[quote=luchabee]Urbanrealtor: You missed the point.
The point has never been “real jobs” (like a teacher versus an engineer), but jobs that create other jobs for poor people like me . . . For example, people who start businesses.
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Yes your assertion has been that entrepreneurs and business operators and stockholders (“bosses”)are generally rich and/or conservative.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by “liberal”. In the sense that these bosses often rely on themselves to take care, I would agree that there is a general preference to avoid non-business payment burdens (like taxes or business fees or association fees). That is by definition true (people who want to make money don’t like giving it away without obvious benefit) but pointing that out is obvious and dumb.
However, in the social dimension, a great number of bosses believe in gay rights, better government health care, environmental issues, and ending the war. The gay rights march I attended today was testament to that. Almost every person I knew there was self-employed. Most of us (I am also self-employed) use w-2 or 1099 contractors or assistants. We are your liberal employers.
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Again, some of hardcore liberals are big fans of regulating and taxing businesses at every opportunity.
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There are idiots all over the political spectrum. Again this is obvious and dumb.
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As I mentioned to my brother-in-law, these far left-wing types will never give him a job, never hire people, never pay business taxes, etc., so he might want to think twice about jumping in bed with them politically (unless he can get a nice government job as an accountant).
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Liberals and far left are not the same or even similar. Your comparison is akin to comparing William F Buckley (a conservative I respect) to Mussolini(because they are both on the right side of the political spectrum). Liberals focus on social issues and progressive taxation. Far-left focuses on government ownership of the means of production. I am a liberal and I have been to leftist countries. While Cuba has some great things (ice cream, music, dancing, booze, cigars), they really lack free enterprise and free expression in a palpable way.
[quote=luchabee]I know it’s a radical thought. [/quote]
Its not radical. Just ignorant and reactionary.
