The Saga of Joe and Molly

[kayjayuu]

Yes, Taxes Really Do Kill Job Creation:

Joe and Molly really have it made. They started their small business and built it up to a real excellent small business. It was a big risk at the beginning. They had to work long hours and make do with small returns for quite a few years. But they’ve finally established themselves in a way that not that many

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[peristaltor]

Though this could have been cranked out by someone sincerely, I highly doubt it. Start by reading Brock's Blinded by the Right, and you will see that most of the right-wing talking points are funded by the super-rich through "foundations" like the Cato Institute and American Heritage Foundation. There are lots of these.

And they make sense for the rich to fund them. Between 1973 and (IIRC) 1990, Richard Mellon Scaife shoveled $200 million to some of these foundations. In that time, his top marginal tax rate dropped from (again, IIRC) 91% to 38%, saving him more than double his foundation donations in avoided taxes.

All these foundations have to do is publish, publish and publish some more, then spread these publications as far and wide as they can. Thanks to some very well known quirks in human psychology, people - like you! - will tend to shift their own views toward the published opinion.

Congratulations! You've been had.

[badnewswade]

This propaganda is so blatant and crap a child could see through it.

Like I said upthread, people need to take responsibility for the tossers they elect to run things. Citizenship is not the same as consumerism, you don't just buy into a political theory that promises you the earth and sit back and wait for the goodies - you have to educate yourself, something millions of people have given up on, preferring to remain ignorant.

This is what you want, this is what you get.

[peristaltor]

It is blatant, isn't it, this printed and aired crap. The problem is, it isn't put out by any of the "tossers" in office. It's put out by those that fund the tosser campaigns.

And here we have an interesting dilemma; a class of unelected people is guiding the national discourse without any public contribution necessary. We can toss the tossers out of their cushy offices all we want, but as long as the tosser's bosses see that only new and shiny tossers challenge the current office holder, nothing will ever improve.

What we want is unobtainable, at least in this country.

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[badnewswade]

Yeah, well the morons will vote for it again and again. What'cha gonna do? At least it's democratic.

Americans don't want "big gubmint sosilism", they want to live in shit. Half of them seem to believe the earth is flat and was created by Jebus 4,000 years ago, and that some craphole of a country half way around the world is as much a part of the US as Des Moines, and that the authority of the Jebus extends to women's personal lives... I could go on.

USians need to either get rid themselves of the sponging waste of space that are the neo-Confederate "moron states", or end up like Russia in the 90s - another failed superpower where guns outnumber people... all just my highly offensive point of view mind :-)

[peristaltor]

You really need to be here on the front lines to see what private mis-information has done to warp the public perceptions. Big moneyed interests have mobilized the Young Earth Creationists and Baby Savers to put those issues front and center, destroying any interest in actual public issues like taxation and spending.

Those same interests then (through their radio and telly stations) force their correspondents to wade through the shit stirred by Darwin Haters and Fetus Lovers and, again, avoid real issues. Any one who challenges the Consumer Party Line doesn't get press coverage for their campaign, and gets even less money to spend on that campaign.

People can protest all they want, but here's the kicker: I've seen protest marches a million strong go completely unreported, while a mob of ten or fifteen Tea Baggers gets the cameras and the air time

[badnewswade]

BTW, I love the way that non-existant shopowners are supposed to constitute an argument in his world.

Maybe I should start a troll thread where I ramble on about the various threats faced by "Mr. Socko the glovepuppet" or better still, the invisible fairies who only come out when nobody else is looking.

[badnewswade]

All gone a bit quiet here.

Any more pearls of wisdom from the invisible, imaginary shopkeepers who live in your head?