re: #445 Lidane

YES. THIS.

I’m generally not the radical, let’s-all-go-make-signs-and-protest type. In fact, I shy away from that as much as possible since I don’t see the point. HOWEVER, that said, I totally get the rage driving the OWS demonstrations. Some white-collar asshole making six or seven figures a year whining about how his taxes going up a couple of percentage points back to Clinton-era levels is the end of freedom makes me want to punch things.

Shit the Clinton era levels I believe were the result of a compromise between a Republican Congress and President Clinton. I’ll add another thing that pisses me off though. Whenever you point out what I’ve and others have pointed out tonight you get accused of hating the wealthy. I don’t hate the wealthy. I’m a product of the upper middle class. I just want to make it easier to give everyone a chance. And if that makes me a commie so be it, I don’t think it’s radical at all though to think that in times of economic turmoil the rich should make a small sacrifice especially if the rest of us are dealing with spending cuts. Of course another problem is the right wing politicians won’t have anything to do with cutting defense. It’s almost as they think defense is part of another budget all together.