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Should you vote for and support policies that benefit only the rich as you wait to win the lottery?
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Quote: Originally posted by Googler on May 9, 2012
This chart probably doesn't mean much to you, but it is real, real wages and income. If you are genuinely interested in the subject of socialism and wealth redistribution, please study this chart carefully. If you live anywhere outside of a bubble, you can't believe that this is good for you, America, democracy or even capitalism. American productivity is increasing on our shop floors, but our wages aren't increasing.
About Sully's comment. Sorry, she didn't clean my clock. I wish that she were informed enough to give us good guidance. One problem exist when you get your information from "inside the bubble" is that you are fed limited and erroneous information; told to read nothing outside of the information that the bubble feeds you. You all agree to believe the lies and half truths that you are being fed. You come to a consensus that everything that THE BUBBLE and Rush Hatebaugh says is gospel, really gospel. When you encounter the thinking public that lives outside of the bubble, you spout those brainwash lies and you actually believe what you are saying and "Cleaning our Clocks."
It is like when your child has done something wrong; they make up a lie that makes no sense! The child looks up at you, like, "Boy, I really got away with that." But, a thinking adult just laughs. You spout vacuous words, words that aren't based in a functional reality, thus becoming moot and meaningless. That is the bubble's goal, to keep just enough of the public dumb and speaking glorified patriotic nonsense, while the wealthy steals from us all. That is Sullen Sully.
There was a time, not too long ago that seemed more neighborly, charitable and showing a general goodwill to others. I really hope that we can reclaim it. I also hope that the Internet hasn't created people that hide behind keyboard and express their selfishness, bitterness and hatefulness. Let us pray now.
Study the chart!
Instead of considering income inequality as relevant (which it absolutely is not) we should consider whether the bottom 20 percent are better off now than in 1980.
First of all, their wages have increased. Secondly, what they can buy with those wages has gotten better. There's a million measures I could use to prove to you that the poorest people are different people than they were 20 or 30 years ago, butand that those in that bracket now have significant advantages over those that were there earlier, or that are there in other countries.
Something tells me you, you quite obviously (from your post) never studied any amount of economics, otherwise you'd know that the wealthy doesn't steal from us. If anything, it's the other way around. But whatever.
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Googler and Media...This ones for you........I just went to Forbes rich list ....Took all the billionaires in the USA out of the top 300 + in the entire world:....Lets tax them more or better yet take it all.
2515shares955tweetsTotal wealth..... $1,000,000,000,000.2 .....That's 1 trillion dollars......... divided between every man woman and child in the USA(330 million roughly), that's about $3000.00 a piece.....How Long will that last now we have divided their income equally ??? Sorry about the previous post saying they didnt ad up to a 3rd of our debt. I was completely wrong.... THEY don't add up to 1/10th of the national debt !!!
