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So, as you can see, it's easy to pick out who brings in the largest amount of the income in the country. Your side is practicing demagoguery with lies.
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Originally Posted by hotair2
Like it or not if you are not part of 1% you are the 99%. We are in this together. My guess is that everyone who is posting on this board is part of the 99%.
So if you have a balanced budget amendment, then politicians can't spend left and right, there would be a very restrictive budget and you would stop a lot of this mess.
Right, when you go to the store to buy apples, you pretty much come back with oranges, huh?
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So if you have a balanced budget amendment, then politicians can't spend left and right, there would be a very restrictive budget and you would stop a lot of this mess.
Also, if we didn't count corporations as "people" and got the money out of the electoral process we'd be in even better shape. If we took control of our government out of the hands of greedy corporate fat cats and back into the hands of the people, we can start having debates about things like balanced budgets, healthcare, education, etc. Until then, there is no real debate, there's politicians selling out to massive corporations and towing the company line.
As soon as you use emotion over reason, you lose the argument.
I'm sure that billionaire george soros will soon be there to help them out.
Or millionaire michael moore....I've seen his fat azz among the throngs.
Soros, Moore, Boehner, Kochs, McCain, Trump, Bush family, the Clintons, Wall Street - they are cut from the same cloth. They control you, and there's no emotion whatever in that. You go to work, make a lousy couple hundred thousand a year, thinking you are master of your fate, while the powermongers suck our economy dry. Useful idiots, that's what most of you are. You could be an agent of change if you had wisdom.
Prosperity without any moral obligation or social responsibility. Prosperity that is hampered by national boundaries. Prosperity that is controlled by the few and distributed to the few. Yeah, I get it.
You want to hear the Truth on the current Economy...
Americans are angry that the economy is in the tank. They organize marches on Wall Street to protest... but who is really to blame? Themselves.
No one forced them to run up real estate prices. No one forced them to go into 50 year mortgages. And certainly no one forced them to take on interest only or subprime mortgages.
Let's face it. America's worst enemy is Americans.
I can say that goes for the EU also and yes Even up here in Canada we are just as bad taking on more personal debt then ever, getting Crazy un-sustainable mortgage loans, buying/leasing new cars every 2-3 years and buying Giant flatscreen TV's We/they do not need nor can We/they afford..It is time we live within our means...
It is peoples own fault they got themselfs into this debt mess and it is up to people to get themselfs out even if it means you have to go through a rough hard period...We can ALL learn a lesson from it though...
You want to hear the Truth on the current Economy...
Americans are angry that the economy is in the tank. They organize marches on Wall Street to protest... but who is really to blame? Themselves.
No one forced them to run up real estate prices. No one forced them to go into 50 year mortgages. And certainly no one forced them to take on interest only or subprime mortgages.
Let's face it. America's worst enemy is Americans.
I can say that goes for the EU also and yes Even up here in Canada we are just as bad taking on more personal debt then ever, getting Crazy un-sustainable mortgage loans, buying/leasing new cars every 2-3 years and buying Giant flatscreen TV's We/they do not need nor can We/they afford..It is time we live within our means...
It is peoples own fault they got themselfs into this debt mess and it is up to people to get themselfs out even if it means you have to go through a rough hard period...We can ALL learn a lesson from it though...
But... that's the way we learn it from TV, school and the mall. Everything is so bright and shiny, everybody has bunches of everything and mom and dad always pay for it. Then you go to college and someone else pays for that.
I was married to a gal who worked in high society retail. Everyday she'd come home with some tale of co-worker A, or B, or F, or G who has told of their previous nights entertainment on the town. Wife complaining we don't go out enough. She never understood that every day a different person telling stories didn't mean that every person was going out every night. I finally left her to her own enterainment, been out of debt ever since.
TV, malls, and schools are NOT teaching a lot of people how to think for themselves or plan for their futures. Some figure it out on their own.
Prosperity without any moral obligation or social responsibility. Prosperity that is hampered by national boundaries. Prosperity that is controlled by the few and distributed to the few. Yeah, I get it.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but sustainable wealth from business (prosperity) requires that the organization serve the needs of the rest of society, which necessarily must value the products and services provided OR THEY WOULD NOT BUY THEM.
Every piece of material that went into my home, everything in my home, everything I use, every service I pay for is there because I value it more highly than the money I pay for it. My grocer prospers; he helps me feed my family. The megastore prospers; it helps me clothe my family and outfit my home. The car dealer prospers; he helps me get around. The banker prospers; he helps me obtain assets I otherwise could not afford, and pay for them over time.
I control who receives the prosperity from my purchases. And I obtain the means to pay by people choosing the products and services from my company--by being of vaue to others.
If you cannot command your own prosperity, you are insufficiently valuable to the rest of us. Pick up your game. Prosperity demands that we provide value to others; it is the highest morality around.
Actually, it's been proven that none of that ever took place. Sorry buddy
WIHS2006, you are mistaken. Those events did take place, although many of them were unsuccessfully denied. I'd like to believe we are a civilized nation, but sad to say- there are heathens among us.
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