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What could possibly account for such gross distortions? Are the super-wealthy really that much smarter and productive than the rest of us? Are the organic veggies and hormone-free meat that affluent parents feed their children paying off? Or could it be something else?
What could possibly account for such gross distortions? Are the super-wealthy really that much smarter and productive than the rest of us? Are the organic veggies and hormone-free meat that affluent parents feed their children paying off? Or could it be something else?
The GOP wants to cut spending on Medicare/Medicaid and SS so that billionaires can keep their tax breaks.
It's not just Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare. They also want to educational programs and other programs that give Americans the opportunity to have a better life. Basically the Republican Party wants to close the door to opportunity on middle class and poor Americans.
Luckily, its an opinion paper because the author is an idiot... comparing the RICHEST 400 Americans and then make a blanket statement that THEIR income applies to anyone making over 250k? What a dumb*****... I hate it when people talk out of the wrong hole...
Has anyone ever taken a count as to how many Clinton staffers and supporters are either part of the Obama cabinet/czars or working as pundants defending Obama. It's almost as though the impeached Bill Clinton is in his 3rd term.
The far left beats the class warfare drum as they add limo after limo to this administration's fleet. How's that for hypocrisy?
Has anyone ever taken a count as to how many Clinton staffers and supporters are either part of the Obama cabinet/czars or working as pundants defending Obama. It's almost as though the impeached Bill Clinton is in his 3rd term.
I said exactly that when BHO chose his cabinet. Clintonites, Hill and Bill, likely picked these 'pawns' for BHO.
[color=Purple]What could possibly account for such gross distortions? Are the super-wealthy really that much smarter and productive than the rest of us?
Or could it be something else?
Yes, it is something else. Sadly, most people here will never understand what that something else is. And if a persons first knee-jerk reaction is that it all happened because of trite tax bickering which are small concerns in the grand scheme of things, that person can count themselves among the group of people who don't get it now, and probably never will get it because their myopic vision causes them to [mis]understand problems by looking at it through a very narrow lens of the prevailing system we have all grown accustomed to.
They (meaning most people) have an inability to think outside the box of the prevailing system and so they likely fail to see what the root of the problem is. All they really see are Band-Aid approaches to fixing things. A policy adjustment here, a policy adjustment there... none of which solves the problems at all... as Band-Aids are not designed to do that to begin with.... and as so often is the case, most seem to overlook the obvious.... which is to examine where the source of most wealth comes from to begin with, and to examine the inherent legitimacy of the bottom row of cards in the card house. That bottom row just may need to be yanked, and though it may make a big mess as part (or the whole) house of cards comes falling down, if the foundation needs to be rebuilt, then so be it. People can keep trying to patch it up with asinine Band-Aid solutions like tax adjustments, minimum wage laws, etc... but such policies do nothing to correct the source(s) of the problem. Never has helped it. Never will.
That aside, people still deserve to be admonished for being an active participant in the problem as consumers who helped all those rich folks get where they are. Pretty much everyone is (or will be) guilty of doing that (something they do almost daily). Those who gripe about the disparity, yet continue to hand their money over to the companies they so despise, day after day, are reaping what they sow. You might not be able to make the fundamental changes eluded to prior, but in the context of working with what we have now, you either put your money where your mouth is and not perpetuate the problem, else you continue to play your part in making it worse by not exercising the proper consumer choices which does not give money to the people you despise.
Luckily, its an opinion paper because the author is an idiot... comparing the RICHEST 400 Americans and then make a blanket statement that THEIR income applies to anyone making over 250k? What a dumb*****... I hate it when people talk out of the wrong hole...
Even worse is when people type out of the wrong hole....
Forget the paper, forget the author. Are you implying that nothing is wrong and we should all get back to the Casey Anthony story???
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