Fox Responds To Obama's Speech On Inequality By Crying "Class Warfare," "Socialism"

$400 bil/year is substantial, but that's very similar to the amount that we get from revoking the bush tax cuts.

Or if you throw in a bundle of tax increases on the wealthy from just about any angle, you can close the gap.

Keep in mind, the stuff we get in trade we get at GREAT prices, or we wouldn't do it. There is a cost to "bringing all our manufacturing jobs back."

There is no cost to spreading the wealth from those who siphoned it off of the economy to those who worked hard to produce it.

Finally a smart one! But no it is not arrogance, just an overwhelming sense of responsibility as if like I were raised by Nancy Grace.

Your "overwhelming sense of responsibility" smells a lot like putrid arrogance. I'm glad I am not as "responsible" as you.

Well, when you consider some parents are working 2-3 jobs between them just to get by these days and to help give their kids a better education, I don't think the kids have much explaining or sneaking to do.
How about "Mom, Dad, I'm tired of you guys having to work so hard just to get by, and not have any medical benefits, or retirement, while you've graciously given me a place to live while I attend Community College. I'm tired of you sacrificing so much time and health for so little, when things were so much better in the past. So I'm doing something about it. For you, for me, and for my children."

Hey I think you missed my point. My point is that the protesters are not to be taken seriously because they are just kids who do not understand politics. Any responsible adult would be either at work or looking for work with that spare time instead of sitting on thier asses with picket signs in front of some building. I have to sacrifice just like the rest of the 99% but I have better things to do than complain about it. It is my own fault for not going to college to get a degree. No one to blame but myself for my financial crisis.

Your second effort wasn't any better than your first. Perhaps you shouldn't be taken seriously when you claim that the protesters don't understand.

I am one of those protesters , .... I am no kid . Most of the others i have met are vets of the recent wars , union people , rights activists ,retired persons and some free speech advocated and homeless people , musicians , community gardeners , jobless teachers and construction workers . I brought my son too .... he is 10

And how long does Jango expect these protesters to look for work before they realize that they don't have a future. Clearly Jango is unaware of the desperate times we are in.

but they dont

And you somehow have proof that none of the protesters understand what they are protesting? Nah, you're just trolling.

Artemis6 is nothing of the sort, plus she is female.

shes a woman? Prooves my point that she dosent know what she is talking about then!

dont know what "trolling " is but if youre implying that I am "stirring the pot" I can assure you I am only writing what I feel. Perhaps these folks would find some jobs if they would "occupy" their local employment office.

you only say such because you dont agree. My point is valid. Maybe not your opinion but valid. I use Current because Yahoo forums cannot handle my agressive conservative nature. They banned me for no reason other than lack of accord with it's liberal fanbase.

Or maybe it is because you write insulting things about women.

So you do have proof then... to 'validate' your claim?

Did you talk to them ? Or just listen to Rush or fuxs "news" ?

He is learning how to peacefully stand up for what is right . There is no need to insult people even if you disagree . I have noticed that people who have weak arguments resort to insults . In essence , an insult can mean you loose the actual debate . An insult is not a valid argument . If you have evidence , i will examine it . Link something . Convince people with verifiable facts . Again , i say your feelings are valid , as long as you are as informed as you can be . Willful ignorance is not an admirable trait , or even a survival trait .

Hahaha ! Now i know you do not read much .

Why thank you : )

why would I listen to that douchebag?

What you feel is equally legitimate as what the protestors feel . One of you is more informed . The only way for you to find out is to talk to them yourself . Letting a third party tell you what you should feel is disingenuous .

It simply indicates you do not familiar with Greek Mythology . Artemis is a goddess , per dating Greece and an archetype in the human psyche ....

Now they just call themselves "The Balance". Seriously... they took "fair" out because everyone knew it was b.s.

It's 'class war' when the 99% have had it with being screwed over. When the 1% are screwing over the 99% for 30 years, it's 'just business'.

It's class warfare when the supposed leader of our country drives a wedge between the groups by telling people that it is the fault of a certain economic class some have less and we need to take from those who make more to give to those who make less. When you demonize the successful and allege that they ""owe" someone someting because they ARE successful, that is class warfare.

It's the ONLY card we have been dealt, deal with it!

Somehow you just can't get out of the fog!

"it is the fault of a certain economic class some have less and we need to take from those who make more to give to those who make less."

Is this not the case?

