http://news.yahoo.com/kerry-testifies-panel-chairs-150446984–politics.html
Since Obama is asking for shared sacrifice, can Obama, whose wealth went from 9 hundred thousand to 12 million in four years, serve the nation free of charge and forgo his pension and health benefits? The same can be asked of Kerry who will get a Senate pension, Social Security, free health benefits and many perks of office as Sec. State. With 184 million, he is definitely the one percent. Will he share the pain by foregoing salary and benefits? It seems amazing to me that the Occupy Wall Street people and the others who rage against the “one percenters” and against people who make over 250 thousands that these same protesters willingly are ruled by people like Senator Kerry who has 184 million$$$$. Actually, it is the problem with our political scene that people whose personal wealth is enormous, attack the personal wealth of other people. And it is a problem when our leaders and pundits whose children all go to schools with high security, armed guards and even personal bodyguards, these same people, say that the rest of us should not have weapons to defend ourselves in our own homes and that armed guards in schools are too dangerous to the children. I think it is called hypocrisy.
By the way, I know these things are not profound but they are things about which I believe we should be talking. Hey, none of us has a corner on the truth. But it seems to me that so much of what our political leaders say to us is phony.
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