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The Republican "Take-away" Agenda

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One intrepid conservative has incurred the wrath of her lackeys by pioneering the "you should donate your labor to my business" trend and is ignoring the workers' "strike."   Why strive to get them to work for "less" if you can get them to work for free?

 

In the old days, rich business moguls used to hire thugs to come in and use baseball bats to knock some sense into the hard hearts of the financially motivated "firebrands," who often were outside agitators and not actual workers.   Actually, the instigators usually did the "observe and report" routine from the sidelines while the workers themselves took the actual physical punishment.  

 

Voluntary work opportunities abound for liberals.   Hired gun writers, by definition, tend to only join the causes (such as lowering the tax burden of the rich) that will provide them with a paycheck.  

 

When the tax rate for corporations and rich individuals is reduced to absolute zero, will they stop their lobbying efforts or will they then proceed onward to an effort to provide "tax reparations" for (what they perceive as) past taxation injustices?   Would people actually think that capitalists could be that greedy?

 

The fact that the (so-called) Liberal Media has become more and more subdued in their attempts to foster the various causes embraced by Democrats tends to indicate that the Republican efforts to dismantle FDR's "New Deal," can now proceed unhindered, especially since most of the issues will be sent to conservative dominated appeals courts.

 

If Conservative Christian Republicans gain control of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of American government, what will Rush Limbaugh have to use as the basis for a (rather one-sided) debate on the public air waves?   We may soon find out.

 

Quote wranglers debate about the legitimacy of a quote often attributed to Collis Huntington:   "Whatever is not nailed down is mine.   What I can pry loose is not nailed down."

 

Now the disk jockey will play the song "Money (That's what I want)" done by both the Beatles and the Stones (the only song recorded by both groups), the Flying Lizzards, and ?   We have to go find a copy of the Jefferson Airplane song "Volunteers."   Have a "just say "Thank you, masked man'" type week.

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