Ponder this thought about the national debt!

[LOki]

I have this weird notion that those who caused 95% of the overspending that caused the debt should be the ones who are considered responsible for 95% of the debt caused by overspending.

 

[Sunshine]

I have this weird notion that those who caused 95% of the overspending that caused the debt should be the ones who are considered responsible for 95% of the debt caused by overspending.

 

[LOki]

Seriously.

 

[hortysir]

I never imagined you, Sunshine, to get sucked into this class envy crap

 

[Sunshine]

You do realize that this "95% of the nations debt"...was built on politics and policies that most wealthy people would have voted against 99% of the time?
So in what fairness would it be the right thing to ask them to burden the aftermath of those insane policies?

So, I shouldn't have to pay taxes because I 'would have voted against it.'

I'm disappointed in you, iam, you are ususlaly much better than this!

I never imagined you, Sunshine, to get sucked into this class envy crap

Class envy. You all just flippin' don't get it. No one on this forum is in that 1% of the country that owns 95% of the wealth, not unless you are a Kennedy, Rockefeller, or Gates. Or maybe even a Walton.

The reality is that most of the 95% of the nations wealth is in the hands of 5 or 6 families. They got that wealth because of laws (made by Congress, iam) that allow them to pass down mist fortunes, commit crimes they are not held accountable for (check out how the Kennedys got their fortune) and to exploit workers (look about Wal Mart's trouble with gender discrimination).

These mega billionaires OWN Congress. THEY are the ones controlling this country. And, yes, most of them have taken their jobs outside the country already, or are using illegal labor here in this country. This country has hit the wall. They can no longer convince people that their leveraged homes and Nikes bought with now maxed out credit cards has given them a piece of the 'pie.' It hasn't. Some people saw that all along. Some have just learned the hard way.
I know how well I do and it is better than most men do. So don't give me any of that 'class envy' shit.

There is no difference in a person who wants to suck off the government tit and the one who thinks that the 'rich' should not have to carry their share of the load in this country in order that they will have a job. Which isn't going to happen because any job you might have been there is long gone.

Here is a little article you might find intersting:

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"The war against working people should be understood to be a real war.... Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class.... And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don't want anybody else to know about it." -- Noam Chomsky

As a record amount of U.S. citizens are struggling to get by, many of the largest corporations are experiencing record-breaking profits, and CEOs are receiving record-breaking bonuses. How could this be happening, how did we get to this point?

The Economic Elite have escalated their attack on U.S. workers over the past few years; however, this attack began to build intensity in the 1970s. In 1970, CEOs made $25 for every $1 the average worker made. Due to technological advancements, production and profit levels exploded from 1970 - 2000. With the lion's share of increased profits going to the CEO's, this pay ratio dramatically rose to $90 for CEOs to $1 for the average worker.

As ridiculous as that seems, an in-depth study in 2004 on the explosion of CEO pay revealed that, including stock options and other benefits, CEO pay is more accurately $500 to $1.

Paul Buchheit, from DePaul University, revealed, "From 1980 to 2006 the richest 1% of America tripled their after-tax percentage of our nation's total income, while the bottom 90% have seen their share drop over 20%." Robert Freeman added, "Between 2002 and 2006, it was even worse: an astounding three-quarters of all the economy's growth was captured by the top 1%."

The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- What's It Going to Take to Get It Back? | Economy | AlterNet

What most of you mistake for wealth in the general population is really just a lot of debt, RVs, large houses, designer clothes, and on and on. And because the money just isn't there it has all come crashing down on a lot of people.

The mega wealthy need to pay their share, and I mean in proportion to the breaks and favorable laws this country has given them, to allow them to become mega walthy, or move the fuck over seas where they took their jobs.