In case you haven’t heard, there’s been a lot of talk lately about the 99%, here is a website.
I don’t think we deserve anything. I earned what I have. I don’t buy the idea that our need should count for anything. What I see in this movement is a lot of people, both the 99% and the corporations, not taking 100% responsibility for themselves. It doesn’t matter if you are a single mother of three or a multi-billion dollar company, taking responsibility starts with YOU, not with others. I am all for holding corporations responsible for mis-using the tax money that the government handed them but the truth is, the government that WE elected decided to give them that bail out money, and that was the root of the problem. ”Too big to fail” is a lie.
I could write a hundred pages on this, but Ayn Rand has already written a masterpiece covering this very topic. If you haven’t read Atlas Shrugged, it’s one of my all time favorites.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Earn it.
I’ve read Ayn Rand too and I’m pretty sure she would have been dead set against taxes being used to bail out banks that made bad decisions. This isn’t about government hand out – it’s about the public having to pay for private loss.
You clearly did not understand Rand.
Be careful what you assume. Just because I provide a counter point to this movement doesn’t mean I support bailing out corporations. In the same way I believe people must earn what they get, I feel the same way about companies. What part of my sign made you think I want to bail out banks? Maybe I should have been more clear.
“the government that WE elected decided to give them that bail out money, and that was the root of the problem.”
Am I correct in believing that you believe there is some sort of corruption or flaw in the way that the government acts? That the politicians that we have elected are not doing what we want, sometimes the exact opposite? If so, I completely agree with you. I think that many politicians forget that they are supposed to be working for us, doing what we want, making our concerns and wishes known.
Or do you mean that WE are at fault for electing these people and allowing them to do things that we don’t want them to do?
I see it as a problem of people not taking responsibility for themselves. That includes the government & politicians taking responsibility for serving the public, the public taking responsibility for who they vote for and people taking responsibility for their own well-being first before asking for handouts