Yet Another Wall Street Billionaire Asks Working Americans to Sacrifice -- Why Do the Media Still Li

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/152387/yet_another_wall_street_billionaire_asks_working_americans_to_sacrifice_--_why_do_the_media_still_listen_to_these_guys/


Working America has sacrificed a great deal in the last 40 years: its share of the national income, its economic security and the dignity that comes with decent health and retirement benefits. Those at the top of the pile have sacrificed nothing – they're grabbing more income and paying less in taxes today than they did during the mid-century boom years. Yet, we are being asked by those very elites for “shared sacrifice.” The question is, how much “sacrifice” the little guy has to make before the big boys start sharing it.

It's clear to see how the toxic ideology of Ayn Rand has permeated our political culture, all the way up to America's well-heeled elites. Whereas the wealthy were once viewed with some scorn as the idle rich, children of privilege who know little about life in the real world, they now claim to have been imbued with innate, almost super-human intelligence and they offer their wealth to prove it. Those claims go largely unchallenged.

But if you look at the discourse proffered by these feral elites, it's clear that a wingnut with a lot of money is no more rational than the "get a brain, morans" guy of viral fame. Just this week, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, called new banking regulations “un-American.” What did he mean? Who knows? It's a facile talking point.

Perhaps the best example was an anonymous shot at working people supposedly fired from the bowels of Wall St. last year. “We are Wall Street. It's our job to make money,” the broadly circulated email began.

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[ixion]

1. Yep. The parasite class is at the helm, telling the working class to sacrifice

while they play golf.

We're heading for a supreme World of Hurt, and no one seems to give a damn. :(

[OHdem10]

2. Wall St. does not want to give up their Casisno. They want to

be able to continue gambling with Main St.'s money,
heck they now even want the SS Fund added to their
gambling chips. Dodd-Frank tries to separate Investment
Banks from Commerical Banks. NO, NO, NO, they scram
and besides that gives the SS Fund.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Cheney and all the groups didn't want to ASK us to sacrifice, they only wanted to TELL us by

example and dictum.