It would be an interesting poll to take. To ask Americans Which Party is the Party of the Rich, Tax Cheats, and Wall Street Insider Traders?
I would guess 80-90% would say the Republican Party, including most Republicans. Is that true? It is quite easy to find out the truth on this ourselves just by looking at voting patterns by states and zip codes, checking out the campaign contributions of biggest and most notorious tax cheats, and checking out the campaign contributions of the worst insider traders. Today the biggest Insider Trader Ring in a generation was busted. Here is what the Wall Street Journal had to say about it.:
Six Charged in Vast Insider-Trading Ring
OCTOBER 17, 2009
BY JENNY STRASBURG AND CHAD BRAY
In a case echoing the scandals of the 1980s, federal authorities exposed what they claim is the biggest insider-trading ring in a generation -- a conspiracy in which a hedge-fund kingpin and executives at blue-chip firms including IBM and Intel allegedly connived to profit on Google and other big-name stocks. At the center was Raj Rajaratnam, founder of Galleon Group, a New York-based fund firm that manages $3.7 billion.
Raj Rajaratnam is a billionaire. I guessed because of prior research into the political affiliations of the rich, major tax cheats and Wall Street's worst billionaire crooks which political party he would have contributed to. Sure enough the ring leader of the worst Insider Trading Ring of our time is affiliated with the same political party of the rest of his ilk. Which Party would that be?
The Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the old line Establishment Media all agree on which Party that would be, it would be the Republican Party. The Democrats have for generations labeled the Republicans as the Party of the Rich and Wall Street. The #1 claim of the Democratic Party is that they are "The Party of the Poor" and that the evil Republicans are the "Party of the Rich".
The Republican Party has willingly accepted the label. I rarely listen to radio but yesterday I was driving across the Nevada desert and could only get one channel clearly which had Sean Hannity on. Sean is more of a leader of the Republican Party today than any US Senator. He must have used the term the "The Rich" ten times in one minute about how they create the jobs and pay the taxes and on and on about all the positive things the rich do. So the Republicans must be the "Party of the Rich" right?
A few years ago friend who had barely lived through a "Reeducation Camp" of Mao and had just become a US Citizen wanted to know which political party was the best fit for her. She is a Christian. She said that another person at her church had told her she should become a Democrat. She said "Do you know why she said I should become a Democrat?" I said "Yes." She said "How could you know?" I said "She said because the Democrats are the Party of the Poor and the Republicans are the Party of the Rich." She was shocked and said "How did you know, that is exactly what she told me!" The reason is that this is the primary recruiting tool of the Democrats, which is just by becoming a Democrat you automatically can claim to be helping the poor and are given a disposition from any negative aspect of the rich, even if you are doing absolutely nothing for the poor, you cheat on your taxes, and you became rich by oppressing and cheating others. Wow, what a deal!
It would be understandable that the Democratic Party and the Establishment Media that is 80-90% Democrat might try and falsely create the primary recruiting tool of the Democratic Party, the offer that is "too good to refuse" as Don Corleone would say. But of course the Republicans would prevent this from being believed if it was not true. There is no way the Republican Party could be so stupid as take all the blame for things they are not guilty of and absolve the Democrats from what they are indeed guilty of, so as to give the Democrats their primary recruiting tool which is just a myth. So the primary recruiting tool of the Democrats must be true that the Party of the Rich, Tax Cheats, Bernie Madoff and Wall Street Insider Traders must be the Republican Party. It has to be.
But just in case of the one in a million chance the leadership of the Republican Party is inconceivably stupid and self destructive, or the one in a billion chance that the Republican Party is actually under the control of the Democratic Party or a third entity controls both and the battles between both are contrived "pro wrestling" like contests should we look into the facts? Probably not, it is just too inconceivable. But in the age of the Internet it is easy to verify this matter, so lets just do away with this silly possibility.
We will together go through each one, first who is the Party of the rich? Lets look at the a map of which is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
Then compare it to the five richest and poorest states in America which is here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060930115136AAs907L
Five Richest States and how they voted in last 4 elections which nationally went 50/50 Democrat/Republican:
1 - New Hampshire 75% Democrat
2 - New Jersey 100% Democrat
3 - Maryland 100% Democrat
4 - Connecticut 100% Democrat
5 - Minnesota 100% Democrat
How could this be? It is the opposite of the accepted conventional wisdom that the Republicans are the Party of the Rich!
Lets check the 5 poorest States, they have to be Democrat:
46 - Louisiana 75% Republican
47 - Montana 100% Republican
48 - Arkansas 75% Republican
49 - Mississippi 100% Republican
50 - West Virginia 75% Republican
They are not! The five poorest States all vote Republican! How can this be?
Aha there is a way to explain this. It must be a few rich cat counties in those rich states that vote Republican and then at the State level they are overwhelmed in the vote by the multitude of poor people that the rich are exploiting! We can prove that by looking at the 15 richest counties in America with the highest median incomes and how they voted in the 2008 election. Here is the data:
New York, New York $120,790 DEMOCRAT
Loving, Texas $99,593 REPUBLICAN
Pitkin, Colorado $93,465 DEMOCRAT