AWM in the house!
Published by StB on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 9:22 AM.
Aspen Time Weekly> In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
I am not sure if Angry White Man can decide the election. But the article does a good job of indirectly explaining why many conservatives are indifferent to Obama. The paragraph above says it all. It is our distrust of everything Clinton.
Hat tip: Pirate's Cove.
He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice
reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on
television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would
want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she
is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that
she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question,
his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for
themselves.
I am not sure if Angry White Man can decide the election. But the article does a good job of indirectly explaining why many conservatives are indifferent to Obama. The paragraph above says it all. It is our distrust of everything Clinton.
Hat tip: Pirate's Cove.
Won't someone save the Middle Class?
Published by StB on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 3:13 PM.
"It's time we started taking care of the middle class again," Hillary Clinton in Green Bay, WI 2/18/08.
Hillary has also pledged "to restore prosperity to the middle class by giving it tax cuts, health care and better education, paying for it all by ending the Iraq war and raising taxes on people making $250,000 a year."
Barack Obama isn't much different. He fights for the middle class as well. “I’ll keep that trust by cutting taxes for working people, homeowners and seniors, and by simplifying tax filing for middle-class Americans.”
John McCain isn't much different. "It is time to cut $60 billion in taxes for middle-class families. It's time to cut wasteful spending, support economic growth and keep taxes low. It is time for Washington to work for our families and not special interests," said the Arizona senator in a statement. He goes further to say he will be "pressing for middle-class tax cuts, including a repeal of the federal alternative minimum tax and bans on Internet and cellular phone levies."
Mike Huckabee says God will save the middle class. Ok, he didn't. I just couldn't find any interesting quotes from Huckabee. The closest I could find concerns the Fair Tax concept and how it would help everyone.
But does the middle class need saving? Some people, including me, don't think so. The true saving they need to stop spending over their heads.
Economist Stephen Rose explains the real dilema of the middle class. They have earned more money.
Do these politicians have any idea what the middle class is anymore? My guess is that when they walk through the factories or step up to the podium in the arenas, they fail to notice the nice trucks and SUVs outside in the parking lot. They fail to notice people on the iphones calling their spouses to pick up the kids from daycare or their martial arts classes. They don't hear the discussion on what restaurant to stop by to pick up food.
Politicians and the media don't know how people live anymore. But they will make it sound like everyone is on a day to day struggle because it makes a good sound bite. Right Lou?
Hillary has also pledged "to restore prosperity to the middle class by giving it tax cuts, health care and better education, paying for it all by ending the Iraq war and raising taxes on people making $250,000 a year."
Barack Obama isn't much different. He fights for the middle class as well. “I’ll keep that trust by cutting taxes for working people, homeowners and seniors, and by simplifying tax filing for middle-class Americans.”
John McCain isn't much different. "It is time to cut $60 billion in taxes for middle-class families. It's time to cut wasteful spending, support economic growth and keep taxes low. It is time for Washington to work for our families and not special interests," said the Arizona senator in a statement. He goes further to say he will be "pressing for middle-class tax cuts, including a repeal of the federal alternative minimum tax and bans on Internet and cellular phone levies."
Mike Huckabee says God will save the middle class. Ok, he didn't. I just couldn't find any interesting quotes from Huckabee. The closest I could find concerns the Fair Tax concept and how it would help everyone.
But does the middle class need saving? Some people, including me, don't think so. The true saving they need to stop spending over their heads.
Economist Stephen Rose explains the real dilema of the middle class. They have earned more money.
Economist Stephen Rose, defining the middle class as households with annual incomes between $30,000 and $100,000, says a smaller percentage of Americans are in that category than in 1979 - because the percentage of Americans earning more than $100,000 has doubled from 12 to 24, while the percentage earning less than $30,000 is unchanged. "So," Rose says, "the entire 'decline' of the middle class came from people moving up the income ladder." Even as housing values declined in 2007, the net worth of households increased.
Do these politicians have any idea what the middle class is anymore? My guess is that when they walk through the factories or step up to the podium in the arenas, they fail to notice the nice trucks and SUVs outside in the parking lot. They fail to notice people on the iphones calling their spouses to pick up the kids from daycare or their martial arts classes. They don't hear the discussion on what restaurant to stop by to pick up food.
Politicians and the media don't know how people live anymore. But they will make it sound like everyone is on a day to day struggle because it makes a good sound bite. Right Lou?
