Interesting segment on C-span's Washington Journal this morning.
The guest was Arthur Brooks, President of American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Mr. Brooks was on to hawk his new book and the usual conservative spin of unfettered Free Markets.
As conservatives do, he was putting the blame of the deficit and spending on Obama and was talking about how the remedy of fixing the deficit should be.
Video won't be available for a few hours yet.
Brooks said that it would be the middle class and not the rich that will be taxed to pay for the deficit.
It was a remark that went largely unremarked or noticed until the last 15 minutes when an Iowa caller brought it up.
Brooks claimed there was not enough in the upper class to pay for the spending. He insisted that the middle class was so vast that it would be up to them to pay.
another caller also commented on it and pointed out that the middle class no longer exists. The policies of the conservatives and their presidents raped the middle class and wages have stagnated over the last 30 years.
It seems that the remark by Brooks was a slip. It was not for public knowledge.
It seems this is the idea of the conservatives that has been ignored by their supporters and I imagine that it was shocking to them to hear.
Hopefully they can put it all together. I would not hold my breath but, one can always hope. That the right is about giving a free ride and help to the rich and corporations. And the middle class is expected to pay for it. the idea being raping the country for the rich and corporations.
I personally do not think the right is trying to dismantle the middle class. I think they thought they could use them as a vast resource to pay for the free ride of the rich and corporations. I don't think the eventual wiping out of the middle class was forseen. They needed us to pay for their welfare.
This was an unfortunate consequence of the original thinking.
But, now that they did wipe out the majority of our middle class and the deficit is climbing due to not having enough 'little' 'small' people to keep the free ride going, one way they found to help it out was to move their business to China or other developing countries where wages were about 50 cents an hour.
As the first caller said:
It's unfettered free markets for the middle class and socialism for the upper class.
I'd expand it to include socialism for those soulless and non person corporations as well.