I don't have a clever intro for this so I'll just get right to it: how many jobs has Paris Hilton created?
Just because you're rich doesn't mean you're creating jobs. They only jobs Paris Hilton creates are for celebrity photographers and the makers of red bull. Being rich does not automatically make you a productive member of society. Even a justifiably high salary for a job requiring extensive experience and education doesn't mean you're creating jobs. Rich people buy things that are old and rare. One of a kind items created 80 years ago do not create the jobs of today or tomorrow.
Conversely, being a productive member of society does not automatically make you rich. There are plenty of middle-class job makers in this county who make middle-class profits only from their ventures. The insinuation that if you're not rich you must be doing something wrong is insulting at best. You can do everything right and still lose.
But the most infuriating part of the "the rich create the jobs" mantra is the part they leave out - that they themselves absurd amounts of money too. The problem isn't that the oil companies make a profit, it's that they think they should be excluded from giving anything back to society, from even paying taxes. And too many in Congress agree with them. And they all expect us to thank them for it.
If the rich had allowed that money to "trickle down" into the rest of society like they said they would then the middle and lower classes wouldn't be so dependent on the government in the first place. But they didn't. Pay now, or pay later, but you will pay. Someone's got to look out for the other 98% of America because the rich sure as hell aren't going to do it unless they're forced to, kicking and screaming all the way.