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re: I'm noticing more and more articles written with the only theme as "rich people bad"
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:59 am to Bjorn Cyborg
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:59 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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I'm noticing more and more articles written with the only theme as "rich people bad"
Same people obsess over the entertainment industry and idol worship actors, athletes, and musicians.
Earning your wealth via hard work, determination, intelligence, and risk = bad.
Earning your wealth via playing games, music, or pretending to be someone else = heroic
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 11:00 am
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Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:02 am to The Spleen
Democrats would sound so much smarter on wealth inequality if they knew anything about central banking.
You can't cut income taxes for people that don't receive them, why don't you go look at the average effective income tax rates adjusted for government benefits. Poor people have effective rates of close to -30% and rich people are hovering around 33%.
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massive tax cuts for the wealthy
You can't cut income taxes for people that don't receive them, why don't you go look at the average effective income tax rates adjusted for government benefits. Poor people have effective rates of close to -30% and rich people are hovering around 33%.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:07 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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"I clean up after the 1 percent"
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“I babysit for the one percent”
So they come into our country illegally.....then write stories bitching about the jobs afforded to them. Wow
I guess the next ones will be “I cut grass for the one percent, or I clean offices for the one percent”
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 11:11 am
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:08 am to Pandy Fackler
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Who still wears a watch?
apparently people who aren't poor
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:14 am to Jim Rockford
Social security was suppose to be a program funded by workers for the benefit of those entering retirement.
Then the government started borrowing from the social security fund. And now the fund is insolvement, having to rely on borrowed money.
That is how the government, that has no accountability does things. It will only get worse if we agree to give MORE money to government. Government simply cannot be trusted with our money
Then the government started borrowing from the social security fund. And now the fund is insolvement, having to rely on borrowed money.
That is how the government, that has no accountability does things. It will only get worse if we agree to give MORE money to government. Government simply cannot be trusted with our money
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:16 am to Bjorn Cyborg
The super wealthy and neocons have created this mess. We shouldn’t be in perpetual war around the world and corporations should have considered the long term implications of sending millions of jobs over seas.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:32 am to hottub
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corporations should have considered the long term implications of sending millions of jobs over seas.
And Labor unions should have considered the implications of paying someone $32/hr to not do anything. Maybe then the evil corporations could have afforded to stay.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:37 am to Jim Rockford
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I'm far from a rightwinger and I agree talk radio (and cable "news") plays to the lowest common denominator. My beef with Millenials and the generations coming behind them is not based on fear of Marxism, which I agree is overblown. It's that they are (with some notable exceptions) weak and soft.
I'm a gen exer. I was thought of as aimless, spoiled and unprincipled. The hippies and boomers were genuinely thought of during the 60's as THE greatest threat to the american way of life. The so called "greatest generation" believed their own children would topple the united states government.
I integrate the world i experience in my day to day life with the world i'm "told" exists. They don't always match and when they don't, i can see it.
I know alot of "millennials". The ones i know that fit the millennial stereotype are the same ones that fit the gen exer stereotype in the 80's and early 90's and the hippie stereotype in the 60's and 70's.
In the 2000's, millennial slackers pour coffee. In the 80's and 90's, gen exers worked in record stores. In the 60's and 70's, hippies made a career out of going to college for no good reason.
They're all the same and they're no worse now than they were in 1989 and 1968.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 11:40 am
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:38 am to 1BamaRTR
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Wealth shouldn’t be redistributed
It should not be, except by the choice/benevolence of the individual.
This entire argument that we hear for outsiders and progressives "how can the richest country in the world...." Read our founding documents if you want to know that answer. Charity begins at home, not at the muzzle end of a firearm.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:40 am to hottub
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The super wealthy and neocons have created this mess. We shouldn’t be in perpetual war around the world and corporations should have considered the long term implications of sending millions of jobs over seas.
Well, this may be, however, their customers have demanded, with their purchases and dollars, that the goods and services these people provide should be less expensive. Wal-Mart, for years, tried to buy American produced merchandise, not very many out here with our own budgetary limitations, could afford to, or would choose to spend more for these goods and services.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:48 am to RedPop4
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Well, this may be, however, their customers have demanded, with their purchases and dollars, that the goods and services these people provide should be less expensive. Wal-Mart, for years, tried to buy American produced merchandise, not very many out here with our own budgetary limitations, could afford to, or would choose to spend more for these goods and services.
You, my friend, have mastered the use of the comma. Impressive
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:56 am to hottub
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The super wealthy and neocons have created this mess. We shouldn’t be in perpetual war around the world and corporations should have considered the long term implications of sending millions of jobs over seas.
First of all, we're not in a "perpetual state of war around the world". With the exception of the peace loving mooslems we hear so much about, the globe we live on is largely at peace.
Secondly, it's not a corporation's responsibility to provide jobs fo anyone at anytime.
Oh and by the by, the current unemployment rate is about 4%. In 1992, the year before NAFTA passed it was 7.4%. The year after NAFTA passed in 1994, it was 5.5%.
It was NAFTA that sent those jobs over sees and our economy is better for it.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 11:59 am
Posted on 6/11/19 at 12:17 pm to Pandy Fackler
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First of all, we're not in a "perpetual state of war around the world". With the exception of the peace loving mooslems we hear so much about, the globe we live on is largely at peace.
We have been at war almost 30 years in the Middle East.
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it's not a corporation's responsibility to provide jobs fo anyone at anytime.
Never said it was a corporations responsibility, just that their decisions have lasting consequences
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current unemployment rate
Do you even participation rate, bro?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 12:21 pm to Pandy Fackler
To the proggies in here reeeeking about how we aren't creeping to socialism - you are right, it's just fear mongering. But when you have presidential candidates talking about nationalizing healthcare and education, and we already have a quasi nationalized banking system and our effective income tax rates are top 10 in the world. Our taxes will double to pay for the social spending that is on the Democrat platform. That is confiscatory taxation, and it's immoral to the highest degree. You don't need to nationalize industry to achieve the goals that socialism strives to achieve. It's not hard to figure out.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 1:50 pm to Pandy Fackler
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The "have nots" bitching about the "haves" is about 200,000 years older than all this "one percent" bullshite people won't shut up about. None of this shite is new. Not even a little.
The difference is social revolt based on Marxist ideals is only about 150 or so years old. And widespread democratically elected governments not much more than that. It never paid for the ruling class to pander to the have-nots 1,000 years ago. But now you have entire political systems and classes in power by convincing the poor and lazy it's not their fault. And the trend is only getting worse.
You say we aren't close to socialism? We just enacted the largest abomination this country has ever seen in Obamacare. And our supposed "capitalists" - the GOP - don't even have enough guts to toss it overboard when they had the legislative and executive branches.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 2:04 pm to BugAC
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Same people obsess over the entertainment industry and idol worship actors, athletes, and musicians.
Correct.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 2:27 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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You say we aren't close to socialism? We just enacted the largest abomination this country has ever seen in Obamacare.
You either don't know what socialism is, or you don't know what ACA actually did, if you think ACA is a socialist policy. Or perhaps you don't understand either.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 2:34 pm to The Spleen
Something can be socialist in nature, without being pure socialism. It's a slippery slope.
Government owned hospitals where all the workers are government employees (including doctors) and all the patients are treated using government benefits is definitely socialism.
Obamacare and other programs like it could lead to that down the road.
Government owned hospitals where all the workers are government employees (including doctors) and all the patients are treated using government benefits is definitely socialism.
Obamacare and other programs like it could lead to that down the road.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 6/11/19 at 3:03 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
That’s because people don’t want to work hard to make it and put time in to earn money
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