The Like Total Unfairness of Darn Rich People
My feeble attempts at humor are nothing, NOTHING, compared to this awesomeness from Frank J. Fleming. Excerpt:
See, the wealthiest 1 percent prevent us from getting ahead because any time we improve our incomes, we spend more on businesses and services, and guess who that helps? The 1 percent. Getting ahead just isn’t worth the knowledge that the rich are getting richer.
There’s no point in working hard to try to become one of the 1 percent ourselves, because what’s the chance of that happening? One in 100? Who would play a lottery with odds that bad?
No, instead of working hard, the 99 percent can only sit and protest on Wall Street until the wealthiest 1 percent are torn down.
Here’s the thing: They’re the 1 percent, but we’re the 99 percent. Their wealth may be much more than ours, but 99 is a much bigger number than one. So we should just gang up and take their money.
When one person takes the property of another, that’s tyranny, but when lots of people get together and do it, that’s democracy. So we should legislate that the 1 percent no longer get to keep that vast wealth and must instead distribute it among the rest of us. (I should get the largest portion because it was my idea.)
Read the whole thing, it's worth it.
Along these lines, I see that my old hometown now also has an Occupy branch working. "Occupy Fergus Falls" kind of slips off the tongue, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteDarn banks lent these people money to buy and fix crappy cars. Then they wouldn't let them just walk on the loan without seeking recourse for the deficiency. (And they SOLD the loan to another bank!!!!) There's just no justice in this world. . . .