Rich People Work and Earn, JK LOL

By me:

People are crazy. They see someone who looks "successful" and they assume the "successful" person worked their way into it. Have they never heard of bank robbers? Drug dealers? Fascists? 

By Someone else:

 

Or ... stockholders!  :-) The biggest money-makers today are our first ever bumper crop of real millionaires in the United States.  "Dividend earners" aka Baby Boomers who set money by and invested it. You see, they COULD because we got paid enough to meet our expenses, have a savings and do things like .... buy a house, have a real savings account, a retirement account, etc.  Now they're getting their payback for investing in the global corporations that have ruined it for today's working class, their children, the new poor!  We all want to "get ahead" but we went too far in the 90's. The greed factor is alive and well but maybe, hopefully, it will slow up some, and maybe even slightly trickle away before the total destruction of our society occurs.  You cannot keep robbing Peter to pay Paul --- eventually, one of them is sucked dry, then the funeral begins.

Or how about this, for reverse discrimination: all poor people deserve being poor, somehow, someway, they did SOMETHING to be poor! That was NOT the train of thought when I grew up.  You could be poor, and be honest and clean and God-fearing!  No biggie!  Now? You MUST be a druggie or a drunk, or even a pedophile or ... oh nooo .... you didn't read your BIBLE enough or thump it hard enough on a non-believers head!  Whatever IT is, it's NOT good and it's somehow YOUR fault if there are no jobs, that the jobs that exist are service jobs that pay shit, and have no benefits, no nothing for YOU, the worker! Yeah, right .. thats SO your fault.   

OFFS!!. [Oh For Fucks Sake!] Surely no one is so stupid they believe that!  But consider this: millions bought the Iraq lies, millions still think Presidents actually run the country, and hey ... there are at least a few dozen who truly believe that the Jews were NOT annihilated.

What KILLS me is this: you can thank the 70's Jesus Freaks turned 80's Moral Majority and their 21st century megachurch mentality, along with their religious taxfree buyout of the Republican Party for the heaping stinkin' pile of shit that is our government. I'm not much impressed with most Americans today.  They're ignoramuses, and proud of it. I watched it happen from the 70's to now. Helplessly.

I think they forget that their Main Man, Jesus, was born poor, died poor, and in between, ran around with the poor. And ... he ran with the criminals, too.  I guess they can claim some historical similarity with that last bit ... THEY are criminals today!