Not so, John...

Your statement that I have had nothing to do with the creation of wealth from either my labor or my capital is not accurate... I haven't spent my entire working life in social work... No, just the first half of it... Since 1982 I have owned 3 different successful businesses, employed people, paid taxes and created my little share of the colletcive wealth that our nation enjoys... And I'm still at it... That what small business people do...

So I find your comment to be degrading not only toward me but toward every small business man or woman in the country... But it foes well beyond just degrading: it is elitist, smug and downright paternal...

The working class ain't demandin' much more than its ***fair share***... Over the last 20 or so years the rich have gotten obscenely rich while the working class has been left to tread water...

Tell ya what... If the working class were to pull off a national strike those of you who think that the working class does not have a stake in the creation of wealth will get a good lesson in reality...

Like I've said over and over, the rich are going to have to learn to share the bounty... History is repleat with rich people having to learn and relearn this lesson...

And please don't bore me with the usual right wing argument about how much the rich pay in taxes... It's not what they pay in taxes but what they have afterwards that we are talking about here...

Bobert