This is their NET WORTH:
Browse The ListNet Worth Calculated March 2012
Rank Name Net Worth Age Source Country of Citizenship 2 Bill Gates
$61 B 56 Microsoft United States 3 Warren Buffett
$44 B 81 Berkshire Hathaway United States 6 Larry Ellison
$36 B 67 Oracle United States 11 Christy Walton & family
$25.3 B 57 Wal-Mart United States 12 Charles Koch
$25 B 76 diversified United States 12 David Koch
$25 B 71 diversified United States 14 Sheldon Adelson
$24.9 B 78 casinos United States 16 Jim Walton
$23.7 B 64 Wal-Mart United States 17 Alice Walton
$23.3 B 62 Wal-Mart United States 18 S. Robson Walton
$23.1 B 68 Wal-Mart United States 20 Michael Bloomberg
$22 B 70 Bloomberg LP United States 22 George Soros
$20 B 81 hedge funds United States 24 Sergey Brin
$18.7 B 38 Google United States 24 Larry Page
$18.7 B 39 Google United States 26 Jeff Bezos
$18.4 B 48 Amazon.com United States 35 Mark Zuckerberg
$17.5 B 27 Facebook United States 41 Michael Dell
$15.9 B 47 Dell United States 44 Steve Ballmer
$15.7 B 56 Microsoft United States 47 Phil Knight
$14.4 B 74 Nike United States 48 Paul Allen
$14.2 B 59 Microsoft, investments United States 50 Carl Icahn
$14 B 76 leveraged buyouts United States 52 Forrest Mars Jr
$13.8 B 80 candy United States 52 Jacqueline Mars
$13.8 B 72 candy United States 52 John Mars
$13.8 B 75 candy United States 61 Anne Cox Chambers
$12.5 B 92 media United States 61 John Paulson
$12.5 B 56 hedge funds United States 69 Donald Bren
$12 B 79 real estate United States 69 Ronald Perelman
$12 B 69 leveraged buyouts United States 72 Len Blavatnik
$11.9 B 54 diversified United States 78 Harold Hamm
$11 B 66 oil & gas United States 82 James Simons
$10.7 B 73 hedge funds United States 84 Jack Taylor & family
$10.4 B 89 Enterprise Rent-A-Car United States 85 Abigail Johnson
$10.3 B 50 Fidelity United States 88 Ray Dalio
$10 B 62 hedge funds United States 88 George Kaiser
$10 B 69 oil & gas, banking United States 100 Laurene Powell Jobs & family
$9 B 48 Apple, Disney United States 100 Harold Simmons
$9 B 80 investments United States 106 Steve Cohen
$8.3 B 56 hedge funds United States 106 Charles Ergen
$8.3 B 59 EchoStar United States 106 Rupert Murdoch
$8.3 B 81 News Corp United States 110 Richard Kinder
$8.2 B 67 pipelines United States 122 Ralph Lauren
$7.5 B 72 Ralph Lauren United States 125 James Goodnight
$7.3 B 69 SAS Institute United States 127 Patrick Soon-Shiong
$7.2 B 60 pharmaceuticals United States 131 Leonard Lauder
$7.1 B 79 Estee Lauder United States 131 Samuel Newhouse Jr
$7.1 B 84 Conde Nast United States 133 Philip Anschutz
$7 B 72 investments United States 133 Andrew Beal
$7 B 59 banks, real estate United States 138 Eric Schmidt
$6.9 B 56 Google United States 141 Pierre Omidyar
$6.7 B 44 Ebay United States 153 Charles Butt & family
$6.4 B 74 supermarkets United States 153 Donald Newhouse
$6.4 B 82 Conde Nast United States 157 Eli Broad
$6.3 B 78 investments United States 157 Jim Kennedy
$6.3 B 64 media United States 157 Blair Parry-Okeden
$6.3 B 61 media United States 173 Edward Johnson III
$5.8 B 81 Fidelity United States 184 David Geffen
$5.5 B 69 movies, music United States 184 Stephen Schwarzman
$5.5 B 65 investments United States 189 Thomas Peterffy
$5.4 B 67 discount brokerage United States 189 Ira Rennert
$5.4 B 77 investments United States 193 Jeffrey Hildebrand
$5.3 B 53 Oil United States 199 John Malone
$5.1 B 71 cable television United States 199 David Tepper
$5.1 B 54 hedge funds United States 205 Richard DeVos
$5 B 86 Amway United States 205 Ray Lee Hunt
$5 B 69 oil, real estate United States 205 Richard LeFrak & family
$5 B 66 real estate United States 205 Dennis Washington
$5 B 77 construction, mining United States 216 Hank & Doug Meijer
