156: My Dear, Dumb, Democrat Friends

The persons I refer to in the title above, are: white, educated, affluent, living in suburbs, and have every economic reason possible to want less government intrusion into their lives.  Yet they vote for BO and believe everything they hear on MSNBC.  These persons, and of course all of the very dumb and poor Democrats, somehow actually believe that Democratic policies will take from the rich and give to Democratic constituencies.  In this my dumb friends are a little less than half right.  Democratic policies attempt to take from the rich, but in fact those policies end up taking much more from the middle class.  Upper income folks obviously have the means and smarts to limit what they give to government.  If some rich bastard like Warren Buffet decides to give a shitload of money to the government, he does.  But you can bet your boots that he also has thousands of employees at various entities owned by Berkshire whose sole job it is to limit tax and regulatory costs.  The dumb Democrats don't have the means or desire to do this, because they somehow think they are getting a good return on their government largess.  Nothing could be further from the economic and practical truth. The smart Democrats are the Kennedy/Clinton/BO types who soak their own constituents to build their fiefdoms.  They keep the dumb Democrats content by giving them crumbs.