Who are the undeserving "others" benefiting from expanded government actions?

(Blog Post) It is true that the federal government embraces redistributive policies and that middle-class income is seized in order that "someone else benefits." But so obviously, that "someone else" who is benefiting is not the poor and lower classes -- who continue to get poorer as the numbers living below the poverty line expand and the rich-poor gap grows in the U.S. to unprecedented proportions. The "someone else" that is benefiting from Washington policies are ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via NewsRack (Afghanistan), Glenn Greenwald
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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Health
Member Tags: government corruption, class warfare
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Sep 14, 2009 - 10:39 AM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Sep 15, 2009 - 10:22 AM PDT

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Sep. 15, 2009

This opinion piece starts with the premise that tea party protesters are justified in their rage concerning their hard earned money being taken for the benefit of "others" -- but that the "others" that are benefitting aren't the have-nots that the protesters appear to detest but instead are the business moguls who seem to just get richer. It goes from there into sweeping generalities about the evils of right wing ideology and about both Republicans and Democrats being in the pocket of big business along with a detour through peasant mentality. It strikes me as raising an important point then drowning the arguments in hyperbole.

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Richard McIlnay
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by Richard McIlnay - Sep. 15, 2009

I agree with Greenwald that too many of the angry people are angry at the wrong persons. The essence of democracy is no the vote, but the people pooling their resources and energy to help one another. Somehow the thrust now seems to be that its dog eat dog and get as much as you can. Even some churches are preaching it Christian to be rich, which I am sure is good for the preachers income.

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