This is what the looter class looks like when the consequences of their actions become realized.
leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 01:22 PM
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This Is What the Class War Looks Like
Edited on Mon Mar-23-09 01:50 PM by leftchick
Source
by: David Sirota
Mon Mar 23, 2009 at 13:00
I was on Fox News this morning talking about efforts to re-regulate Wall Street and reign in executive pay (I'll post the clip later). I made a simple point that America is now more economically unequal than it was just before the Great Depression. I subsequently received a wave of very angry hate mail (as I always do when I am on Fox), and this one stuck out to me. I don't think I've ever seen the class war crystallized so well:
I think I am in the majority of Americans who are sick and tired of the unproductive living off of the government. They have become satisfied with a meager existence because it requires no effort on their part...
The recent "tax cuts" for Americans is a farce. Taking money from the productive and giving it to the non productive creates an even larger segment of do nothing folks. I own 6 four family units and one 12 unit building in Cincinnati, Ohio...When the so called tax cuts were announced, I immediately raised the rents on all units to be a few dollars more than the "cuts". I raised the rents, not because I needed or wanted more money but as an act of rebellion and anger at what is happening in this country.
The emailer is referring to the more progressive tax cuts that President Obama put into the stimulus bill - tax cuts I didn't support (because data showed spending would be a better economic boost) but that are decidedly progressive in focus.
As we can see, after 30 years of right-wing propaganda, the class war has come out into the open - a brutal class war by those at the top, waged against the Rest of Us. In this email, we literally have a landlord bragging about taking his anger out on renters, because the renters had the nerve to get a meager tax cut.
edit: fixed link
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5314115
Kudos to the property owner, if this is not a completely fabricated tale as I suspect it to be.
Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 01:30 PM
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6. Republicans can't survive without hating someone - we've taken most of their hate objects away
so they're left with the poor and illegal immigrants, and so all that hatred that they'd love to spew on Blacks and Asians and Hispanics and Women and Gays is getting funneled and concentrated on to the poor.
It's like Republicans are born with a certain amount of Hate Points that they have to spend, and if they don't spend them, they go insane.
* (When I say "take their objects of hate away", I mean that we've at least made a society in which openly displaying that hate is not very tolerated any more, and in which acting out that hate is not tolerated so much either (equal opportunity, rights for the disabled, police that actually investigate the murders of black people now, and so on), not that the Republicans have actually stopped hating them - we're simply reduced the number of vendors where they can spend their hate points)
Speaking of hate... psst DUmmie "George W Bush"
hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 01:33 PM
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10. so he broke their leases and they can sue?
Can somebody track this slumlord down, so his email can be used against him in a court of law? We are looking for 6 four family units in Cincinnati and one twelve unit building.
Call out the army of attack lawyers !! sic em boys !
terisan (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 01:36 PM
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11. It is the malproductive whom the administration is continuing to bailout that bother me.
Tickle down economics and short-term stock pumping--this isn't going to bring equality to America.
The "malproductive" ?
hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 01:38 PM
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14. it's really ironic too, for a landlord to complain about those 'living off others'
"I am sick of the unproductive living off the productive."
As a hardworking landlord I earn every dime that my renters pay me. 
He's probably getting money from the government too. How much of his rent income comes from HUD?
This is a classic example of how they are incapable of rational thought.
jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 01:57 PM
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25. Given the number of units claimed and in Cincinnati, the odds are he is violating many local
codes.
I wish a local public interest group would take on this SOB and make an example out of him and seek punitive damages where possible.
The only thing missing from your "make an example out of him", is a wall , blindfold and cigarette.
Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 02:05 PM
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27. The rich need to remember what happens to them when poor people get sufficiently pissed off.
Edited on Mon Mar-23-09 02:06 PM by Leftist Agitator
I would execute this ****er and seize his assets for the good of the community.
Who's the fascist now, comrade ?
