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  All the while…ROME BURNS ! ! ! !..Again a little common-sense can go a looong way….........

  Posted by blackhorse on Sep 2, 2009 at 7:37 PM

  ... hot-button cultural issues like abortion and gay marriage.  According to Frank’s polemical thesis, Republicans succeeded in getting poor whites to vote against their own economic self-interest by focusing on these issues.
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  Frank’s book and this movie are both vulnerable to accusations of condescending elitism, Frank for his thesis and the movie for its focus on the eccentric Kansas personalities.

  Oh, I doubt if there is any organized or disorgaized effort by anyone to persuade anybody “to vote against their own economic self-interest” by invoking “hot-button cultural issues.”  The effort would have to be massive, and there is no evidence for it.  But we do object to elitists, condescending or not, that tell us things that are not true and piss away our tax money foolishly: 

  For example: The War on Poverty.  Everyone is against poverty.  Only elitists could screw up an effort so badly.  The elitists’ War on Poverty utterly wasted $6.6 trillion over a thirty-year period and ended in fraud and corruption.  Even Clinton got that one right.  At a modest 3% interest rate, our money wasted by elitists on the War on Poverty is greater than the entire national debt ($9 trillion) just two short years ago.  It was elitist Democrats that “succeeded in getting poor whites to vote against their own economic self-interest” in the War on Poverty.

  Of course, one short year ago was when the elitists’ mortgage follies came home to roost, another trillion down the toilet initially, triggering a worldwide markets meltdown that hit $50 trillion.  If the elitists had not pissed away the $6.6 trillion on the War on Poverty, the economy would have been much stronger and there would have been no cause to panic. 

  It is not just Kansans that were hurt by the elitists’ stupidity.  Elite Harvard, the nation’s richest school, took a 30% hit to its endowment, from $37 billion to $26 billion in just one year.  Other elite and non-elite schools took similar hits.  Elite California’s Calpers, the nations largest retirement fund, has lost $56 billion, down from $237 billion, in just one year.  If your retirement funds are hurting, thank an elitist Democrat. 

  Obama is an elitist lawyer, Lenin was an elitist lawyer, and Castro was an elitist lawyer, and all of them are as dumb as dog shit when it comes to practical matters.  Kansans are brilliant in comparison, as the American people have traditionaly been.  The American economy has long been the finest and most free economy in the world, until the elitists started screwing it up starting with LBJ’s War on Poverty.

  Posted by scorp on Sep 11, 2009 at 1:58 PM

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