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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2014, 07:41 AM Feb 2014

Fox’s Tucker Carlson: Poor people get ‘consumed with envy’ of the 1 percent

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/02/foxs-tucker-carlson-poor-people-get-consumed-with-envy-of-the-1-percent/



Fox’s Tucker Carlson: Poor people get ‘consumed with envy’ of the 1 percent
By David Edwards
Sunday, February 2, 2014 9:54 EST

The host of ABC’s reality show Shark Tank over the weekend told the poor people of the world that they should be thanking capitalism for making their situation better.

After Oxfam found that the world’s 85 richest people had a as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people, Kevin O’Leary had applauded the report as “fantastic news.”

“This is a great thing because it inspires everybody, and gets them the motivation to look up to the 1 per cent and say, I want to become one of those people. I’m going to fight hard and get up to the top,” he said on a Canadian news program.

On Sunday, O’Leary insisted to Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he did not think that income disparity was a good thing, but defended his comments.
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Fox’s Tucker Carlson: Poor people get ‘consumed with envy’ of the 1 percent (Original Post) unhappycamper Feb 2014 OP
Fox viewers Turbineguy Feb 2014 #1
Says heirboy to Swanson fortune. Tucker = Fucker. CurtEastPoint Feb 2014 #2
I've been calling this douchebag "Tucker the Fucker" for a long time.. n/t unhappycamper Feb 2014 #3
love DU ScootersPixiePie Feb 2014 #4
“Envy” notemason Feb 2014 #5
Seems to me they envy each other antiquie Feb 2014 #6

ScootersPixiePie

(20 posts)
4. love DU
Mon Feb 3, 2014, 10:16 AM
Feb 2014

I learn so much on these boards. I didn't know this Swanson "fun fact" about the bow-tied boob.

Good morning friends
EarthyMama

 

antiquie

(4,299 posts)
6. Seems to me they envy each other
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 11:11 AM
Feb 2014

a lot more than we 99% envy their greedy and corrupted lifestyles. I'd rather be poor (good thing, since I am).

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