GEORGE F. Will writes admiringly of South Carolina's right-wing fanatic Jim DeMint who claims to believe that liberty requires that we all be invested in the stock market and take care of ourselves, even if we haven't 2 cents left over at the end of a pay period but indeed have to borrow two bucks just to get to work on payday. All the measures DeMint advocates favor the rich, rob the poor, and increase inequality in society. They 'encourage investment' by protecting ever larger portions of the income of the rich from taxation, and empower the rich to acquire ever more wealth, while the poor and lower middle class have nothing to save, so fall progressively farther behind. Are the rich really so stupid as to think we will never wake to what is happening, and use some of the 200 million guns in this country to take back what they have stolen? "Domestic tranquility" requires social justice, and DeMint and Will are staunch enemies of social justice.
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As for a nation on the dole, that would be Israel, where every man, woman, child, and babe in arms receives $1,500 American taxpayer dollars a year, endlessly and intergenerationally. Does Will favor ending that dependency? I do. (Responsive to "One Nation, on the Dole",3/29/04)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:27 PM