Stupid, and Lazy

PRESIDENT OBAMA announced, quietly, that he intends to give five percent of his presidential salary to the federal treasury in order to help offset the budget cuts brought about by the great "sequester", "sequester" being the cute code name given to the inability of the legislative and executive branches of government to agree on a budget.

This inability to reach a reasonable agreenemnt triggered automatic budget cuts, you may recall, in accordance with an agreement reached over a year ago, in which future agreement failure would automatically result in cuts.

This amounts to a sixteen thousand dollar donation to the country by obama, whose annual salary is about four hundred and fifty grand a year. Should he ever choose to double his donation, he could call himself a secular tither. It could be argued that he could return to the treasury much more of his income without reducing his salary to an appropiate level.

The next step could be for the rest of us to mimic the president's behavior. Five percent from us all!The distribution of wealth in america is a matter of shockingly unbalanced graph paper. Several weeks ago such a bar graph appeared online, and shocked the heck out of millions of people who had no idea.

Forty percent of the wealth in the hands of one percent of the population. This provides more material for conservatives to use in order to belittle and ridicule people who are in poverty, over forty million in america, for being lazy and stupid.

Go they way, and sell whatsoever thou hast, and give unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. It seems strange that jesus encouraged people to behave lazily, and stupidly.