Elizabeth Warren is a Harvard law professor who oversaw the TARP program and its payback, helped construct the Consumer Financial Protection Board, and is now running against Scott "Pants On The Ground" Brown for a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts. She is frank, articulate, not a politician, and definitely one the sharpest knives in any drawer.
Here's what she had to say regarding the recent stink about taxes on higher incomes:
"I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever,'" Warren said. "No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own -- nobody.
"You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory -- and hire someone to protect against this -- because of the work the rest of us did.
"Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific; you had a great idea. God bless -- keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
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