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I do not begrudge people the wealth they have, however they attained it.
I was brought up to believe in the American dream, work hard and you can be successful. I'm not sure where that got turned into... sit on your butt all day and live off the hard work of others.
The entitlement people will eventually run out of the hard workers to provide for them, what happens then?
I do not begrudge people the wealth they have, however they attained it.
I was brought up to believe in the American dream, work hard and you can be successful. I'm not sure where that got turned into... sit on your butt all day and live off the hard work of others.
The entitlement people will eventually run out of the hard workers to provide for them, what happens then?
I think you have that backwards. The "rich" rely on the "poor" to provide for THEM. Rich people cannot exist without poor people. However, poor people exist with or without the rich.
I guess too many have bought into the lie that if EVERYONE works hard, EVERYONE can be rich!
Nobody should begrudge rich people.... especially those that actually worked for what they have (key phrase... ACTUALLY worked...). But "the rich" in America should take note that they are what they are because of what AMERICA has afforded them.
The rich own a higely disproportionate share of the entire wealth, assets and income of the United States. Excuse me while I go cry when they whine that they have to pay a bit more than average in taxes, etc. to help keep the whole show running smoothy.... IN THEIR FAVOR AND TO THEIR BENEFIT!
Perhaps if Americans traveled a bit more they'd see what extreme wealth inequality can do to a country. Provincial Americans with little world experience invite real revolution, and REAL class warfare if they do not watch out. Plenty of history in the early 20th century to show the great compromises the rich of the time made and understood was necessary to avert a REAL socialist revolution in this country.
I do not begrudge people the wealth they have, however they attained it.
I was brought up to believe in the American dream, work hard and you can be successful. I'm not sure where that got turned into... sit on your butt all day and live off the hard work of others.
The entitlement people will eventually run out of the hard workers to provide for them, what happens then?
Thus, if you don't have a lot of money, you didn't work hard enough. This is the childish gibberish that is force-fed into the little minds of the young. Some grow past it. Many do not. Some of you wonder aloud why so many vote against their economic interests. Much of it is due to this indoctrination. The acceptance of this doctrine leads to, at first, belief that a little more hard work will land them on Park Place, and then, as that does not come to fruition, self-loathing which they transfer to others in similar economic strata. "Hey, at least I'm not as bad as one of those filthy moochers over there."
I have no emotions attached to anyone who is materially or financially above or below our means it does not matter to me either way. Why in the world would I envy someone or begrudge them what they have worked to achieve? That is just plain silly. We have strived for 10 years to get where we are and I'm sure others have strived less then others more however, the point is they chose how to live their lives, spend their money and purchase whatever material possessions make them happy and comfortable.
No the rich have usually worked hard and smart to earn that money.
Does it bother you that Obama has never held a real job in the real world yet is very rich ?
What bothers me is to see a rich politician who has always been a politician. Makes you want to go hummm.
So, law professors and community organizers do not have "real jobs?" Those are "fake jobs?"
Your assignment:
1. Tell me what people do in each of those jobs.
2. Tell me your criteria for what qualifies as a "job."
I take it you spent time here calling out Paul Ryan for never really having a private-sector job and being a career politician, yes?
There was a bit on The Daily Show or Colbert a few years ago. They were interviewing one of those ne'er-do-well community organizers (snide inflection your voice as you say it). One of those sweet ladies with a genuine gentle soul. A Republican, too. She was shocked by all this vile hatred directed towards people working to help their communities as community organizers. I wasn't. These degenerates despise the entire concept of working for the commn good and communitarian values. They hate it. Examine their values. What they value is not what most of us value. Anything that their little brains perceive as running counter to the kind of rugged individualism they dream up in their wettest of dreams is communism.
When you see a rich person do you feel anger, jealousy or bitterness?
No.
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