A plantation mentality has taken hold in the Republican Party. It is all about keeping labor costs low. Slave wages (like having a mule) are best, and indentured servitude is next. Note: Is it any wonder the GOP has such a strong base among Southern whites?
This is the carry-over of the British Imperialist Model (BIM) with Lords of Castles and their fiefdoms as the optimum socioeconomic arrangement ... thereby allowing an elite to focus on enriching the culture ... supported in their efforts by the masses producing the wealth the parasitic elite (bim-bos?) feed on.
The American model is the antithesis of both this — the BIM — and the communist model where the "state" dictates the distribution of wealth. We hold to the right of the individual on an equal opportunity basis to receive a fair return for his/her contribution to producing the wealth of our socioeconomic arrangement that includes a basic safety-net for all. We understand this to be the energy/motivation behind our — the greatest ever known to the human race — richly productive economy.
For some reason the currant crop of Republican leaders simply doesn't get it. I think it is because they are caught up in the Biblical model of God rewarding the righteous, so if they have been rewarded then it is their divine right to keep it ... no matter how they got it.
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