For the right-wing, it's no longer "I got mine, screw you".

[Lyric]

Now it's "I got mine, now give me yours!"

Sad but true.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. It's amazing that 'Murkins just go along with this!

By now, you should be able to walk along any street and hear a chorus of screaming outrage from each home you pass.

We must be the dumbest people who ever lived.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. "We must be the dumbest people who ever lived"...+1 n/t

[COLGATE4]

16. To quote the great H.L. Mencken: "No one ever went broke

overestimating the stupidity of the American public".

[AndyTiedye]

8. The Mighty Slime Machine (MSM) Has Most People Completely Brainwashed

Never underestimate the power of propaganda.

[Sirveri]

3. That's for the leaders, otherwise it's, "I have nothing, neither should you!"

Not capable of forming cohesive bonds with their coworkers to lobby in their own interests, they have instead decided to attack everyone else. Like that illegal immigrant who is stealing their job that they turn around and say Americans don't want to do, or the innocent man sitting on death row, or the school teacher who still has health insurance, or the people who still have clean air.

[OwnedByFerrets]

17. If not that, then "I have nothing, but I'm hitting the lottery next week"

[Hydra]

4. I haven't yet met a Republican

Who didn't wholeheartedly believe in this new statement. "Gimmee!" should be one of their 10 Commandments.

[OwnedByFerrets]

18. You and me both

[Zax2me]

20. Careful. 'Gimme' is a right wing talking point.

For anyone accepting govt assistance.

[Hydra]

21. They do that too

But in public, "We've never taken gov't help!"

Hell, even Ayn Rand did.

[BarbaRosa]

5. In the same vein I long thought another repub motto..

I've got mine, now I'm after yours.

[NNN0LHI]

6. People who didn't notice this in the 1980's must not have been born yet or are too young to remember

Or something?

Sadder and truer.

Don

[hifiguy]

7. "They made their money the old fashioned way:

they extorted it from the peasants at the point of a sword," as an historian friend of mine once put it.

[Brigid]

9. Your historian friend gets a Brigid DUzy.

Things really haven't changed, have they?

[man4allcats]

10. I wish they'd break into my house and try to take mine.

They'd leave on a mortician's gurney.

[cantbeserious]

11. Graphic Proving The Argument

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2011/09/08/the-us-economy-since-world-war-2-plotted/

[Bigmack]

13. Problem is...

the dumbasses in this country can't read graphs.

And there are a LOT of dumbasses.

[wizstars]

12. Gordon Gekko: "Greed is good!" n/t

[Honeycombe8]

14. Beware the mortgage deduction scheme, when it is passed. I think it will be passed..

as part of tax reform, by that super committee.

The mortgage deduction that everyone gets will disproportionately affect the middle class. This is why Republicans, if you notice, are not against removing that deduction. They present it like they are "compromising" and would go along with that. We know they don't compromise.

More millions of middle class Americans, the mortgage deduction is the major tax deduction they have which allows them to itemize. Property taxes would be the other. Take away the mtge deduction, and it won't pay for them to itemize. It would disproportionately affect the % of taxes they pay. Not so with very wealthy people. They have lots of deductions, and the mtge deduction is a small % of their other deductions.

[LaPera]

15. (Not "right-wing").They are called (fucking) REPUBLICANS!

Call them by what they are....not GOP or right-wing or righties, conservatives, fascist, tea-baggers, libertarian, etc. - They all vote republican - call them what they are, fucking Republicans!

[pampango]

19. And watch out for the immigrant and the foreign worker! They're the ones you have to watch out for.

Reminds me of the joke:

A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, 'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.

Conservatives like to get workers fighting with ourselves (yes even Americans vs. foreigners) rather than with the real source of our problems - namely said conservative.

[Goldfish]

22. "What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine too."

Greed!