Why do we demonize the bottom 1% who take advantage of the system, while we give a free pass to the top 1% who do the same?
Why do we allow our anger towards the swindling 1% of the bottom to punish the other 99% of the bottom? We certainly don't punish the top based on the actions of 1% of the top.
How does the bottom 1% get their bounty? Be defrauding our systems and taking advantage of loopholes. What do they do with their bounty? They buy Nintendos, DVD players, and the like, trivial stuff.
How does the top 1% get their bounty? By sending our children and parents to fight all to protect their income flows from the oil fields and contracts in Iraq. What do they do with their bounty? They buy $500 shoes and glasses, $10,000 suits, and so many other luxuries like medieval lords.
Why aren't we indignant that this war allows the top 1% to live a lifestyle reminiscent of kings and lords from the profits they reap in Iraq?
We claim to be followers of Christ, yet we deny support to the poorest and most vulnerable of our citizens just to spite the 1% who take advantage of our compassion and our heart.
Yet as followers of Christ, we do nothing in the meanwhile to stop the 1% at the top who also ignore our laws and steal from the young, old and sick alike with corrupt power and money schemes that kills so many.
We feign ignorance about the corrupt 1% at the top, we feign denial about the wicked 1% at the top, but we wholeheartedly support anyone who claims they will clean up the 1% of the bottom that are swindlers - give or take a few hundred thousand or so. So what if we stick it to some of the honest bottom people, it's only a bunch of poor people anyway.
We feign helplessness and powerlessness about cleaning up the inhumane 1% at the top. Instead of demonizing them, we worship them. We buy their clothing, their glasses, their work ethic. At least we have something to shoot for.
Oh wait, you're probably thinking or they're not really that bad, or really? Every dead soldier from the Iraq War is worth about 20,823,826.71 to the top 1% - that is the gross income made off the dead. Parlor accounting tricks notwithstanding, UBS anyone?
So why are you so outraged over the bottom 1%, who take advantage of our system for a few hundred or even a few thousand dollars each - at least no one dies because of the bottom 1%'s pilferage.
Why aren't you the least bit troubled when thousands die all for the comfort of the 1% at the top?
If you want more of the same, vote for McPain.
Amazing what people believe when they haven't learned how to count.
Lower-class to upper-middle/lower-upper-class people will answer 60-70% of the time that they are "middle class." Perhaps that helps explain why the bottom faces much of the heat - NO ONE THINKS THEY ARE THE BOTTOM!
Just look at John McCain's distorted worldview. He said a month ago that to be "rich" you had to make "I don't know, $5 million." Whaaat?