Give 'Em Hell, Bernie

[henryp]

Nope. You lefties are to blame for all of it...and you can kiss my ass you shriveled up nut sack anti business Stalin lover.

The rich and the right have given the real welfare queens, like banks and Wall Street, and big oil and Walmart all the free tax cuts the rest of us have to make up for and want to do so by raising taxes on the rest of us and gutting things like social security and medicare and veterans benefits. 

The practical issue that remains unspoken for political purposes is that the we (the US) need corporations and rich people.  And we don't need poor people.  In fact poor people are bad for the country.  If the bottom 10% disappeared, it would be great for the country (practically speaking).  If the top 10% disappeared, it'd be a crisis.

While a lot of money and politics is bullshit and people being bought off, there is also the part that a Corporation can go wherever they want.  They aren't like Joe Schmoe in Tulsa who's options are staying in Tulsa, or maybe moving to Oklahoma City.  They are not American.  They are global, and globally, the US has to compete for them.

Similarly, a billionaire isn't the same as Joe Schmoe either.  Because they can put their Billion dollars wherever they want.  And the US has to compete to have them do things in this country with it.

But the key point is that the US does not have some magical patriotic claim to all the wealth and jobs in the world, which is the attitude of most of us American peons use to form our economic opinions with.