Quote from: Michelle. on October 21, 2011, 05:29:36 PM
But what I find most offensive about these left-ist views is the everyone but me attitude. Everyone but me should work, pay taxes, suffer etc etc etc. Everyone else is too blame for my problems and short comings.
Therefore the left-ist feels they have the right to steal thru any means, the productivity of others. The left-"ist will gladly take free housing, food, medical, vacation etc etc etc... But a job? Heck who needs a job if their getting all that for free. But nothing is free, you stole it from someone else. Calling it taxes and fair is just a rationalization. RATIONing is more likely to occur.
You've just described about 1% of the population. And I'm sure someone could say the opposite about the right and only be 1% correct. The fact is there is more people in the middle than on both ends combined. It's a Bell Curve. And it's the people in the middle who have
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lost their jobs
or
have seen their pay decrease against the cost of living
or
who have had to work longer hours for the same pay
or
who have watched their retirement money dwindle
or
who have seen their retirement vanish altogether
or
who have watched a lifetime of savings dwindle away
or
who have lost their homes
or
now own more on their home than it's worth
or
who have college debt equal to a mortgage
or
who now have to work two jobs to make ends meet.
These are hard working people who never asked for a handout and now no longer have what they used to despite the fact they have done everything they can to make things work. Now they are out of options.
That's what the OWS movement is REALLY about. That and identifying WHY we got where we are today and encouraging reversing the government actions that helped get us here in the first place. And yes, it was government intervention into the existing tax laws, investment laws, banking laws and real estate laws that helped create this. It was working and they "fixed" it. Now they have to undo what they did.
The substantial shift in wealth that has occurred over the past 30 years has resulted in a stagnant economy because all that money that used to fuel the economy is now sitting in the mattresses of the uber-wealthy. The so called job creators that the pro-wealthy/pro-corporation bills were supporting didn't create any jobs. The corporations eliminated them and reaped the rewards. Case in point: 2010 was a record year for corporate profits yet the unemployment rate was around 9%. That record, hit in the third quarter of 2010, was preceded by seven consecutive quarters of growth at some of the fastest rates in history. Remember the 2008 tax breaks corporations enjoyed? You do the math.
The supporters of taxing the rich and the corporations, like they used to be taxed, are your every day Joe's, the ones who used to be referred to as the backbone of America but are now called lazy because they can't find a job. The benefactors of the laws that got us here in the first place have done a great job spinning the truth so they can keep on enjoying their newfound mega-wealth. Look at how the Koch brothers bought the Tea Party.
I, for one, am not swallowing their BS.