{"id":4301,"date":"2011-10-18T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/enough-save-the-middle-class\/"},"modified":"2011-10-18T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:15:33","slug":"enough-save-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/enough-save-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough! Save the Middle Class."},"content":{"rendered":"

ABQJournal Online \u00bb How Dare These Rich People Be, Well, Rich?<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2026We didn\u2019t need to \u201clevel the playing field.\u201d It was already level for everyone.<\/font><\/p>\n

Some people got rich, some didn\u2019t. Fair and square<\/font>.<\/p>\n

But now, in this new age of entitlement, the rich are being blamed for everything. How dare they be rich when we\u2019re not? Well, go out and invent Windows if you\u2019re so unhappy.<\/p>\n

Of course that would mean actually doing something instead of complaining<\/font> about it. But why not give the protesters what they want? Let\u2019s have all the rich people take their riches and close up shop.<\/p>\n

Yes, the head of General Motors should take his millions, Standard Oil should cash in, the owner of the Journal should close its doors ,as should all their evil rich cronies and retire on their millions to live the life of Riley.<\/p>\n

Then Corporate America would dissolve. Unemployment would flourish. And when the protesters sit back smugly saying they\u2019ve \u201cwon,\u201d we can all ask the protesters for a job.<\/p>\n

Until the liberal left-wingers get it into their thick skulls that it\u2019s the rich people, not the poor people, that sign our paychecks, we are destined for doom.<\/font><\/p>\n

SHERRY WENZ
Albuquerque<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

ABQJournal Online \u00bb How Dare These Rich People Be, Well, Rich?<\/a><\/p>\n

Sigh. Such ignorance and anger. Let\u2019s pretend the playing field once was level. It hasn\u2019t been for a long time. Since the Bush Error, only the Rich have prospered and that was directly due to massive tax cuts plus tax-subsidized bailouts: Welfare for the Rich. Hardly \u201cfair and square.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, many people are fed up and have had enough and they are, in fact, doing something: yelling \u201cEnough!\u201d Our society may survive the deep divisions in political viewpoints, but it cannot survive the economic disparity between the Rich and everyone else, especially as the vital Middle Class gets crushed.<\/p>\n

In response to Warren Buffett\u2019s suggestion to raise taxes on the Rich, people like Wenz sneer that the Rich can donate whatever money they choose. I\u2019ll borrow that sneer to say the Rich are free to \u201cclose up shop and live the life of Riley.\u201d Like the Rich in other nations without a Middle Class and with outrageous disparity between the few Rich and the many poor, they will hire better security and stick to enclaves that exclude \u201cthose people.\u201d I wonder which side of that fence Wenz ends up on.<\/p>\n

The protestors do not want wreck the economy further. To say otherwise is either very stupid or self-serving. Apparently, Sherry Wenz belongs to whoever signs her paycheck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABQJournal Online \u00bb How Dare These Rich People Be, Well, Rich? \u2026We didn\u2019t need to \u201clevel the playing field.\u201d It was already level for everyone. Some people got rich, some didn\u2019t. Fair and square. But now, in this new age of entitlement, the rich are being blamed for everything. How dare they be rich when … Continue reading Enough! Save the Middle Class.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}