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Opinions/Editorials Title: The Angry Rich snip These are terrible times for many people in this country. Poverty, especially acute poverty, has soared in the economic slump; millions of people have lost their homes. Young people can’t find jobs; laid-off 50-somethings fear that they’ll never work again. Yet if you want to find real political rage — the kind of rage that makes people compare President Obama to Hitler, or accuse him of treason — you won’t find it among these suffering Americans. You’ll find it instead among the very privileged, people who don’t have to worry about losing their jobs, their homes, or their health insurance, but who are outraged, outraged, at the thought of paying modestly higher taxes. The rage of the rich has been building ever since Mr. Obama took office. At first, however, it was largely confined to Wall Street. Thus when New York magazine published an article titled “The Wail Of the 1%,” it was talking about financial wheeler-dealers whose firms had been bailed out with taxpayer funds, but were furious at suggestions that the price of these bailouts should include temporary limits on bonuses. When the billionaire Stephen Schwarzman compared an Obama proposal to the Nazi invasion of Poland, the proposal in question would have closed a tax loophole that specifically benefits fund managers like him. snip And among the undeniably rich, a belligerent sense of entitlement has taken hold: it’s their money, and they have the right to keep it. “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes — but that was a long time ago. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest #1. To: Fred Mertz, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, The Blue Cat, Mininggold (#0) And when the tax fight is over, one way or another, you can be sure that the people currently defending the incomes of the elite will go back to demanding cuts in Social Security and aid to the unemployed. America must make hard choices, they’ll say; we all have to be willing to make sacrifices. One of these days the "little people" are going to catch on. It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte #2. To: lucysmom (#1) One of these days the "little people" are going to catch on. coveting the wealth of others is a sin. There are better ways to bring people up the ladder then bashing those at the top.
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2) coveting the wealth of others is a sin. Who says that their wealth is necessarily being coveted? I consider many corporatists to be on par with baby killers. Money really is the root of all evil.
#4. To: mininggold (#3) I consider many corporatists to be on par with baby killers. Money really is the root of all evil. I agree there are evil corporations. Monsanto and their "copyrighting" of Gods open source food supply is one example.
#5. To: A K A Stone (#4) (Edited) I agree there are evil corporations. How many corporations use or sell products engineered by Monsanto? Your friends the Koch's own lots of them.
#6. To: A K A Stone (#2) coveting the wealth of others is a sin. Remember the story Nathan told King David? What we've got going here is more like that. It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte #7. To: lucysmom (#6) Remember the story Nathan told King David? What we've got going here is more like that. Tell it if you want.
#8. To: A K A Stone (#7) A rich man, unwilling to confine himself to the use of his own assets, steals from a poor man. It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte #9. To: mininggold (#3) As usual, you are wrong. Thew quote is: Timothy 6:10 (King James Version) 10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore. #10. To: lucysmom (#1) One of these days the "little people" are going to catch on. I don't think they ever will.
#11. To: The Blue Cat (#10) I don't think they ever will. French Revolution. Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890 Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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