During the evil Clinton boom years, when the president was busy doing his Tiger Woods imitation, I lived in the metropolis. A money-fund manager sometimes came to our political lunches. When he did, he brought with him a recurrent theme: "The wealthy fear the middle class, and they will do anything they can to keep them down."
Back then, I attributed his comment to the financial market having moved against him (and his middle-class clients). Today, I think I understand what he was saying.
First, global "warming": as the East Anglia whistleblower's document dump shows, the concept of manmade global warming is the greatest fraud ever perpetrated upon humanity. The computer code, above all, shows the data to be a complete and utter fraud, based on selective data and outright manipulation. That's why they refused to share the data, which alone should have made them scientific laughingstocks.
While the propaganda-researchers got their public millions for their public propaganda, who would have to (and may still) pay for it all? The poor? Hardly; they have no money. The wealthy? Ain't happened yet, baby! If the wealthy were going to pay, why would they be taking their private jets to Copenhagen and extending both begging hands to the United Nations climate-controlled star chamber to carbon-tax them into poverty?
It's the middle class that was (and maybe still is) going to pay the carbon tax – in the form of higher prices for everything, with nearly unlimited dollars going to the government. And from there the money goes – where? To the wealthy – like Occidental Petroleum "Algore," his heirs and assigns, in perpetuity and ad nauseam.
The wealthy can afford tax attorneys to battle the IRS. The middle class either hand over the money or have their assets seized by the IRS and their lives and businesses ruined. And if you're an employee, payroll withholding ensures you will never see the money they take in the first place.
Which brings us to health-care "reform." It was no mistake that the Democrats chose the IRS to "handle" health-care "reform." The IRS will decide if your insurance is on the government-approved list. If it's not, they will simply add the cost to your tax bill. If you can't pay, they will seize your assets. Viola! Taxes are for the middle class. Due process is for the wealthy.
Are you living too long and warming the globe too much? The health-care bill's death panels will determine what treatment is age-appropriate. As soon as you "take out" more dollars than you "contribute," treatment becomes "age-inappropriate."
Unless, of course, you are wealthy. In which case you can afford to fly to another country, perhaps India or China, where you can simply pay for whatever operations or organ transplants you would like to have done.
The common theme is very simple: for the wealthy, the rules do not apply – because of their wealth. For the poor, the money flows to them no matter who's in power. For the middle class, we bear the cost but are denied the benefits.
Yesterday the legislative express stopped in Clintonville; today it's parked at Obamaville. But who does it represent?
Now let me gift-wrap this for you with a brief diversion while our legislative express takes on provisions at Obamaville. America's old media are clearly hurting for customers. Old media's practitioners blame the Internet, because honestly – who could not like the reporting we provide that tells readers what and how to think about everything? I mean, we have to figure out how to get the middle class to pay for our stories again.
Old media's "solution" is – gasp! – to become a government-subsidized charity (with special rules for me – but not for thee). Why would they think the accompanying government control is a good idea?
It's become pretty clear since the advent of news on the Internet that old media are a propaganda arm of the wealthy and self-proclaimed elites. What's less clear is that there are two propaganda arms. The one is directed at the voting public and aims to present stories (true or false) that advance the goals of the elites in the next election.
But the second arm is not so obvious. It is the scolding finger of scorn that a few dominant newspapers point at errant representatives and senators who dare to take issue with the agenda put forward by the self-proclaimed elites. They vilify anyone who dares to challenge their agenda of total control. Bought and paid for with the middle class's money.