Good to know that's where you lefties are taking us! Asperational default. Spoken like a true Euro-socialist!
Lukey, I get a large charge out of the labeling (euro-socialist - lefties) When a company need's a bailout from the taxpayer it's American and the right (patriotic) thing to do. If a solid american worker needs help or a living wage it's socialism euro style.
These labels serve those that invent them but have no purpose in reality. All americans are capitalist's in their own right except for a few. The american worker is a capitalist in the sense of wanting and working for a better lifestyle and continuously fighting the very employer that would enslave them. The last 30 years have proved that the system works for the few that can buy their way to more riches and kill off their competition ( I give you Mitt Romney) as an example. I often use the term carpetbagger to describe those that create very little in their community while robbing the locals blind and securing passage elsewhere. You may label the american working class anything you like but the gist of it is that the fight will continue.
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For the 1961 novel and 1964 film, see The Carpetbaggers.
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1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a CarpetbaggerIn United States history, carpetbagger was a pejorative term Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877.
The term referred to the observation that these newcomers tended to carry "carpet bags," a common form of luggage at the time (sturdy and made from used carpet). It was used as a derogatory term, suggesting opportunism and exploitation by the outsiders. Together with Republicans they are said to have politically manipulated and controlled former Confederate states for varying periods for their own financial and power gains. In sum, carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices and taking advantage of Southerners. Carpetbagger is not to be confused with copperhead, which is a term given to a person from the North who sympathized with the Southern claim of right to Secession.
The term carpetbaggers was also used to describe the Republican political appointees who came South, arriving with their travel carpet bags. Southerners considered them ready to loot and plunder the defeated South.[1]
In modern usage in the U.S., the term is sometimes used derisively to refer to a politician who runs for public office in an area where he or she does not have deep community ties, or has lived only for a short time. In the United Kingdom, the term was adopted to refer informally to those who join a mutual organization, such as a building society, in order to force it to demutualize, that is, to convert into a joint stock company, solely for personal financial gain.
