Showing posts with label The Washington Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Washington Post. Show all posts

Friday, October 28, 2011

Democracy and redistribution of wealth. The real (State-sanctioned) class warfare

A good piece by Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post, a timely reflection on the current debate on tax rebates and spending cuts. Added cartoon, hyperlinks and some context material regarding budgetary issues and the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis at Gocomic

The study that shows why Occupy Wall Street struck a nerve 

Eugene Robinson

The hard-right conservatives who dominate the Republican Party claim to despise the redistribution of wealth, but secretly they love it — as long as the process involves depriving the poor and middle class to benefit the rich, not the other way around.