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A Theme Park Dick Cheney Will Love
When his new grandchild is old enough, the Vice President can take him to a new British theme park that reflects his world view–Dickens World, where tourists get a buzz from the Victorian squalor that the underprivileged deserve.
This non-Halliburton environment is chock full of rat-infested sewers, ragged beggars, debtors’ prisons, child pickpockets–in short, a tax-cuts-for-the-upper-one-percent version of Disneyland.
Dickens World, 25 miles from London, opens this week just as George Bush’s friend Tony Blair is departing, possibly to head the World Bank. When it comes to pauperizing a population, the British are centuries ahead of Americans who are just getting the hang of it.
27 Responses to “A Theme Park Dick Cheney Will Love”
Your demagoguery is laughable.
The park is a great idea. For those who hate it: Maybe the UK should boost revenues in the park by exempting the park from certain laws, shall we say, and for mutually agreed charges, visitors could do as they wish with the servant girls.
I suppose you’d blame anything and everything else also for a US inner-city theme park (largely an underclass creation in real life; theme park on the reality would be PC and the object of massive junk lawsuits), or in a “Eurabistan” theme park in the UK or on the Continent. (with AK-47 shooting gallery)
Britain in the 1970s, whose loss may lament (nationalized industries, industrial failures, and all), was downright sick. Thatcher probably did more to rescue your nation than Reagan did to rescue ours.
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/changhyun/Thatcher70s2.html
http://libcom.org/history/1978-1979-winter-of-discontent
Unloading state-owned dinosaurs is proving hard to do
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951297,00.html
Yeah, wow. This post was just straight out a cheap shot.
At least he didn’t add Jerry Falwell and the Religious Right in there. You know, Scrooge harms everyone Monday through Friday, then goes to church with his fellow fundies and listens to sermons from Fallwell and Swaggart, then does more harm on the way home…
Awwwwww poor Dick Cheney and Halliburton.
Maybe if they take time out from killing Arabs and trading our tax dollars and soldier’s lives for oil, they *just might* have time to have their feelings hurt by Mr. Stein.
When will you people wake up and realize that Bush & co. are lining their pockets and their friends pockets using your lives and your money?
I can already guess what Cheney would say about the idea:
“Bah Humbug!” LOL.
Right. I forget that dishonest and insulting misrepresentations of people’s beliefs are only wrong if we support their policies.
Sorry Robert, but this is the worst post I’ve seen on TMV in a while, but I haven’t been keeping up recently.
My, my it seems like our friends on the right don’t think that ‘turnabout is fair play’… Why am I not surprised? >/shock
Really, Steve?
Where is your evidence that I am “on the right”?
Where is your evidence that I have posted anything similar to what Robert posted to make it “turnabout”?
Oh, wait. I keep forgetting. Everyone who criticizes a leftist position is, by definition, “on the right”. And anyone who is “on the right” is fair game for everything because they are bad, bad people “on the right” and its just “turnabout” to nail them.
Really, Jason?
What makes you think I was talking to you?
I agree that this post is mainly flame-bait, but it’s not misleading or untrue that this President has done absolutely nothing to help the poor. Not that it’s exactly a Republican only trait. Every President starting with Reagan has turned a blind eye towards the plight of the lower-class.
Whether this President (or the Vice-President) has done anything for the poor is a matter of opinion based on whether you buy into certain arguments as to the effects of across-the-board tax cuts versus targeted tax cuts. It is, in short, a matter of legitimate substantive debate. And that debate is short-circuited when it begins from a snarky indictment of motives.
I don’t think there is any evidence to support Robert’s contention that Dick Cheney thinks that poverty is what the underclass “deserves”. His post is a cheap shot and, as such, is counterproductive.
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I think its a hoot! Cheney is the archtypical modern-day Ebeneezer Scrooge, and you know it. He doesn’t have a philanthropic bone in his body- and he and Bush have allowed corporate vultures to pick the bones of the American taxpayer. Corporate welfare has replaced the welfare state.
Is this like the “global-warming debate?”
The situation for the poor has gotten worse since the trickle down economics of Reagan were introduced. Combine that with reduced social spending as a result from the tax-cuts and you have the recipe for what we are seeing today.
And what are we seeing? Increased inequality, depressed wages, more and more uninsured, massive rates of obesity for the poor.
When facts fly in the face of bias……….
http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=575
In one of the largest sums ever donated to charity by a U.S. public official, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne gave away nearly $7 million last year to help the poor and to medical research.
According to income tax information released by the White House on Friday, the Cheneys’ adjusted gross income in 2005 was $8,819,006.
OK, that 80% of AGI. Care to post your own tax return % ?
You’re right. Actually, very few even try any more. There is no point, since the empowered lefties around here will just twist everything you say and/or turn it all into snark anyway.
It’s tough to be civilized when there are people being killed in your name, with your money overseas.
Why, we have a problem with obesity in this country…if my employees bring their children to see me, and I can’t see their ribs, why, they are eating too much — and I then believe I am paying my employees too much money. In fact, if they have time to bring their children to see me, they aren’t working enough for what I generously pay them! Visits? Children? Bah! Humbug.
> T[L]V’s new co-blogger
> is really a stellar moderate
Corporate-fascist by Cindy Sheehan’s or Chris’s perspective, though.
And you should behave civilized nonetheless.
Right…. So in 2005 most of Cheney’s income was from Halliburton stock options which he claimed in 2001 he no longer had.
In other words, his largess to charity would appear to have come mostly from the US Treasury.
Well at least we don’t have to worry about him rebuilding the workhouses and orphanages, and reinstating the 120 hour work week since he’s not running for office in ’08.:)
> workhouses and orphanages
I agree with the writing of a die-hard Democratic judge I’ve read, who believes (correctly) that much of the US public would love to see rural work camps for convicted felons, where they’d have to raise their own food and even make their own shelter and clothing, or suffer the consequences.
We have yet to see any real “prison reform,” but once the money crunch hits in the next 10-20 years, just wait and see then. There probably will be changes made in many cases that are intended primarily to reduce costs, nothing else.
I don’t remember clicking onto Daily Kos…
[...] A Theme Park Dick Cheney Will LoveThe Moderate Voice – This non-Halliburton environment is chock full of rat-infested sewers, ragged beggars, debtors prisons, child pickpockets in short, a tax-cuts-for-the-upper-one-percent version of Disneyland. Dickens World, 25 miles from London, opens this week [...]
Well, we get a little of everything on here- from liberal Bush/Cheney-bashing to neocon islamofascist-bashing. Some posts look like they belong on Kos, others from Red State. And all the flavors in between. Its a moderate site that welcomes all viewpoints for discussion, which makes it different from just about any other on the web.