Republican BUNK (Part 1)

The repubs are full of more BS than a Christmas Turkey (oh…merry xmas).  I keep hearing this Romney clown 

say that ‘equality of opportunity’ is more important that ‘equality of wealth’ and is the only social initiative that the government should support.  Now wait!  Let’s think about this a bit. 

If you are rich and you have children you love, aren’t you going to do everything that you can to get them into the best schools and from there into the best jobs?  Is having a lot of money going to get in the way of that effort?  Are you going to ask your children to get to the back of the line because their GPA is too low?  Are the schools in the district you live in going to be worse than the schools where poor blacks live?  Answer:  NO! 

Being rich means you live in a rich neighborhood which has the property tax resources to buy the best education a state system can provide.  And if that’s not good enough, the rich can keep their kids in private school from nursery to graduate school.  No one is making any argument that this is not true.  Anyone out there like to argue that this is false?

Let’s get this completely clear!  The rich automatically have more opportunity than the poor, because (under capitalism---i like to call it kraptialism, because it's mostly crap or krap, if you add the kleptocracy) more money can buy more (and better) stuff than less money.  The amount of money you can spend on something is directly proportional to the amount and quality of that something you get!  MONEY is the most important thing to have in this society.  Money is key to the quality of prenatal care you get, the quality of justice you get, the quality of medical care you get, the quality of education you get, the car you drive, the house you live in, and (closing the loop) the quality of neighborhood you live in.  Anyone out there like to argue that this is false?

Therefore:                         MONEY IS OPPORTUNITY!

If you don’t think so, then what else provides you with more opportunity?  Intelligence?  Morality?  Knowledge?  Who is the majority at the top of GOVCORP?  The wealthy or the intelligent?  The rich or the poor?  Look at congress for an answer to that question!

Further, check out the article on wealth in Wikipedia:  Wealth

The lower class

Those with the least amount of wealth are the welfare poor. (see underclass) Wealth accumulation for this class is to some extent prohibited. People that receive AFDC transfers cannot own more than a trivial amount of assets, in order to be eligible and remain qualified for income transfers. Most of the institutions that the welfare poor encounter discourage any accumulation of assets.

There you have it.  The members of the lower class are deliberately kept in that class (maybe for some twisted crap religious belief that the poor will always be amongst us...or whatever).

So, if you understand all of the above, then you can clearly see that there will never be equality of opportunity without wealth equality!  Everything you’ll hear from the conservatives, on this subject, will try to deny that money is opportunity.  They look really stupid (i.e., they look like what they are) trying to make this argument in the face of all of history.  Where in history has money or wealth of some kind or the other not provided more food, more power, more health, and most importantly, more leisure?

Quite obviously, the conservative, tea bagging, repub argument is RUBBISH!  Just like their arguments about ‘American Exceptionalism’ and their foreign policy.  But, I’ll leave these for another episode of ‘Republican BUNK’!