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Thread #56009 Message #873234
Posted By: Bobert
23-Jan-03 - 05:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Right wing rhetoric in the US
Subject: RE: BS: Right wing rhetoric in the US
Hey, GUEST, whats up?
Yeah, first time I heard it I thought to myself, "Hmmmmmmmm, self, I wonder how many years will I have to work to pay enough taxes to pay the PR firm that came up with that little jewel for the Republicans?"
The governemnt won't tell us how much of out tax dollars are going into manipulating public opinion but it's a ton of money. I heard that the PR campaign to sell Bush's invasion of Iraq is in the $20M range.
But really, much the way that the Republican party demonized the word "liberal" they have now fired a shot accross the bow to anyone who would dare criticize this proposed mugging of the working class. See, that's where the Democrats are weak. They just sit back and take it rather than throw it back at Bush and Co.
I would have promptly lobed that grenade back accross the fence with something along the lines of, "And your point? I mean you have proposed another robbery of the working man. If you want to call it class warfare when the working man says "Heck no, you've takne enough" than call it class warfare. Call it jello. Mightm of fact, why not dig up Joe McCarthey and have him call it communism. It doesn't change the fact the it's another assualt on the working families of America!"
Yeah, that would have been my response and then let them take their rather broken slogan back to the PR folks for a little warrenty work.