$4.9 B - supermarkets United States 216 Gordon Moore
$4.9 B 83 Intel United States 216 Sam Zell
$4.9 B 70 real estate, private equity United States 221 Robert Rowling
$4.8 B 58 investments United States 223 Micky Arison
$4.7 B 62 Carnival Cruises United States 232 Charles Johnson
$4.5 B 79 financial services United States 232 Bruce Kovner
$4.5 B 67 hedge funds United States 232 John Menard Jr
$4.5 B 72 Retail United States 242 Rupert Johnson Jr
$4.4 B 70 Franklin Resources United States 242 Sumner Redstone
$4.4 B 88 Viacom United States 248 Leslie Wexner
$4.3 B 74 retail United States 255 Bruce Halle
$4.2 B 81 Discount Tire United States 255 Leonard Stern
$4.2 B 73 real estate United States 255 Daniel Ziff
$4.2 B 40 investments United States 255 Dirk Ziff
$4.2 B 47 investments United States 255 Robert Ziff
$4.2 B 45 investments United States 270 Dannine Avara
$4.1 B 48 pipelines United States 270 Scott Duncan
$4.1 B 29 Pipelines United States 270 Milane Frantz
$4.1 B 42 Pipelines United States 270 Randa Williams
$4.1 B 50 Pipelines United States 276 Jin Sook & Do Won Chang
$4 B 57 retail United States 276 John Paul DeJoria
$4 B 68 hair products, tequila United States 276 David Green
$4 B 70 Hobby Lobby United States 276 William Koch
$4 B 71 oil, investments United States 276 Henry Kravis
$4 B 68 leveraged buyouts United States 276 Roger Wang
$4 B 63 retail United States 288 Ann Walton Kroenke
$3.9 B 63 Wal-Mart United States 296 Victor Fung & family
$3.7 B 66 sourcing United States 296 Mitchell Rales
$3.7 B 55 manufacturing United States 296 John Sall
$3.7 B 63 SAS Institute United States 304 Robert Bass
$3.6 B 64 oil, investments United States 304 Trevor Rees-Jones
$3.6 B 60 Oil & Gas United States 304 George Roberts
$3.6 B 68 leveraged buyouts United States Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on May 9, 2012
Googler and Media...This ones for you........I just went to Forbes rich list ....Took all the billionaires in the USA out of the top 300 + in the entire world:....Lets tax them more or better yet take it all.
2515shares955tweetsTotal wealth..... $1,000,000,000,000.2 .....That's 1 trillion dollars......... divided between every man woman and child in the USA(330 million roughly), that's about $3000.00 a piece.....How Long will that last now we have divided their income equally ??? Sorry about the previous post saying they didnt ad up to a 3rd of our debt. I was completely wrong.... THEY don't add up to 1/10th of the national debt !!!
This is their NET WORTH:
Browse The ListNet Worth Calculated March 2012
Rank Name Net Worth Age Source Country of Citizenship 2 Bill Gates
$61 B 56 Microsoft United States 3 Warren Buffett
$44 B 81 Berkshire Hathaway United States 6 Larry Ellison
$36 B 67 Oracle United States 11 Christy Walton & family
$25.3 B 57 Wal-Mart United States 12 Charles Koch
$25 B 76 diversified United States 12 David Koch
$25 B 71 diversified United States 14 Sheldon Adelson
$24.9 B 78 casinos United States 16 Jim Walton
$23.7 B 64 Wal-Mart United States 17 Alice Walton
$23.3 B 62 Wal-Mart United States 18 S. Robson Walton
$23.1 B 68 Wal-Mart United States 20 Michael Bloomberg
$22 B 70 Bloomberg LP United States 22 George Soros
$20 B 81 hedge funds United States 24 Sergey Brin
$18.7 B 38 Google United States 24 Larry Page
$18.7 B 39 Google United States 26 Jeff Bezos
$18.4 B 48 Amazon.com United States 35 Mark Zuckerberg
$17.5 B 27 Facebook United States 41 Michael Dell
$15.9 B 47 Dell United States 44 Steve Ballmer
$15.7 B 56 Microsoft United States 47 Phil Knight
$14.4 B 74 Nike United States 48 Paul Allen
$14.2 B 59 Microsoft, investments United States 50 Carl Icahn
$14 B 76 leveraged buyouts United States 52 Forrest Mars Jr
