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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Indigestion is all I get
	Date:	4/4/2011 9:21:47 PM

Here's where a little critical thinking can help. Some factors to consider: 1) need to separate wealth from income, two very different things; 2) we still have a large middle class; 3) our poor are rich in comparison to 90% of the world; 4) look at the history of the top 1% and you find a great many of them started off either poor or from modest means, most Americans except the entitled class realize that this is also possible for them; 5) we have a progressive tax system in this country and the top earners pay the vast majority of the taxes and close to 50% of working people in this country pay no federal taxes; and 5) Vanity Fair is a liberal rag so take it with a grain of salt.

Final note, what does this have to do with entitlement programs anyway? What, you think it somehow makes it fair or better to have the government take money away from the productive at the point of a gun and piss away $3 for every $1 that reaches the intended beneficiary? I don't think so. All it does is create more government jobs and turns us into the banana republics that have lousy economies and wretched poverty. It always amazes me how liberals like the writers at Vanity Fair get so fixated on the wrong things. And of course, the underlying assumption here is that the top 1% didn't earn what they have but stole it like the two bit dictators in third world countries. They didn't invent a great product or took risks, nope, they either won lifes lottery or got lucky or trampled the little guy. Its all so predictable and pathetic.

If you regularly read this kind of dribble it definitely explains why you took a hope on change and gave us hopeless and change for the worse.....