Weekly Roar: On Rights, Expectations, and Double Standards

Vocal Minority ^ | 8/7/09 | EricTheRed_VocalMinority

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

Here’s the latest from guest blogger Loud Lion:

I feel that there is nothing wrong with a double standard. I am OK with the fact that Congress has a much better health plan that I do. I have no problem that people in my office get paid more than me. Do I wish I got paid as much as the named partner? Hell yeah; who wouldn’t?

But that desire, that wish and want, is what drives me to work better each day. I do not believe that everyone has a right to go to college. We need garbage collectors and plumbers and toll collectors. Not everyone has a right to own a house, and the apartment owners of New York City are damn glad for that. And, not everyone deserves the same health coverage that I have.

My health insurance takes a pretty penny out of my paycheck … but FICA takes more. Close to 50% of my annual salary goes towards taxes. You want to know where that money goes? To paying the salaries and benefits of the largest employer in the nation. Local and federal governments are the biggest employers in the nation. And we pay them.

I have no problem with the Social Security system paying for a stress relief conference. I have no problem with people getting food stamps, for a while.

What I do have a problem with is someone who has been given everything in his life telling me that all the hard work I do will no longer get me anything better than