For too long the attitude in this country about health insurance, retirement plans, and other good things in life has been; "I've got mine, to hell with everyone else." This has worked pretty well as long as "mine" doesn't get taken away from me. Some of the people who talked about "welfare queens" and claimed that people who were unemployed were too lazy to work now find themselves unemployed. Such an event really changes a person's perspective.

Ma'am;... Paul got it right... It is one thing to rail about class warfare... The working class has had to deal with that nonsense every single time they have asked for Justice...If people do not like the estate tax; those opposed to giving hereditary wealth absolute protection are practicing class warfare...Trust me on this: the working class has been suffering class warfare without the ability to respond, or even to make note of the fact...The reason property has so many protections in this land is that property once supported the government... When the incee tax was first made constitutional, it affected a fraction, peerhaps 11% of the population...Was that class warfare; or simply a recogition of the changing nature of wealth, that it was less about property in land, and more about money in the bank and income... But then; no one could cry when more and more of that weight was added to the burden of wages until small incomes support a largegovernment... Do we have credible protection of our rights??? No one has rights against search and seizure unless they are in a business or a residence, so it is the property which conveys the rights....And that is class warfare....Do we really have the right of assembly??? Not so if you are a labor union... You must jump through your butt to get a charter, and the employer can do just about anything to prevent formation of a union, and that is class warfare...Our jobs may be shipped from state to state, leaving a trail of workers in their wake, and if they cannot whipsaw the population into slavery they will ship the job overseas where more pliable govenments will shackle their workers to the machine for pennies a day; and that is class warfare...Do we have freedom of speech??? Freedom of speech is reserved for those with the money to pay for it...Our national airwaves, the presses, and even the internet are not free, but belongs only to those with the money....When a large corporation wants to influence the course of legislation, they must contribute, and can because that is considered freedom of speech... Where is their mouth??? Where is the life that depends upon those rights??? It is all class warfare, and has been... Our rights are robbed...Our rights are limited...The very government constituted to achieve our goals has been turned against us; and not one of the goals for which it was formed has been reached...Can individuals without the help of government stand up to the power of the banks or the employers??? Not a chance, but the government is the tool of these enemies of justice and liberty...Justice, welfare, tranquility, liberty, defense have all been put at the mercy of the rich, and they are robbing us of our rights, and of our country...I would tell that banker, that I have seen class warfare all of my life, and there is no part of that he wants to see... It is a terrible thing to look at the flag of your fathers, what your people risked life and limb for, and see it later as the sign of your own destruction that they followed into battle.... The bankers, the rich, the owners, and the politician with their priests have not seen class warfare; but this people is beginning to wake up to the fact that they have been used, abused and robbed; and all the while being accused of the very crime they were a victim of...Thanks...Sweeney