Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (57981)	2/12/2006 8:32:29 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361876

With respect to Bush's contempt for the general public, a number of my friends attended ivy league schools such as Princeton, where they came in contact with students from families with serious money, way beyond even the upper middle class. What struck them was the degree to which these families look at the average person as essentially beneath contempt. A lot like the way normal well off people may walk by the homeless panhandlers hanging around the train station. Bush exhibits this trait bigtime. We, the American middle class, are simply beneath contempt. This is combined chez Cheney and his other backers with Enron style corporate corruption, and this is the combination that is incredibly dangerous for the country. I personally am looking for a way of getting out of the US and returning to Europe. I don't have the energy to be an activist, and just want to be clear of the country when the economic shit really hits the fan sometime in the future. As far as wars go, Vietnam was far, far worse than Iraq, but at that time, there really was a sense of hope for the future. I don't feel that sense of hope this time around. We could very well be looking at Rove's "20 Years of Right Wing Republican Hegemony". Don't kid ourselves.