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lookout123 · 11-24-2009, 11:10 AM

Angry? Not at all. Annoyed and frustrated that so many people don't seem to care.

I've got a friend who rages on and on about people borrowing money they knew they had no chance of paying back, (a reasonable complaint, IMO) but then he will turn immediately to the need for a program to do this or that admirable thing. I ask him how to pay for it and he just says that is the government's job to figure it out. The government pays for things by taxing what they can and borrowing the rest. There is a disconnect in there somewhere.

Bri - Of course, the middle class (regardless of who you think that is) will pay for it because they pay for everything. The politicians come from the wealthy and they'll never put anything in place that genuinely hurts them and theirs. They'll talk and talk to get the middle and lower classes upset enough to support their plan all the while knowing there are plenty of loopholes for the rich. So in the end a plan to hammer the rich always gets the middle class instead.

Shawnee - I'm smack dab in middle class so I've been sucking it up all along and that is ok - that's life.

11-24-2009, 11:10 AM	#23
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	Angry? Not at all. Annoyed and frustrated that so many people don't seem to care. I've got a friend who rages on and on about people borrowing money they knew they had no chance of paying back, (a reasonable complaint, IMO) but then he will turn immediately to the need for a program to do this or that admirable thing. I ask him how to pay for it and he just says that is the government's job to figure it out. The government pays for things by taxing what they can and borrowing the rest. There is a disconnect in there somewhere. Bri - Of course, the middle class (regardless of who you think that is) will pay for it because they pay for everything. The politicians come from the wealthy and they'll never put anything in place that genuinely hurts them and theirs. They'll talk and talk to get the middle and lower classes upset enough to support their plan all the while knowing there are plenty of loopholes for the rich. So in the end a plan to hammer the rich always gets the middle class instead. Shawnee - I'm smack dab in middle class so I've been sucking it up all along and that is ok - that's life. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin Last edited by lookout123; 11-24-2009 at 12:37 PM.