Rich Guys Vote To Extend Tax Cuts For Rich, Laughter Trickles Down to Middle Class

[avaistheone1]

The market continued to move sideways today as economic data was less relevant than Bernie Madoff's thoughts on the CAPM and fund managers don't want to rock the boat (though they'll happily tickle the little man inside of it) this close to year end bonuses. This lack of volatility in the market is less surprising than John Boehner crying over a paper cut (or a tax cut) or finding out that old men still want sex (and you really needed to do a study to for that?).

The big news of the day was that the Senate passed the tax cut plan ensuring the "spend and don't tax" policies of George W. Bush will continue to bankrupt this country for generations to come. It is the Government's ultimate fuck you to anyone who still believes in the Ricardian equivalence proposition or the mathematical concept of compounding.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rich-guys-vote-extend-tax-cuts-rich-laughter-trickles-down-middle-class?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29

[xchrom]

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[ladjf]

2. Those of us who are not part of the Republican larceny machine

are either going to have to find a way to counter their highly effective propaganda or be prepared to just drift along into poverty and slavery.

Remember they have enough money to own the media and they posses skills that have been honed from the early days of the Nazi propagandists that joined the Republican team after WWII.

The idea of spending as much or more on our behalf isn't a good one for a number of obvious reasons that I won't bother to list.

My theory is that about 30% of Americans have been almost totally "captured" psychologically into believing the Republican mantras. Once that "robot" mind state has been achieved, their votes will be automatic. No amount of counter politicking will change a thing.

I believe that we need to use re-programming techniques along the lines of the ones used to retrain
people who have been victimized in various extremist cults. I'm no expert in this area and would welcome input from anyone who is. Does that retraining ever work?

Whatever the answers to our political problems might be, it seems that we need to try something other than what we are now doing because what we are doing now most definitely not working.