Money Talks as Anger Grows

If you live in Salem, follow it to one of the 45 city employees earning $100,000 a year or more - up from 34 just two years ago. The median household income in Salem is less than $60,000.

And it’s driving the rest of us crazy. Listen to the tea partiers or talk radio callers and you’ll hear that their enemy isn’t a single politician like President Barack Obama or Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Their real enemy is government. And at the risk of being declared a terrorist threat - or worse, a Sarah Palin fan - I’d say the tea partiers have that target in their sights.

Nobody’s protesting the idea of everyone having health insurance. What they’re protesting is government-run health insurance, which by the way is already turning into a mess less than a week in. Companies like John Deere and AT&T are projecting huge increases in health care costs.

The government response? Haul the heads of these companies before Congress to beat them up for the sin of committing accurate Obamacare math in public. “Why can’t you just do the right thing and lie,” congressional liberals gripe.

At every turn, Obama has stepped forward on behalf of government and the people who get rich from it. With public union members earning record amounts of your money, Obama used a recess appointment this weekend to stick a radical union activist on the National Labor Relations Board.

Who were the top beneficiaries of the $860 billion (and climbing) “stimulus package”? Government workers, of course. And while the impact of Obamacare on the private sector is still being debated, everyone agrees that the more than 100 new boards, panels and commissions it creates are going to need new boarders, panelers and commissioners.

BostonHerald.com