Plutocrats: Eeeexcellent, Tea-Party

"You saved our precious tax-cuts. The Dark Side is proud of your devious control of the Dark Forces."

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You Know You're Rich If

You forget how many houses you own. Extra points if you need to pull out a calculator.

You forget how many Lamborghinis you own.

You get pissed when you have to borrow your wife's ass-wiper maid after making a #2 instead of using your favorite ass-wiper.

You accidentally bribe yourself.

Your personal jet trumps Air-force One.

Your tax loopholes have their own loopholes.

You get your butler to golf for you.

Your poodles' pooper-scooper is gold-plated.

You can pay somebody to shut down this list.

More to come...

Leave the Rich Alone!

Business Uncertainty and Debt Ceiling

I've written about the exaggeration and hypocrisy of conservatives and "business uncertainty" twice before (June 20 and July 8), but this one takes the cake. Now they are holding our credit hostage, creating mass "business uncertainty" over their stubborn pledge not to raise any taxes on the wealthy (something about 2/3 of Americans disagree with).

Business Uncertainty and Oil

On June 20th I took a look at some of the flaws in the GOP's "Business Uncertainty" argument, which they claim is a main cause of the sluggish recovery. The uncertainty argument is also a source of hypocrisy in that oil is a business-unfriendly fuel due to instability in supplies and prices. The Middle East, and its oil supply, has long been a source of instability and probably will remain that way for a good while.

Yet, conservatives often argue that we should stick with oil as our main energy source because it's slightly cheaper than the alternatives on average. However, if instability is a major "jobs killer" and business spooker, then we should avoid oil like the plague. So, which is it, conservatives? It looks yet again like your own logic is sneaking up from the behind and biting your booty.

Hypocrisy is Patriotic!

Have a happy 4th of July, conservatives, while sitting in socialized city parks watching Mexican fireworks reflect off USA flags made in China.

Plutocrat Fact Manipulation #33

The Lying Industrial Complex is at full throttle. Look at this "fact" from the 12/18/2010 New York Post:

Myth: Republicans spent like drunken sailors.

Fact: Federal spending from 1960 through 2000 averaged 20.3% of GDP, with a slightly upward trend. The average over all Bush years, 2001 through 2008, was 19.6% of GDP – below the historical average. The 2001-2008 average deficit was also below the 1960-2000 average.

The 1960 through 2000 period includes the Reagan years, which had some of the worse deficit spending ever. That alone blew the numbers for that period sky high; and the NY Post conveniently leaves that fact out.

Other "myths" in the same article also omit details and key counter-arguments, although not quite as blatant as this one.