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The peasant mentality lives on in America

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Who are the undeserving "others" benefiting from expanded government actions?

Only the poor have to work for the 'American Dream' ...

Well I suppose the middle class are expected to work also.

President Barack Obama signed a series of executive orders Friday that he said should "level the playing field" for labor unions in struggles with management.

After discussing something called a middle-class-task-force to be lead by Biden, Obama assured the poor that "his administration wants to make sure low-income people "get a piece" of the American pie "if they're willing to work for it.""

But the rich. They don't have to work at all. The worse they perform at any task whether in Insurance, Banking, or Investments the more our government hands over to them so that they can keep all their houses and yachts and jets and bonuses ...

NOTE: The above is not a complaint about Obama. In fact it's not about Obama other than that he represents the country and while taking positive steps for labor at the same time he feels he has to qualify his desire for the poor to share in the wealth of the country. Of course the rights of the already rich to be richer without qualification is unquestionable.

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Today's QUOTES:

It's like Democrats are negotiating with themselves. They give things up and get no votes in exchange. --Stimulus Bill Passes House With 0 Republican Votes by Ian Welsh, firedoglake.com

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Tax and spend, a concept whose time has come ...

I concure, taxing wealth and spending on society is way past due:

Tax and Spend? Hell, Yeah! by Susan J. Douglas

Markos at dailyKOS needs to get over himself ...

I agree with Markos' point that a blogger-code-of-conduct has very little to do with the issue of the threats that Kathy Sierra received.

And I would have preferred that she felt she had the kind of support from others on the web with similar problems to stick it out. That was one of the things that the feminist movement provided: support. But a later generation started backing away letting themselves be convinced that 'feminist' was another dirty word like 'liberal.'

But what really galled me about Markos' post is his equating 'a gem' of a email (or comment, I'm not sure which) he received with the explicit and obscene missives that Sierra received.

Markos repeatedly shows his insensitivity to women's issues.