Comparative Reality

From New York Magazine:

“I’m not giving to charity this year!” one hedge-fund analyst shouts into the phone, when I ask about Obama’s planned tax increases. “When people ask me for money, I tell them, ‘If you want me to give you money, send a letter to my senator asking for my taxes to be lowered.’ I feel so much less generous right now...

Dear Idiot:

You are the charity. Without government intervention, your "let's play with someone else's money" industry would have fallen to pieces, and you'd be standing in line at the homeless shelter. And you're bitching because your taxes are going up, to help pay to keep your company afloat, which is obviously quite the herculean task when it's obviously run and staffed by blithering idiots?

Yeah, I'm suddenly feeling a lot less generous, too. And, honestly, I wasn't feeling all that generous before.