Quote Of The Day: Busted! Edition

caljn, >>"Do you really believe one man can pull off such a plan?" Obama is but a leader, it takes a village, uh, I mean a cadre of czars (Cass Sunstein) and unaccountable regulation writers (Sebelius) and "independent" allies (George Soros, Center for American Progress). All in place and working under the radar as the Teleprompter in Chief holds photo ops declaring "nearly complete" border fences in front of an adulatory press. >>"I would argue it is the opposing party who wants to crash the system by transferring all the wealth to the top 1% and keeping the masses essentially barefoot and pregnant." Funny, it's the "progressives" who have for years supported the teachers unions, which more than any other force have kept minorities and other children trapped in "public" schools whose results are amongst the worst in the industrialized world (watch the documentary "Waiting for Superman" to see the human catastrophe that is Democrat-progressive fealty to teacher union political support). And it is the "progressives" Great Society / War on Poverty that with nearly a half-century and trillions of dollars have arresting the decline in poverty numbers that was occurring before those programs began. And the concentration of wealth is a result in part of crony capitalism (this afflicts both parties, witness the Democrats cozy relationships with Goldman Sachs et als., and Obama's with Google and GE -- note that it was the "conservative base" that was opposed to the bank bailouts in spite of those being commenced under W, and then continued under BHO). The other element is that a declining (if not extinct) middle-class is a phenomena of collectivist systems (communism / democratic socialism / socialism / fascism / progressivism). Middle classes thrive and are a phenomena of free market capitalism (which has been increasingly diminishing for decades in the U.S. commensurate with the rise of government and its increasing involvement in the economy along with the concurrent "need" by businesses to curry favor with government via "K Street" lobbyists and crony capitalism). In China, the USSR, Cuba and Europe you had/ have a declining (if not extinct) middle class, with an upper class elite (crony capitalists and government / political party officials) and then a (relatively poor) working class subsisting on declining standards of living buttressed by just enough government "benefits" to keep them quiescent. Not a new insight by any means -- consider the "pigs" in the George Orwell classic "Animal Farm."