• You admire six-figure income earners, like those touted in magazines such as Money and Forbes, who manage to save 15% of their income for their future retirement.
• 15% of a low six-figure income is 50-100% of your yearly salary.
• 100% of your yearly salary goes to paying the utility bill, medical expenses, day care, food, car loans, mortgage (rent), and gas.
• You don't understand why 'they' can save 15% of their income and you can't.
• Conversely, you think a 15% income tax rate has the same impact on someone with a six-figure income as it does you.
• You do earn a low six-figure income and haven't paid real taxes in years.
• You support politicians who support free trade.
• You look forward to the slew of U.S. jobs that a Western Hemisphere free trade agreement will create.
• You think those jobs will be created due to all the high-priced U.S. goods that sweatshop workers earning $200 dollars a month will purchase.
• You think your job will stay in America even though current free trade agreements let companies move without penalty to a country where people work 85 hours or more each week for 60 cents an hour.
• You equate capitalism with democracy, even though not one country has ever become a democracy because of capitalism.
• You think anyone can get ahead and make money by working hard.
• You've worked twice as hard over the last 20 years and haven't gotten a raise much higher than the cost of living.
• You've worked hard for 20 years and were just laid off due to an economic downturn.
• The company you worked for doubled/tripled/quadrupled its stock value due to both the recent downsizing--and the announcement that it will be relocating to Mexico/South America.
• You don't know that more than 2.8 million U.S citizens work full-time, year-round jobs and still live in poverty.
• You're CEO of a company that pays its workers minimum wage.
• You're upset because you only pull in the average CEO's salary: $20,000,000 (472 times more than the average blue-collar worker).
• You don't understand why the average worker can't save 15% of their income for retirement like you do.
• To reform Social Security, you want the average worker to invest 15% of their earnings in the volatile stock market.
• You like the fact that these new investors will increase your company's net worth thereby allowing you to receive a salary higher than the average CEO.

Government and Organized Labor

• You scoff at unions.
• You scoff at unions, even though they could've bargained with your former company for a real wage increase...and health care, and a retirement plan, and safety standards.
• You don't know that the only reason you make more than $200 dollars a month isn't because you work hard and live in a democracy, but because at the turn of the 20th century union workers fought and died for your right to organize.
• You despise 'big government'. (See Unions, insert 'big government')
• You despise 'big government', even though it could've penalized (and thereby dissuaded) your former company for moving to Mexico/South America.
• You agree with the States' Rights movement and the Federalist Society.
• You think the framers of the Constitution, as Federalists, wanted limited government.
• You've never looked up the definition of Federalist (Hint: people who wanted a strong federal government.)
• You don't know that today's Federalist Society and its ilk actually work to create a Confederacy.
• You do know and think it's a good idea.
• You don't know that Federalists like Alexander Hamilton and James Madison created our Constitution.
• You've never read the Federalist Papers by same warning how a nation divided into a mere confederacy of states without a strong union would be vulnerable to foreign interests.
• You complain about foreign-owned corporations holding your state hostage.

The Environment

• You think 'top of the food chain' equates to 'king of the hill': after we've eliminated everything from our planet, we will win.
• You think that after we eliminate everything from the planet, the grocery stores will still have chips and beer.
• You think that countries that let corporations pay workers $200 dollars a month will prevent companies from dumping whatever toxic crap they want into the environment.
• You think that even if they do, it won't harm you.
• You don't know that much of the produce you eat already comes from places that let companies dump whatever toxic crap they want into the environment.
• You think the thousands of scientists who've conducted numerous experiments on global warming and have concluded it's real are full of it.
• You think the handful of astrophysicists and the economist who claim there'll be a greening of the earth make real sense.

Gun Control

• You believe wild rumors claiming that the government is conspiring to take away your rifle.
• You don't believe documented stories about the CIA selling guns out of the back of delivery trucks in LA.
• You do believe it, and you think it was a good idea.

Social Issues

• You want to control a woman's reproductive rights, save babies, and kill criminals.
• You don't want to fund proven social programs for babies and children that help prevent them from turning into criminals.
• You think there's no such thing as a 'glass ceiling'. (See global warming. Insert 'glass ceiling', 'experts' and 'crackpots').
• You think equality means not calling a woman a 'juggie' to her face.

Politics

• You think Rush makes perfect sense.
• You don't know that Rush makes stuff up.
• You don't know that Rush has admitted that he makes stuff up.
• You learn that Rush makes stuff up, and you still think he makes perfect sense.
• You hate Clinton, a.k.a. Slick-Willy, because he makes stuff up.
• You think the Lewinsky scandal was the worst thing that ever happened to our country.
• You've never heard of Iran-Contra.
• You have heard of it, and you don't care.
• You think the Reagan administration's tax cuts brought great prosperity to the country. (See 'working hard', insert 'working during the Reagan era')
• You have no idea how the following statement relates to the Reagan era: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
• You look forward to deeper tax cuts under George W. Bush.

This list is by no means all-inclusive, but it will help you identify WMS. If you or anyone you love agrees with the majority of the above statements, chances are they've contracted WMS. If so, get help immediately. 

To alleviate symptoms in mild cases of WMS, some have isolated the afflicted white male and forced him to take a good, long look in the mirror. EEAWMS does not recommend this treatment, however, as it has a high rate of recidivism, usually due to re-infection after exposure to other WMS carriers.

For more permanent treatment, EEAWMS recommends a thrice-daily inoculation available from any one of the following sources:

The Center for Public Integrity: www.publicintegrity.org

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR): www.fair.org

Public Citizen: www.citizen.org

United Students Against Sweatshops: www.usasnet.org

The Preamble Center for Public Policy: www.preamble.org

Citizens for Tax Justice: www.ctj.org

Environmental Defense Scorecard www.scorecard.org