Yeah, Well, Erhm...TAXES!
I read, hear, and see a lot of neo-liberal, fiscally conservative, Republican, Libertarian, Ayn Rand worshippers and what-have-you bitching about the things I mentioned above. But I always think beyond what they say, and consider what they're really trying to prove. That's when a light goes off and I realize that they're just like everyone else; they're looking out for their own interests.
"Freeloaders" tend to be those poor saps sucking the government tit in order to get by, to some degree anyway.
Tell that to one of these "freeloaders everywhere" belly-aching blowhards and see if they don't blow up with rage. If any of them is reading this post so far, they're surely frothing at the mouth with anger right now.
Whether these crybabies realize that there are entities on the other end of the poor/rich spectrum who are freeloaders remains to be seen, personally.
Unions and their "thugs" is the target of ire and malicious intent by a handful of these self-entitled, hilariously envious whiners, especially when a trade or labour dispute comes about. It's no secret that unions often screw themselves and their image over by being just as greedy as power-hungry corporations, but that's par the course with humanity. When it counts, however, unions are a necessary backbone for the workforce.
Without them, there'd be no minimum wage, guarantees of hours and pay would be nonexistent, and workplace safety & health regulations would be but a figment of imagination as chemical plant workers everywhere die in horrible ways without falter. If only unions would stop engaging in gross self-entitlement issues, and compromised a bit more often they'd receive less anger from their detractors.
Taxes, nobody likes them. Heck, I need to find a withholding calculator just to get my paychecks in line. Let's go flat across the board, that'll work! Or let's stick with the current progressive system and still have to deal with bad expenditures and a horribly bloated military budget. The rich pay the highest income tax rate and DEY CREATE DEM JERBS! So let's lower the taxes so they CREATE DEM JERBS!
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The rich pay the highest income tax rate and DEY CREATE DEM JERBS!Calculating New Income Tax, 02/07/1919 by Clifford Berryman. ARC Identifier 6011549
Yeah well, what about being your own person, independent and everything!? Say that to the companies that get tax breaks (sometimes ludicrous breaks at that), exploit loopholes in the tax system thanks to an ever-complicit congress and their hacking at regulations, were granted billions of dollars on the good faith that they'll create jobs and boost the overall economy, and thanks to their meddling have achieved preferential treatment by law (just look at the prison-industrial complex and how much they have to gain with increasingly stringent laws!). How about their easily-tempted idiot buddies in the political arena who grant company folk and their family members advantageous treatment through executive job placement, suck-up pay (you know, or else company folks blackmail such idiot politicians for their lists of dirty deeds), and "committee" oversight positions?
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eanwhile, the poor get more disenfranchised by the day, the middle-class continues to erode into either rich or poor territory (usually the latter), and the poor/rich gap widens ever so. Anger is sprouting, protests are mounting, saturated entertainment markets continue to placate the masses, and an increasingly irrelevant mainstream media continues to divide us based on the decoy premise that is the left/right paradigm. Those who penetrate our senses of dignity and ability with their proverbial shafts are laughing at us, expecting us to continue to bicker amongst one another while we blind ourselves to what’s really going on.That's what these crybabies I've been talking to are falling victim to. There is the other side of the aisle that's arguably just as bad, but they're not as hilarious as those I've been tackling with this piece, so I dedicated this one to those of you who think of food-stamp recipients, income assistance clients, and other "freeloaders" as scumbags who should be thrown into the trash heap of society. Take your misanthropic views and shove them where the light doesn't shine. Wake up and smell the ashes for what's really going on, fools. We're all selfish pricks once in a while, but you don't need to be a misanthrope about yourselves being so.
Next up for a good grillin' is the flip side of this same coin; don't you go thinking you're innocent in this whole fiasco.
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