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• Sunday, August 24, 2008 08:35 AM

  Change can be effected if you have someone around who knows what is likely to fail

  While I have not forgiven Biden for the "Protect the rich and screw the poor bankruptcy act of America" I understand that his knowledge will smooth over many rough spots when change is attempted.

  He will know how the GOP scum will react and in what fashion they will impede anything likely to improve the lot of the average American.

  The GOP will insist that any costs of change must be fully borne by the middle class and the poor. The rich need to use their funds to hire more undocumented servants and inexpensive gardners for their new mansions. The rich can't be bothered with investing in America's infrastructure and its educational system. The rich must not be asked to risk their wealth in anything less than ironclad securities.

  Perhaps some of the rich took chances on the way to becoming rich but once there they begin to look askance at taking chances.

  It is the small businessman or woman who takes the chances and on occasion is bankrupt. The truly rich are only willing to come in if the risk has been minimized.

  People like Joe Biden have seen the effect of a party whose sole interest is safeguarding the wealth of the already over privileged. I hope he can recall why his father quit his job when the boss during a christmas party threw out silver dollars just to see his employees scramble on their hands and knees for a pittance.

  What America can well do without is arrogant wealth that despises and disrespects the workers whose labor produces the wealth.

  —kalpal Read kalpal's other letters
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