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[Herb Parsons]

Robert,

What is Obama's current main theme?

The one I see most often is "I'm going to take from the 5%, and give to 
the 95%".

That sounds like "get me elected" policy, not sound fiscal policy.

The 5% are not going to remain. Some will, but some will put their money 
someplace where they can keep more of it. They didn't get to be the top 
5% because they stood by and did nothing while others took from them.


Robert Skinner wrote:
> A slight change in viewpoint might get us closer to
> a more comprehensive truth.
>
> Economics
>
> If you look at conservatives as have experienced a
> schism somewhere around the Eisenhower administration.
> One subset could be considered "old" conservatives -
> conservative in fiscal, natural, and social areas.
>
> The other (granted that there are degrees of
> difference, but follow this admitted
> oversimplification) branch could be called "new"
> conservatives, following a progression that has
> resulted in the "neocons" of today.
>
> The neocon fiscal policies culminated in
> "trickle-down".  As seen by liberals, it is regarded
> as providing benefits to those who don't need them
> on the premise that the excess will eventually get
> to those who do have real need.  This is not popular
> among the poor.  The neocon sees it as a means of
> consolidating wealth so that corporations and other
> putatively productive segments of the economy can
> get about the business of the nation, creating
> wealth that will lift the whole country.  The
> history of this theory has been checkered.
>
> Somewhere along the line, one has to ask where the
> cost of any economic policy will fall.  Pushing it
> off into the future hardly seems responsible, but
> it seems to be the general approach of the neocons,
> quite the opposite of the way that the "old"
> conservatives would behave.  Roosevelt has been
> pilloried by old Republicans for creating national
> debt, but more has been created in the last 8 years
> than in all before.
>
> Etc.
>
> A discussion of social issues, etc. would reveal
> greater diversity in viewpoints in these areas - at
> least fragmentation, if not one or more continua -
> certainly not the simple binary division that is
> being offered as the framework for discussion in
> the current election.
>
> Some say that the GOP is now the party of hate and
> fear.  While it is true that it seems more hawkish
> than the Democratic approach, that characterization
> is no more valid than regarding the Democrats as
> misguided economic leaches and treacherous perverts.
>
> Perhaps we are more confined my our two party
> system than we think.  There is little place for
> the multi-dimensional thinker.
>
> Time for a bit of rational thought, doncha think?
>
> /Robert
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> pdgrand at nospam.wmis.net wrote:
>   
>> I once read something that stated that most conservatives think liberals
>> are just plain stupid and that most liberals think conservatives are just
>> plain evil.  I thought it was funny and maybe just a little bit accurate. 
>> Not that liberals are stupid or conservatives are evil, but that each
>> thinks a little that way about the other.
>>
>> Paul
>>
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