"My God, what monsters have we become?"

Post #344,429 by Another Scott 7/1/11 7:50:59 AM Reply	"My God, what monsters have we become?" http://www.dailykos....hanges?via=blog_1 You can just feel their concern for the little people oozing off your screen, can't you? The civilized Rush Limbaugh wants nothing more than to call out "demagoguery." He's really, really against people who try to get one group of Americans to hate other Americans. He hates that. (Note to the reader: please stop laughing.) What they're talking about is a proposal by the president to have corporate jets depreciated over seven years, rather than the five years provided for now by, yes, a current loophole. I will allow you a moment to regain your composure, or simply jar yourself awake again after reading that sentence, because this represents the sort of Existential Fucking Threat to the Republic that gets Republicans into a serious lather. Corporate jets depreciating over seven years, rather than five? My God, what monsters have we become? It's all right to nix new school lunch standards because feeding kids healthier food would cost more. It's all right to break labor agreements. Heaven knows it's all right to cut food stamp assistance or unemployment insurance, or tell seniors that Medicare is going away and good luck finding private insurance, pals. Austerity is the buzzword of the dayÂbut tax depreciation over SEVEN years instead of FIVE? To the battlements! The comfortable, leather-appointed battlements! (Includes a picture of Rush's jet.) Cheers, Scott.
Post #344,439 by beepster 7/1/11 10:08:16 AM Reply	Detail vs posture Potus was talking in grander terms, that some this loophole closing would save student loans and the FDA...not possible..so the class warfare part was to stir up support for his full suite of tax increases by using this singular example, and the financial impact of this single tax rounds to zero in the discussion, so why use it at all? That part, rush has correct..and is using the correct word. Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #344,441 by Another Scott 7/1/11 10:22:01 AM Reply	Heh. But it's worth blowing up the FFaCredit of the US over.
Post #344,468 by Ashton 7/1/11 3:45:46 PM Reply	Guess then.. yer just another prevert- Obv. you love being the icon for ALL the excesses of the 'Class' who have forever gamed-the-System and, (via diligent greed-o-nomics) have made that process of automatic Deep-wealth-transfer --> into a simple algorithm. S'OK though: there is value! in a public display of such studied disdain for ever viewing the social results of the corporatocracy; after all, marlowe has evenesced into ____? (wherever it is that those in need of Extreme Unction go ... to pretend that everyone's out to Get Them. cha cha cha) You provide a Teaching ExperienceÂ, for any who hadn't before extrapolated the significance of those fav slogans of the Right- 'place to store all that National Wealth': some Non-USSR-of-A place which (still) harbours and caters-to, No Taxes on Greedheads. Maybe we'll both be moving, then? (But not to the same destination.) Carrion; we need all the giggles which the intransigent afford us, in every mealy-mouthed Yabbut.. which the little grey cells can manufacture indefinitely. (But you'll never replace My Gramma as the Numero Uno icon of pure Aynish neurasthenia--she was There.. long before your faith in gaming-the-System replaced all those required 'ethics' courses you had to fake.) I could almost see voting for ~~Palin~~ Cthulhu in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers! -- via RC
Post #344,471 by beepster 7/1/11 4:23:06 PM Reply	Hook line sunk You are using the singular term " class" exactly as he intended. And when policy exacts the same toll on those outside of that handful it's just "consequence" Playing on basic animal instinct works, obviously. Same fundamental reason why Karl was wrong. Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #344,485 by Ashton 7/1/11 10:01:17 PM Reply	Marx or Rove?
Post #344,495 by beepster 7/2/11 1:27:36 AM Reply	1 Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #346,477 by crazy 8/20/11 7:13:23 AM Reply	Rove is rarely wrong He's an evil son of a bitch. If time travel was invented, a good project would be to kill him in his crib. But he's rarely wrong.
Post #346,535 by boxley 8/21/11 12:52:12 PM Reply	lrpd that sucker If time travel was invented, a good project would be to kill him in his crib. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep

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