I wonder how many of you actually know WTF you are talking about and have ever experienced any of the crap you rant and rave on. As for the middle class getting squeezed, they have no one to blame but themselves for their spending habits. As for the middle class not being the recipients of social programs, bullshit. As for the top quintile getting more benefit from social programs than the middle class, TOTAL BULLSHIT. As for the poor being poor, unless you have had a catastrophic financial event in your life, it is lifestyle choice to be poor. In the case of the person with a catastrophic lifestyle event who is now poor, chances are they will not be poor for long. Speaking from personal experience from living in the bottom quintile, the middle 60%, and the top 20% over the past 7-years I have seen more shit than any of you posers probably have thought about. In the bottom quintile, you pay no taxes, get all sorts of government handouts, and get free healthcare. A LARGE majority of the folks in this quintile stay there by their own life choices. They don't value education and hard work, they are perfectly happy for the government to take care of them, and they constantly bitch and moan about the evil rich folks who don't give them more. In the middle class, you still pay almost no taxes and can still qualify for many government assistance programs. Most of these folks do value work, not necessarily hard work, and they see a need for educating at least their kids if not themselves as well. These folks generally worry about making a car payment or taking a vacation but for the most part are content with where they are. In the top 20% it a whole different ball game. Most folks here are highly motivated to succeed, stress the value of not only hard work but smart work, and place a high value on education. These folks generally have the same worries as the middle class but also strive to acquire assets as opposed to liabilities and use credit very sparingly. Oh and by the way for you spread the wealth hacks, pay an ass load of taxes. I started right out of college with a wife and two kids at the bottom rung. 7.5 years latter we are in the top 15% with having only one income throughout the whole time. I did that by not bitching and working my ass off at my job, earning a Masters degree at the same time, and by working my ass off at my job. Meanwhile the lazy fucks that bitch the most about how unfair life is and how the rich folks should pay more taxes to support them did not do squat except bitch and moan and rack up mounds of debt on useless shit. Yes, me and my family received government sponsored social services such as CHIP. I look at my tax bill and I have more than paid for what I received. Now why should I, after me and my family had to sacrifice (and we did) so we can achieve, have to spread the wealth. I have no problem providing temporary social services to those facing hard times. What I absolutely abhor is the POS liberal fucks who feel that some lazy schmuck is entitled to a certain standard of living and feels no moral remorse about providing that standard based on the hard work and sacrifice of me and my family. As for the lame ass Bush admin, fuck them too. I can't believe the fiscal shit they have pulled. It's an absolute disgrace and dishonors all of the great Americans who built this country from the ground up. The only thing this country has going for it is that there is still plenty of opportunity for upward mobility for those who are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to do it. Let's hope to socialists on the Democrat and Republican side do not take that way as the appear to be doing.
Once in the restaurant my server had on an "Obama 08" tie, again I > laughed as he had given away his political preference--just imagine the coincidence. When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need--the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight. > I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to > thank the > server inside as I've decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful. At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment, I > realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more. I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/waxman-wants-banks-to-explain-bonuses-2008-10-28.html Here's your idiots. Mine are getting a tax cut.
Spread this meme. The "spread the wealth" phrase used by Obama is very comparable to "From each according to his ability to each according to his need" from Karl Marx. This is catching enough wind that the left is now fighting it in newspapers and MSM.
"I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of the middle-class Americans who most need tax relief." - John McCain, 5/26/01, arguing against Bush tax cuts "I voted against the (Bush) tax cuts because of the disproportional amount that went to the wealthiest Americans." - John McCain, 4/11/04
"I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of the middle-class Americans who most need tax relief." - John McCain, 5/26/01, arguing against Bush tax cuts "I voted against the (Bush) tax cuts because of the disproportional amount that went to the wealthiest Americans." - John McCain, 4/11/04