Allow me to agree with Phil Gramm for a moment. We are a nation of whiners. Always whining about having our capital gains taxed, about having our multi-million dollar estates taxed when we die, about not being allowed to drill for oil in the arctic wilderness, about not wanting to be prosecuted for conspiring with the Bush administration to illegally tap the phones of Americans, about Americans' inability to understand why gas costs so much while the oil industry racks up record profits, or their failure to comprehend why compensation for corporate executives needs to skyrocket while everyone else watches their wages fall, about the debilitating burdens that would be placed on corporations by greenhouse gas emission standards, about the need to rescue giant financial institutions that have sunk themselves by getting too greedy and too deceptive, about the "myth" of global warming, about liberal bias in the media, and on and on and on...
We are, indeed, a nation of whiners. Oh sure, these whiners may only represent 5% of the population, but they also represent 95% of the nation's wealth. Naturally their whining should be considered in proporation to their status as the financial majority. It's too bad they have chosen to make America look like a land of whimpering pantywaists, with their endless complaints about the ways in which their endless fortunes are being purloined by the fiscal minority.
I salute Phil Gramm for speaking truth to power, for standing up to the top 95% in defense of the bottom 5%. I hope his words will be a catalyst for change and that the whiners among us will stop their snot-nosed sniveling.
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