the bottom 20% of earners make 3% of all wages. The top 20% of earners make 50% of all wages.

[Stinky The Clown]

Nice, huh?

Then we hear repubicans tell us that those at the top pay 70% of all taxes (as if sales taxes, etc., are not actual taxes) while those at the bottom pay nothing.



Hey, repubicans . . . . if you begrudge those at the bottom their "free ride" . . . . trade places.





Inspiration for the post: a story on the CBS evening nooz.

[The Wielding Truth]

1. From the mouths of the Ridiculous Right!

[pnorman]

2. Those numbers are along the linees of those I had already envisioned,

but even starker. Could you help point me towards the source for them?

[Stinky The Clown]

3. I heard them on the Couric woman's broadcast and noted them. I have no link.

[InvisibleTouch]

4. I read a brilliant short story recently...

...which started out from the perspective of a bum who slept every night in the doorway of a bank. As he's leaving in the morning to go about his day, he greets the doorman and kinda envies him his steady income. The doorman goes on to envy the receptionist who gets to spend the day inside ... the receptionist is maneuvering for a promotion to the mid-level employees, who are looking to move up to the board, and so on and so forth, all the way up to the chairman of the board. The ironic part is that each person who's perceived as so enviable by the one just below them on the ladder, has a mess of individual problems, whether it's family issues, addictions, financial woes, scandals, etc. It ends with the chairman handing in his letter of resignation for some disastrous decisions, and leaving the bank for the last time, just as the bum is settling in for the night in the doorway. The chairman thinks, in effect, "That guy has no worries. If only we could change places."

Of course he doesn't actually make the offer.