I just wrote a letter to the 1%. If you want to do the same you can go to the Blue America Pac page and speak your mind.
The text of my letter is after the fold.
I Am a Selfish Bastard
Dear 1%,
I want to write you about selfishness, because I think this is a subject you can relate to.
See, I am a selfish bastard. All I want from life is to be happy. I have a great job with a decent pay and benefits, and I pay the mortgage of a decent house, but that is not enough. I am a selfish bastard and I want much more.
I do not mean more money, that's just pieces of green paper or numbers in a bank account. Yes, you can buy nice stuff with it, but I am a selfish bastard. I do not care too much about stuff, or green paper and numbers. I care about myself.
One thing I care about is my future. I do not want to worry too much about it. Yes, I have a job and I am healthy, but like the rest of the 99% I am just one struck of bad luck away from catastrophe. Suppose I get seriously ill: Yes, I have health insurance, but then I will likely lose my job, and there goes the health insurance, and there goes the mortgage...That's why I care about things like social security and medicare: Because I am a selfish bastard.
Another thing I care about is new jobs. Not for me, I am very happy with mine, but for my neighbors. I want my neighbor to have a job, and a good one, because I am a selfish bastard. If my neighbor loses his job, he won't be able to keep his house, the bank will foreclose it, and the value of my house will drop. I do not want that to happen.
That's another reason I do not want cuts to social security and medicare. I do not want the elderly couple down the road to lose their home to pay medical bills. They are nice people and listening to their stories makes me happy. I am a selfish bastard, I want to be happy.
Since I am a selfish bastard, I want good and affordable education for everyone, specially for the kids in my neighborhood. I want their teachers to be competent and well paid, so that none of them will drop out of school and turn to crime. I do not want them to break into my house and steal my property. If I go to the hospital, I want doctors and nurses to be professional and well trained, and happy with their jobs, so that they will treat me better.
What I am trying to say is that here in the 99% we all in this together. The happiness of one of us depends on the happiness of each other. You might think that up there in the 1% that's not true, but you are mistaken. We are your neighbor, your nurse, the nanny of your kid.
All these things I want to be happy cost money, but they are becoming more and more difficult to achieve, because even if I and the rest of the 99% have been paying our fair share for it, the 1% is not doing it anymore. You paid the politicians to cut your taxes, then played Russian roulette with the economy and nearly killed it, then got the politician to give you the cash register and left us with the bill.
Now this has to change and you have to start paying your share once more. I am sure you can understand why. Just try to be a selfish bastard like me.
P.S. Remember: it's selfish, not greedy.