$13.8 B 80 candy United States 52 Jacqueline Mars
$13.8 B 72 candy United States 52 John Mars
$13.8 B 75 candy United States 61 Anne Cox Chambers
$12.5 B 92 media United States 61 John Paulson
$12.5 B 56 hedge funds United States 69 Donald Bren
$12 B 79 real estate United States 69 Ronald Perelman
$12 B 69 leveraged buyouts United States 72 Len Blavatnik
$11.9 B 54 diversified United States 78 Harold Hamm
$11 B 66 oil & gas United States 82 James Simons
$10.7 B 73 hedge funds United States 84 Jack Taylor & family
$10.4 B 89 Enterprise Rent-A-Car United States 85 Abigail Johnson
$10.3 B 50 Fidelity United States 88 Ray Dalio
$10 B 62 hedge funds United States 88 George Kaiser
$10 B 69 oil & gas, banking United States 100 Laurene Powell Jobs & family
$9 B 48 Apple, Disney United States 100 Harold Simmons
$9 B 80 investments United States 106 Steve Cohen
$8.3 B 56 hedge funds United States 106 Charles Ergen
$8.3 B 59 EchoStar United States 106 Rupert Murdoch
$8.3 B 81 News Corp United States 110 Richard Kinder
$8.2 B 67 pipelines United States 122 Ralph Lauren
$7.5 B 72 Ralph Lauren United States 125 James Goodnight
$7.3 B 69 SAS Institute United States 127 Patrick Soon-Shiong
$7.2 B 60 pharmaceuticals United States 131 Leonard Lauder
$7.1 B 79 Estee Lauder United States 131 Samuel Newhouse Jr
$7.1 B 84 Conde Nast United States 133 Philip Anschutz
$7 B 72 investments United States 133 Andrew Beal
$7 B 59 banks, real estate United States 138 Eric Schmidt
$6.9 B 56 Google United States 141 Pierre Omidyar
$6.7 B 44 Ebay United States 153 Charles Butt & family
$6.4 B 74 supermarkets United States 153 Donald Newhouse
$6.4 B 82 Conde Nast United States 157 Eli Broad
$6.3 B 78 investments United States 157 Jim Kennedy
$6.3 B 64 media United States 157 Blair Parry-Okeden
$6.3 B 61 media United States 173 Edward Johnson III
$5.8 B 81 Fidelity United States 184 David Geffen
$5.5 B 69 movies, music United States 184 Stephen Schwarzman
$5.5 B 65 investments United States 189 Thomas Peterffy
$5.4 B 67 discount brokerage United States 189 Ira Rennert
$5.4 B 77 investments United States 193 Jeffrey Hildebrand
$5.3 B 53 Oil United States 199 John Malone
$5.1 B 71 cable television United States 199 David Tepper
$5.1 B 54 hedge funds United States 205 Richard DeVos
$5 B 86 Amway United States 205 Ray Lee Hunt
$5 B 69 oil, real estate United States 205 Richard LeFrak & family
$5 B 66 real estate United States 205 Dennis Washington
$5 B 77 construction, mining United States 216 Hank & Doug Meijer
$4.9 B - supermarkets United States 216 Gordon Moore
$4.9 B 83 Intel United States 216 Sam Zell
$4.9 B 70 real estate, private equity United States 221 Robert Rowling
$4.8 B 58 investments United States 223 Micky Arison
$4.7 B 62 Carnival Cruises United States 232 Charles Johnson
$4.5 B 79 financial services United States 232 Bruce Kovner
$4.5 B 67 hedge funds United States 232 John Menard Jr
$4.5 B 72 Retail United States 242 Rupert Johnson Jr
$4.4 B 70 Franklin Resources United States 242 Sumner Redstone
$4.4 B 88 Viacom United States 248 Leslie Wexner
$4.3 B 74 retail United States 255 Bruce Halle
$4.2 B 81 Discount Tire United States 255 Leonard Stern
$4.2 B 73 real estate United States 255 Daniel Ziff
$4.2 B 40 investments United States 255 Dirk Ziff
$4.2 B 47 investments United States 255 Robert Ziff
$4.2 B 45 investments United States 270 Dannine Avara
$4.1 B 48 pipelines United States 270 Scott Duncan
$4.1 B 29 Pipelines United States 270 Milane Frantz
$4.1 B 42 Pipelines United States 270 Randa Williams
$4.1 B 50 Pipelines United States 276 Jin Sook & Do Won Chang
$4 B 57 retail United States 276 John Paul DeJoria
$4 B 68 hair products, tequila United States 276 David Green
