When will we stand up to the greedy?

Don Ellis, Henderson

Friday, Dec. 24, 2010 | 2:03 a.m.

When will the people in America take to the airwaves, the streets, and start shouting from the rooftops that enough is enough?

Why should hardworking stiffs support those who acquire and hoard more wealth than they can ever spend? Two percent of the people in America control trillions of dollars and spend millions to get folks elected who will allow them to amass more.

Trickle-down economics never worked and it never will. Greed is a sickness, just like drug addiction and alcoholism.

Hardworking American families are getting ripped off in so many facets of life that it is pathetic. One example: The average Major League Baseball player makes in excess of $3 million per year. This is the American pastime!

The average American blue-collar worker who supports these millionaires makes approximately $50,000 per year. Where is the fairness between working and playing? Why are we so hellbent on supporting these types of out-of-control ventures?

Also let’s tell the rich to please stop outsourcing our jobs.

Now we have seen the extension of the George W. Bush tax cuts and reduction in inheritance tax for those 2 percent of Americans who control most of our money.

President Barack Obama blew it. Incoming House Speaker John Boehner should stop bawling on TV, saying that he just wants to protect the kids. Whose kids? His? Those men are ruining our faith in the government of the United States.