compare/contrast america's growing fascist state

[flordehinojos]

between this headline in the sun sentinel

Miami mayor says he's speechless after commission gives him a 54 percent raise.
link to the article:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-1216miamimayorraise,0,2531106.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

and this snippet from The Progress Report

"For hardworking Americans who earn the minimum wage, "It would take almost their entire December paycheck to afford the more than $700 that the average American spends celebrating Christmas." If Congress adjourns for the holiday without acting it would be "the eighth year in a row that Congress has failed to enact even a small increase in the minimum wage." Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) notes, "By freezing it at an inadequate $5.15 and ignoring the effects of inflation, Congress has essentially given a pay cut to these workers." Hoyer asks, "How can the leadership in Congress leave Washington this week to enjoy a plentiful Christmas and a comfortable New Year knowing that their inaction has guaranteed another tough Christmas for millions of Americans?"


Fascism is alive and well in these here United States!

[bryant69]

1. Hmmmm. This is obviously a bad call.

But calling everything we don't like fascism tends to rob the word of any real meaning. Unless we intend fascism to mean "Stuff Democrat Undergrounders don't like."

Bryant
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[flordehinojos]

2. in so far as giving manny diaz a 54% raise that he says he didn't ask for

and he says he didn't expect--in so far as that pay raise shows/illustrates the absolute power of government when government wants to do something for their own kind,insofar as doing for their own kind and almost nothing for the have nots, insofar as that kind of pay raise promotes a deeper dividing line between the haves and the have nots ...AND insofar as the house of representatives has thought nothing OF giving a necessary living wage to the have nots and their needs and they illustrate the same kind of greedy supremacist thinking that the commission which voted for giving diaz his 54% pay raise, i'd say, hell yes...there is fascism floating in the air in these here u.s.a.

[bryant69]

5. Nothing strengthens an argument like saying insofar a lot

But I remain unconvinced; royal France had a pretty strong distinction between the peasents and the nobles; and one wouldn't call it fascist.

Bryant

[flordehinojos]

7. perhaps you are right and the strict definition of fascist does not apply

to Manny Diaz...yet--but who knows?; however, it does apply to many of the members in today's House
and that is sad.

[Swamp Rat]

3. Mmm, maybe the rich don't give a crap about poor, hard working Americans?

:shrug:

[flordehinojos]

4. that is exactly the point ... and isn't that the spring from which the

bushes hail? they just don't give a crap about the poor, but they love power and the money that they can make with their power.

[Swamp Rat]

6. It's not going to last.

We will eventually see the Fall of the House of Bushler.

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." - Plutarch