EAT THE RICH!!!!

[Dr.Phool]

This battle cry from the 60's needs to be resurected.

They're trying to eat us alive now.

Latest proposals to eliminate taxes on dividends, and capital gains, eliminate business deductions for health insurance. Eliminate deductions for state and local taxes.:wtf:

It's getting worse by the day. And this asministration hasn't even started yet.

Eat them before they eat us.

Calling Doctor Dean.

[joelogan]

1. dean wanted to raise the SS retirement age to 70

and he once denigrated the political left by saying "This is sort of the last gasp of the Left."

Where on EARTH did you get the idea that dean was ever some kind of radical liberal???? He is CONSERVATIVE ECONOMICALLY! In other words, except for a couple of token socially liberal issues he cherry picked for his primary campaign, Dean has ALWAYS been a conservative.

[MountainLaurel]

2. Too greasy

But I'll smack a few in the head. (-:

[indigobusiness]

3. You think Mad Cow is bad?

Imagine.

[City of Mills]

4. Reminded me of Motorhead

EAT THE RICH

They say music is the food of love,
Let's see if you are hungry enough,
Take a bite, take another, just like a good boy would,
Get a sweet thing on the side,
Home cooking, homicide,
Side order, could be your daughter,
Fingerlicking good

Come on baby, eat the rich,
Put the bite on the son of a bitch,
Don't mess around, don't give me no switch,
C'mon baby eat the rich
C'mon baby eat the rich

Sittin' here in a restaurant,
Tell the waiter just what you want
Is that the meat, you wanted to eat,
How would you ever know?
Hash browns an' bacon strips,
I love the way that you lick your lips,
No fooling, I can see you drooling,
Feel the hunger grow



Eat up, eat you, eat me,
Eat two, get one free
Shetland pony, extra pepperoni
Just pick up the phone,
Eat greek, or eat chinese,
Eat salad, or scarf up grease
You're on the shelf, maybe eat yourself,
Come on, bite my bone

[ElectroPrincess]

9. Hey, I'll have to dust off that old "Motorhead" CD - side of "Overkill"

thrown in too for good measure.

I hate people who make ya feel small
I hate having my back against the wall
...

Not much more to you :P

[libpunkmom]

34. Listening

to Motorhead when I read this post!!!!

[cattleman22]

5. How does eliminating business health insurance deductions help the rich

This seems like it would do more to hurt the rich and the workers.

[donkeyotay]

6. There are two S's in assministration... n/t

[cattleman22]

7. Why this attitude?

I think that this attitude hurts Democrats in national elections. This appears to be raw hatred. How do you get a vote from a person who is saving and working to one day be finacially independent if you have this attitude?

It is one thing to talk about making sure that everyone is paying their progessive fair share. It is quite another to talk about killing and eating the rich.

[Stephanie]

8. Who said killing and eating the rich??? LOL!

Are you deliberately misreading it? Have you never heard this phrase before? Do a little Google search before you embarrass yourself again.

[ElectroPrincess]

10. Oh my dear cattleman ... Even my cousins in South Dakota

know what "dark humor" means. No, NEWT and RUSH have got their way because they're "in your face" and don't back down raw. No way do I wish our morals to sink to cruel or underhanded, but NO more mild mannered pansy men and women. We need to figuratively take our balls out of our purse and get back in their face. WHEN the sheeple begin to hurt in their pocketbook, they'll sign on, no doubt. :-)

[PhuLoi]

11. Well said, ElectroPrincess. The precision of your point saddens

me though. It is true that most will only wake up when they are hungry. I look back to the thirtys when even the baptists were democrats. They were forced to rethink the 'Pray and pray and eat hay all day for bye and bye there will be pie in the sky' dogma.

[donkeyotay]

12. "take our balls out of our purse"

LOL. No, be polite. Remember Miss Manners. Bend a little further... further, that's right. That's it. Please be polite while you're getting screwed by Men of the People such as Rush, the Multi-millionaire pill-popping populist. Remember, it's only class warfare if we do it.

[ElectroPrincess]

24. I know I know ... for me it's anatomically impossible ...

But like Bhutto's pre-war speech with DA Dean Wermer and those pretty boy Frat-Rats in "Animal House," what the heck! = I was on a roll. <blush and belch>

[hfojvt]

20. It means cow tipping, right?

I am not sure if a crack like "even ... South Dakota" qualifies as humorous.

Aerosmith also had a song called "Eat the Rich". It says:
"Their attitudes may taste like shit, but go real good with wine."

Cattleman is right in that the 60+ age group will mostly be offended by this type of humor. Until the under-25 crowd gets out to vote, that is the demographic that we need to win.

Sadly, I think that getting hurt in the pocketbook is going to make alot of people meaner and less generous - more eager to hear a tax cut message.

[ElectroPrincess]

25. Hell yes, I'll fight to defend your right to be offended by my

tasteless humor. :-) <hic-cup!>

My humor is not intended to insult ... well save for the freepers (absolute power mongers). I grew up in South Dakota and my uncle was a rancher who owned our local "Sale Barn." I love the plains of South Dakota, the corn fields of Nebraska, and eating pheasant (sans under glass) in the fall.

