As the stock market plunged today, I became thousands of dollars poorer. Ground regained since this time last year was lost in a single day of trading.
Grover Norquist, the turd who has persuaded GOP lawmakers to pledge no new taxes, was quoted last month in TIME as saying, "Even if it's a toss up on [the question of whether tax hikes hurt economic growth], there's still the question of liberty. Taxes are a limitation on liberty. You are stealing from some people to give to others."
Well, Grover, how much has just been stolen from me? Stolen by GOP refusal to tax the rich; stolen because STandard & Poors consequently lowered Uncle Sam's bond rating; stolen from my retirement account to make the rich richer? Who are the real thieves here? (And why are so many of my fellow countryman too damned stupid to se this?)
As Journalist Joe Klein points out in that same TIME article of July 25th, "Stealing. Actually, in this democracy, there is something called the consent of the governed.... In normal times, the corollary principle should be, if you decide to spend money..., you have to figure out how to pay for it. That defines a brand more powerful than either party. It used to be called the American way."
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