You're Not Entitled!
This long blog post is a good read. This excerpt is to whet your appetite:
Youre not entitled to not pay taxes just because youre rich. Youre not entitled to go around whining about how you shouldnt have to pay at the same rate as everybody else because you allegedly create jobs except of course youve had those tax exemptions since the Bush Administration and you and your pals in the venture capital world have yet to create a single goddamned job. In fact, youre not entitled to talk about how the American jobless rate is over eight percent when youre the asshole who outsourced all the jobs to India and Mexico in the first place just because it made for a momentary increase in the bottom line during your whole one year tenure as a serial CEO. Youre not entitled to live without the consequences just because you work on Wall Street. Youre not entitled to a golden parachute and twenty million dollar bonuses when everybody else in the company you turned into a smoking crater is out on the street and the stockholders are left with nothing but a pile of worthless paper. Youre not entitled to stick the rest of us with all the risk and none of the profit when you use our retirement funds to make bad investments. Youre not entitled to bankrupt businesses and liquidate jobs and squander bailout funds on parties and bonuses and then lecture the rest of us on the virtue of living within our means. Youre not entitled to sell bad investments and fraudulent mortgages and generally behave like a fat greedy pig at a trough and then have the nerve act like youre some kind of a stodgy carefully conservative business genius. Youre not entitled to live outside the law just because youve got millions in the bank. Youre not entitled to make anonymous political contributions and buy elections and claim that youre just engaging in freedom of speech. Youre not entitled to make billions, billions, in quarterly profits and then claim that you need more billions in government subsides to remain profitable and, of course, create those jobs you keep promising us. And while were on that subject, youre not entitled to demand government subsides and then donate money to political parties because youre opposed to socialism.
Good stuff. Yes?
Read the whole thing here:
http://www.stonekettle.com/2012/06/real-entitlement-mentality.html