'Wealthy' is not synonymous with 'successful'. Unless you mean 'successfully' driving the economy into the ground and then getting bailed out at the expense of $80,000 for every man, woman, and child in America. Or if they 'successfully' destroy the environment and the health of the population and pay politicians to not regulate them. Or if they 'successfully' move American jobs overseas to exploit the cheap labor camps in 3rd world countries.

I get it, Paratus. You're cool with Socialism for corporations and the wealthy, and enjoy the predatory capitalism for the rest us. You love having corporate influence in every facet of our government. You enjoy environmental disasters and paying for the clean up with your tax money.

But a lot of us disagree with you, and we don't like calling your masters 'successful' just because they have an unprecedented amount of wealth.

He refuses to accept that a benevolent master class of 'successful' individuals could possibly use their power and influence to ensure increased profits for themselves at the expense of everyone else (including consumers, small businesses, the environment, etc.).

There is a HUGE difference between "class warfare" and simply revealing facts about how our economic systematically loots 99% of the population for the benefit of 1%. Only a fool and Faux News would deny the reality that slaps us across the face every in the form of unemployment, outsourcing, tax breaks for the wealthy and trillions for our war machine while millions are illegally tossed from their homes and forced to use food stamps to survive. This is a cold harsh reality of living in America today. I don't expect you to agree with me Paratus, I'd be stunned if you did. But any "class warfare" being waged is done so by the wealthiest and most powerful against the rest of us, including YOU. Don't ever fool yourself by thinking FAUX News is looking out for you. They're nothing more than millionaires protecting other millionaires.

Kind of hard to when the fog is in his mind.

He CHOOSES not to . I like to think he gets paid .

So true , !

"When you demonize the successful and allege that they ""owe" someone someting because they ARE successful, that is class warfare."

You might have had a point, but you are making an argument off of the generalization, or seem to be making the argument off of the generalization, that those who are successful become so on their own without the hired help of any other people. Yes, successful people tend to come up with the ideas and they should profit more from those ideas than those who just do the grunt work, but the amount of money earned by those who are successful in corporations versus the amount earned by those who actually do the work to create the product is grossly out of proportion.

Now if you want to talk about class warfare, true class warfare is giving CEO's enormous bonuses during an economic recession while a company and/or corporation is suffering losses while cutting standard employee wages and/or jobs.

I'm sure he does! :)

Maybe a miniature fan installed in his head too blow it out!

Fox will try anything to distract, distort and deceive so they can hide the message of OWS with their delusions.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/07/1043170/-Accountability-Join-me-on-live...@-8pm

"Occupy Wall Street protesters love our country, and we are here to fix it. The real name of the game is accountability. We are not mad at wealth. We are not mad at people who are successful. We want everyone to prosper together.

The word accountability should be on the tip of the tongue of every patriot who believes in the rule of law. We can not have a social contract without accountability (and the constitution IS a contract, so is every economic activity, when you think about it).

There must be accountability both for the governed and the governors.

Law makers must be not be above the law. We can not have a President with 84 ethics violations, nor can we have a President who tortures and commits war crimes, nor can we have a President who summarily executes people without trial.

We can not have functioning economy if the largest actors within the system police themselves. The profit motive will forbid ethical behavior in the name of the greatest profit. The market will not police itself, neither will corrupted politicians dependent on corporate campaign donations to fund their re-elections police the marketplace, they have been bribed to do otherwise.

At the end of the day, without accountability there is no justice, and if there is no justice there can be no peace. The debacle in Iraq and the ungovernable landscape of Afghanistan are testimonies to that fact.

We must demand accountability under the rule of law for those people who have broken it. If a corporation like Bank of America is a person than it should be held to the same standards be held to that a person would be held to if a person broke the law. A person can not bribe the police officer on his beat, and neither should a corporation be allowed to bribe the regulators, the law makers and law enforcers on their beat. These truths I hold to be self evident.

The fact of the matter is, without accountability we are all at the mercy of a broken system that favors the people who lack ethics and morals, and I believe in what Adam Smith spoke of when he wrote of ethics, because it is in our best interests to care for our fellow man and to not allow any one power hold a monopoly of power, regardless of whether that power is economic or political.

This is what we are fighting for. This is what Democracy looks like; accountability.

People within the private sector broke the law. Corporations broke the law. Corrupt politicians broke the law, or re-wrote the laws to make sure accountability would never happen. There must be consequences within the rule of law for those that break it."

Waching TV news can all leave false claims. Great Comment.

Agreed!
if there was any proof that trickle down works I have never seen it, and neither has anyone else because it does not exist.