From a WSJ editorial gnashing its teeth about the budget proposal laid out yesterday:
Republicans have an obligation to insist on a long and considerable debate on all of this, lest Americans discover in a year or two that they live in a very different country.
Paul Gigot and his fellow editorialists are quite happy with the country we currently have, where income inequality favors them and their readers by huge margins, where they have good health care plans, and where hedge fund managers pay income taxes at the capital gains rate of 15% rather than an income rate of 30% or so. Sharing the wealth and the burden is anathema to Paul Gigot and the WSJ.
I just hope that if indeed it is a different country in a couple of years, we aren’t in the mess we currently are in.
While I wouldn’t go for just any other country (Zimbabwe is much worse now), I wouldn’t mind not being in the one we’ve got in a few years time. You know how they talk about how this is not your father’s car or your grandfather’s war? Well, I’m old enough for it not to be my war, and it sure hasn’t been my country the last few years.
Getting some social justice and progress in the US: priceless.