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It's more like health care and other costs have risen while wages have not kept pace. The upper percentiles steal from everyone else all the time and then try to figure out how to make everyone else take the blame.
Back then a CEO was content to earn ten times what an average worker made. He was also content to have one nice home and a nice car. Now he wants four homes, six cars and makes sure he earns 500 times what the average worker does to pay for it.
Just how are they "stealing" money from you ?
Don't you willingly hand it over to buy something ?
It's more like health care and other costs have risen while wages have not kept pace. The upper percentiles steal from everyone else all the time and then try to figure out how to make everyone else take the blame.
Back then a CEO was content to earn ten times what an average worker made. He was also content to have one nice home and a nice car. Now he wants four homes, six cars and makes sure he earns 500 times what the average worker does to pay for it.
How are the upper percentiles stealing anything? What do they do that you and I don't have the option to do as well?
Take a moment and compare this situation with obesity. We will blame the individual for being fat, but we don't blame the broke for spending irresponsibly. Both the financially strapped and the obese are in those situations (more often than not) because they've made poor decisions. I'll eat this cake instead of a banana; I'll remodel my kitchen instead of putting the extra cash into savings. Both situations arise through a lack of personal responsibility.
Why do liberals vote for those who do the banksters' bidding? They wish to vote for their own destruction?
Am I saying the banking industry supports Democrats? Not in particular but yeah they certainly do along with Republicans. As I have stated though I tend to view Democrats as pagans and Republicans as heretics.
Take a moment and compare this situation with obesity. We will blame the individual for being fat, but we don't blame the broke for spending irresponsibly. Both the financially strapped and the obese are in those situations (more often than not) because they've made poor decisions. I'll eat this cake instead of a banana; I'll remodel my kitchen instead of putting the extra cash into savings. Both situations arise through a lack of personal responsibility.
And food subsidies. Again, just because you can blame one party does not absolve the guilt of the other. This is analogous to the absurd positions I see here.
Sure one should have self control, but why is it that this must be done in such a stiff head wind? Why are there people who simply want to make an excuse for one side of this? It certainly explains why most of you will vote for career politicians in you own pet party. All you can see is the speck in the eye of your political opponents.
You are all Repulicrats to me. The symbol ought to be the chimera of creature of a donkey's *ss and an elephant's butt.
Rubin is a Republican? Since when?
Both are bad, but Dems have been tied to the banksters for a long time.
Paulson worked for Goldman Sachs. There is only the *ss party, left cheek or right cheek.
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