On The Economic Enslavement of the Working Rich

The pokergirl loves to send letters to editors on the internet. It's every citizen's job to have input and interest in what is happening to their country- not only how it affects the individual personally, but also how it affects the fellow citizen. I sent a brief posting out using the phrase "enslavement of the working rich". Now, of course, I have to explain myself!
Nothing in this world is easier than annointing oneself as a humanitarian- particularly if it doesn't cost one any personal time or money. Nothing is easier than demanding that SOMEONE do SOMETHING. And in the United States, it has been decreed that those people be the working rich. Not the trust fund babies who are protected from the great tax grab by the thoughtful and expensive planning of their progenitors. But the WORKING rich. Those people who will also lose their homes and cars and jobs and money if they don't GET UP and go to work every day. The work they do is usually highly skilled in terms of requiring a specific set of abilities- either organizational or intellectual or both- and usually involves a high degree of interaction with others involving a sphere of influence and responsibility unknown to the working poor or middle class. There is a REASON why some workers become rich. And with very little thought, anyone can figure that one out. Resentment of the most successful starts very early in life. People who are not and will never be capable of great financial success learn that resentment is an easier way to deal with it than the self-realization that they simply aren't as good at it. It is easy to pick on the "rich". But rich is, and always has been, relative. If I have 500K a year (don't worry, I don't), and your house payment and maintenance expenses and personal expenses are 450K a year- you aren't rich, you just LIVE rich. There is nothing wrong with that- because in our nation, we are rapidly losing the concept that it is OUR money. We have become victims of the rapidly evolving policy of economic enslavement of the working rich. And the working not so rich. Obama, who has never run a business or issued a paycheck, as well as Biden, who has never run a business or issued a paycheck or worried about his employees, now, with a liberal and punitive Congress, feel they have a right to play Robin Hood. To rob the working wealthy. In their insulated world, they have become God-like in their omnipotence. They choose to steal what is not theirs for a form of political humanitarianism that is purely self promotional. They have taken a problem created by Congress (lack of credit regulation and promotion of bad mortgage policies through freddie and fannie) and turned it into a golden opportunity to produce a constituency of sycophants who will continue to vote for policies that keep them as the benficiaries. This is not only devastating to the core of American capitalism, but will eventually demoralize any one with intelligence and ambition. Ironically, a secular government is now placing itself in the world of "tending to the poor" that should be the primary role of organized religion. Evidently "we" are not the richest country in the world- "we" are determined to become reliant on the richest PEOPLE in the country. And there is a difference. What is happening under the incompetent and bizarre watch of Pelosi and Frank is no more than a political grab to keep the poor under the burden of government subsidy that will suck initiative out of them for generations. Don't believe it? Take a LONG, hard look at the culture of government dependency that has crippled the African American population in such cities as New Orleans. It is a city of 4 generations of welfare, and to be better or work harder is not a concept that is even taught. It is a welfare program that so crippled its recipients that when they were told to evacuate, they didn't even bring their babies formula or diapers with them, let alone a canteen of water. Why? Well, that was the government's job.
Be very careful, America, how you punish the people whose initiative has not only made them peronally successful but also has made the economy successful. It is unfortunate that some of the complainers are people of great intelligence and education who have chosen the easy way out. They employ no one, work in areas that they feel are "critical" to society but that produce no employment and little income and could easily be done by others. Those people have chosen NOT to put themselves into the grinding world of producing jobs and managing people. They simply don't count. They are the excuse makers. And for them to complain about the rich simply reminds us that there is no cure for self-indulgence.
We are always only a step away from an economy that creates dependency of 50% of the citizenry while punishing the most successful. That will FAIL, and it will take us with it. Use your common sense. If you want humanitarianism, get off your rear and go work at a shelter or in an ESL class or through your church. That WORKS. There is another irony in all of this- we have a true African president. He can really say he is African American. He is not a slave descendent. But he now proposes to enslave the working rich to his government- to use them and steal from them and punish them for simply being better. How weird is that?