You are not the only person in the cross-hairs. We all are. This man and his administration are gunning for everybody who has success, wants to have success.
…the rich are gonna stop getting all the good stuff! This is income redistribution! This is returning the nations wealth to its quote-unquote rightful owners! This is a civil rights bill. This is reparations. Whatever you want to call it.
That’s why this isn’t about health care. It’s about wealth redistribution and class envy and getting people who can’t read this to think it’s going to be good for ‘em, because rich people are gonna get stuck again.
–Rush Limbaugh
Those things I highlighted in bold? All the blather about reparations and wealth redistribution is just the filler in this particular Limbaugh rant. The meat of the matter is an extremely wealthy man doesn’t want to part with any of his money to help anyone else in his society or his society in general.
What I find most annoying about Limbaugh, other than that he is a raving madman, is that his listeners are predominantly people in the middle class and lower who will never –NEVER– be anywhere near as wealthy as Limbaugh or even close to being rich at all, and yet he goes on and on about how rich people are going to get screwed, and these people eat it up with vigor. Yup, when he’s going on and on about rich people getting screwed, that’s when he’s being most honest … and how many people are actually as wealthy as Limbaugh? Certainly not the majority of his fan base, that’s for certain.
Why should anyone not wealthy give a damn about the wealthy? It’s not like they are in any danger of not living in large and fancy houses, driving large and fancy cars, eating fine and fancy meals, getting whatever health care they want or need, and having whatever expensive toys they want whenever they want them if they have to pay some more in taxes. Hell, right now, they aren’t even paying as much in taxes as they did under Reagan, and they do all seem so fond of the Reagan Era. I listen to some of my family members –Dittoheads one and all– ranting away about how rich people are going to get screwed, and then the next thing out of their mouth is them wondering how they are going to pay the bills this month. Why are they so damn worried about wealthy people? I can pretty much assure you that the wealthy don’t spend a lot of time worrying about them, and as I pointed out to these family members they all got tax CUTS, so what are they complaining about?
I personally don’t give a damn about wealthy people. I don’t wish them any harm of any sort. I just don’t spend a lot of time thinking about them, because I’m pretty sure that whatever they need or want they will be able to obtain without any stress. I don’t have to worry about them going hungry or dying from lack of health care or being homeless. I do have to worry about people in the middle class or lower having these kinds of problems. We should all be worried about that, including wealthy people like Limbaugh. A strong and thriving society can only be achieved when everyone has the basics of life: education, food, shelter, and health care. The only way we are going to achieve that is if those who are already thriving (and well beyond thriving) help.
I’ve moved through several tax brackets in my life. Sure, paying taxes sucks, because who really wants to send thousands of dollars anywhere without seeing direct results in one’s own life, but still, I don’t complain about it. Lin and I don’t really even get all the benefits we should, seeing as we don’t have kids in school or ever heading off to college, we aren’t eligible for any kind of welfare for food, shelter or health care, and I’m sure there are other benefits that those less fortunate than us get from our tax dollars that I haven’t even considered. We’re cool with that, because where we are now puts us in a position to have a better existence than so many other people who aren’t doing so well, and we both feel that everyone should have the basics of life, even if we have to help pay for it.
But the combination of greed and a lack of compassion is an ugly thing, isn’t it? Doesn’t lead to a thriving society, and eventually if some equilibrium and equality isn’t brought back into our society, the wealthy may discover that living in a third world country sucks, even for the rich.
