Stop Being a Pawn

On the subject of the current economic crisis and the diversionary, shortsighted and often willfully ignorant Conservative call for tax protests under the guise of "Teabagging parties" (look that term up for a laugh), someone defends the "tax breaks for the corporations" solution as the answer with:

"The problem here is that there are a lot of people to blame, far too many to name. However, the answer is not a policy of spend, spend, spend. What needs to be done is to give tax breaks to corporations so that they can afford to pay their workforce."

The problem is, they don't do that. They take that profit and pocket it for short term gains and in huge (take a real look) benefits for the people at the top of the chain. There is no excuse, none, for the heads of corporations to make as much as they do in salaries and bonuses, while whittling away at the pay and benefits of the workers under their charge.

The simple fact is, until the Corruption of Capitalism ends, this will not change.

And moreover...

Until the dolts (and though insults are distasteful to me, I use that word with precision and on purpose) at the bottom of the educational and economic food chain stop buying the conservative BS spouted by the talking heads and representatives of the Royalty of this nation, they will finally realize a few things.

1) The Very Rich benefit from the tax cuts...not most of us.

2) The Very Rich need to pay a higher proportional amount of taxes than you and I do -- they gain more from the system rigged in their favor than me, the office manager down the street, the guys building the home across the street, or even the builder.

3) Inheritance taxes don't need to be protected by you and me (who really aren't affected by them) for the benefit of the Very Rich. In doing so, we are their Pawns. If this is truly a land of opportunity, why should anyone create a dynasty for their children, setting up yet another Royal Rich family to work the system. While I'm sure Bill Gates children will ever really want for much, they aren't getting his billions -- he's giving it away. The simple fact is, the Very Rich benefited from the society and the system -- they should give back. And we should stop whining about inheritance taxes that hit people with 5 mil in the bank. Why fight their battles for them.

4) Yes, this is indeed a land of opportunity, and we all should have a chance to get Very Rich some day. The fact is, most of us never will. But, we need to stop being shills and pawns of the Very Rich, listening to and fighting for them, by following their mouthpieces (Hannity, Lumbaugh, et al).

5) If any of us get Very Rich, we should do the right thing, the honest thing, and pay a good portion of that back in taxes to the society that helped us get that way, the infrastructure that we so benefit from, the political system rigged now in our favor. If we have 20 million and we pay half of that in taxes -- we still have 10 million. Is not that enough?

Look at the income distribution in this world (this is not a call for socialism) and see but one example of where it has gotten us; for profit health care corporations making CEOs and ponzi scheme type investors stinking filthy rich while we pay the highest health care costs in this nation and have some of the lowest level of care in the world. *They* have health care because money is no object. Do you?

Stop being shills and pawns for these people and open your damn eyes.

We need to END the artificial gulf in this country that separates the poor/middle class from the rich. We need to stop the destruction of the middle class by the Very Rich, many of them who have gotten that way playing the Ponzi schemes that got is into this economic mess to start with. Stop listening to the lies of Limbaugh et al and stop helping our very oppressors by buying into their pap. As long as we such at their teat of misinformation, we will always be under their yoke.

I'm not calling for socialism or revolution by any means. I'm calling for a wake up call to find a way to end the New Royalty in this country once and for all.

Once and for all.