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On Fox, Jim Lacamp says Obama admin's "class warfare" helps set "the stage for social unrest"

June 10, 2009 5:34 pm ET

Cavuto responds: "Although we're not making political views on this, I know where you're coming from."

From the June 10 edition of Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto:

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CAVUTO: Jim, I'm always interested in how, you know, Wall Street follows this too --

LACAMP: Right.

CAVUTO: -- because there were a lot of things to worry about with the economy.

LACAMP: Sure.

CAVUTO: But I've got to tell you, to a man and woman I talked to in the business world, they all tell me, "Neil, what's going on in Washington, the shooting?" Even though we have a pay czar controversy over how much money we're doling out, this -- I always feel this is the sort of the unaddressed scab for Wall Street, that they're not quite over this, and maybe after 9-11, they never will be. What do you make of it?

LACAMP: I think you're absolutely right. We've lost a generation of buy-and-hold investors. Now, keep in mind the market, if you go back 13 years, isn't any higher than it was 13 years ago.

CAVUTO: That's true.

LACAMP: People lost a lot of money in 2000 and 2002 --

CAVUTO: And they don't need much to get off the buying pot, do they?

LACAMP: They sure don't. And they lost a lot of money in those three years, then they lost a lot of money in 2008. They're still hearing all this economic news, the housing market has not gotten any better, so I think there's a lot of skepticism about the health of the economy and the stock market as a result. And so people are still very leery of the stock market, and you can throw Washington and Wall Street into that mix because they're still leery about people on Washington and Wall Street.

CAVUTO: Well, and also we should say the last terror attack -- this was not a terror attack, I got to stress that, and nor do authorities think it was -- but it occurred in Washington and it occurred in New York, and do you think, then, Jim, had this been in any other city -- take nothing away from a Wichita or a Macon, Georgia -- that it would've gotten the attention or gripped Wall Street the way this did?

LACAMP: New York and Washington D.C., those are the two hubs, and anywhere else it would not have had the same impact. It does highlight something that I'm very concerned about economically, and that's social unrest. You have a lot of people losing their jobs, you have a lot of people losing their homes. They're angry, and as interest rates go up, foreclosures accelerate, and we're going to have a lot of resets over the next two years. The same time, municipalities are cutting back on their police forces, and we have an administration that's really done a lot of class warfare, a lot of class-baiting. And so it sets the stage for social unrest, and that's one of the things that I'm very concerned about moving forward.

CAVUTO: Although we're not making political views on this, I know where you're coming from.

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    • Author by mk3872 (June 10, 2009 5:44 pm ET)
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      Real nice, blame a lunatic right-wing neo-nazi Birther gunning down people, on the FRIGGIN PRESIDENT!!

      How embarassing it is when Fox News' biases are showing so clearly ...
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      • Author by snoopy (June 10, 2009 6:36 pm ET)
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        I'm starting to think those nazi's who got away didn't just go to Argentina. At least one made it to Australia...
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    • Author by Conchobhar (June 10, 2009 5:45 pm ET)
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      The "class-baiting" comes almost exclusively from the right, which has been successfuly engaged in class warfare for three decades, if not longer. Even the conservative British newsweekly, The Economist, which initially supported Bush, called his tax policies class warfare.
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      • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (June 10, 2009 6:02 pm ET)
           
        The "class-baiting" comes almost exclusively from the right...

        Almost, hell! Not even Olbermann, Maddow, or Schultz has gone off like The Noise Machine...
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      • Author by worrierking (June 10, 2009 6:03 pm ET)
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        You're correct Conchobhar.

        And by being correct, you're guilty of class warfare. And now I share your guilt for agreeing with you.

        It's a known fact that class warfare can only be practiced by those of us who envy the success and the lifetime of hard work by people like Cavuto, Hannity and Limbaugh.

        Do I have to call each guy and apologize or will one call to Boss Hog suffice?
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        • Author by eweston8542983 (June 10, 2009 7:05 pm ET)
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          Don't take the easy way out WK. Without that personal touch they'll think your not being properly contrite.
          Thank them all for properly pre-empting any thought that the future victims didn't deserve the rightious anger which fell upon thier heads.
          "They made me do it," has has a long and proper history as an excuse for violent acts after all.
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          • Author by eweston8542983 (June 10, 2009 11:08 pm ET)
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            Dat second has should be had.
            I blame it all on a bad Polish susuage..Urp.
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        • Author by snoopy (June 10, 2009 7:15 pm ET)
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          Yes, we should prostrate ourselves before them for their great successes in life, like when they engaged in hostile takeovers to steal another man's company, or union busting and exploitation of child labor. It takes a lot of guts to make money off of other peoples efforts.
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          • Author by worrierking (June 10, 2009 7:26 pm ET)
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            I've always said if you can't find humor or make a profit on someone else's misery, you're wasting your life.
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    • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (June 10, 2009 5:46 pm ET)
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      And here it is, right on schedule...it's the liberals' fault! Not even the dinner hour, and the left is already to blame for right-wing terrorism...
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      • Author by roundhouse (June 10, 2009 6:52 pm ET)
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        Ain't that the truth? So much for that personal responsibility all these stupid rightwingers are always trying to claim exclusive ownership of.
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        • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (June 10, 2009 6:58 pm ET)
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          More projection! Since it's the liberals who actually show any...
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    • Author by seeryer (June 11, 2009 11:29 am ET)
         
      Fox analysis is rich people will be pitchforked and burned because Obama has been baiting poor people to do it. We Distort You Deride.
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      • Author by Conchobhar (June 11, 2009 1:46 pm ET)
           
        Good one! It piggybacks beautifully on a quote I once read from a reporter who'd escaped Murdochville to write for the Times. He said his mission at the NY Post had been to "search and distort."

        Young whippersnappers might not recognize the reference, but those old enough to actually remember Vietnam will.
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