So, flipping burgers isn't a real job? My boss said if I keep up the good work I can move over to do the french fries, that's where the real money is....maybe then I can participate in life, like real life stuff.
Most people that have any sense and intuition figure out very early in life that a low paying job will not cut it later on in life if you want just about anything. Its an entry level job. It took me being at a grocery store about 2-3 months at age 16 to know I needed more than that. You see a paycheck. You figure out what things cost. You figure out what you bring home a month. And it clicks.....this isnt gonna work. I need more. Well, thats how people used to think. You want more, you work more. You earn it. It works. Then people like you and Bernie were spawned. And instead of saying "I need to do more", they just ask for it from someone else who did say that and earned it. And people like Comrad Bernie espouse this position to the idiot masses because its an indirect way of buying votes and a form of populism that has ventured into sheeple pandering.
Let me get this straight with you....you think I or Kaos or whoever else that is probably considered middle class on this board, should have their already high taxes increased, and given to others because we had some gumption to do something with our lives? You want us punished and them rewarded when we did all the right things, and they did all the wrong things and fucked around at McDs until they were 29?
If you believe that moronic "evil billionaries!!" rhetoric, then you are falling for the Alinksy Propoganda of the Century. Take a look at the tax code and see where the big jump is amongst normal working people. Its when your household crawls above that 90K mark. Hardly rich. Remember when Obama harked all the "fair share" shit in 2008? It was billionares only though. Well, then millionaires. No wait, its just 250K now. And Joe the Plumber of all people called him out on this shit.
Evil Rich People = any normal middle class household that makes over 90K. Fact....so says the IRS tax code table in our wonderful progressive tax system.
BTW - I have no issue with uber rich people paying their fair share. When Mitt Romney or George Soros pay a lower tax rate than most of their workers that make under 100K, then yeah thats an issue. These guys pay lawyers millions to save many millions. Which means closing tax shelters and loopholes where they move their money either offshore or to capital gains to get a lower tax rate. No issue with making them do that at all.
From an uber conservative Bible thumping, rich people loving ABC News article...
"We have a president who is probably the most radical president in American history," Gingrich said this week. "If you look at his background, he's really a lot more Saul Alinsky and radicalism than he is anything to do with the traditional American models."
The attack falls in line with an effort by Republicans to accuse Obama of engaging in "class warfare." Alinsky, after all, began his book: "What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."
Obama has written and talked extensively about his time as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. But one short essay he wrote in 1988 hints at his philosophy about Alinsky activism.
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