Thursday, October 6, 2011
Rich People
Yes, I like this picture of rich people like Bill and Melinda Gates as debt collectors. That is one of the problems with the Republican Party platform, that rich people often are depicted as our friends who are going to provide us all with jobs when actually they are not our friends and not necessarily going to give us all jobs and might even fire us and send our jobs overseas to benefit the company's bottom line. In fact, rich people are so busy helping the poor that they have little thought or care for the middle class job seeker. Perhaps if you were a pathetically impoverished, disease-ridden, gaunt and skeletal shadow of a human being living in a Third World country, then the charity organization would step in to help nurse you, the pathetically suffering victim of war or famine, back from the brink of death. But things like that never happen to normal working class people who are required to toil away the rest of the years of their lives on the Social Security plan so that they have done their share for the system and can without any qualms of conscience collect their check right up to the end. That's just the reality of life in the 21st century.