Our local paper; The York Sunday News published my rant against the wealthy cry-babies who take up too much space in our national discourse.
The following is the bottom-line of what my article said:
The bottom line is that many of the wealthy see the middle and lower classes as a lazy and undeserving source of cheap labor. They actually like a bad economy because they can pay us much less for our hard work and then buy up our foreclosed homes at cheap prices for investments. This is why they overpay their lackeys in the media and Congress to continue to deny us a few of their dollars for middle-class tax cuts, health care, extensions of unemployment and job creation.
To read the whole article, please check out the link:
Declaring Class Warfare
After seeing that it was published I thought I would check to see if any comments were posted on the paper’s web site.
At the time of this posting there are four posts. Two are very nicely positive; the other two are negative and not so nice.
Check out the comments from the wealthy guy, "dr ses", who actually helps make my case that the wealthy whiners are crying all the way to the bank. Here is his bottom line:
So if you think making 250k a year by working a combined 130 hours per week and trying to support the local econmy and providing a decent place to work, with insurance, etc.. then you my friend have a serious problem understanding the real world. It is people like you who make the hard working peiople angry because YOU expect something for nothing!
Well my friend. Yes, I would trade my job for a "combined 130 hours per week" making 250k a year! And I would even correct my own spelling!
What is with the wealthy that actually makes them think they work harder, and are so much smarter than the rest of us. Yes, I do work hard and I’m actually happy to help pay for our country to be safe, and humane, for all of us.
Why is that asking so much, from those who have more than enough, to help pitch in?
Anyway for those who might want to read my whole article here it is:
I have to admit I have rarely found the emotion of anger to be very useful. Normally, it only causes others to tune out what you are trying to communicate while at the same time increasing your own blood pressure. However, since the wealthy media have just recently decided that anger is such a great thing in our public discourse, I've decided that perhaps the emotion is the best way for me to get a little media attention.
My own anger is completely directed at some of the greedy of this country. Namely, those people making more than $250,000 a year who are so greedy they don't want to pay their fair share of taxes. I'm angry about the way these wealthy people have waged a class war against those of us in the middle class for at least the past 30 years.
These greedy people have spent a great deal of time and money on demonizing the rest of us to the point we can't even say the words "class warfare" without them whining that we are the ones who are trying to take their money. This despite the fact that they have waged, and clearly won, the class war to the point that in the past 10 years they have become even more filthy rich while the rest of us have lost income.
They hold us in such disdain that they continually make the claim that they are wealthy because they work harder than the rest of us lowlifes. This, despite the fact that many of them have done such little work in their own lives that they don't even know much about their own businesses. If you don't believe me, watch the TV show "Undercover Boss."
In the popular TV show, corporate CEOs go undercover as entry-level workers in their own companies. In one recent episode, the CEO of Waste Management did such a poor job at one of these bottom-level positions -- picking up trash -- that the supervisor had to fire him because he couldn't keep up and handle the hard work.
And don't believe the guy is CEO because he knows more than the lower-level employees either. In every one of the shows, the CEOs are actually amazed at how difficult and demeaning the lower level positions are. How are we to believe that these multi-millionaires became head of their companies without having a clue what the lower-level jobs entail?
Another big lie the greedy try to claim is that they are the real patriots, while the working classes and unemployed are just trying to take their money. Witness one TV personality multi-millionaire who literally cries tears that others, presumably traitors, are conspiring to destroy our nation. It is not the workers and unemployed who are unpatriotic. It is the wealthy and their highly paid hacks in the media and Congress who don't want the rest of us, including former military vets, to have anything. Not even something as basically humane as health care.
These wealthy crybabies even want to "privatize" the Veterans Department health care received by the true patriots who have risked their own lives trying to defend us in our nation's many wars.
Speaking of wars, these wealthy crybabies don't even want to pay for the very war they so fervently supported in Iraq. Despite the fact Iraq never attacked us, and the wealthy oil barons wanted the war so badly, they still spend millions to keep from paying a measly 4.6 percent more to help pay down the trillion-dollar deficits which in much part were directly caused by the senseless Iraq war.
The next time one of these wealthy crybabies claims that they do not want to pass the public debt onto "our" children, remember they are not a bit worried about your children. If they really wanted to reduce the deficit, they would be willing to pay for the debt themselves right now.
The greedy are so deathly afraid that the "undeserving" under-classes may get some of their money that they spent millions trying to stop us from receiving the same government health care that many of them, and their lackeys, receive as overpaid members of Congress.
If I made $250,000 or more a year for one of their cushy jobs I would be more than willing to pay the same tax rate (50 percent) the wealthy paid in 1985 under the Reagan administration. In fact, please let me pay those rates. I promise I will work harder in one year than those rich TV crybabies do in their entire lives.
The bottom line is that many of the wealthy see the middle and lower classes as a lazy and undeserving source of cheap labor. They actually like a bad economy because they can pay us much less for our hard work and then buy up our foreclosed homes at cheap prices for investments. This is why they overpay their lackeys in the media and Congress to continue to deny us a few of their dollars for middle-class tax cuts, health care, extensions of unemployment and job creation.