Guest, you have displayed terrific ability for presenting perfectly logical arguments. Unfortunately, I can't help but think that you begin with the conclusion and work your way backward toward the premises that fit. Working in that fashion it is easy to present a beautiful picture, all rationally fleshed out, that doesn't mean a damn thing.

An example? The Bush tax cuts. "They simply let people keep more of what they earn". But the bulk of the tax cuts are not aimed at wage earners, they are aimed at those whose income comes from investment. Bush wants to return money to the people whose money is making them money. This money will, in turn, be re-invested in making more money for the same people. The rich will continue to get richer.

And I don't want to hear any of that trickle-down horseshit; not as long as layoffs are an acceptable cost-cutting measure and jobs are being shipped to under-developed countries that do not respect the rights and needs of workers.

"Who wants to live like third-world people?" I love that. Try considering the fact that for the Rockefellers to live like Rockefellers a whole lot of wage earners had to live (and still live) like third-world people. Your myopia, venality and lack of caring makes me ill.