Posts Tagged ‘rich’

Millionaire Freshmen Make Congress Even Wealthier

January 16th, 2013 | No Comments

Gotta love the usual irony of the average idiot voter here.  Following Obama’s cue to eat the rich and take everything they ever had, voters elected a richer group of Congressmen than they “threw out”. Ninety-four new senators and House members joined the 113th Congress. But if voters felt the last group of lawmakers was [...]

Buffett’s shared sacrifice farce

October 12th, 2011 | No Comments

On August 14, 2011, Warren Buffett penned an op-ed for the New York Times. It was named, subtly enough: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich Get the idea? While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. [...]

It’s where the pork goes that seems to be the problem these days

December 21st, 2010 | No Comments

See if these two maps seem to have a running theme.  First, Map 1.  No titles, no labels, just ten pins: If that doesn’t seem clear enough, try this one: That is the ten richest counties in the USA according to the 2010 census.  What do you think the odds are that five of them [...]

The politics of bailouts gone bad

December 1st, 2008 | No Comments

Now, that title is a little iffy.  it could be read the politics of “bailouts gone bad”.  Or, it could be read “politics of bailouts” gone bad.  I love equivocating, it keeps people on their toes.  With what we are experiencing today, both would apply. A couple of weeks I made my argument on why [...]