{"id":640,"date":"2011-10-26T19:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T23:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=640"},"modified":"2011-10-26T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T23:17:53","slug":"53-percenters-agree-be-glad-youre-still-above-the-poverty-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/26\/53-percenters-agree-be-glad-youre-still-above-the-poverty-line\/","title":{"rendered":"53 Percenters Agree: Be Glad You’re Still Above the Poverty Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Right-wing<\/a>

I'm a paid commentator on CNN. I have a radio gig. I have two houses. I'm not an average Joe.<\/p><\/div>\n

Hi, I’m Erick Erickson, founder of Redstate.org and the “We are the 53 Percent” movement.<\/p>\n

I’m a paid commentator on CNN.
\nI have a radio gig.
\nI have two houses.
\nI’m an average Joe.<\/p>\n

Look, I’m tired of people pointing out that 1% of Americans take in 25% of income and have 40% of the wealth. Waah waah waah. Too bad. Inherit some money or get a CEO job, you lazy bastards.<\/p>\n

And I got really mad when I found out from the Tax Policy Center that 47% of Americans don’t even pay any income tax! <\/p>\n

So what if 90% of them earn less than $30,000?<\/p>\n

\"Tax<\/a>

Why should I pay taxes to help the poor and elderly? Let them eat cake! They no longer have a piece of the pie...<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m hopping mad that these poor people and seniors want to have free ride!<\/p>\n

\"Old<\/a>

"I'm skippin' out on payin' taxes -- hey Herman Cain, what's 9 percent of a plastic bag?"<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m so fired up, I’d occupy a park over this. That is, if it was a park in a nice suburban neighborhood with no minorities or poor people in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, I’m Erick Erickson, founder of Redstate.org and the “We are the 53 Percent” movement. I’m a paid commentator on CNN. I have a radio gig. I have two houses. I’m an average Joe. Look, I’m tired of people pointing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[377,375,378,281,376,374],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troutboysblog","tag-elderly","tag-erick-erickson","tag-let-them-eat-cake","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-poor","tag-we-are-the-53-percent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}