Do libs and cons have vastly different ideas when they see a rich person?

This is the perennial theme for both Democrats and journalists – businessmen are evil. Everybody else – from the homeless to government employees – must then be good by comparison. Jealous are we.

What is the data that supports the conclusion that the very rich DID NOT get rich through hard work alone, versus inheritance or passive investing? Get your own data. Do your own research.

Obama wants to turn things upside down. People who make money in the private sector now are evil. Obama made big headlines calling out “fat cat bankers on Wall Street.”

The only people who are good in Obamaland are government employees. And they aren’t just doing good, they are doing well. Really well.

According to an excellent report by USA Today awhile ago, “federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14 percent to 19 percent of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months – and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/... That’s an increase of more than a third. The paper went on to show how out of whack federal pay is when compared to what everyone else earns.

“The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker's pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector,” it reported back on Dec. 10. That means the “average” federal worker earns more than $30,000 above a private sector counterpart – enough to buy a government-approved Toyota Prius and have plenty left over. So naturally Obama is reining in federal salaries and going after waste in the system like he’s always talking about with health care.

Right? Not a chance. The president knows government workers rely on more government and that makes them a core constituency of the Democratic Party.

So he instead attacks Wall Street and evil bankers – “banksters” as lefties like to call them. The media just loved Obama describing “fat cat bankers.” His quote made it everywhere in mainstream news and even on “The Daily Show.”

It was a carefully designed PR move to boost Obama’s flagging numbers with a little old-fashioned class warfare. The media and the administration are doing their best to spread that lack of wealth throughout top jobs around the nation. And they’re doing nothing to rein in the huge pay hikes in government service.

Ironically, Reuters reported that the IRS has hired “hundreds” of people “to catch rich tax cheats.” Perhaps Obama could spend some time introducing the new IRS workers to their compatriots in other departments – like Transportation. As USA Today explained, “when the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more.

Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000. Isn’t it great when government creates wealth with our tax dollars? O_O.

It's not just about them working hard though because someone who dropped out at school and had 3 kids by the time they're 25 . That person didn't bother showing up for school or even trying hard so doesn't deserve to get money off people who made the right choices , even if you did get it from inheritancce or investing , you don't deserve to be taxed and the money given to a dropout to be used to buy cigarettes/drugs/alcohol and also screwing up the lives of their children.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.