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Originally Posted by Hellion
What really pisses me off specifically about the republicans is they seem to like creating division amongst people...like division between the working poor and poor who are not currently employed, so then people vote contrary to their interests because they think Republican Joe will stop their neighbor Lazy George who's abusing their welfare wilst helping them have better chances of moving up the financial heirarchy cause their tax money wont go to Lazy George on welfare.
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You are so right about this. Here's another angle: People are mad about having to pay taxes and blame the democrats for that reduction in their take home pay. What they are forgetting to look at is the reasons why their wages aren't going up despite improvements in labor's productivity, (thanks to improving technology.) That's due to corporations and the financial sector skimming all the increased income that improving technologies bring, grabbing it for the people at the top, leaving wages of ordinary working people stagnant. Taxes wouldn't sting so much, if earnings were going up for everybody, not just those at the top.
As you say, Repubs are geniuses at the "divide and conquer" game. Cutting disabled recipients of Social Security off from the main herd is potentially a very smart strategy. They wouldn't dare propose cutting regular Social Security by 20%. Their dream is to somehow back Democrats into being the ones to reduce that, and Obama even offered to do that and take the heat (by eliminating the automatic cost of living increase.) But they got too darn greedy, so Obama told them to screw off and withdrew his offer.