Mindless Class Warfare Arguments.

I personally believe the "rich" get a bad rap. Who creates jobs? Who hires people? Who are the high achievers who do the most for society? Who buys luxury products enabling many to have high paying jobs? For all of this, and even more, the "rich" are condemed by some in our culture? What's wrong with those people?

Because the middle class is being worked against---- The Democrats look and see the poor and want to tax the hell out of everyone to help them. The Republicans want to remove more taxes, especially on the rich. In short, the 'middle class' are leftovers, either getting more taxes or less services--- with greater impact to their lives in both cases since they are usually living comfortably but on the edge.

In our country we have the ability to change our income and social standing at any time, if we are willing to put in the work and effort required to do so. It is called free enterprise and capitalism. It requires work for most people, because we are not all born with silver spoons. Most of the talk you hear involving these terms come from liberals who think that it is evil to be rich, or that you should be taxed more if you do happen to be successful. The funny thing is however, the same people using these terms are probably some of the wealthiest in this country. Not all of the wealthy are conservatives...a lot are liberals. The labels mean nothing, they are just a trigger phrase that is used to try and inflame an issue.

I think these terms are the replacement for the race-, ethnic-, or gender-based ones that used to be acceptable. They are terms devised to divide people, so that we fight among ourselves and don't look at the bigger picture. Applying divisive labels to groups of people obscures the fact that we need each other. "Rich" people may provide jobs, but it's the working class that fills them. Without the "poor" people, there would be no wealth. It is from the labor of those at the bottom of the economic pyramid that all wealth upward flows. The "middle class" is exactly that - middle managers, supervisors, middlemen in the retail system. They need rich and poor to buy, rich and poor need them to sell. It should be symbiotic, but portraying it that way doesn't sell newspapers or draw in TV viewers. Having said all that, I am concerned about CEO salaries and perks, golden parachutes and the like. For past generations, it was common for the head of a company to be paid 6, 8, maybe 10 times the annual salary of the workers. Now, its 20, 30, even 50 times a worker's annual salary. Companies moan about rising costs and shrinking profits, so workers have to pay more and more of their own health care premiums, yet the CEO is making millions upon millions of dollars. Even worse are the CEOs who make millions while their company stumbles and fails to make a profit. Infuriating doesn't even begin to cover it! So there is some basis for an unusual upsurge in class resentment, but the media fans the embers into open flame with these uninformative and divisive terms. "Liberal" and "conservative" are used in much the same way, the public curse-words of our modern society.