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Old 01-30-2012, 08:09 PM
 
Location: Hinckley Ohio
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Accumulation of wealth does NOT take wealth from others
You dont understand the difference between allowing people to keep their own money, which is NOT dividing, and claiming that you should take wealth from others to perpetuate poverty, do you?

You really dont understand this? Unbelievable..
Sorry but you wingnuts are wrong, for every dollar the wealthy take out of the economy there is one less dollar for everyone else. The wealthy have been scraping up most of the excess dollars.

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Old 01-30-2012, 08:15 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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It has nothing to do with this President dividing the nation via class warfare and the result of his constituents buying into the "poor me...I hate the rich" mentality? It's all because of sore losers in the conservative ranks?
No, it's all because of the lack of decent conservative candidates, STILL is. I heard Newt this AM crying ME! ME! ME! I'm an outsider, it'd be comical if it wasn't so pathetic.
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:17 AM
 
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Sorry but you wingnuts are wrong, for every dollar the wealthy take out of the economy there is one less dollar for everyone else. The wealthy have been scraping up most of the excess dollars.
Total ignorance. Explain this to me buzzard so I can laugh at you.

When Buffet takes $100M and buys a company, how did he take money out of the economy by doing so?

When Bill Gates, sells a copy of Windows and becomes wealthier, how did he take money out of the economy?

Where do they put it? Under their pillow?

Your chart further shows the stupidity of the left because it has nothing at all to do with taking money out of the economy. You dont get wealthy by taking money out of the economy, you get wealthy by putting it in. Unless of course you can list a billionaire who got wealthy on their own.

This goes to show the utter incompetence of the left wing abilityto understand economics and why you support programs that fail.
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:37 AM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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Total ignorance. Explain this to me buzzard so I can laugh at you.

When Buffet takes $100M and buys a company, how did he take money out of the economy by doing so?

When Bill Gates, sells a copy of Windows and becomes wealthier, how did he take money out of the economy?

Where do they put it? Under their pillow?

Your chart further shows the stupidity of the left because it has nothing at all to do with taking money out of the economy. You dont get wealthy by taking money out of the economy, you get wealthy by putting it in. Unless of course you can list a billionaire who got wealthy on their own.

This goes to show the utter incompetence of the left wing abilityto understand economics and why you support programs that fail.
Amazon's success is funded by the demise of B. Dalton, Borders and thousands of small bookstores -- not to mention the struggling Barnes and Noble.

Most growing businesses are a shift from competitors. The growth in Windows and PCs was at the demise of typewriters and calculators.
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:48 AM
 
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Amazon's success is funded by the demise of B. Dalton, Borders and thousands of small bookstores -- not to mention the struggling Barnes and Noble.

Most growing businesses are a shift from competitors. The growth in Windows and PCs was at the demise of typewriters and calculators.
That didnt at all answer the question about how ones success removes wealth from the economy. Competition has always existed, but we arent discussing competition, we're discussing the removal of wealth. How does Amazons success, REMOVE WEALTH?
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:57 AM
 
Location: Orlando
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Nobody should be surprised. The best word to summarize the Obama presidency: Failure

Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever. - The Washington Post

You blame him for the actions of people.... there is the EPIC FAILURE!!!
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Old 01-31-2012, 05:58 AM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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That didnt at all answer the question about how ones success removes wealth from the economy. Competition has always existed, but we arent discussing competition, we're discussing the removal of wealth. How does Amazons success, REMOVE WEALTH?
Of course it did. Amazon's rise is at the expense of others fall -- just as the income gains of the top 1% (+276% since 1979) is at the expense of everyone else, who haven't grow at all.

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Old 01-31-2012, 06:01 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Of course it did. Amazon's rise is at the expense of others fall -- just as the income gains of the top 1% 9+276% since 1979) is at the expense of everyone else, who haven't grow at all.
It's called progress MTAtech. The internet is changing how we live.

When automobiles came the horse and buggy bit the dust as cars got cheaper and more could afford them.

What did the buggy makers do when no one needed buggies anymore.
Same concept.

Brick and mortar is on the way out in some industries because of the internet.
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Old 01-31-2012, 07:29 AM
 
Location: Gone
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This thread is an Epic Failure and the reason is it is built upon a LIE.
The interesting thing is that what I said earlier, most of us not wanted to be united and it is proven out by the posts here. Personally, I am cool with that.
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Old 01-31-2012, 07:51 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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THE GOP DOESNT SUPPORT TAKING FROM THOSE ON WELFARE AND GIVING IT TO THE 1%.

And if you dont undersand this, then I'd have to question if you are old enough to be posting here.
Stop with the strawman. Redistributing wealth is not class warfare, and that's not even what YOU said was the cause of Obama's class warfare. I've already quoted you twice on how YOU defined class warfare. Stay on point.

Obama to the 99%: B/c of the greedy 1%, your taxes are too high & the gov't doesn't have enough money to do what it needs to do. Unless we fix the problem w/ the greedy 1%, your life is going to get worse.

Republicans to the country
: B/c of the lazy poor, your taxes are too high & the gov't doesn't have enough money to do what it needs to do. Unless we fix the problem w/ the lazy poor, your life is going to get worse.

Tell me how one of these statements is class warfare but the other isn't.
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