Recovering Wall Street Employee Speaks Out about the "1%"

[Demo_Chris]

18. In any income bracket you will find a fairly even divide between D and R

The GOP is not the party of the rich. BOTH parties are the party of the rich. Both are the party of the top 10%. So I agree, you cannot label any person, regardless of their wealth or lack, as a friend or foe. The "enemy" is the system that has created and perpetrated this wealth and power inequality.

But to a great extent that's really just crap. It's like a medieval Duke telling a peasant that he too feels oppressed by this damn feudal system. Don't blame him, blame the king. We saw the same nonsense posted here when Obama passed his tax cuts for the rich.

Ultimately it comes down to this: you can be rich and still call yourself anything you like, but if you are in that top 10% bracket you are a beneficiary of the system. In the us versus them struggle, you are not one of us, you are one of them. Don't tell me you hate the rich -- you ARE the rich.

The following is a true story that should help demonstrate the difference as well as provide some explanation for why I probabkly sound a little grumpy:

Last night my twenty-two year old daughter fell in our bathroom. She came down hard, hitting the toilet in the side of her ribs. She has bruises running all the way down one side of her body, from her ribs to her ankles, and she's lucky she didn't break any ribs. My baby was in there crying for a half-hour, and today she can hardly walk. We cannot go to the doctor because we are poor. She fell because the FLOOR gave way when she was getting out of the shower. The fucking floor gave way! And you know what? I might have a bathroom floor that's falling in, and I might not be able to afford a doctor for my daughter, but compared to many on here I am doing great. That's how bad it has gotten for my brothers and sisters and comrades on the bottom.

Then I come on here and read an essay from some Grey Poupon limousine liberal about how his stocks and bonds are just another kind of food stamp. We're all in this together, he says. But that's crap. We are not in anything together. I'm down here, he's up there. I am living it, he is imagining it and saying what a pity.

There are over 200,000 members registered on this website. Statistically that means there are THOUSANDS of millionaires reading and posting here, and all saying the same thing this guy is. If every one of these wealthy members here kicked just five bucks a month to Wishadoo -- just five freaking bucks a month -- we could maybe eliminate some of the catastrophes that our own members here are facing. I am not saying that because I have a wish in myself -- I do not -- I am saying it because when I get going again that's what I am going to do.

I will help my brothers and sisters.

And if you are one of the wealthy people reading this and you want to know how you can REALLY join us that's all you need to do. You don't have to give up anything but a Starbucks a month. Don't give the money to the party or some suit and tie organization, give to help a poor Democrat get back on their feet. Do that and we really will be on the same team, and I will gladly call you my comrade.

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