Classless

I'm aware that the ownership of the Philadelphia Inquirer is headed by a Republican activist, but it still angered me to see the headline as an immediate reaction to Obama's budget, "Worries About Class Warfare." Now I heard the same thing parroted on "Meet The Press." Who exactly is worried, and why is it only called class warfare when it favors the middle class versus the rich and not the other way around?

It's clear to anyone paying attention that the 8 years of the Bush administration have witnessed a vicious and sustained attack by the rich against everyone else, driving income disparity to levels unheard of in American history and beyond. It's one of the major reasons the vast majority of Americans thought the country was on the "wrong track" coming into the most recent election. So now, given a budget that returns the tax burden to the way it was 10 years ago, this is class warfare? It takes deeply warped thinking and a spectacular sense of entitlement to come up with that.

I'm hopeful that our collective sense of fairness will overcome this disingenuous line of thinking, but I guess we'll have to cross pur fingers and see how it all plays out.