Save the rich: Tea Parties funded, organized by lobbyists for big business - Page 2

We had the most stable economy in our history between Roosevelt's measures following the Great Depression and Reagan. During that period, the top marginal income tax was first in the 90% range and then, after Kennedy, in the 70% range. So, does that make Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford socialists?

Reagan dropped the top marginal tax to a higher percentage than Obama is proposing by rolling back the Bush tax cuts. Does that make Reagan a socialist?

This whole scam is about the rich protecting the rich and screwing the overall economy. I'm all for protesting the bailouts. I think (and have since the beginning) that they're bull$hit. If that's what this was about you wouldn't hear a peep from me about this phony "movement." I also wouldn't think twice about a protest from the Ron Paul/End the Fed/"libertarian" crowd.

But that's not what this is about. The people being tricked into going to these dumb corporate-sponsored tea parties may think it is. But it isn't. It's about pushing back on Obama's efforts to raise taxes on the very top bracket and his efforts to rescue the economy from the cataclysm wrought by mostly Republican (with some Democratic assistance) policies of the past thirty years. Any student of Depression-era history can easily learn what happens when the government cuts back on spending at an economically vulnerable time like now. The "haves and have mores" and the big multinational corporations don't give two $#its about the health of this nation because for them the point isn't long term health of our common home country; it's about short term profits for them.

ElCap, I know you think it's funny and all, but read up on the people who are paying for the teabagging movement and what their interests are, and you'll see easily enough how it's done.

From "You pay your taxes -- why don't the rich pay their share".

I know you know what I mean. I think people's advocates that organize rallies are right and just, for whatever cause, be it lefties or anti-Fed/anti-war Ron Paul-ites. What I find offensive are interested corporate parties and industry lobbyists tricking oftentimes ignorant (but no less hurting from the economic disaster) regular people to rally against their own and their country's interest for the sake of the upper class and multinational corporations.

Not so. It started in December '07 in response to Bush.
ps. the original Boston tea party was in response to Britain lowering the corporate tax on English tea to 0% while raising taxes on Americans to quash selling of cheaper Dutch tea. So, the outrage was against lowering corporate taxes to manipulate consumers and migrate more wealth to the ruling class.

Really? Can you make that case?

I think the Fed has gotten way out of control, specifically under the rule of Greenspan, the darling of your way of thinking, who was forced to admit in hearings that there was a "flaw" in the whole free market, trickle down, no regulations thing. But I don't believe that's anywhere near the whole picture of what has landed us in this perilous shape.

I went to a huge anti-war/anti-Bush rally in downtown LA and it was very focused, peaceful and united. Just there weren't any news cameras anywhere.

Also, it's not "a whole bunch of people" blowing the size and importance of this out of proportion, it's the event's co-sponsor, Fox News.

Watch this compilation. The montage starts at :59.

Zactly!

OK, without speaking in definitives, we're still looking at a relatively stable economy (ETA particularly wrt the banking sector) and a stable quality of life among regular people (not the super rich).

I think it's splitting hairs. You talk about an ideal that has never existed in practical reality. Greenspan represents the practical reality of the ideal.