[Politics]

[holzman_tweed]

Class Warfare
It was a favorite term of sweatshop conservatives over the last few years. It was used as a code word for the notion that the people who make the most money should pay a larger share of taxes than the people who made it possible for them to earn all that money.

That's not class warfare.

Kindergarten Governer's plan to cut services to the poor is class warfare -- rich people are not going to notice welfare being cut, poor people are. Kindergarten Governer's plan to raise school tuition and fees is class warfare -- rich people will just shell the cash out. Middle-class people will struggle to cover the increase and some of them won't make it -- parents were sacrificing their retirement funds to send their kid to college back when I was going.

That's class warfare. Let me add the notion of the Scwarzenegger Tax, similar to the Bush Tax for California residents.

Having The labor department come up with a list of dirty tricks for employers to screw employees out of overtime pay.

That's class warfare.

My favorite two of these accounting games are:

• Lower their base salary so that they have to work the overtime to get the base pay they get now.
  
• Pay them $22,100 to put them over the new $22,000 cap that now cuts people off from overtime.
  

That's class warfare.

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You might have missed the announcement, the administration kept it quiet to avoid getting laughed at by the press corp again, but the U.S. is no longer even going through the motions of looking for WMDs in Iraq. And Condi Rice is now saying that we have no evidence that WMDs were moved to Syria.

Colin "I saw your leadership on the side of a milk carton" Powell finally copped to the fact that he lied through his teeth last year when he told the UN that there was any link whatsoever between Iraq and Al Qaida.

Maybe the Administation finally figured out that they had less credibility in their search for the WMDs than O.J. does for his search for the "real killer."

Former Secretary of the Treasurey Paul O'Neil has announced that Bush had decided to go after Hussein in January 2001, the ink still wet on the Supreme Court decision appointing him "President."

I wonder when O'Liely will apologize to the American public, like he promised. I wonder when those who believed him will do likewise.

"You thought Bush was concerned about WMDs" should replace references to the Brooklyn Bridge in the American lexicon as the hallmark of gullibility.

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[vyoma.livejournal.com]

My personal favorite ramifications of Governdroid's budget are the huge increases in college tuition in California. 10% for undergraduate and 40% for graduate students. This is part of the retooling for the next "new economy," the one with only two classes -- the wealthy and the Wal-Mart. After all, people who've gotten advanced degrees aren't going to be satisfied with minimum wage jobs, and since there's no way that wage sare going to go up in the New World Order Economy, it's imperative for these slumlords of tomorrow to make sure that as few people as possible can get those degrees.

Oddly enough, university tuition here in Florida also increased 12% with the re-election of Jebbush, due to his decision to make huge cuts to the university system budgets here as well. Even the community college I currently attend has raised tuition about 10% over the course of the last year and is still experiencing significant shortfalls, resulting in fewer classes being taught per semester.

I'm just hoping that I can get into grad school in Canada, because if the course of things doesn't change soon, I won't be able to do it here in a couple of years.

[holzman.livejournal.com]

The other Bush Tax.

Good luck with that.