My parents and I were having a serious discussion about this issue this morning. It ultimately led to fuming about how ridiculous it is to extend the tax-cuts to the wealthiest 2% and how stupid it is for people to argue the contrary.
The results in that chart are frightening, though.
It's completely ridiculous. In light of bailing out the banks and other major companies that failed for no reason other than their own greedy mistakes, it makes me even more mad. These are the people that could have used this money. Not the CEOs and other employees racking in giant bonuses they "deserve".
Word. I can't even tell people in my family this because most of them think that they "worked hard" to get that money and deserve to keep it. My mom pointed out that a lot of those people inherited that lifestyle and never had to work a day in their lives, but of course the point goes over their heads.
I really hate the "Oh, the rich worked hard for their money, so we shouldn't tax them" shit. Like people who work shitty low-pay jobs don't work hard? For their hard work, don't they at least deserve to be able to do basic things like live indoors and feed their kids? :|
That would suggest that it takes eight years for an administration's policies to begin taking effect, which would completely exonerate Bush of any blame for the current financial crisis. Whew, Dubbya's legacy is safe.
The Brazilian right wing uses the exact same argument all the time when it comes to all the good things that happened in the Lula years. This is our graph for extreme poverty. Guess when they were in power?
I think it's funny how that kind of argument happens everywhere. To be fair though, the left usually just blames the past for every single failure on their part. That's expected from political parties but I wish the "normal" people would leave the partisan role for them.
It makes me so mad that the top 2% is getting new tax cuts and my mother and I have to comb through her car for quarters so we can wash our clothes at the laundromat. I know it could be worse; we have water and electricity. But, it's getting really old wondering if we're gonna have enough money to pay for groceries, even with food stamps. :( There are six people living in my house full-time, and everything is stretched so thin. I just started college and I have to do work-study because for some reason it's the only way my mother can get more than $24 a week in food stamps. My mother recently lost her unemployment benefits, even though she still has two semesters of college left and they promised her that they'd continue to give her benefits until she graduated. The only income my house has is my friend's part-time job, and soon my work-study money.
tl;dr fuck poverty. I'm so exhausted all the time.
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The results in that chart are frightening, though.
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I think it's funny how that kind of argument happens everywhere. To be fair though, the left usually just blames the past for every single failure on their part. That's expected from political parties but I wish the "normal" people would leave the partisan role for them.
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tl;dr fuck poverty. I'm so exhausted all the time.
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