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When I grew up, you went to college, got a job, and moved up if you merited moving up. If you were a slacker you slung burgers at MickeyDs. If you couldn't go to college you started at the bottom of a manufacturing hierarchy and then worked to move up. If you were a slacker, you slung burgers at MickyDs or worked as a janitor or maid'
What the Hell is wrong with paying, earning saving wealth according to your merits? Why should I be taxed more to cover slackers! Why does everyone want their fricken hands in my pockets in order to equalize someone else's lack of money?
Everyone of us started out the same. We were infants. My parents didn't have a pot to **** in. I inherited nothing. I worked from the time I was 9 or 10 cutting grass and shovelling snow. I worked myself through college. I worked to give my kids more than my parents could ever give me. (We had nothing, but we didn't know it- We always had something to eat and we found ways of entertaining ourselves)
If my kids make it, great. They are on their own. The bank of mike1003 closed down after college and their marriages. If MrsM and I die the day our money runs out, that's OK with us and our kids. We made sure that they graduated college with zero debt.
If we die with a pile of cash in the bank, it's theirs. And they are OK with that also!
I have friends of all races that worked and earned their degrees like me.
I have friends from single mother and single father homes that struggled as hard, or harder than me. Many are much more well off that MrsM and I. And, their children are in a Hell of a lot better shape than mine. THAT'S GREAT!!
I have close friends of every race, religion and sexual orientation that struggled and made it like we have. Friends of single parents that came from nothing to success in one generation. And, for the most part, their kids are doing better than they did.
It is every parent's dream for our children to make a better lif for themselves than we had ourselves.
Look at Ben Carson, he wont be president, but his mother sure helped mold a great man and surgeon!
So, dont give me crap about the underprivileged never having a chance and I that should be happy to give them my money! Don't try to take my hard earned and merited money to give to someone else. I pay my tax, it is not a sin
Every city offers schools for disadvantaged kids. The have the samd chance as Ben Carson and I had.
And, while I am on a rant, dont give me crap about illegal aliens. My Grand-parents fled from the pogroms of Eastern Europe. Many family members survived the horrors of Nazi Germany. They learned English and gladly became citizend of this great country. (Oh,BTW, they came one at a time. My uncle first, he worked to bring in his brother and they worked to bring in another brother, etc. until their whole family was here
I am strongly in favor of immigration, BUT I WANT LEGAL IMMIGRANTS!! The LEGAL immigrants deserve everything the United States of America can offer. But, they must com here legally, find employment and become citizens. Then, they have the same abilities to find an education, jobs and merited raises.
So, blast away at me if you want. But that's how I feel. I am sick and tired of this crap and wont take it any more!
Nobody is proposing income equality. What they are proposing is a lesser degree of income inequality.
And the reason they are proposing it, is because our system isn't a free market. Our system is rigged. Certain people get rich because the laws are biased in their favor.
There's nothing wrong with income inequality. There's quite a lot wrong with oligarchy and feudalism.
Henry Ford, a man who knew a thing or two about capitalism, made sure that his workers earned enough money that they could afford to buy their own product. Nothing terrible happened to the economy.
When I grew up if your business failed the government didn't bail you out with billions of dollars. That is what is wrong.
Check your history:
Off the rop of my head, in no particular order:
Lockheed
Chrysler
Penn Central RR
Contrail
Airlines
An assortment of banks
And the mother of them all, the S&L crisis brought on by deregulation and speculation.
Some paid back with interest and some did not.
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