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Politics
Category:
Economics
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Miscellaneous
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>>>>Uhhhh hold on a second there -- you think the Democrats are the party of the rich? lol
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>>Look at median state incomes. The wealthier states are almost all Democrat. The Democrats by definition are the party of the rich, and watch out when the poor finally figure out that Dem leaders often are enthusiastic about anti-poor policies like offshoring jobs and importing millions of H1B workers to compete with school leavers.
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>>Mind you, the GOP also seems to go out of its way to pursue impossible senseless ideas. In healthcare, celebrating removal of "personal mandate" (meaning compulsory participation) while promoting coverage of pre-existing conditions, is completely daft. But it was equally daft for the Dems to keep postponing/waiving personal mandate which is why it wasn't already embedded and unshakeable when the GOP took power. If there's a competition underway to see who can be the stupidest about joint spending for the common good, I'm not sure who might win.
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>So to be clear here --
>1. Do you think that the Democrats polices benefit the rich more than the Republicans?

It's correct to point at Reagan and other repubs when discussing the massive shift of wealth to the very rich that began during the 1970's.
However, that shift was given big assists by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Carter's deregulation of the trucking and airline industries dealt a devastating blow to the trucking and airline industries and unions.
Several million high-paying union jobs were replaced with low-paying, low benefit jobs.
It's not uncommon now to have airline pilots working two jobs in order to pay bills.
It's probably safe to say that Walmart would not exist in its present form if it had to use union truckers, as it would have before Carter's betrayal of US workers.
Clinton's support of the union-busting NAFTA, while not as devastating as Carter's deregulation, was another smashing blow against working people.















>2. ...or you just think that there are more rich Democrats than rich Republicans?
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> These are two very different things.
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.
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