"The rich shouldn't have to carry everyone else" - Bill O'Reilly

[Eric J in MN]

"The rich shouldn't have to carry everyone else" - Bill O'Reilly, during interview with John Edwards, January 26, 2004.

The rich don't build their own mansions. Workers making a modest living do.

The rich don't build their own limosines. Workers making a modest living do.

It's the 90% of the people who struggle who are providing the fine lifestyles to the 10% at the top.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Excuse me

O'Lielly calls himself a religious man. Then he'd better check out what the holy books say-it is indeed the duty of every person to help those less fortunate. Or did he think the concept of tithing was to enrich tv preachers?

[Astarho]

6. Those to whom much is given...

...much is expected. Now who said that again :eyes:

[Vogon_Glory]

30. Who Said That? Some Prole or Other

Who said that? Some prole or other from a nobody background whose father was a carpenter or something. The sort of person a talk-show commentator wouldn't pay the slightest attention to.

[Karenina]

40. Errraaaa....

JFK?

[roguevalley]

59. Kelsey Grammer is debating running for congress to show 'poor people

the rich aren't so bad'.

Honest.

[Darth_Kitten]

63. Maybe he will run to show that marrying some....

bleached blond lap dancer ain't so bad.... :evilgrin: Maybe he will run to show what real family values are like, look how he treats his own children. What an annoying hypocrite.

[0rganism]

37. Spiderman, right?

I know it's someone like that.

[King Cantona]

49. The Class Clown speaks again...

Bill O'Reilly is in my opinion one of the lowest human beings on the planet, to hear his pointless posturing on TV every night is addictive, but only in the sense of being good comedy...

I have often found myself screaming at the screen at his unfailing ineptitude, he really has a high opinion of himself but is a complete irrelevance in the grand scheme of things...

He's a pompous, self righteous liitle jerk and I'd like to see him on more talk shows (I remember Conan O'Brien) where he is shown up for the pointless idiot that he is...

I remember reading his column about how talk show hosts are left wing, the fact that they are ENTERTAINMENT seems to have escaped him, I've just seen him railing on about how Hollywood is propaganda...

I think he's great fun, a bit like David Brent, cringeworthy...

[camero]

2. here here

Maybe we shouldn't carry the rich's asses anymore and see how long they last.

[pinkpops]

4. Yeah

For some reason I was thinking it is the poor who carry the rich.

[camero]

5. Yep

Let's let the rich do everything themselves. Build their houses, cars which they would have to drive themselves. Grow their own food.

Make sure their water is clean. Yep, the poor carry them. ALOT.

[indepat]

14. Poor O'Reilly doesn't realize that his huge tax cuts are being funded

by raiding the "lock box." If he realized that, bet he would return his tax cuts so the baby-boomers might receive some of their promised social security benefits. Nah!

[King Cantona]

69. The rich have always gotten wealthy off the sweat of the common man

Quite right, rich men aren't just born rich, if they are, it's just because their parents or however far down the line you've got to go to find the ancestor who accumulated the wealth, exploited people...

Money doesn't just appear out of thin air, for the last fifty years (and beyond) the west has got rich because it exploits the third world...

An ethical foreign policy? Don't make me laugh...

[petrock2004]

3. well duh mr. o'lielly

if the rich carried everyone else, wouldn't that mean that "trickle-down economics" was working?

:eyes: ...what a dumbass

[NewJeffCT]

7. Rich Use of Infrastructure

The rich use the American infrastructure more than anybody else. They should pay the most, as the system helps them more than any other. These are the dues they are paying for being American and using our system more than any other.

[rfranklin]

8. Excuse me, but the rich ride on the backs of everyone else...

Without whom they would have nothing.


Abraham Lincoln sez: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

[Muddleoftheroad]

21. Everybody rides on the backs of everybody else

[banana republican]

42. good quote

[mandyky]

9. Looking out for you (the rich)

I guess.

[Malva Zebrina]

10. the rich got rich on the backs of the ordinary common man

there would be no rich man if it were not for the others who served him and built his empire while making a pittance with which to stay alive and feed their children.


No one can put the corporation above the working man. If it were not for the working man the corporation would not exist. It is the working man that is the backbone of this country, I believe that.

