Eat the Rich

Obama disparagingly calls them The Rich. He is referring to those folks who work hard, earn a decent living and as a result, have expendable income. Long before they were The Rich they were little kids growing up in America who were taught that anything is possible, in fact the sky's the limit in our great nation! Then they became the students who got good grades, the college graduates who found good jobs and got promoted, eventually starting their own businesses and succeeding by delivering something people value. In time they became the backbone of our capitalist society, not to mention the ones with all those jobs everyone wants.

When did those formerly good and decent people magically transform into The Rich so loathed today by all the losers and deadbeats and welfare recipients and left-wing pundits and couch potatoes and dropouts and talk show audiences and my husband's rabid Democratic cousins? Maybe when nobody was looking, kind of like the kreplach joke, a staple of Jewish humor which I now present in case you haven't heard it:

Once upon a time there was a little boy who hated kreplach. Every time he saw a piece of kreplach in the soup he screamed, "Aaaaah, kreplach!" So his mother decided to teach him not to be afraid of kreplach.  She took him into the kitchen and rolled out some dough. "See, it's just like a pancake," she said.
     "Just like a pancake," said the little boy.
     Then she took a piece of meat and rolled it into a ball. "See, it's just like a meatball," she said.
     "Just like a meatball," said the boy.
     Then she rolled up the meat in the dough and held it up. "See, it's just like a dumpling," she said.
     "Just like a dumpling," said the boy. Then she dropped it into the soup and put it in front of the boy, and he ran from the room screaming, "Aaaaah, kreplach!"