class warfare

Want to know what the outrage is about? Look no further than this:

Fifty percent of U.S. workers earned less than $26,364 last year, and those earning less than $200,000 per year - roughly 99 percent of Americans - saw their earnings fall a collective $4.5 billion.

There were fewer jobs, and overall pay was trending down -- except for the nation's wealthiest, who saw a boost.

While the incomes of the top 1percent of the country rose slightly in 2010 (from $1,909,874 in 2009 to $2,196,124 last year), their collective wage earnings rose dramatically, by about $120 billion.

Those earning at least $1 million a year (93,725 of Americans) reported payroll income totaling $224 billion - a rise of 22 percent above 2009.

And during this time American corporations have seen record profits and not been putting that money back into the economy. And how does the right (and some on the left) respond to this? They want to further decrease the tax burden of this 1% and shift that burden to the 99% who are struggling and watching their wages go down.

Class warfare? Hell yeah there’s a class warfare going on, but it’s not the one Eric Cantor wants you to think – it’s the exact opposite! The top 1% of this country is bilking the middle class for everything they got and the people are finally fed up with it. I just wish the rest of the country would wake up and stop listening to people like Rush Limbaugh (sitting comfortably in that 1%) and instead look at the facts. Limbaugh isn’t looking out for your interests or the interests of the country, he’s looking out for his own!

Today's New York Times:

Just when freshman House Republicans have finally learned their way to the Cannon Caucus Room, how to vote on a motion to proceed and which commissary serves the best tuna sandwiches, someone back home — worse, someone from their own party — wants to take it all away.

“I am taking a serious look,” said Weston Wamp, who is pondering a primary challenge to Representative Chuck Fleischmann, in his first term from Tennessee. Mr. Wamp said he was inspired by his father, Zach, who served in the House for many years. “My experience through my dad was seeing the very best of what public service can mean.”

It is miles to go before the 2012 Congressional races begin in earnest, but already some of the 87 freshmen who helped the Republicans win back the House last year are bracing for a challenge from within the party. At least half a dozen potential primary challengers to freshmen are considering a run, and there is heated chatter about more.

So what kind of freshmen could they be talking about? Well how about Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA). Kelly was endorsed by the Tea Party and even coined a "real Tea Party candidate". But look at what Mike Kelly thinks of corporate welfare:

MODERATOR: This question is from Joshua from Erie. How can you justify continuing subsidies for oil companies with record profits while cutting vital services for working families? Oil companies don’t need subsidies and working families shouldn’t have to pay for them with…

Or as I will now refer to it as – the Boehner tax:

1. Section 500B - New 10% tax on indoor tanning! Note, this REPLACES the "botax" on elective cosmetic surgery contained in the underlying bill.

This is actually a way of sticking it to the working class once again. Tanning beds get most of their business from working class people, where as botax and plastic surgery is for the more well off. So we have the Democrats screwing over the poorer people while giving the richer a pass.

If they make it a tanning bed tax, because their are medical implications from the service, and keep the “botax” section in there also then I can get behind that, but changing the language to like this is another attempt at class warfare from the Congress.