Can poor people be patriotic?

On an ABC news interview Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden said it was time for the rich to be patriotic. 

This came after a question asking Biden if people making over $250,000 would pay more taxes. Biden's responded, "You got it, it's time to be patriotic". He continues, "[It's] Time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help America out of the rut".

So let me get this straight. It's up to the rich to bail out the US by paying more taxes. In turn this makes the rich patriotic. So by increasing taxes, the Obama administration is making rich people more patriotic. Sheer genius!

But wait, where does this leave the middle class and poor people? Do they have any means of becoming patriotic or are they left to be dug "out of the rut"? This also leaves us to believe the Obama administration assumes the middle class and poor feel that taking money from the rich is their only way out. I would think the Obama-Biden campaign would give the American people a little more credit than that, but hey, I've never been a community organizer so who am I to say.

Thanks once again Joe!

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Mother Ship Unveiled... For some reason I'll wait til version 20

You know, when a new version of Windows comes out, I'm not the first guy in line to buy it. Like most people I will wait for a few upgrades to be released before I dish out more bucks to those guys at Microsoft. Of course the reason is most new operating system releases are buggy and it takes some time to get the kinks out.

I think this is probably what I'll do on Richard Branson's new Mother Ship unveiled for his business venture named Virgin Galactic. Also I don't really have $200k to lay down for a few minutes in space.

Commercial space travel is somewhere in our future but I don't plan to be one of the first ones sitting on a rocket hanging from an airplane waiting to be blasted into space. I wonder if Richard has booked his ticket?

Mother Ship Unveiled for $200,000 Place in Space - washingtonpost.com

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