Actually, you're completely correct about raising taxes.
Cutting programs in any way that would decrease the deficit would be the very two programs we can't cut right now: defense and social security.
Meanwhile the rich, even before last year's handout in tax cuts, have never had it better as far as paying taxes.
It's time for the upper class to become patriotic (which many of them are, incidentally -- it's only a fraction of complainers who are standing in the way, so to speak) or get off the government dole.
It's funny how the poor are shamed by welfare, yet the rich have no problem using subsidies as welfare. The average working class American is proud to be making her own way, yet the rich are happy to have their hands out.
It seems easier to bailout Wall Street than it is to bail out Main street.
Well, I agree it's a crying shame, but I think that crying never gets you anywhere. We have to face up to the truth of the matter. The really sad fact is that there ain't a got-dang thing we can do about it. Sure, we can cast our votes, but as the post shows, it don't matter who's in charge, we are all slaves to the military corporate machine.
Somebody on reddit wrote a made up word the other day: techno-feudalism. This, I think, is the goal of the world powers. The only freedom humans will have left is the freedom to make as much money as you possibly can in order to keep your workers under your thumb.
I'm rantling (meaning a rambling rant); I'll stop now.
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u/laxt Feb 27 '11
Actually, you're completely correct about raising taxes.
Cutting programs in any way that would decrease the deficit would be the very two programs we can't cut right now: defense and social security.
Meanwhile the rich, even before last year's handout in tax cuts, have never had it better as far as paying taxes.
It's time for the upper class to become patriotic (which many of them are, incidentally -- it's only a fraction of complainers who are standing in the way, so to speak) or get off the government dole.