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Old 04-19-2012, 02:13 PM
 
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Exceptions only confirm the rule.

The working poor aren't getting anywhere, and that is the purpose of the system. It is a social Darwinist system fighting the average person (with average capabilities, resources, energy, willpower, etc.) and promoting winning at all cost. That's why US society is a mess...
The "working poor" make decisions in life which keep them poor.

Where is MY origin of debt to them?
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:15 PM
 
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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A total lie. Your broad brush painting everyone who is successful like this is insulting to millions of us.
No, its the total truth.

That is why rich people are against "death taxes", for lowering taxes on the wealthy, and for things like school voucher programs.

These are all ways to perpetuate generational poverty, segregate the unfortunate, and ensure the wealth just keeps getting passed up the ladder.
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:16 PM
 
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There isnt equal opportunity either. The lack of income mobility in the US pretty much highlights that.
There will ALWAYS be people on the bottom.

Some rise out of it.

Who is responsible for them making a lifestyle of poverty?
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:18 PM
 
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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There will ALWAYS be people on the bottom.
Thats odd, because, in most tribal societies NOBODY is on the bottom.

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Who is responsible for them making a lifestyle of poverty?
The wealthy, who have have destroyed almost all hope for them over the past 3 generations.
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:18 PM
 
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Restoring the property rights once held by the poor would be a huge improvement.
You live in a sick, silly world of make-believe, deception and misinformation entirely of your own design, manufacture and maintenance.

Perhaps you should come up, from time-to-time, for a glimpse of reality (wear sunglasses, cause the sunshine is much brighter here than the dim half-light you operate in).

Other than that, there is noting anyone can do or say to help you.
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:19 PM
 
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Thats odd, because, in most tribal societies NOBODY is on the bottom.



The wealthy, who have have destroyed almost all hope for them over the past 3 generations.
You too live in a sick, silly world of make-believe, deception and misinformation entirely of your own design, manufacture and maintenance.

Perhaps you should come up, from time-to-time, for a glimpse of reality (wear sunglasses, cause the sunshine is much brighter here than the dim half-light you operate in).

Other than that, there is noting anyone can do or say to help you.
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:20 PM
 
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I don't see how the government has a role in this. I know you want to buy a tiny home. And you can't find one where you live. You think there is a conspiracy to prevent that (perhaps enforced through zoning or deed restrictions). I see it as this tiny home just isn't available where you want to buy it. It is probably available somewhere else.
Whoa!

I don't want him living anywhere near me!

Although I do have a small shed out back!
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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You too live in a sick, silly world of make-believe, deception and misinformation entirely of your own design, manufacture and maintenance.

My silly sick world of make believe supported by facts and scientific study.......sounds like maybe a place you should move to.
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:23 PM
 
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---Which is a fallacy since the majority of working people do not have that type of expendable income so that they can take those risk. The other point is that if the tax rate is raise for the wealthier folks they will not limit their production, that is a conservative lie! When the corporate rate was high pre-bush tax breaks this country was doing just fine, but since than the wealth disparity has grown a tenfold.
How does taking the money that would be used for investment, from the wealthy, help the poor?

Does it make them any smarter, more ambitions, more skilled, more educated, more prone to make good decisions?

NNNNOOOOOOO, it just takes money out of the economy for the power-mongers to ingrease their power.


WWAAAKKKKEEEEE UIUUUPPPPPP
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:24 PM
 
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You live in a sick, silly world of make-believe, deception and misinformation entirely of your own design, manufacture and maintenance.

Perhaps you should come up, from time-to-time, for a glimpse of reality (wear sunglasses, cause the sunshine is much brighter here than the dim half-light you operate in).

Other than that, there is noting anyone can do or say to help you.

Why don't YOU explain reality to us then? Do you believe poor Americans have property rights? Do they have the right to buy real property in increments they can afford?
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