Chanting “Don’t cut teachers don’t cut cops, collect the taxes from the top!” A smattering of a few dozen people brought their signs in homage to the wobblies and other socialist organizations to downtown Portland to lobby for more free money from the Obama Administration. Wow, what an incredible profile in courage.
Even after spending-up the budget to unsustainable levels over since Pelosi took the gavel in 2007, “cutting” back to 2008 levels apparently is too much for them. Now that the fiscal rubber is meeting the road, these guys still want the free stuff, stimulus spending, etc and they’ve taken to the streets to get theirs–from all the rich people.
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This is a teachable moment, however. It provides us an opportunity to remind our leftist yours-is-mine-and-mine-is-mine-because-I-don’t-bother-to-work friends that the rich people already pay all the taxes. Grab my hand and let’s go look at the chart:
But the left doesn’t get it. The “rich” they so abhor aren’t so rich.
Tell ’em where you saw it. Http://www.victoriataft.com
