BET Founder: Stop Attacking The Wealthy

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Maverick74, Oct 3, 2011.

  1. To vote (D), instead of staying home.
     
    #41     Oct 3, 2011
  2. Ricter

    Ricter

    "Class warfare is American"

    Obama, don't run from class warfare
    By Howell Raines

    "President Obama says the new Buffett Rule "is not class warfare," raising once again the question of why he and his party keep rowing back from one of the Democrats' most potent arguments.

    They seem to have accepted the Republicans' pejorative definition of economic class warfare as an un-American evil. As Warren Buffet points out, middle-income Americans ought to be protesting a system in which billionaires like him pay a third to a half of the 33% tax rate of Buffet's secretary.

    In fact, nonviolent class struggle over income distribution has a long and beneficial history in this country and most other industrial democracies. Starting with the rise of the..."

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/opinion/raines-class-warfare/index.html
     
    #42     Oct 3, 2011
  3. I disagree on the race warfare which actually helps to clear up the race issues.
    It will show who the parties involved (minorities ) really are, their " culture" and tolerance.
     
    #43     Oct 3, 2011