What a way to start the week! I woke up this morning to
discover that, in the eyes of One-percent Mittsy, I am poor. Lower class, you
know. Not low class, mind you, that I can accept and deal with, but I am Lower
Class because I make less than a quarter million a year.
Last week Mittsy was talking
to Good Morning America's resident cutie, George Stephanopoulos, and was
asked, “Is $100,000 middle income?”
Mittsy
replied, “Middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less."
Yes,
Mister Out Of Touch, Mister One Percent, Mister $374,000 a year isn't a lot of
money, has told us all that if you earn less than $200,000 a year, you are
lower class.
Which
is funny, and stupid, because according to a 2009 Tax Policy Center study of income distribution--and they ought to know
more than Mittsy--earners making $180,000 and more are in the top 5 percent of
the population. And, according to the Census Bureau, the current median household income in the U.S. is slightly
over $50,000. So,
according to Mittsy, if you aren't in the top, say, 4%, you're poor.
Yeah, he feels my pain, and
the pain of the Middle Class, and the Lower Class.
Folks on Twitter had a field
day with Mittsy's understanding of what the Middle Class truly is:
How can anyone expect him to represent the Middle Class when he obviously has no idea who we are?
And I thought Giulianni's comments on the price of milk and a loaf of bread were out of touch.
ReplyDeleteoh!my!gawd! We're poor! I better tell The Engineer to stop going to work and paying our income taxes. We can't afford it.
ReplyDeleteI always suspected that I was low(er) class, now I no longer have to wonder, it is confirmed by Mr. 1% himself. What a douche.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the security clearance of former elected officials? Do they keep their clearance? Are they sworn in once they win their party's primary?
ReplyDeleteWhat have they done to earn the right to be informed of domestic and international events? i.e.: Shouldn't Romney's information about Libya have only come from the news? What makes him different from the other candidates that will be on the ballot?
I guess I should have taken a civics course.
OMG! I can't take Mittsy anymore. Cant we just wrap cheese wire around his neck?
ReplyDeleteI've become numb to Romney's antics. If I weren't, I'd be in a constant state of anger and disgust.
ReplyDeleteMiss Tennessee. Where in Murfreesboro, TN does FiX News Pete Hegseth live?
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