Night after night I get angry at having to hear the Big Fucking Lie [View all]

[Stinky The Clown]

The Big Fucking Lie is couched in many guises and stories, but its all the same at its core.

Tonight the news did a story (that was, of course, already reported and discussed on DU) about the pension "crisis" in San Diego and San Jose. A 20% and 27%, respectively, portion of those cities' budgets.

So what's the Big Fucking Lie?

The Big Fucking Lie is that there's no money.

There is no money because of the well choreographed demonization of taxes. It is absolutely unbelievable that people who get less than they ought to so the .01%ers who run their lives and dictate the terms of their substandard working pay and benefits, have convinced them that taxes on the .01% somehow is bad for them. This causes them to vote to "cut taxes".

Scott Walker says he's still in office because people want leaders to make hard decisions.

It seems to me a no brainer to tax the .01% until their eyes bleed and then tax high wage earners commensurate amounts to support their burden on society. That's a hard decision no one seems willing to tackle. Include the folks who our side votes for.

But no one on the news tells this basic truth.

It isn't about high costs. It is about insufficient revenue.

I want tax reform as much as the next guy. I just don't want the *same* tax reform the "other" guys want.

The dumbest fuckers in all of this are those morons who work for substandard wages and then support the best interests not of themselves but of the very people holding them down.

I'll never forget the moron who bragged on a right wing web site that he hated the liberals and was happy working three jobs to maintain his family. Why isn't that fucking moron calling for the end of the preferential treatment of the .01%? Sometimes the stupid actually burns.