Wow...

I hope this isn't a portent of things to come...

HuffPo kicking quality writers to the curb...

Michale.....

OK, 66 hours late, the article's finally posted at HuffPost. The link above has been updated. Apologies for the delay (sigh).

-CW

My bust...

I missed the reference in your first post when I commented on your second post.

Michale.....

I thought I alluded to that when I quipped about the "new" Huffpo...Guess I wasn't explicit enough.

AOL is already influencing HuffPo... :D

Michale......

Chris, put another way: five percent of Americans have seventy-two percent of the money but only pay fifty percent of the taxes. That's unsustainable.

So, what's the solution???

Michale.....

As a direct result, Obama got the biggest improvement in his polling numbers of any month in his presidency so far. He decided he didn't need the support of people like me, and he was right. The truly sick thing about our perfect plutocracy is that it's simultaneously a perfect democracy.

Nice idea, but this is America. Making rich people pay as high a percentage of their income (let alone their wealth) as normal people, why, the very idea is abhorrent to the core of who we are as a nation.

I heaard this morning that, when it comes to the economy, Obama has lost control of the agenda to the Republican cult of economic failure.

I guess we'll know that's true when, among other things, the Obama/Biden/Geithner tax cuts for the top two percent of the highest income earners are extended in 2013 into perpetuity.

If rants like yours can't shake sense into people, I'm sure I don't know what will.

By the way, this important piece is still not up at the Huffington Post.

Why do you think it's a GOOD thing to pit Wisconsin state employees against Wisconsin tax payers??

Aren't they both Americans??

Michale.....

If Republicans have their way, our country will look like China. No regulations, no workers rights, and 2 classes - the extremely rich and everyone else.

Instead of fighting in a race to the bottom with China and other overseas countries, we should be working to help China become more like us - to have more workers' rights, better regulations that protect everyone, and rules to help make sure that success isn't just for the wealthy elite!

Rant on, my friend! Rant on! And a big shout out to those willing to fight in Wisconsin!
-David

The average teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system earns 6 figures a year in pay and benefits...

The projected salary for teachers at MPS is $100,005 for 2011. That's AFTER the current bill is factored in...

And guess who foots that bill?

Yep, the Wisconsin tax payer...

It's not about rights in Wisconsin. It's about the middle class getting screwed (again) by the Unions...

Michale.....

Let's be accurate here..

The crowds in Wisconsin are not demanding their "rights". They are demanding that the working class taxpayer pay thru the nose for a select few and their exorbitant benefits package..

The issue in Wisconsin has absolutely NOTHING to do with "rights".. It has everything to do with a useless Union that is trying to hold onto power..

, to the Democratic officeholders who fled to deny Republicans the quorum they needed to ram through a bill which is so extreme it's not even funny

You mean the whiney brats who, when they couldn't have their way, then ran away like cowards??

Maybe that's worth a Democrat (big D) award but it surely is not a sign of democracy..

Imagine how Democrats would have reacted if the entire GOP in the Senate up and left the country so that CrapCare could not have been voted on..

One has to wonder how ya'all would feel about that?? :D

Michale.....

Or, as Mark Twain put it:

"...there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

Heh.

(Welcome to the site, by the way. Your first comment was automatically held for moderation, but you should now be able to see your comments appear instantly, just FYI.)

-CW