They are calling it a class war, Obama's plan to chip away at our staggering deficit. A deficit that was paid for on the backs of middle Americans, and their children, and their children's children. A deficit so large that every American alive today will be paying for it until the day they die. A deficit that was born from a surplus alongside the emergence of the greatest economic divide in our history. A deficit who's making made the poor poorer, the rich richer, and lowered the standard of living for middle class American's for the first time in our country's history.
Our president, ineffective as he is, has determined to attack the deficit problem with a combination of cuts to social programs and tax hikes. Tax hikes, to the republican party's dismay, for the richest members of our society. This is anathema to republican politicians because the richest members of our society are precisely the people who paid for these republican's tickets to public office. Members of the republican party who do not hold office are equally dismayed at the promised tax hikes for the rich, though this can only be explained as some pathetic dog follows master loyalty as the population Obama is proposing to raise taxes for accounts for less than 1% of the country. Basically, republicans are up in arms that Obama wants to tax people who make WAY MORE money then them. Now, if I did math like the politicians who got us into this deficit (Republicans mind you) I would tell you that this represents .5% of the republican party. However, we all know that is not how the numbers really work and thus we arrive at the crux of our problem.
George Bush decided that markets can regulate themselves and removed Laws that were forged at the end of the Great Depression. While he did this, he waged a 12 trillion dollar war in the middle east and lowered taxes. End result? The global economy crashed, yes, thats right, global.
Now President Obama is trying to unwind some of that damage and Republicans are calling it a Class War.
BINGO! They got something right for a change! It IS a class war, only, in their perpetually misguided catch phrase propaganda politics, they erred. They called the thing what it is, a class war. This probably happened because, as we have seen time and again, republicans cant do basic math. Anyone remember no child left behind? There was some funny math there. And how about this deficit? More funny math getting us in trouble.
Lets look at the republican's so called class war. They are accusing Obama of waging war on the country's rich and super rich. It is the poor, middle and upper middle class against the rich and super rich. In this class war, with the battle lines drawn and a country where 1 person gets 1 vote the math is pretty easy to do, even for our mathematically impaired republican leaders. With greater than 99% of the country filling in the ranks of the poor, middle and upper middle class battalions, the rich don't stand a chance.
It most certainly is a class war. It is a class war of the hard working thinking individuals of this country against the monied interests that would preserve the status quo and see the separation and concentration of wealth continue on its current path. So bring on the class war, because if history has taught us anything, its that societies collapse from the top down, and there is not a single example of a minority elite surviving the wrath of a dissatisfied populace.
The republicans are good at waging war. Luckily for us, they are not so good at winning them. Let the class war begin.
