Hard Times

I read a quote yesterday on an feed I get from a blog called A Moment to Think. The quote is by Roger Ebert and by itself is pretty powerful.

We’re in for some hard times. We need to pull in our belts, pay more taxes, demand more value for our taxes, and say no to an ideology that requires converting our health money into corporate profits. We should to raise the lowest wages, and lower the highest ones. We have to return to the saying my father quoted to me a hundred times: “A fair day’s work for fair day’s pay.” No, I don’t think everyone should be paid the same wage. If you earn a lot of money, you have a right to a lot of money. If you earn it. But when Wall Street bosses are paid millions in bonuses for bankrupting their firms, and their political tools in Congress oppose a better minimum wage, that’s plain wrong. It’s rotten. People who defend it with ideology are strapped to a cruel ideology.

The article from which the quote came however, is even more powerful and thought provoking, and I would highly recommend giving it a read.

The Gathering Storm.