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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (504063)	12/5/2003 10:45:45 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

That is, in fact, funny. Al Franken's great new bestseller, "Lies, and the Lying Liars that Tell Them" has something to say on the matter of humor. Franken has made note that oftentimes the Republicans have a habit of crying "class warfare" whenever any rational human being points out that the recent national joke called "tax cuts" is actually a stealth wealth transfer mechanism from the futures of our children and grandchildren to the already grossly rich elite of today. Franken said no, no, no, this complaint isn't even close to "class warfare". As a better example, Franken proposed, is the case of a British baron named Oswald in 1292. This fellow was the lord of a rather large estate and had for decades made life completely miserable for his tenant farmers with ruinous taxation, droite du seigniore outrages, and general piggishness. As happens, the natives got restless. In a fit of pique, the yeoman farmers organized and stormed the castle. Oswald's wife and children were rounded up, tied up and held in the kitchen. Oswald was impaled on a spike, set over the fire and spit roasted. Then he was served to his family. Now, that is, in fact, class warfare.