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Old 12-10-2014, 11:14 AM
 
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Most of the "15%-2%" find the slogan simply silly and roll their eyes at you since they have 1%ers as neighbors, live in the same neighborhood and still make very good $$$. They do not sympathize with starving students who are sad they can't find a job.
Most of us have enough net worth to literally "buy" you kids
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Old 12-10-2014, 11:48 AM
 
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Most of the "15%-2%" find the slogan simply silly and roll their eyes at you since they have 1%ers as neighbors, live in the same neighborhood and still make very good $$$. They do not sympathize with starving students who are sad they can't find a job.
Most of us have enough net worth to literally "buy" you kids
I always thought it was funny how the 99%ers thought they actually spoke for most of america when in reality, they were really the 1%'ers.

no one else cared about their "cause" that they just made up..
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Old 12-10-2014, 11:52 AM
 
Location: Spokane, WA
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Most of the "15%-2%" find the slogan simply silly and roll their eyes at you since they have 1%ers as neighbors, live in the same neighborhood and still make very good $$$. They do not sympathize with starving students who are sad they can't find a job.
Most of us have enough net worth to literally "buy" you kids
Your use of the same language that Progressives/Liberals use in referring to Conservatives/Republicans is telling.

Troll.
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Old 12-10-2014, 12:07 PM
 
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There is a huge range within the 1%, I am considered 1% and drive a used car, live in a small dumpy house and return cans to get deposit back and use coupons.

The top of 1% own castles all over the world and Jet planes.

Honestly only the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent are rich. Dont lump me in with rich folk.
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Old 12-11-2014, 05:05 PM
 
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There is a huge range within the 1%, I am considered 1% and drive a used car, live in a small dumpy house and return cans to get deposit back and use coupons.

The top of 1% own castles all over the world and Jet planes.

Honestly only the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent are rich. Dont lump me in with rich folk.
Let's not try to be so modest. If you make over 350,000 a year you live comfortably. We have the right to look down on those less fortunate than us. What I'm getting at is those of us with high net worth/income do not sympathize with the hippies who occupied wall street.
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Old 12-11-2014, 08:00 PM
 
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There is a huge range within the 1%, I am considered 1% and drive a used car, live in a small dumpy house and return cans to get deposit back and use coupons.

The top of 1% own castles all over the world and Jet planes.

Honestly only the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent are rich. Dont lump me in with rich folk.

There is diversity among those at every economic level. I have relatives who for years lived in a top 2% town (which is next to a top 1% town) and I knew people who lived there entirely by accident. Their father was a bus driver and owned a big house there only because the grandfather built it around 1898 long before the town became affluent. This family did piecework at home to make extra money. A number of families there had side activieies to generate extra income, such as collecting and recycling for cash large quantities of newsprint long before it became envirnmentally fashionable.
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Old 12-11-2014, 08:03 PM
 
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There is a huge range within the 1%, I am considered 1% and drive a used car, live in a small dumpy house and return cans to get deposit back and use coupons.

The top of 1% own castles all over the world and Jet planes.

Honestly only the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent are rich. Dont lump me in with rich folk.
You aren't a global citizen. You are still rich regardless of the world outside.
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