"...The Moochers Prevailed"
The right wing is really pissed off. They thought it was their turn at the public trough so they are now going over the top bat shit. A billion dollars on the Romneybot and nothing to show for it. I just read this propaganda piece written by the Von Mises Institute of Canada, where exactly as I predicted below, he labels the American 47% as the "moochers". The irony of a guy from Canada which has far greater social benefits than the U.S., calling American workers "moochers" cannot be overstated. You can't even buy the truth at this point in time. Willful ignorance is the siren song for the child-like dunces running amok in the Idiocracy. Just wait until these hardcore disinformers realize that there is no one left to exploit. What will they do then, make an honest living? Unfortunately, they don't know how...
[Original Post: November 9th, 2012]
Wow. This last election is really bringing out the bile. The level of societal acrimony is rising daily.
No surprise, Republicans are enraged that Obama got re-elected after the $1 billion dollars they wasted on their transformer Romney Robot. I don't even think they can sell him for scrap at this point. And of course, the party of hate and war has unlimited reservoirs of rage to vent against the mythical "47%" of Americans who apparently are dragging this country down - you know, the "takers", "spongers" and "dependents".
There's only one problem with that self-deluded hypothesis, which is that the average American has far fewer social benefits, a much weaker safety net and overall works harder and longer hours than their counterparts in every other developed country. How can these "47%" dependents be such an economic drag when Canada or Sweden or Germany or Australia has higher minimal wage, better welfare, better medical, better social security and better unemployment insurance? And by the way, all of the aforementioned countries are outperforming the U.S. at this juncture. Of course, this line of Ayn Randism is just self-serving bullshit.
As usual in the morally bankrupt Idiocracy, the truth is the exact opposite of what is spouted daily from the Faux News media. The truth is that the "bourgeois" superclass, sucked the middle class dry via outsourcing but now of course that Ponzi Scheme is collapsing because there are no jobs left to outsource (except their own, which are the next to go), so the Ayn Randists of the day are blaming the very people they victimized. There is one reason why America's superclass (i.e. upper middle class) is far wealthier than Germany's or Canada's or Sweden' and that's for all of the aforementioned reasons i.e. because America's slave class has lower wages and benefits. I already showed, plain as day, that the U.S. middle class was outsourced under the cover of the 2008 Lehman crisis, using Shock Doctrine principles. Graphically, I also showed recently, the U.S. has become an economic Lottery. I would postulate, that if you can't make money in a country that has the lowest minimum wage and benefits of any other developed nation AND that has the laxest immigation policy, turning a blind eye to full exploitation of illegal immigrants, then you really are not a competent business man.
The latest battle is over the fact that Obama wants to raise marginal tax rates on those making over $250k/year which is the top 2% of income earners. Currently, the top marginal tax rate is at its lowest level in the past 50 years, while debt is at its highest level in 50 years. I imagine there is a connection. Meanwhile, as Mitt Romney just proved, the really big earners pay far less than the Middle Class i.e. he paid 14% on his $14 million. That's because he has other multi-millionaire treats and delights that the Idiocracy hasn't woken up about e.g. "carried interest". But who really cares about tax rates, when most of the money is offshore anyway? And why even bother paying any taxes when 40% of the government's budget is borrowed? Why not just turn on the Kardashians and ride this non-amortizing brick into the ground...
The Real Fakers and Takers Outsourced Their Own Country
Unfortunately, this morally bankrupt shit show aka. the "Fuck You Jack, I'm Ok" society was a grand experiment in ultimate greed and Ayn Randism. But like all Ponzi Schemes it's coming to a very bad ending, amid what will soon be an ever-more shrill level of societal acrimony. In the fullness of time, I have no doubt that the Ayn Randists will all become state dependents as well, at which time their views on the subject of "dependency" will have magically changed. And we need not maintain the delusion that the current crop of game show host policy-makers will be the ones to pull the U.S. out of this fiasco. They are experts at destroying nations, not building them.
By the way, the only stocks that gained after Obama got elected were Sturm Ruger and Smith and Wesson.
Lock and Load.