$4 B 70 Hobby Lobby United States 276 William Koch
$4 B 71 oil, investments United States 276 Henry Kravis
$4 B 68 leveraged buyouts United States 276 Roger Wang
$4 B 63 retail United States 288 Ann Walton Kroenke
$3.9 B 63 Wal-Mart United States 296 Victor Fung & family
$3.7 B 66 sourcing United States 296 Mitchell Rales
$3.7 B 55 manufacturing United States 296 John Sall
$3.7 B 63 SAS Institute United States 304 Robert Bass
$3.6 B 64 oil, investments United States 304 Trevor Rees-Jones
$3.6 B 60 Oil & Gas United States 304 George Roberts
$3.6 B 68 leveraged buyouts United States Is there a Forbes list for "Extremely Optimistic, Potentially Large Lottery Jackpot Winners", who will make this list in the very near future?
If so, I would like to submit my picture for this prestigious list.
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100The Hall Of The Mountain Kings Tennessee
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OfflineQuote: Originally posted by Googler on May 9, 2012
This chart probably doesn't mean much to you, but it is real, real wages and income. If you are genuinely interested in the subject of socialism and wealth redistribution, please study this chart carefully. If you live anywhere outside of a bubble, you can't believe that this is good for you, America, democracy or even capitalism. American productivity is increasing on our shop floors, but our wages aren't increasing.
About Sully's comment. Sorry, she didn't clean my clock. I wish that she were informed enough to give us good guidance. One problem exist when you get your information from "inside the bubble" is that you are fed limited and erroneous information; told to read nothing outside of the information that the bubble feeds you. You all agree to believe the lies and half truths that you are being fed. You come to a consensus that everything that THE BUBBLE and Rush Hatebaugh says is gospel, really gospel. When you encounter the thinking public that lives outside of the bubble, you spout those brainwash lies and you actually believe what you are saying and "Cleaning our Clocks."
It is like when your child has done something wrong; they make up a lie that makes no sense! The child looks up at you, like, "Boy, I really got away with that." But, a thinking adult just laughs. You spout vacuous words, words that aren't based in a functional reality, thus becoming moot and meaningless. That is the bubble's goal, to keep just enough of the public dumb and speaking glorified patriotic nonsense, while the wealthy steals from us all. That is Sullen Sully.
There was a time, not too long ago that seemed more neighborly, charitable and showing a general goodwill to others. I really hope that we can reclaim it. I also hope that the Internet hasn't created people that hide behind keyboard and express their selfishness, bitterness and hatefulness. Let us pray now.
Study the chart!
LOL, I love when you leftys from the far left lunatic fringe of the leftwing-loon lunacy league finally come out of your closet, drop the facade and show/admit what you really are: Leftwing Loons.
A little friendly advice for your next attempt to fool people, googy: YOU'RE LOUSY AT IT! TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT!
That overused, phony-ass routine of "I'm not right or left, let's all just work together to benefit humanity" crap just doesn't work if there's anybody with half a brain around. Especially when you follow it up with all the standard moveon.soros talking points. It just pisses people off, googy, when they know you think they're too stupid to see your attempted scam.
And googy, you really suck bad at it.
I mean like whoa, really bad. Rank amateur bad.
