I want to know when the riots commence so I get my pitchfork ready. [View All]

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Someone care to give me a heads up? Come on, people. This financial meltdown didn't just happen because the rich had an orgy. The middle class partied like they were rich. Some of the working poor even crashed both parties. The poor, well, the poor--who remembered they were there?

The wealthy double and triple dipped. Sleepy little middle-class neighborhoods saw ranch and frame houses replaced by McMansions. Joe Six-Pack traded in the Vega for a shiny SUV with 12 cupholders and then couldn't afford to fill its tank. Corporations were allowed by REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC legislators and a frat boy in Animal House to run amuk. And you thought Amway was a Ponzi scheme? Now everyone's screaming.

Get a fricking grip. Where's our money? Our money has been spent a million times over.

The truest words uttered by Obama has been a reminder that we are all in this together and we ALL need to find a way out. The problem is that no one wants to admit that the pain is self-inflicted on this nation, and no one wants to acknowledge that real sacrifice by all will be needed to reconstruct our economy and infrastructure. We will rise together or fall together. Period. We all need to get ready to work.