The corporation is not the backbone for it would as soon move and drop all of it's US workers in favor of setting up shop in another country where the worker will be paid one tenth of the salary one could make in the US.

New England is full of abandoned mills. Full of them--old brick, majestic and solid buildings that once were the mainstream of the town. Now almost all abandoned, dark and haunting--the latest that I know of in Maine is the Pepperel (sp?) in Biddeford which closed just before Christmas and that is the last I think.

And as a compensation that should give us all here in Maine some comfort, we have the wonderful, jet black hair dyed, Olympia Snowe, coming to visit the Senior Centers in my small , mid coast town. She actually came to promote this Medicare atrocity telling us all how wonderful it all is--this attack on the senior citizens of Maine. It was touted in the two weeklies we have here. She is oughta here as far as I am concerned. She is out o f her league and so is Collins.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

51. US power was built on the backs of slaves. Simple and true. n/t

[K8-EEE]

11. He Was So Incredibly Arrogant In This Interview

I could have slapped his splotchy face off...but then I would have to TOUCH it, NEVER MIND.

Seriously he should be thrilled to death there are enough people stupid enough to buy his BS. It is disgusting such a zero should accumulate this massive wealth and be such a freaking weazel about it.

[KissMyAsscroft]

12. Looking out for the little guy again, eh O'Lielly?

Man he just can't stop looking out for us, can he!!!!!

I'm going to check my Swiss Bank account right now!!!

[Stephanie]

34. You've got it! We need official transcript on this ASAP.

Al Franken could get another book chapter out of this! Looking out for the little guy! LOL!

[cryofan]

13. How did Edwards figure into the statement by OReilly?

Did Edwards reply to the "The rich shouldn't have to carry everyone else" statement? How did it come up during the interview?

[Eric J in MN]

26. They were talking about taxes. Edwards position is that the rich

should at least have to pay as many pennies on the dollar in taxes as the middle-class. Edwards pointed out that the poor, like his parents, are hard working.

Edwards said the he and O'Reilly didn't get rich just by working hard, but because they were fortunate enough to be part of America.

Edwards also said that to balance budgets, the money has to come from somewhere, and that he wants to offer a tax-cut for the middle-class.

[TennesseeWalker]

15. They must be making camels a whole lot smaller these days.

Either that, or they have really, really big needles.

[cryofan]

16. We citizens OWN this country, and the govt is our hired man!

If we want to take EVERY FUCKING CENT FROM EVERY FUCKING MILLIONAIRE, we can damn well so! The rich SHOULD HAVE TO "carry everyone else", or at least pay far far more in percentage terms. And if OReilly doesn't like it, then he can leave. But I say off with their heads, if millionaires do not want to pay whatever the people want them to.

[moondust]

17. Then don't get rich.

If somebody doesn't like their tax situation all they have to do is give their money away to charities and become a volunteer without pay.

The poor should not have to help finance corporate welfare and excessive defense spending among other things.

[catzies]

48. I really liked your reply! Esp. the second part.

I'd love to hear that said by one of our electeds, or any of the Dem. pres. candidates!

[are_we_united_yet]

18. Another reason

To ignore Bill O'Reiily the imbecile.

[zbdent]

19. I love the jerks who say "I was never hired by a poor person"

when defending the tax cuts that benefit pretty much the top 1 percent (does anybody remember that the tax cuts which benefit the other 99 percent expire in 2005?).

I recently decided to counter that with the following argument:

"Would you rather have one contracted job with a rich guy who will haggle you to death, or would you rather have 20 contracts lined up with the Joe Averages who will probably pay you because they know how it is to work for a living?"

[baldguy]

20. Who's carrying who?

The rich pay less percentage in tax than the poor. They get huge special intrest tax breaks. They own stock in companies that pay nothing in tax at all.

Seems to me that its the rest of us that are carrying the rich!

[earthman dave]

22. So the rich carry the poor, who carry the rich, who carry the poor...

... who carry the rich, who carry the poor...

The rich shouldn't have to carry everyone else, because if they do, you get an infinite recursion error

Congratulations are clearly due to Mr O'Reilly for the breathtaking fatheadedness of this statement.

I wonder how much he gets paid for these little gems.