On edit: I apologize to Cattleman because I did NOT mean to offend. My older brother and cousins in SD tease me back, so I was mindlessly too direct with a stranger. I am sorry to have crossed the line ;)

[cattleman22]

33. I apologize for being too easily offended

I had not heard the term "eat the rich" before.

[Bridget Burke]

13. Those poor fools think they'll get rich by working & saving?

The Bush paradise is not one where people can get rich. It's where the rich can get even richer.

[datasuspect]

17. the appellation "middle class"

is the one of the few consolations the working poor still have.

so many of the deluded can pretend that they aren't one paycheck to 6 months from homelessness

[jukes]

14. and why did you

come to visit, exactlY? the rules are pretty clear.

[datasuspect]

18. why

are you so concerned about how democrats appear? this seems to a leitmotif in many of your threads.

it doesn't matter how much fundamentalist ass the dnc kisses, democrats will still be considered instruments of satan to the right wing.

[cattleman22]

19. Appearances are important to if Dems want a few more percentage points

This has nothing to do with kissing fundementalist ass and everything to do with convincing swing voters.

Where did I say anything about kissing fundamentalists? The point is that many swing voters want to work hard and save money for retirement. To do so, they must accumulate wealth making themselves "rich." There is a perception, apparent in the first post of this thread, that Democrats are anti-rich. I don't believe that is the real message. That is why I am concerned about appearances.

[datasuspect]

22. your argument

is transparent

[annabanana]

23. retirement? retirement?

Isn't that something invented by the unions back in the 30's? Gee.. you used to be able to stop working? EVER?

talk about yer utopia...

pensions are a thing of the past...individual health care will eat through ALL your savings pretty quick...and when the real estate boom busts and the piss-poor dollar kick starts inflation roaring...

and what, exactly, is "financial independence?"

[cattleman22]

28. Financial Independence

Financial Independence is the point at which a person can retire due to income from investements, savings, pensions, SS, etc that provides for the minimum required living expenses.

[annabanana]

30. and you think this is still possible

When savings are devalued by the shrinking dollar and eaten up by increased costs, SS is "privatized" into the crap-shoot that is the stock market, and your pension has gone BOOM from Enrony shenanigans and the federal agency that's supposed to guarantee it is bankrupt?

[cattleman22]

32. Yes I do.

""When savings are devalued by the shrinking dollar and eaten up by increased costs""

Yes this is certainly a problem.


""SS is "privatized" into the crap-shoot that is the stock market""


This is not a done deal. Even if SS is partially or fully privitized, we all have to do the best we can. The stock market is not a crap shoot. It is taking ownership of some of the means of production.


""and your pension has gone BOOM from Enrony shenanigans and the federal agency that's supposed to guarantee it is bankrupt?""


Enron did hurt many people who overconcentrated in Enron stock. However, that is a good lesson to investors not to put all of their eggs in one basket. I also think the bastards at Enron need to pay and be put away for many many years.


Don't let these negatives get you down to the point that you abandon saving for the future. If you do that, you will be letting the other side win.

[MsUSA]

15. I've been wearing my crossed knife and fork pin since the fraud count,

and people will ask me what's that mean, or, oh that's a cute pin, and I say it's my "eat the rich" pin. They just look at me with this blank expression, they'll ask me to repeat what I just said, and then they shrug and walk away. It's my favorite pin, and I won't take it off until a Democratic, or a Green or an independent gets into the White House.

[datasuspect]

16. hang them from telephone poles

with their $75 italian silk ties

[SaintLouisBlues]

21. Class warfare sounds good to me

How else to break up the Brooks Brothers/Wal-Mart coalition?

We need to work on the Wal-Mart part of the equation.

I should say China-Mart, not Wal-Mart.

[molly]

26. You don't think Dean is rich?

[ElectroPrincess]

27. Yeah, Dean's rich but he's not *selfish* rich ...

I get the impression that it (wealth) was a side benefit to his career and political ambitions. That is, the aquisition of money just for money's sake ... for show, is not the same to "The Deans" as it is to members of say The Bush, Cheney or Frist Families.

Sure, he loves power, every politician does but even more than Kerry, I believe he can empathize with middle class Americans.

[AP]

29. How about: Let's have an America that rewards HARD WORK with wealth...

...rather than rewards wealth with more, easy wealth, without having to work for it.

[Buck Rabbit]

31. So which would go better with Teressa Heinz Kerry, Ketchup or Steak Sauce?

By the way, I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment. So few working people realize the enormous gap between the 2% and the other 98%. Nor do they grasp the total servitude of the Republican party in not just perpetuating but extending the gap.

"EAT REPUBLICANS, NOT RABBITS" seems like a good theme to me.

Actually, I saw a bumper sticker a few years ago that said "2% control X% of the Nations Wealth" (Can't remember what X is at the moment.) Frankly, I was shocked at how high that number was, and I was pissed off. This was the start of rekindling my interest in politics that had laid dormant through the 90s.