I pegged you from your very first post.
BTW, what did you think of the Tea Party Candidate in the primary in Indiana last night?
Smells like... victory...
Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh...
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100The Hall Of The Mountain Kings Tennessee
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OfflineQuote: Originally posted by sully16 on May 9, 2012
Your busted, I went through all your posts and most of your answers are short and without much thought, what do I see, 2 very distinct styles of speaking, so theres either 2 of you or your quite simply repeating some liberal pundit.
Your not here to play and win the lottery, your pushing an agenda, this thread is nothing more than spam.
The title of your thread, which by the way is a loaded question.
" SHOULD YOU VOTE FOR AND SUPPORT POLICIES THAT BENEFIT ONLY THE RICH AS YOU WAIT TO WIN THE LOTTERY.
I voted no, because no one should sit around WAITING to win the lottery, pipe dream.
We don't vote for policies, we vote for people to represent us, what your doing is hoping you'll prey on the ignorant.
Your preying on the have nots hoping you'll sway them to your political agenda.
You started this thread I'll finish it, the fact that your becoming increasing beligerent tells me you feel threatened, you didn't get the support you thought you would, your chart is garbage.
Why is your chart garbage, because your not factoring in inflation, an inflation that is being directly caused by the government .
People, the government is keeping gasoline high, they are refusing to let us drill and use our own, keeping the price high.
The same goes with electricty and natural gas, It's the federal taxes , that are keeping the prices up, They want us to feel good about using a higher costing solar power, what they are doing to us is unforgivable.
Now because of this inflation, it cost more for goods and services, so even if you get a raise, it's not enough to keep up with inflation.
It's not about the wage you earn, it's about the cost of everyday things.
Now I don't know about you goog, but, my husband and I have both received pay raises. If you didn't maybe it's because of poor performance or poor attendance.
Another thing the good ol government has been doing , and for many years shouldn't have been doing, is allowing the Federal reserve bank ( don't let the name fool you, this is a privately owned bank and the men who run it are the richest in the world.), They have mandated monetary policy, and it's hurting us, Believe it or not, thats the job of congress, they aren't doing their job.
Every time the federal reserve prints money they can't back then loans it to the US government at a high interest rate, our dollar is worth less.
So what goog, here is doing is a backhanded way of class warfare, he/she is nothing more than a predator who wants you to vote for people with a socialist agenda. Wants you to blame the rich for your problems, Blame the government for keeping the cost of living so high.
I didn't just clean your clock, I b*TCH SLAPPED YOUR SILLY A** ALL OVER THE PLACE.
"I didn't just clean your clock, I b*TCH SLAPPED YOUR SILLY A** ALL OVER THE PLACE."
I'll vouch for that!
That was a good old fashioned azz whoopin'!
Woooooooooooo hooooooooooooooooo!
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100The Hall Of The Mountain Kings Tennessee
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OfflineQuote: Originally posted by CDanaT on May 9, 2012
Media.....my above scenario was just being facetious but there are people like that. Don't think so ???? Go to YOUTUBE look at the lady over in Tampa that had 7-10 kids that expected someone else to take care of them.There are 2-3 NEWS clips on there about her....
Lets take a reasonable look at this shall we ???.....Lets say you are 55, worked hard all your life, worked your way up the corporate ladder. Made some savvy choices,had sound financial advice, the whole 9 yards.... You now have amassed $10 million in investments and stocks that earn 5% which equals 500K a year. I don't spend that much(maybe 100-125K of the 500) because I don't need it, so the next year I roll the extra 375-400 K back over into my portfolio. I do the same for the next 3 years and now I am up to 11 + million and my interest is still chugging along and each year the payout gets a little bigger and a little bigger and so on as the years keep truck by.........Now, lets say I am the same age and I only do average in my career field, still working,still paying off a mortgage, but making good wages,maybe $85-100K a year...Like you I have saved and invested but only have $700K in my investment portfolio. The 700K makes a nice little return but not quite 5%. As we all know, the more you invest the bigger the return. So lets say you get back 3.5% which equals roughly $25K a year. I sure will need all that to survive on........Every single year we both paid our taxes as the tax code required.