[xxqqqzme]

23. I wonder how much he gets OVER paid

for being so myopic. I am so glad I have never watched his show!

[Vogon_Glory]

24. The Rich Are Also Part and Parcel of Society

Someone should tell the likes of O'Reilly that because the wealthier Americans did pay taxes in this country before Dubya's reign of error, they have had a far safer, far more pleasant existance than their counterparts in Third World kleptocracies. That's why ThirdWorld kleptocrats tended to come here seeking refuge when their countries fell into turnmoil.

Most of the wealthy in this country don't have to worry about having to hire bodyguards for themselves or their children just to carry out their daily lives.

Most of the wealthy in this country don't have to worry as to whether their bodguards will turn on them.

Most of the wealthy in this country don't have to worry about the bombings, sequestrations, and social turnmoil that their Latin American counterparts do.

Most of the wealthy in this country don't (or didn't) have to worry that a deteriorating infrastructure would tear the hell out of their fancy-fancy automobile's suspension system or reduce their chances of getting to a hospital in case they fell ill.

Such ravings about the "burden" of the wealthy made by the likes of O'Reilly and Limbaugh richly illustrate the arrogance and ignorance of the wanna-be American kleptocracy's apologists.

[Fovea]

43. They will though

becase that is part and parcel of a patron/peon system, such as they are creating out of America.

[alcuno]

25. Let's see O'Reilly make his millions broadcasting on Radio Kabul

Or how about Somalia Cable. Since they bother him so much, I'm sure he wouldn't have to pay taxes in either country.

The problem with wealthy REPUBLICANS is that they actually think THEY are owed something. Unbelievable.

[Vogon_Glory]

28. Better Yet, Let's Let O'Reilly Work In Colombia

Better yet, let's let O'Reilly live and work in Colombia and see how he enjoys the constant tension as to whether this day, the next day, or the day after that when someone shoves him in a trunk and holds him for a very hefty chunk of his capital, with a finer or three lopped off to prove the kidnappers' bona fides.


:evilgrin:

[Cat Atomic]

27. Man, I love the rich. Thank god they're always there to fight wars,

educate children, build cars... man, those guys are such hard workers. It's just not fair that we serfs make them do all the work.

[lagniappe]

29. Yeah, let them go fight the wars. n/t

[JPace]

31. I don't like O'Reilly....

and I don't like his show, his arrogance,
his bullying tactics or his fake stance
of pretending that he speaks for the
common person.

[King Cantona]

50. Who Does?...

Join the club, I've never met anyone who likes him...

I've not actually met many who know who he is here in England...

[Matilda]

32. O'Reilly has a fine 12th-century mind.

Or perhaps he was Marie Antoinette in a previous incarnation.

[leesa]

33. Corporate welfare and corporate corruption have stolen our wealth

The rich don't carry anyone.

[rman]

35. The rich are never satisfied

their greed is a liability to mankind.

[LibertyorDeath]

36. What a piece of human filth he is a complete maggot

[Piperay]

38. NO, it's everyone else

who shouldn't have to carry the rich. :argh: :mad: :grr:

[hellbound-liberal]

39. Neanderthals like O'Lielly don't seem to realize

that all they have was taken by force from someone else either by themselves or their ancestors. Our country, founded on the graves of those who lived here before us, is a perfect example of this "might makes right" mentality. People like him are a threat to world peace and one reason why so many people despise Americans.

[Fla_Democrat]

41. I love posts like this

the replies are so..... interesting. :smoke:

[Az]

44. Great rewards from the system

require great repayment to the system.

It is irresponsible and unpatriotic to turn your back on the very land that made your success possible.

[gasperc]

45. so everyone else should carry the rich??

the rich are rich because as a % of income they pay the lowest taxes compared to even the poorest in the country.

because of increased unemployment, wages have been kept low and have shrunk while the cost of living has increased.

dubious advertising, gullible consumers, and a host of other financial scams, hoodwinks, bait n' switch deals continually allow many, many wealthy people to make money hand over fist at the expense of the average American.

