if life ever reached a point where cat food was the only food source, odds are I would find it tasteful and satisfying while you would starve to death. I need not have millions to fall back on to live a decent life. Steak and wine are not necessities to me. I could have 10 million in the bank right now and still go to burger king and order a #1 with large fries and a coke. I would come how to white rice, beans and $1.59 per lbs fried chicken and I would be just fine with my 27 inch non-flat screen, non-high definition TV watching local channels because unlike you I don't need to be sure I can enjoy vacations, days at the golf course or dinner at the lodge when I retire. I'll be happy on my $10 hammock in my back yard listening to some music and watching my grandkids run around playing. I may have a passion for technology, but I can survive and be happy even in a lifestyle like most people in Cuba and Dominican Republic without the lousy politicians and their communist BS.
And the obscenely rich thank you for supporting their lifestyle and for providing yet another back upon which to dance.
That's the thing that I've never understood. I can understand how those that have it made can embrace the "greed is good" and "blame the victim" mantras. I don't agree with or approve of their position however I can at least understand how someone that has it made can not really give a fuck about anyone but themselves. What I can't understand is how someone that is obviously as much of a peasant as you are can support policies that are detrimental to yourself and those like you while benefiting only people that could literally not care less about you.
You're probably not old enough to remember the Li'l Abner comic strip by Al Capp. Anyway there was a creature in Li'l Abner called the shmoo that "are delicious to eat, and are eager to be eaten. If a human looks at one hungrily, it will happily immolate itself itself, either by jumping into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a broiling pan, after which they taste like steak. When roasted they taste like pork, and when baked they taste like catfish. (Raw, they taste like oysters on the half-shell.)"
You and those like you would make perfect shmoos.
As an aside my pittance of a savings hardly makes me uber rich. What it does is simply allow me to be comfortable in my old age and was achieved by a lifetime of hard work and consistently living beneath my means. I too have a 27" non flat screen TV which if I recall correctly I bought in 1985 which if I calculate correctly was before you were born.
And yes I have managed to achieve what I have by "following those precious left wing dream policies you wish upon the rest of the country." After all the only real left wing dream policy I have is that I do not begrudge the fact that some portion of my taxes goes to help people that are in need.
On the other hand the right doesn't begrudge the portion of their taxes that are spent on senseless wars that accomplish nothing other than to throw our troops under the bus (but of course that's not a big a deal since because of the nature of our volunteer army and the economy it's pretty much only the poor that go into the services) or line the pockets of military industrial complex companies like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Halliburton and the like.
So it all boils down to a choice. I choose to be for "regular" people from the vanishingly small middle class whereas you prefer to support mega-corporations to the detriment of those same folks and to rationalize your total disdain of both yourself and those like you, you blame the victim while rewarding the perpetrator.
May you get the future that you deserve.
