Well…just a short one on a comment that ole Mitt made yesterday about his income from speakers fees that he made last year….when asked about the amount he replied “not much”…okay, Mitt, your not much was 374,000 dollars…374 K, which would put anyone else in the top 1% is just pocket change to ole Mitt…how can anyone who answers that 374K is “not much” ever understand what the 99% of us go through in our daily lives? This alone should disqualify Mitt form the presidency since the only people he can ever identify with are those of the silver spoon class; those that were born to wealth and have the delusion that they earned it…geez…
Okay, I’m going to add a little to this one about how out of touch many of our rich politician class is…if you remember, back in the 90′s when the elder George Bush walked into a grocery store and marveled at the price scanners that those of us that actually have to do our own grocery shopping had seen for many years…and, to be fair…there have been many of the patrician class of the dems that have done the same thing, I seem to remember one of the Kennedys who never carried money because they had people to do that for them…but the difference is that most of them really did care about the middle class and their legislative efforts showed it…none of the trickle-down nonsense that the repubs have pushed for the last 30 years…
Well…I was going to go off on Nolan Finley again for his nonsense that the left is irritated with the tea party because they tell the truth…but as everyone knows, the right has their version of “truth” that never fits up with the facts…and Nolan is just a little. little, man trying to hold onto a past that is fast reaching its end. What I did want to talk about is the “Occupy Wall Street” protest that is going on in New York as we speak and one of its aims to call attention to the continued thievery that is rampant; aided by the tea party and it’s corporate overlords. I find it funny that one of the reasons that the media has been slow to cover this story is that they don’t have a clear agenda or should I say a set of talking points that lends itself to the 5 second sound bite that “news” has degenerated into. But, that is the whole point….a true grass roots movement that is trying to take on what is wrong with this country can’t be summed up into talking points….the mess that the repubs have made is so wide reaching and insidious that it takes time to figure out what the people need to fix the situation. A true grass roots rebellion is run by the people rebelling and the diversity of it’s ideas comes from the diversity of the people in it…of the “99′ers”, those of us that are not in the 1% who continue to take, and take, and take without regard to the damage they are doing to the rest of the country. I also find it funny that this true movement of the people is being compared to the sham movement of the tea party; which is bankrolled by the billionaires and whose mouths are filled by the talking points those billionaires want them to say.
I want to end with just a word of thanks to those who are on the front lines in New York and to the rest of us who try everyday to wrest control of this country out of the hands of the 1%…..maybe this time money won’t be able to run us over and leave us for roadkill…I can hope anyway….
What you never want to be….