#WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek

[minionofmidas]

Everybody tweeting this would just have tweeted something else about n0bama if the payroll tax cuts had been extended.  The original version and top retweet of this is by an annoying college conservative girl with 20,000 followers. 

It's manufactured outrage.

Yep.

It's also an attempt at damage control. Get the message out that, contrary to both reality and perception, it's not your own fault.

[minionofmidas]

A bit off-topic, but a friend of mine told me this:

"You know, I think the United States might be one of the only nations in the history of our world where the wealthy have the gall to say that they're the ones being oppressed."

Alas, no. The more power an identifiable minority group has, the better it is able to protest its perceived or real discrimination...