class warriors

I had a little fantasy today about becoming a class warrior because it does seem that there is a class war being waged by some heartless super rich jerks like the Koch brothers. It's the working class vs. the greedy elite. People earning a million or even a few million dollars a year are still part of the working class, if they still go to a job every day.

There are a lot of silly people that harbor resentment at government workers. Yeah, they might have more secure jobs in these times of employment insecurity, but they really don't enjoy "rich benefits". Read about that here.

I've heard the argument that it was the unions that messed-up the American car companies, but I don't buy it. I remember when those first Japanese cars came to this country around the time of the energy crisis. Those cars sipped gas and lasted twice as long as the American cars that contained engineered obsolescence. Those cars we're no-brainer buys for working folk. But I digress, we should probably review the history of labor unions before making judgments.

It's those corrupt hedge-fund managers that everybody should be going after. After all, the salary and bonus from just one of those guys could pay the salaries of 300,000 teachers for a full year.

There are about 360 billionaires that live here in the USA. China comes in second with almost 80. Does anybody really need or even deserve that much money? That's a rhetorical moral question you should answer yourself.

Meanwhile unions and their relations with the middle class should be scrutinized.