Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

   Perspective is how different issues and items are viewed by different individuals and causes each of us to form an opinion of the issue of the viewed item or incident. 

   The view that most rich people have of themselves is that they are the cream of the crop. They have risen above the chaff of society and are therefore endowed with some sort of privilege to decide how things should be done and all that sort of thing. Many of the wealthy of this country are praised because they have attained that wealth by a talent they possessed or a knowledge they have and have shared with the rest of us. There are others that are wealthy that have gained that wealth by the  deeds of those before them and they are the recipient of the riches of generations ahead of them. 

   Some of these people do admirable things with their wealth and others do some despicable things with theirs. One thing that comes to mind is to try and change an entire nations way of life so that they can get out of paying taxes, or having to pay from earnings money to help those that may work for them. These are the wealthy that should not be viewed as cream of the crop but more like the slag that comes to the surface of the cauldron when making the steel that founded and has protected this nation. It is the useless part that gets discarded when the process is complete. 

   That slag is currently funding the reelection campaign of another bit of slag. If that slag is the result of burning coal it is called a clinker, no one has found a use for a clinker except Hogan’s Hero’s and clink was the name of the office in charge of the prison camp, total idiot. Which brings us back to the bit of slag being promoted in this campaign, total idiot. That is my perspective, what is yours?