Reply #62: I think I described who I'm talking about pretty well. [View All]

[txaslftist]

It's the guy or gal who gets up in the morning and works his ass off to make ends meet at the end of the month.

Sure, rich guys work, too. But the idea you can't build something without them is just plain false. You give me twenty guys with time on their hands, tools, a creek and a forest, I'll give you a bridge.

You give me a family in a wagon owning nothing but what they can carry with them, and I'll give you a homestead farm. That's how most of our country got built, at some point in its history. The vast majority of wealth in this country comes from someone's hard work.

When that guy is living in a double-wide and driving a doolie built in 1980 and still voting Republican, we have a communication problem, not a philosophical problem. That guy ought to be a Democrat, and the Democrats ought to be that guy.

Americans work harder than any other people in the world. I don't mean every single American, but I'm talking about on the whole. That guy is over-worked, under-represented and misrepresented. I believe we need to be, first and foremost, that guy's champion.

I'm not trying to get into a debate about Keynesian micronomics or Laissez-Faire capitalism. The reason that debate isn't important is because that guy doesn't understand it. What he understands is if you look him in the eye and tell him you're going to be on his side, no matter what. That you are going to do what it takes to make it easier for him to make his monthly car payment, his monthly utility bill and put his kids into college.

IMO, that guy IS America. The rest is window dressing.