This morning on CBS Sunday Morning Linda McGibney took Ben Stein to task for his whining greed:

….I have always understood that the “haves” were greedy. This is the first time I’ve heard one of them express it out loud so openly.

I am a “have.” I am willing to pay this tax increase. I’m not going to whine about it. I won’t feel punished. I will understand it’s the cost of doing business.

It is worth sacrificing because our country needs some of us to sacrifice . . . the some of us who can.

And, Mr. Stein, we are not suffering.

But then again, that’s what we have come to expect from Nixon speech writers.

* Title taken from spoken dialogue in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986).