Why are the rich complaining?
Alex Pareene on
America's 'idiot rich':
The Times Magazine has the story of the Obama campaign’s difficulty in matching its record 2008 contributions from the finance sector. The problem with inequality in America, you see, is apparently that it has led to rhetorical attacks on the winners of the class war. Greg Sargent wrote, in response to this story: “One wonders if there is anything Obama could say to make these people happy, short of declaring that rampant inequality is a good thing, in that it affirms the talent and industriousness of the deserving super rich.”