Heres the point...OF COURSE you are going to have more because you have earned it.....theres always going to be more on your plate............I will ask you the same question that I asked Googler earler in the topic(to which he failed to reply)......
How Much Money Should the Rich Be Allowed to Keep ???? What percentage should they should their tax level be ? 50, 60, 80 % ???.......Please, PLEASE show me how we can spend our way out of debt by more borrowing. I can't can you ???.
Let's take it one step further...lets gut their entire wealth, every single dime they own, take every millionaire and take it all to give back to Uncle Sam shall we ??....Do you realize that won't pay a 3rd the current national debt we have ?? Our problem is not a tax issue its a SPEND issue...spend more than we take in, give more away, keep giving and giving and borrowing & borrowing......16 trillion and climbing is the problem....Doesn't make a difference whether its liberal or conservative....Obama has just hit the nitrous button on that issue......We are now spending 40 cents on every dollar just in interest....That my fellow LP poster is what is preposterous.
Excellamundo, CD!
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Googler & Media............I was then even a bit more curious...so I went and looked at Forbes top 400 list of billionaires in the USA.....The last guy I had on my above list was on page 8 or 9 out of 40 pages..the rest of the folks went down from 3.5 to 2 Billion between pages 9-26, then from page 26 to the bottom of page 40 at 1.05 billion per person. Based on 10 people per page....SOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo ad roughly another 400-500 billion.
All total the billionaires NET WORTH in the USA do NOT ad up to 1/10 of the current national debt of 16 trillion.....
In closing, we can take every rich person's net in the USA(Millionaire or Billionaire), redistribute their ENTIRE NET wealth and still have less than $6500.00 for every man woman and child..........So when it comes to taxes, the rich are not the problem nor can they solve it by taxing them more. WE the people need to elect people who are responsible for our ways of life, live within a budget and keep the opportunities to earn wealth, not take and spend it foolishly as our leaders have done.Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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100The Hall Of The Mountain Kings Tennessee
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OfflineQuote: Originally posted by mediabrat on May 9, 2012
"Oh, by the way, I want free medical too with only a $5.00 deductible on office visits and prescriptions."
This already happens in most civilized countries.
As for the rest of your comment: preposterous. I don't think that's what Googler is saying at all. Maybe I'm misreading his posts (and if I am, Googler, please correct me), but I doubt he's advocating anything quite as severe as Soviet-style socialism/Communism. It seems to me he's merely pointing out the vast and growing difference between the rich and everyone else in this country. I'm not sure what he intends to do about that, but the Buffett Rule seems like a good start. You do realize that the rich are being taxed at the lowest rates ever? And you folks want to tax them even less? Between the cutting of taxes and the desire to cut as many services for the poor as possible, it certainly looks like the right wing wants to place our economic burdens on the backs of those who can least afford it.
The story goes that the famed outlaw Jesse James was once asked why he robbed banks. His answer: "Because that's where the money is."
You're in over your head, mediabratwurst. Out of your league.
Your political acumen is on a level with your historical quotes - severely lacking or outright, blatantly wrong.
This is worse than the time you said that Abraham Lincoln said "This is a day that will live in infamy" at Gettysburg.
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100The Hall Of The Mountain Kings Tennessee
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OfflineQuote: Originally posted by Boney526 on May 9, 2012
Oh here we go again. Yes Reagan did do that. Which is one of the biggest criticisms I have of him. You are so full of sh*t that you just call the truth lies, and I have no interest in repeating something I already said. It's like saying "If a Republican President decides to use the military, and it was authorized, they lied to congress. If a Democrat did it without even being authorized, then the people criticizing him are lieing"
The whole basis of your arguement is that the truth is lies, unless a Democrat lies.
