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Old 12-29-2014, 09:55 AM
 
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I am not selling water......I drill water wells.

It only takes a few a year........they are pricy.

Anyway.....some how I would find a way to make the 300 want to pay me.
Again, I admire your confidence, but the odds of you doing so would be akin to winning the lottery.

 
Old 12-29-2014, 09:57 AM
 
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No.
You'd prefer to see the number of those who control all wealth in the US closer to 30?
 
Old 12-29-2014, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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You're not even saying this because you understand the issue-- you're just saying it because you like how it feels and you heard someone else say it.

You're not intelligent enough to be participating in this conversation.
Wow! This comment is coming from somebody who doesn't care about poor people but just wants to reduce the wealth of rich people.... and you are lecturing me on intelligence?

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I don't have a low income. I am not jealous. I don't spend more than I earn. I do work.
Maybe, but your posts display a jealous attitude. Why else would you want to take other people's money?

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Believe it or not, it is possible to believe in things that don't necessarily mean wanting more for yourself... though I wouldn't expect someone like you to understand that.
I have everything I need and don't want more for myself. But I wouldn't expect someone with your greedy attitude to agree.
 
Old 12-29-2014, 09:59 AM
 
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Again, I admire your confidence, but the odds of you doing so would be akin to winning the lottery.
If I would have believed people saying things like that to me.....I would be poor.
 
Old 12-29-2014, 10:01 AM
 
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If I would have believed people saying things like that to me.....I would be poor.
Don't you think you'd be better off if you had more customers?
 
Old 12-29-2014, 10:03 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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Wealth inequality is just the PC way of saying that a person who has worked all his/her life to achieve what they've got, should now give it to the people who didn't work for it.
You are correct. But get ready. The "take other people's money" posters on this board will condemn you.
 
Old 12-29-2014, 10:05 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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I don't base my own happiness on what other people have. I don't see how someone else being rich is something I need to be concerned about. If I need to earn more money then it's me and my earning power I need to address, not someone else's wealth.

When voting for the next President, Income Inequality is not only NOT in my Top 10 Issues list, I don't even think it's a real issue. I do feel sorry for other people who think they'll be better off in life if someone else would only have less anything.
Good post.

Wealth inequality doesn't make my top 100 issues.

On the other hand, I am interested in what can be done to help poor people earn more money and accumulate wealth.
 
Old 12-29-2014, 10:05 AM
 
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Don't you think you'd be better off if you had more customers?
No.

I only drill mid-April until mid-October.

That is plenty for me.
 
Old 12-29-2014, 10:08 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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You'd prefer to see the number of those who control all wealth in the US closer to 30?
No. I prefer what we have today. A hundred million people controlling 100% of the wealth.
 
Old 12-29-2014, 10:08 AM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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On the other hand, I am interested in what can be done to help poor people earn more money and accumulate wealth.
Pretty standard conservative viewpoint.

But somehow to leftists/progressives this translates into "war on the poor."
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