And it's about time that someone speaks the truth in Congress, that the rich are getting richer and have been for the better part of the past 30 years and the rest of us are getting screwed big time. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gives a compelling speech why this country cannot afford to extend the Bush era tax breaks to the super rich instead of giving the vanishing middle class a break. It seems that there has been an ongoing class war being waged against the middle class since the Reagan era and we are being targeted for extinction. I've been steadily watching my earning and spending power evaporate before my very eyes. I pay most of my own medical expenses now that my health care benefits have been all but taken away, my pay has flatlined in recent years despite steadily rising prices on just about everything and despite the fact that I am approaching my retirement years, I'm not so sure I'll really be able to afford to do so.
I'm sure the wonderful speech given here by Senator Sanders fell on deaf ears. Most of his colleagues probably ho-hummed and whispered to each other about that crazy Socialist member of the Senate going on again about caring about the ordinary Joe Lunchbucket instead of the pinstriped investment bankers who bankroll their campaigns. Oh, pity the poor hoi-polloi who must scrape together their pocket change to go down to the local grocery to buy a gallon of milk! Why should they be considered in the larger picture when they don't bankroll our expensive campaigns? They're just peasants, after all! (Oh, and before you laugh, yes, that is how the upper crust sees us - just Google "dead peasant" to find out just how corporations look down their noses at we, the great unwashed of society.)
Well, all I can say is, THANK YOU, SENATOR SANDERS, for speaking truth to power. Too bad his speech probably mostly fell on deaf ears.
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