Perhaps it is just me but all this discussion of rich versus poor that is done OUTSIDE the context of fixing the budget and possible tax changes bother me.

It seems there is an attempt to start friction for friction sake.

Now ACORN who is receiving millions and millions from the stimulus plan and who is under investigation for voter fraud, AND who has been selected by this administration to "help" with the census, and has openly called for liberal views and has admitted to being a grassroots organization of the current administration.......

Is conducting bus tours of AIG employee homes....a quote from one of the tour participants...

"Because the American taxpayer now owns 80 percent of AIG, they should have full access to anything and everything they own, including their country club memberships, their recreation facilities, their built-in swimming pools, but we'll do it on a schedule," he said.

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/40...ml?source=mypi

And then will add this...a quote from Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals...

"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."