She actually said "we need the rich because THEY create the jobs".

[lostnfound]

As a kid in the 60s, I remember the 'Chatty Cathy' dolls -- you pulled the string and it said the same predictable things over and over.

We are now a nation with millions of Chatty Cathy's, preprogrammed with the same tunes. In a span of 10 minutes, she complained about illegal immigrants, non-English speakers, welfare, big government, people who hate America ('they should leave the country if they hate it so much'), and said that it was a good thing that 'we went in and saved another country from an evil dictator', and if we stopped 'helping' these other countries they'd soon be begging us to come and help them.

The tiny core of her original self was probably still there, she seemed nice enough; but her spiel was one that I've heard a thousand times.

My comment was that what bothered me more than welfare was corporate welfare -- subsidies and fraud -- to which she replied, 'well, that may be true but we need the rich because they are the ones who create the jobs', or something to that effect.

Dear right-wing friends, neighbors, relatives and acquaintances: we miss the people you would have become.

Dear right-wing leaders and think-tankers: congratulations you swine for leading so many people blindly off a cliff and causing them to lose so much of themselves along the way. Congratulations on getting all of the little people turned against each other so that the culprits can keep on with the big con games.

Everyone I know is losing friends or relatives over ideology right now, or at least the relations are being severely strained.

[skooooo]

1. I've heard this line for years from RW relatives...

We should all be thankful for the kind corporations that give us a paycheck - to the exclusion of expressing any disatisfaction of their policies or practices. Just STFU and work.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yep. Very old talking point.

[lostnfound]

4. Our forefathers with their largely independent livelihoods would have been horrified

to see the extent to which the modern American has been cowed and corraled into a holding pen, and made ready to hand over all freedom to the new plutocracy.

Unlike our ancestors of the industrial age who might have slaved in coal mines or textile mills, most of us today are comfortably unaware of the nature of the pyramid in which they are living and have come to believe that the playing field isn't tilted.

[VOX]

3. Right in there with "the rising tide floats all boats," or whatever that BS line was.

And as has been proven time and again, the rising tide does NOT float all boats, except the really big, expensive models. :grr:

[Beregond2]

5. Standard Republican horseshit.

What really galls me is that these same slimeballs claim to be Christians. How they reconcile this adulation of the rich with quotes like: "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven" I'll never know.