Palin comparison

No one asked her, but Sarah Palin still had to give her two cents (literally, that's all her thoughts are worth) on what's going on in Wisconsin (what's going on is the Republican governor is using a concocted budget crisis as an excuse to break the state employee's union, and this all might just be a smokescreen to hide the privatization of state-owned power plants and other utilities).

And Palin's words of wisdom?

"Real solidarity means everyone being willing to sacrifice."

UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE. Am I the only one choking on the irony of that statement? Because she could just as easily be describing PAYING TAXES, something her teabag lemmings rail against. Here's how it works in a Democracy, if that's what this country really is, even though I would argue it is not because a two-party system does not a true Democracy make, the only system that runs this country is Capitalism, an out of control and sinister version of Capitalism, but I digress, here's how it SHOULD work in a TRUE Democracy, everyone contributes his/her FAIR SHARE, and EVERYBODY benefits. Look at it this way, if you've done well for yourself in the good old U.S. of A, consider if you had been born in, say, Bangladesh, or Haiti. How well might you have done for yourself there? You owe your good fortune to the country that afforded you the opportunities, opportunities which you then capitalized upon, and now, when it comes time for you to give back, to contribute, to help make your country a better place that can offer more and better opportunities to others, when it comes time for you to be "willing to sacrifice," you balk!? You scream MINE like a child!? And then, irony of ironies, you call yourself a PATRIOT and wrap your selfish ass in a FLAG? Right wing hypocrite motherflakers! What could be more patriotic than paying your taxes and thereby helping to make your country a better, stronger place?

"Real solidarity means everyone being willing to sacrifice."

Pay your taxes, teabaggers, and stop whining. Are you proud of your country or not? There's not much left to be proud of thanks to dolts like Palin. So prove it. Prove how goddamn patriotic you are. The cliche put your money where your mouth is has never been more apt. Let's have some goddamn solidarity!