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The Idea of Class warfare proffered by the left is as old as time itself it didn't work then it sure as hell doesn't work today. The problem today is the left and its desire to take for itself the work of others simply because the left feels it is owed. How it came to this conclusion it the topic of many interesting discussions.
You're wrong. The idea of class warfare is the reality. The Corporate World is rapidly abandoning the country that allowed them to become as rich and powerful as they are. In other countries, they'd have been taxed into much smaller entities where new businesses could gain a foothold and also become part of the economy.... OR, they would be owned outright by the government.
The pandering that the Corporate world has gotten over the past 30 years(since Reagan), have allowed these huge entities to dictate policy, legislation and the economy. As a result, we have a forest... of real tall trees that block the sunlight to the undergrowth. When some new business starts up that actually competes with one of the big boys.... the big boys have their hands into so many cookie jars that they can either undercut the little guy out of existence(even at a temporary loss), or if they don't kill them off, they can make their position so uncomfortable that they will sell out to the big boys and make them even stronger.
Who suffers? Certainly not the Conglomerate. It's the little guy. Furthermore, we have allowed the outsourcing of our jobs meant for people who don't have the intellect to go to college. What that does is doom these people to jobs that were once meant for teenagers and young adults who don't have families.
I think Conservatives underestimate the power that the Corporate and Banking Communities wield. They are the ones dictating to us... not so much government.
Seriously... take a look at it from fresh eyes. Only since the 2008 election has there been this much uproar. Yes, you think it is justified. But take a fresh look at it. Those issues that Obama & co have tried to address(Health Care, Stimulus, etc) were all in an attempt to help out working people instead of these huge entities. It's what he ran on and got elected on.
Once again... the Conglomerate has won. They forced public opinion their way enough that the Health Care law is weak and actually helps the Insurance,Pharmaceutical and Med Tech Companies more than the people. That wasn't part of the original plan... but with the marketing campaign that the Corporate Sponsored right employed... the original plan went out the window. Same with the Stimulus... we have States returning the money to the Fed, even though their people are suffering.
Health Care is power. They don't want the Employer-based system to go away. That's control... an investment they are more than willing to pay. The Medical Community doesn't want the fee for service model that we have to go away. Even though that's how things got so screwed up, that's how their CEO's become extremely wealthy.
That wealth is coming from somewhere... and it's right off our backs. You don't think that Health Care is taken off of our wages now? What would our paychecks look like if they didn't have to supply us with our Health Care? I'd be willing to bet that whatever tax increase we'd see pales in comparison to the lost wages that our employers could be paying us.... even if they chose not to increase those wages, it would be more assets for them to hire more people.
