The Poor are Vicitimizing the Rich. Didn't You Know?

[MrScorpio]

STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH

Did you know that the real victims of -- well almost everything bad about America -- are not the poor, but the rich?

Oh my how they whine. The government is taxing them too much, regulators are forever telling them what they can and can’t do, lawyers keep suing them, ordinary investors are always griping about lost investments and gutted pension funds the rich manage for them. I mean, it’s amazing the rich can struggle out of bed each morning to face just another day of not only not being appreciated, but vilified and taxed.

At least that’s what you’d think if all you did was watch Fox News and read US Chamber of Commerce press releases. Which, of course, is precisely what members of the Tea Party do. They have little trouble understanding what they’re told on Fox since it’s being delivered to them by fellow-lowbrows like Glenn Beck. And, while the Chamber’s materials are a bit over their heads, the Tea Party herd hears the subliminal howl of woe.

Of course it’s all complete, utter nonsense, as is much of what the right is peddling these days. Just yesterday Newt The Gingrich proclaimed that the GOP should be for, “creating more jobs with more tax cuts.” One has to wonder what will happen if the GOP every succeeds in getting the tax rate down to zero? Because there will still be plenty of trouble in America and what will their solution be once “cut taxes” is not their cure-all?

I have no idea if Tea Baggers can read financial charts, or whether they simply dismiss charts that conflict with their cherished beliefs. But if they look at the Nation Magazine chart linked below, and get it, they might just understand they are being used. But even as these social vampires suck the fiscal life blood from them, these glassy-eyed conservative believers cheerfully run interference for them. I don’t recall who said, “Religion was invented so the poor don’t kill the rich,” but I think he/she was on to something.


Anyway, here’s how we are really treating those rich whiners:



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[provis99]

1. the rich are like the Mafia.

The mafia likes to complain how they have to protect small businessmen by offering them "protection", the way that the rich complain that they have to protect us from our own peasant selves.

Eat the Rich.

[Gman2]

2. The working class can be the shit outta the investor class. And we are just about to.

[CTyankee]

3. Here's how Joe Scab puts it: the poor really WANNABE rich SO

they don't want anything BAD to happen to the rich cuz one day THEY'LL be rich just like the rich! OK, got that?

And THAT, sez Joey, is the American Dream. Get rich. See how that works? Right?

[laughingliberal]

5. That's exactly how the right gets the idiots to keep voting against their own interests

They fail to tell them (big surprise) that the current system they support pretty much guarantees they will never get a shot at being 'the rich.'

[CTyankee]

8. But the young ones think they have a real shot at it! You know how it is when you are young and

stupid? Or at least I do!

I think as they go along they start questioning that reasoning. They get older, have to drop out of community college, their girl friend has their kid and they have child support, things don't get better at their minimum wage or slightly better job, etc...

What a sad story it is indeed. How many young lives are ruined by this totally futile dream?

[JoeyT]

10. It isn't just the young

I've got lots of family that are closing in on or already past their 60s that are absolutely certain they're going to trip over a giant pile of gold in their backyard tomorrow and no amount of facts or logic will make them realize that it isn't going to happen.

The stupid young people become the stupid old people because they never want to learn anything. They just want to be told over and over that it's never too late to be rich and famous.

[laughingliberal]

4. It's the rot at the top without a doubt

But I fully expect it to continue. With the media ignoring any dissent from the left and focusing exclusively on the teabaggers from the right, it allows our lawmakers to stay comfortably center right while appearing 'moderate' and catering to the plutocrats, keeping the money right where it is.

[bobbolink]

6. After what I've been through... if given half a chance, I just might.

Suppose that's what they are afraid of?

Hmmmmm?

[CTyankee]

7. I don't think they are counting on you doing that. Surprise them! nt

[applegrove]

9. The rich want to erase empathy from civilization. How scary that world would be

they do not care. They'll be locked behind gated walls so why would they care.