Where can we find the money?
Mar. 12th, 2011 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumThis is going around. I've gotten it in comments, more than once, Steve Barnes has it on his facebook. A link to a posting on Kos shows it coming from a place called, "Christian Left".
I didn't want to be left out.
Some of it is shaded language. The "tax loophole" isn't. It's a conscious decision which says money earned by playing with money is more important than money made by making things, or selling them. It's not, from the point of view of those who passed those laws a loophole; it's the purpose. In other words, it's a feature, not a bug (for those who want to be a bit more overt in the politics of it, it's class warfare).
But it does show that we aren't "broke", we just aren't willing to, "work", to, as Scott Walker said, "all sacrifice together" in the face of our "imminent fiscal doom", caused by the budget deficit.
I didn't want to be left out.
Some of it is shaded language. The "tax loophole" isn't. It's a conscious decision which says money earned by playing with money is more important than money made by making things, or selling them. It's not, from the point of view of those who passed those laws a loophole; it's the purpose. In other words, it's a feature, not a bug (for those who want to be a bit more overt in the politics of it, it's class warfare).
But it does show that we aren't "broke", we just aren't willing to, "work", to, as Scott Walker said, "all sacrifice together" in the face of our "imminent fiscal doom", caused by the budget deficit.
