Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Revolution! Uprising!

Let them eat dirt!

All that glitter and yet no shine!

Okay, later..... (obviously time for my meds!)

Well there are a class of people that steal from the poor and middle class to amass power and wealth and you can bet that they do it intentionally so they don't seem to be feeling it.

But you tell me the plan and I'll join you in changing that story:)

During the Eisenhower administration the top tax rate was 91% for income over $200,000. Why has this changed so drastically? Is the question simply obvious? Before money owned politicians, were there any of the wealthy who simply acknowledged that they made their money on the backs of the working classes, so it was their duty to pay high taxes? Now 35% is deemed too high, so the wealthy can bank in secret offshore accounts and pay zero taxes. Or take advantage of the tax loopholes to pay less. Yup, it's a rigged system, and it doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon.
The new figures on the increase concentration of wealth shocked so many. Why? What wealth is left in a middle income-taxpayer-bailout recession cum-depression?
I am sick of listening to asshats like Trish Regan and Maria Bartiromo on talking-heads programs, as though their economic "expertise" (hah!) gives them any credibility in talking about real politics! Their sole interest is Wall Street and GDP, and we know that GDP numbers have zero relationship to US--working people, or retired people. Unless you believe in trickle-down economics, which they do, and this administration still does, all rhetoric to the contrary.
Screw it.

Lis, I don't consider myself a Socialist in the traditional sense of the word, however, as time goes by I am finding myself in favor of a new, American form of Socialism. In this new form, we would identify those things that we deem "necessary for life" and make sure ALL citizens have access to them. Food stamps, section 8 housing, Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security are steps towards this goal. I do not see how anyone could consider any of these programs to be anything other than socialistic, so the idea that health care for all would be terrible because it is socialistic is ridiculous.

I still am not wedded to any particular path to get us to the goal of everyone having access to health care...but I do not want to see one more family have to chose between medicine and food, or health care and keeping their house...This is America, for God's sake. No one in this country should EVER have to make that choice.

Fix it, ICEHOLES! I don't care how you do it, but frickin' fix it.

If it's the rich who are causing this problem, then who are those crazies disrupting the townhall meetings? I don't think it's likely (do you?) that the rich folks would be out there screaming their fool heads off, embarrassing themselves on tv. Who are those people?

Maybe you should go talk to them, Lis, and convert them to your brand of revolution. Maybe they just need a little change of direction.

Look...I am not a religious zealot...at all....however I love the quote from Saint Paul "Be subject to one another..."

That is the gig. We should take care of each other. We can do it. The government at its best is the spirit of that. We are trying to look out for each other. We shouldn't look at as something we are forced to do...we do it because it is the right thing.

I live in the mid-west and while it is far from perfect it is a lot less crazy than it may seem to people who have never been here. I don't want to brag, but the state I am from may have just been responsible for the election of the President and it just voted to allow gay marriage a couple of months ago and I think it is going to stick.

I am pretty sure I have seen a few people around here being subject to one another...yep..I am almost certain. Ok....now I am just bragging.

We are at a bit of a tipping point I feel. There is this moment in history where we have a perfect storm. The Bush administration provided the unique conditions for an intelligent, ethical and moral administration to move the ball forward. The corrupt powers that be are going to fight mightily against this progress and that is going to look chaotic at times. I am just trying to keep the faith.

I think that if our administration hangs tough, they are about to do some "right by others".