunded trillion dollar tax breaks to the wealthiest 2% of society, and hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars given away to corporate America, particularly pharmaceuticals, energy, and health insurance, just given to them, not loans, not bailouts, but gifts, largesse from the American treasury, taxpayers money mind you, handed over to corporate America by the elected members of the conservative movement holding power at the time.

Now Romney says that "corporations are people, my friend". Well you know what Mitt? When is my community or state going to give me, a person, a ten year tax abatement to induce me to stay in the community or state, or give all of us persons, tax abatement's to stay in the community and state? when is it going to happen? You know what Mitt? you know what Cal? Real people pay taxes, corporations get out of paying taxes and pay far less (and some amazingly pay none) as percentage of income than real people do. The same for the wealthiest 2%, as a percentage of wealth and income they pay far less than an average real person. And simply ending tax loop holes are off limits. Boy, I tell you, the tax loop holes wouldn't be off limits if they existed and were used by real people, by real people consumers, by real people working men and women, by real middle class people. You can be sure the republicans would have eliminated those loop holes in an instant and then transfer the "savings" to the very wealthiest and corporate interests.

Real Americans know and understand this, they recognize unfairness, injustice, greed and avarice.... and there will be a reckoning, there will be an accounting. You know what else? It will happen worldwide, as people every where will overthrow and tear down the evil that is modern capitalism. The disparity of wealth is getting greater and greater all around the world and the anger against it and the groundswell of billions of oppressed people, real people, will exact justice and change.



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