Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

Are you sick of the DEADBEAT RICH?

If you are then do something! Stop allowing the biggest deadbeats this country has ever seen get away with their constant assaults against the most vulnerable in our country.

I've been using the term 'Deadbeat Rich' for years because I've been sick of the rich making fortunes off of the backs of the poor and middle class. The rich get ALL the benefits of living in this country and yet they aren't contributing their fair share, or even contributing anything at all. They are deadbeats.

Even an illegal migrant farm worker who picks vegetables for a living produces more for society in one day than all the white collared freeloaders on Wall Street do in their lifetimes. And the rich don't even have to fight and die in wars because they dont need to join the military just so they can learn a trade or get money to go to college after they serve their country.

I am sick of democratic leaders never saying anything about the deadbeat rich and how they are like parasites in our country. Generally speaking, most produce nothing. The poor and middle class are the ones who build our roads, our bridges, our schools and everything else in this country. Without hard working employees, even Steve Jobs and Bill Gates wouldn't have the empires they now enjoy. Except for rare instances no one can make fortunes without the collective efforts and hard work of hundreds or thousands of others.

Our country was built on the backs of the poor and usually the most exploitable people. Even slaves built most of the White House even though they had zero rights and zero wealth. Because of the total disregard and contempt the rich have for the millions they exploit a more deserving position they should have in society is on a gallows, instead of the lofty pedestals they now enjoy.

Even though most Americans are experiencing great hardships and are sacrificing a great deal, the rich aren't sacrificing at all. Just the opposite is true. Because of how unjust our system is, those who work the hardest and produce the most get paid the least. And the rich merely horde their great wealth and because of inequities in our tax law they can make more money by letting their great wealth park in high interest accounts and their revenue is taxes at a rate much lower than those who actually work for a living. So those who produce the least for society get paid the most.

The stupid and profoundly ignorant conservative tea baggers say they want to take their country back, but from whom? Do they think the poor own this country? Why do they mindlessly protect and defend the top 2% of the people and attack those who own nothing but the shirts on their backs? How can those on the right be so deluded? And why are democratic leaders basically supporting them by not resoundingly condemning and rejecting everything they say?

When are our leaders going to speak out for the hard working Americans for a change and tell the rich their free ride is over and they are finally going to have to start contributing to society and to our country instead of taking, taking, taking.

I'm fed up with the deadbeat rich. And I don't understand how anyone making $250,000 or less a year could not be as fed up as I am with the deadbeat rich.

By An Army Veteran September 19 2010
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/AnArmyVeteran/1434