Rich getting tax cuts and still being "uncertain" about economy consistent with compulsive hoarding

[ck4829]

Our government gives the rich tax cuts.

"Going to create some jobs with those tax cuts?"

"I don't know. I'm afraid I'll lose all my millions of dollars. I'm just so uncertain. I need some more money first."

Hmmmm.

Characteristics of compulsive hoarding:

* The acquisition of and failure to discard a large number of possessions that appear to be useless or of limited value

Business leaders have over a trillion dollars in liquid assets and yet they are still "uncertain", they need more money that they will NEVER use. If the money from tax cuts were pieces of paper with scribbling on them, then there is no question that the rich would all be considered to be compulsive hoarders

* Significant distress or impairment in functioning caused by the hoarding

You want to end tax cuts? You're a socialist who hates America. "I need more money. I need more money."

* Reluctance or inability to return borrowed items; as boundaries blur, impulsive acquisitiveness could sometimes lead to kleptomania or stealing

Privatized gains, socialized losses. They get corporate welfare and we get "Stop complaining and just get a job, you mooches!"

Let's turn each dollar from these tax cuts and turn it into a random object:
Something they'll never use
Viewing the possibility of losing the item as a catastrophe
They'll get furious if you even suggest that they get rid of it
Find inventive ways to store it (Like tax shelters)

There would be no question it would be compulsive hoarding then, something on the level of the Collyer brothers.

Maybe the rich who are getting all these useless tax cuts are sick. And this would mean that the Republicans and the Tea Partiers are acting as their enablers. But we can help them. The tax cuts have to go, they'll be throwing temper tantrums, but they will be truly happy once it is over.

[liberal N proud]

1. They want it all and they want it now n/t

[ClassWarrior]

3. So said The Tubes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWOooAHs8-o

NGU.

[somone]

2. The idea is wealth transfer and making the gap wider

MUCH wider.

It's like digging a deeper moat around your castle - in this case, your wealth

[Poboy]

5. Good metaphor.

[tridim]

4. Really good point. I watched "Hoarders" last night for the first time.

Same sickness, different class.

Another example would be famous musicians hoarding classic instruments (mostly vintage guitars) and equipment. They collect stuff in the thousands that us poor players need for our basic equipment. Now that old equipment is very expensive and rare because it has all been hoarded.

[lunatica]

6. Very interesting take

And probably has more than a modicum of truth.

[lightningandsnow]

7. I have a good friend with severe OCD, and this comparison makes me feel kind of icky.

Quite frankly, it makes me feel nauseous when people compare choices and character deficits to very real, painful illnesses.

[glitch]

8. What makes you think greed isn't a painful illness? Does Cheney look happy to you?

Does Bush? Greenspan? That fat bastard from Exxon, what's his name? Do any of the people looting their country appear happy?

I know greedy people too, they are miserable. Shouldn't they get a diagnosis and some help?

[Initech]

9. Compulsive greed is a disease.