Read the Constitution. It doesn't matter if McCain urged Obama to assist Libya. He should have then put it up for vote. But he didn't, and Obama waited until Congress was it Recess until he UNILATERALLY AND ILLEGALLY commited the air force to the effort. A member of the house threatened to start impeachment trials on him if he ever did that again.
Tell me, because I was against the Iraq War, what lies did Bush tell Congress? Keep in mind that Hussein put out false intelegence to make the US, Iranians and Israelites think he had a nuclear bomb. He wanted us to think he did, because he thought we'd leave him alone if he had them.
Maybe googly will give you an honest response now that's he's through pretending that he's not a leftwing loon promoting an agenda anymore.
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Quote: Originally posted by rdgrnr on May 9, 2012
Excellamundo, CD!
Ridge, I don't have a problem with anyone stating their opinion on here...After all,,, its a discussion....But the ones who can't back up their opinions with verifiable facts need to really come into the 21st century about being credible.........We aren't talking about whether you like the taste of a meal or chocolate cake. The topic I thought was about what is best for the country, or "Should you vote for and support policies that benefit only the rich as you wait to win the lottery?"...........
I truly am amazed at some of the people thinking that the USA should have more government control and disguise it as "paying more than your fair share" or "redistributive wealth" That is not what our founding fathers ideas for this country was built upon nor was it what they fought for some 235-240 years ago. People thinking the government does a better job at making things better like running a business ought to take a look at the Post Office or Amtrak.
Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said,"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. "
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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Here's what the title should have read
I hope you vote for the people who will force you to support me because it will be just like winning the lottery.
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OfflineQuote: Originally posted by CDanaT on May 9, 2012
Ridge, I don't have a problem with anyone stating their opinion on here...After all,,, its a discussion....But the ones who can't back up their opinions with verifiable facts need to really come into the 21st century about being credible.........We aren't talking about whether you like the taste of a meal or chocolate cake. The topic I thought was about what is best for the country, or "Should you vote for and support policies that benefit only the rich as you wait to win the lottery?"...........
I truly am amazed at some of the people thinking that the USA should have more government control and disguise it as "paying more than your fair share" or "redistributive wealth" That is not what our founding fathers ideas for this country was built upon nor was it what they fought for some 235-240 years ago. People thinking the government does a better job at making things better like running a business ought to take a look at the Post Office or Amtrak.
Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said,"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. "
Roger that, CD.
But this thread never was about opinion, that was all a ruse.
This thread was leftwing loon propaganda from the very first post.
He lied and denied for a while and then just gave up and put his real hate-based message out there.
I think googley is just a little too high-strung is all.
The poor soul.
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CDanaT - We aren't talking about whether you like the taste of a meal or chocolate cake. The topic I thought was about what is best for the country, or "Should you vote for and support policies that benefit only the rich as you wait to win the lottery?"...........
rdgrnr- But this thread never was about opinion, that was all a ruse. This thread was leftwing loon propaganda from the very first post.
sully16 - Here's what the title should have read I hope you vote for the people who will force you to support me because it will be just like winning the lottery
Sounds like y'all have wrapped it up pretty well!
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Quote: Originally posted by maximumfun on May 9, 2012
CDanaT - We aren't talking about whether you like the taste of a meal or chocolate cake. The topic I thought was about what is best for the country, or "Should you vote for and support policies that benefit only the rich as you wait to win the lottery?"...........
rdgrnr- But this thread never was about opinion, that was all a ruse. This thread was leftwing loon propaganda from the very first post.
sully16 - Here's what the title should have read I hope you vote for the people who will force you to support me because it will be just like winning the lottery
Sounds like y'all have wrapped it up pretty well!
He should have just started a blog, I really do like chocolate ice cream, LOL
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Quote: Originally posted by sully16 on May 9, 2012
He should have just started a blog, I really do like chocolate ice cream, LOL
(coffee flavored icecream over here please)