Republican Conservative Principle: Wealth Redistribution

By: Tuesday February 9, 2010 7:03 am

I’ve ranged from calling them Plutocrats to slave owners, which is especially effective, because it invokes memories of their other, least favorite word to be called, “racist.” But I am finding this new thread, this new line of thinking to be very attractive, because it uses one of their favorite attacks against them. They love to claim that Liberals are all about wealth redistribution, so in calling them out on their hyopocrisy, we can essentially expose what has really been going on for the last two decades, which is the redistribution of Middle Class Wealth into the hands of the few uber-wealthy.

Bank Lending Keeps Dropping

By: Monday April 20, 2009 12:43 am

Lending at the biggest U.S. banks has fallen more sharply than realized, despite government efforts to pump billions of dollars into the financial sector.

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