True Elitism is:
- Refusing to spend a penny to help homeowners facing foreclosure because it would be rewarding their poor decisions. (John McCain's original foreclosure plan was to "do nothing"?)
They made their bed, now they can lie in it.
- Spending billions to bail out banks and other investment houses for their bad, unwise and often dishonest mortgage investments and credit schemes.
They're too big to fail, after all.
- Letting the poor die from neglect after a natural disaster like Katrina.
It's their own fault for living in a flood plain.
Remember Neil Boortz's comment that if some kind of disaster was imminent that "we should save the rich people first" and that the poor are just a "drag on society"?
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- Letting the uninsured die from lack of health coverage due to inability to pay.
Lots of the uninsured are young people who don't want health coverage. Use an emergency room. We have the best healthcare system (that money can buy).
- Letting the poor fight our wars and demonstrating how little value is placed on their lives by sending them off on wars of choice, without adequate equipment and disgracefully bad medical care when their shattered bodies and minds are sent home (discarded?).
I don't have a glib remark for this one. It just infuriates me. Did they really oppose the New GI Bill?
- Thinking tax breaks that skew towards the wealthiest Americans - check that "most productive" Americans (yes, we're looking at you, Paris Hilton).
Their investments drive the economy and will trickle down to benefit everyone!
- Preventing tax breaks that skew towards the lower and middle classes.
It's class warfare, punishing the rich.
- Believing all people on public assistance are just lazy. I guess someone working two or three minimum wage jobs just needs to work harder.
They should've studied harder in school.
- Homeless people are homeless by choice!
What examples can you think of?