Hannity: "If Rich People Don't Buy Yachts" Or "Planes" Or "Go On Expensive Vacations,

[maxrandb]

Guess Who's Gonna Suffer"

I know it's Hannity...BUT Holy Batshit Crazy Man!?

The problem is that this is what the Tea-baggers have been taught. There it is for you all in one glorious simple sentence. All the "Ayn Randian, Trickle-Downdian, Supply-sided" idiocy of today's America broken down into plain language.

What a bunch of "week-willed, yellow-bellied, pissants" we've become. "Oh Please Master, just a few crumbs is all I's askin' for"

Americans used to take pride in their work and their spirit, and that labor and spirit was admired and passed from generation to generation.

Now, we grovel like slaves, and are careful not to ask "too much" from our masters. We're thankful "just to have a job", and maybe if we work hard enough, and take less money, the master will allow us to collectively bargain for warm gruel instead of cold.

What Hannity and his ilk are selling is bad enough, but what really makes me sick to the pit of my stomach, is that our neighbors and fellow Americans actually buy it.

I weep for my once great country.

[Enrique]

1. think of all the people Tiffany's employs

thanks Newt!

[Liberal In Texas]

2. I guess we should wait for the uber-rich to start handing out dimes to us

...like during the last Republican Depression...

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Poor Sean.

His gig is about to dry up. Who's gonna pay him big money when Rupert's gone?

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. Most of that stuff is from other countries anyway.

They're not taking their vacation to Jellystone National Park. That I can promise you.

[CBGLuthier]

5. trickle down my back theory redux

Don't these assholes have any new tricks?

[ElboRuum]

6. Who Are No One But Rich People?

I'll take Dumbshit Nonlogic for $600, Alex.

[zeemike]

7. And I am actually old enough to remember a time before we went nuts.

I remember that a job would pay well enough to support a whole family of people....and have enough to send the kids to school....all on one worker.
Now it takes at least two and the kids may have to finance their education themselves.

But the crazy part is how they got so many to believe that it was normal and a good thing.

[spin]

25. I also remember those days. During the Eisenhower administration the rich were taxed at 91% ...

on both income and capital gains.

Unions were common and powerful.

Now both parents have to slave at low payer jobs that offer no pensions while the CEOs make fortunes and get golden parachutes when, through their incompetence, they run their companies into the ground.

A college education is so high priced that only the children of the rich and privileged can get a quality education and walk away without owning a fortune in loans. This gives the children of the rich the advantage they need to stay safely above the lower class serfs.

Soon there will be no middle class and we will return to a modern versions of a medieval feudal society where the poor exist to serve the rich and have no hope of ever gaining middle class status as the middle class will no longer exist.

It will be good to be rich but otherwise life will suck.

The rich will be able to afford the heathcare necessary to live a long and enjoyable life while they get the elected officials they own to gut the Social Security and Medicare systems to insure that those in the lower class die young. Once a wage slave outlives his usefulness to the system, he becomes a burden on the society that exists to serve the upper class.

[Jim Warren]

8. Pfftttttttt, an ancient bromide

Hannity is a wannabe of the courtier class, the kind that was good as polishing the royal 'scepter' in the court of Louis 14th.

[CTyankee]

21. Yep, I remember that one. It was about yachts and when a tax was slapped on them

the yacht building industry here dried up and ALL those people employed in it were jobless.

Yup it affected HOW MANY workers in the U.S.A?

[alsame]

23. ROFL, I heard Buchanan use that one last week on Tweety's show. nt

[CTyankee]

24. That one is so old it has whiskers...

I'm admitting my age by even telling it...

Buchanan is beyond redemption. The guy is so stuck in the past. When are they going to give him the boot at MSNBC? He's an embarrassment...

[HughBeaumont]

9. Come on. Their viewers are merely "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"!

"Don't touch the rich, because one day, you might BE rich!"

Propaganda outlets like CNBC and Faux are gallows humor at it's worst.

[maxrandb]

10. Actually saw that Rick Santanelli guy crawled out of his hole

to launch another idiotic rant about raising the debt ceiling.

I swear that I think we all went into Bizarro World when he was screaming like a banshees and all the traders on the floor of the Stock Exchange were behaving like they had somehow been "cheated".

I was waiting for all the Hedge Fund Managers and Stock Traders to link arms and break out in a rendition of "We Shall Overcome".

[HughBeaumont]

16. Oh, the CBOE floor where that slime-dripper dwells is LOADED with testosteroned-asshats.

The scenario you described is the EXACT thing they almost did when he went on his infamous February 2009 Tea Party rant. It's nothing short of comedy gold.

[JHB]

11. What if they pay their employees more?

That'll alleviate a lot more suffering that their yachts, planes, and vacations.

[maxrandb]

13. Paying their employees more?

Why that would be "socialism"...errr...wouldn't it? :crazy:

[blm]

12. If workers were paid more fairly they could buy better healthcare, groceries, and educations for

their families.

[maxrandb]

14. And then maybe...just MAYBE...they wouldn't have to eat the rich!

[blm]

19. ....mmmmm....maybe.... ; )

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[spin]

26. I wonder if the rich are tasty. (n/t)

[guitar man]

15. well you know

I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I can attest to the fact that there were no rich people then. none at all, the evil taxes and unions made it impossible to get rich. Impossible I tell ya!








do I really need this?

:sarcasm:

[October]

17. Well done! lol!!! /nt

[spin]

27. I grew up in the 50s and 60s and back then we had a middle class ...

One man could support his family on the money he made from working one job.

[guitar man]

28. Indeed

and plenty of business people got rich providing actual goods and services to that middle class.

[LatteLibertine]

18. Last I heard

about 70% of consumption has come from those that aren't "wealthy". That's a conservative estimate. Sure, it would hurt if wealthy folks completely stopped buying and they aren't the foundation of our consumer society. Having a gutted middle class is much more detrimental.

[spin]

29. How many cars and refrigerators and living room sets can one rich man buy ...

as opposed to 50 middle class people?

[spin]

20. If low tax rates create jobs, where are they?

I'm amazed that the rich are not insisting we do away with all their taxes and promising us that then they will create jobs.

My approach, if I were King, would be to tell the rich and the big corporations to either start creating jobs or face truly draconian tax increases. I'm thinking of something like restoring the highest tax bracket to 91% like it was in 1954 during the Eisenhower administration. The rich also paid 91% taxes on capital gains.

If you shipped jobs overseas and laid off American workers, your company would face a severe penalty such as having to pay unemployment benefits and the cost of retraining for all the effected workers.

If your company hired people or brought jobs back from overseas, they would get a tax break.

Of course that's impossible today. The rich used the all the tax breaks that they received to accumulate enough money to buy our elected officials and the media.

[salin]

22. Hannity is so 1929.