Many people like to compare the Tea Party to Occupy Wall St. I’m sure it’s a delight for the pundits to debate themselves on innumerable news programs and shout fests, but it doesn’t mean much right now. The situation is simply too fluid to predict where it will go.
The concept of government workers is that they lounge on comfy divans while servants fan them and peel grapes in return for fabulous riches and a retirement plan bigger than Bill Gates’. In other words, with the taxpayers all snug in their beds, visions of fairy tales danced in their heads.
Rand Paul (R-Craters of the Loon) is tough to like, but I have to give him credit for being remarkably consistent about his Libertarian beliefs. He believes that toilet regulations are an affront to capitalism that will destroy the vaunted American plumbing infrastructure. He similarly believes a human right to health care is slavery.
Regardless of how the economy is doing it seems the super-rich come out ahead and to prove it, Wall St. has set yet another new pay record and the wealth gap widens.
Bipartisan PolitiFact’s choice of Lie of the Year for “A government takeover of health care” must have been a tough choice. But, it’ll give everyone the chance to voice the opinion that whoever picked it is a dead-wrong ass cake and there’s nothing Americans like more than eating their ass cake and having it too.