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Old 08-13-2012, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Wealth is mostly concentrated among the few that were born to the purple or cheated the banks, stockholders or workers or all three. The guy that started Wall-mart worked for his wealth but his children did not and there are more of them than there are of him.
80% of US millionaires are first generation wealthy..meaning they earned their wealth.

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Old 08-13-2012, 12:36 PM
 
Location: Where they serve real ale.
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‎"A new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared." Doesn't our President know that that system been tried and proven to fail time and time again? -


He fails to grasp that this does not work.......



Obama: "A New Vision Of An America In Which Prosperity Is Shared" | RealClearPolitics
BTW, rather than trying to hide your source behind a meta media compiler site why don't you be honest enough and straight forward enough to link to the original source? In this case it was from the wacky brain damaged Glenn Beck's conspiracy website The Blaze. That should be enough for any intelligent person to simply ignore the garbage as The Blaze has such a long history of just out and out lying.

President Obama Asks Supporters if They want to move Forward & Share Prosperity in Chicago | Video | TheBlaze.com
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Old 08-13-2012, 12:40 PM
 
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You RWNJ's will never be satisfied with anything less than a supreme leader elected by wealth to serve the greedy. Of course you all assume you will be raised by hard work to be one of the wealthy chosen to live amongst the rest of the chosen by Mammon. That delusion must make you feel special. The only problem with your dream is the supreme’s will exclude you from the table of the chosen just as certainly as they have excluded the already impoverished poor and low paid working people. They do not want a rising tide to elevate all ships. They want a rising tide to elevate their ship and let the rest of you drown.

Having a thriving working and middle class that can be obtained by economic policies that slow the concentration of wealth is anathema to you because it makes you realize your way to wealth is a snare and a delusion used to keep the power in the hands of the wealthy where it can be used to protect their exclusivity. The irony is the policies you espouse exclude you from prosperity as effectively as it excludes poor and low paid workers.
Sorry, that is the exact position Obama has pursued the last 3 1/2 years. The policies of the last 4 years have done a wonderful job in artificially re-inflating the markets and making the investment banks flush with money but it has done little for jobs, housing, etc.
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Old 08-13-2012, 12:48 PM
 
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The pervasive selfishness and callous disregard for others among the Right is truly revolting, as many posts in this thread demonstrate.

Not surprising, mind you. But revolting.

Just a few generations ago, John F. Kennedy (who right-wingers are hilariously trying to claim as their own) said, "A rising tide lifts all boats." That's what Obama means by "shared prosperity." Also, many millions of Americans have directly and indirectly benefited from government policies (under both Democratic and Republican administrations, FWIW) for centuries, yet you want to undo all of that because of your own ideological hang-ups about "shared prosperity"?

No, it's not that. It's because you right-wingers are selfish, in the worst possible sense of that word. You are greedy, selfish, and are happy to take advantage of everything this country has offered-but get so upset when people you don't like do the same.

In other words, you are happy to take everything from society without giving back in return.
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Old 08-13-2012, 12:50 PM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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‎"A new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared." Doesn't our President know that that system been tried and proven to fail time and time again? -


He fails to grasp that this does not work.......



Obama: "A New Vision Of An America In Which Prosperity Is Shared" | RealClearPolitics
Well Obama studied Marxism and socialism his entire life, and as a young boy, he was mentored by none other than Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed communist and member of CPUSA. He was also a communist propagaindist.

That is our President, and that is why he must be replaced. He does not share American values.

Having attended a private Muslim school in Kenya, he has not had the "American Experiece" like we have.

Basically, Obama is a fraud. We know more about Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney than we know about Obama.
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Old 08-13-2012, 01:04 PM
 
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I said slowed not eliminated the concentration of wealth. What I really want to see is a completely free market for the wealthy and a substantial base income for the rest of us. Instead we have investment guarentees for the wealthy and no support for the rest of us. Effectively we need merchant Princes and not merchant Kings.
What would you have to contribute to earn this "substantial base income"? And changing oxygen into carbon dioxide is not enough.
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Old 08-13-2012, 03:08 PM
 
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Prosperity is earned, not an entitlement that someone gives you.
Thats right!!!
And if they keep it up people will start moving out of this country and then all they will have left are the ones on the handout!
Who will they tax then!
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Old 08-13-2012, 03:10 PM
 
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BTW, rather than trying to hide your source behind a meta media compiler site why don't you be honest enough and straight forward enough to link to the original source? In this case it was from the wacky brain damaged Glenn Beck's conspiracy website The Blaze. That should be enough for any intelligent person to simply ignore the garbage as The Blaze has such a long history of just out and out lying.

President Obama Asks Supporters if They want to move Forward & Share Prosperity in Chicago | Video | TheBlaze.com
Who cares who listed it first it is a VIDEO!!!!!!!!
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Old 08-13-2012, 03:28 PM
 
Location: OCEAN BREEZES AND VIEWS SAN CLEMENTE
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"Concentration of wealth" is concentraded among those that work for it and avail themselves of the opportunity.

Really well there is that stupid a-- mentality out there, that some have created. It is the give me bunch. Give too me freely, what i don't deserve, and i shall take!

Oh that makes so much sense NOT?

I loathe with a passion, stupidity, laziness, and those who think they are owed something. Get off your butt's and work for it, like those of us who have thru hard work and sacrifices.
Obama's vison for America, is keep them dependent, helpless, and irresponsible. Give to them food stamps, and welfare, what a way to get ahead in life.

You never worked for it, put the hours in to it, went to college, you deserve sh--!
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Old 08-13-2012, 03:41 PM
 
Location: 'Murica
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Wealth is mostly concentrated among the few that were born to the purple or cheated the banks, stockholders or workers or all three. The guy that started Wall-mart worked for his wealth but his children did not and there are more of them than there are of him.
Sam Walton should be free to decide where his money goes, whether it be to his hiers, his company, or wherever.
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