This is WHY I stopped writing about politics. The first example is local and the second is national BUT both demonstrate the “I got mine, you get yours” attitude of the New Aristocracy.

Peggy Noonan wrote an op-ed in 2005 about the elites and since its publication they [elites] have grown more brazen in their hypocrisy and naked subjugation of the “fart people”.

Did you know that while your payroll taxes are going up, the fiscal cliff deal is a bonanza for many corporations (including the movie industry)? Fair share and shared sacrifice, for the low information voter, are sensible words repeated ad nauseam by our elite to obfuscate their grab.

(1) Last-minute firefighter promotions before retirement spark pension questions (Fairfield Citizen)

(2) Current TV Sold To Al Jazeera; $500 Million Deal For Al Gore and Co. (Forbes)