S&P just downgraded Kentucky's bonds because we're refusing to tax the filthy rich and use the money to create a working economy instead of a feudal one.
We
seem prepared to strip America to the walls looking for places to cut
pennies before we'll own up to our responsibility and tax ourselves for
what we get and to maintain it. Highways, water systems, good schools,
endless wars. We expect them. We demand them. We just refuse to pay for
them, and then blame the deficits on the poor. Or else on waste, fraud,
and abuse, the inexhaustible
zero-point energy of conservative pseudo-economics.
Or to clean up after ourselves. Barack Obama is in Alaska this week talking about climate change and the need
to do just that:
I have come here today,
as the leader of the world’s largest economy and its second-largest
emitter, to say that the United States recognizes our role in creating
the problem, and we embrace our responsibility to help solve it.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the personal responsibility crowd to accept any.
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