[yellowcanine]

46. Remember those "lucky ducky" poor people?

According to the Wall Street Journal, the poor are luckie duckies because they get so many government benefits and don't have to work for them.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

47. If he's Christian then I bet he's heard that:

It's harder for a rich man to get to heaven than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle

So - the joke would be on the his buddies. :)

[prodigal_green]

52. William H. Gates (Bill Gates' father) would disagree with him

A wealthy man himself and father of one of the wealthiest men in the world campaigned against the tax cuts:

http://www.responsiblewealth.org/press/rwnews/2003/Gates_QA_Minneapolis_StarT.html

Enjoy!

[Monte Carlo]

53. Save this for the Ayn Rand readers...

... because it sure has no place in America. We're about opportunity, not opulence.

[hatrack]

54. Well, Bill, that would leave the poor . . .

. . . and they don't have any money, which makes that "carrying" business a little bit difficult.

[Skittles]

55. F***ING ARROGANT BASTARD

what a f***wit he is, as out of touch as the masters he worships.

[GreenPartyVoter]

56. The rich can't BE rich without the poor making them so

Thanks heavens there are many well-to-do people who realize this and are humble about what they have and want to see to it that others live well too.

Obviously, though, Bill O'Lielly is not one of them.

[0rganism]

57. Gee, I sure do feel for all those poor, poor rich people

:nopity:
Imagine the incredible burden of that tiny minority, having to strain itself to carry the vast throngs of Lucky Duckies. What a burden! Such a task should be distributed. If only there were a way we could turn some of those indolent poor people into rich people, then they'd be able to share the responsibility, and not be such a burden themselves.

'Course, a really clever government would figure out a way to eliminate abject poverty altogether, sharing the wealth sufficiently to ensure that there were fewer societal burdens for those poor, poor rich people to carry...

[CRK7376]

58. That jackass makes me want to puke!

When I was a teacher, with the size of my family(3 kids), my kids qualified for reduced lunches due to the poor salary teachers were paid in my state. We were too proud to accept it, but it's frustrating to hear clowns like this spew garbage like that when there are folks that truly need assistance etc...Guess I wasn't working hard enough with two jobs to pay the bills and carry his load too....JACKASS O'Reilly.

[Nobody]

60. Wasn't it Leona Helmsley that said....

"Only the little people pay taxes".

And on the topic of taxes, I heard a very interesting comment from a Republican friend. I suggested that unearned income (inheritances that are NOT farms or small businesses, stock dividends, etc) should be taxed moderately up to a certain amount, then after that amount, be taxed heavily, and go easier on earned income. He said that taxes sholdn't be as heavy on the rich because you wouldn't get enough revenue for paying for everything.

Long term, it is much more costly to have an underclass of desperate people working two or three part time temp jobs still unable to pay the rent on an efficiency apartment. It's much more costly to siphon the jobs overseas to add to an increasing stockpile of wealth while people who were working for a living and making a modest wage are sinking lower into that cesspool of minimum wage, part time, temporary servitude. When there are too few people able to afford consumer goods, what then? Will we be trying to sell consumer goods to the same place we ship our jobs? Will rich families once again have armies of servants now that an endless labor pool exists?

This from a guy who has no problem being a global village when it comes to jobs being shipped overseas, but we're everyone for his or her self when it comes to giving an assist to the less fortunate or paying for that infrastructure that keeps people from stealing their stuff.

[0007]

61. In the name of brotherhood & love let here be O'Reilly!

[bleedingheart]

62. Why do the rich need my money to fix their broken companies?

[Hubert Flottz]

64. Reich Billy Boy!

In your perfect little shithole world, everyone else should carry the rich! We have ever since Bush TOOK OVER in case you hadn't noticed Billy Bad Arse! Corporate Welfare is what it's called! Patriots pay their taxes Billy! Taxes are what supports the troops not tax cuts!

[IowaBiker]

65. The Wealthy Don't ...

The wealthy don't come home from wars in body bags.

Poor Bill O'Reilly, another veteran hater who has forgotten who really carries the burden of keeping us free..

Veteran bashing, people, Now that John Kerry is the frontrunner it will be the number one theme of the right.

--Brian

[Hubert Flottz]

67. Dennis Miller called a retired x pow a SOB on his last show!

Rummy sez, the draftee's military service didn't amount to anything! The Repubs slash veteran's benefits! The people serving now are on food stamps! Bush should have hired Vets First by law, but nobody in or near the White House is a Vet! Billy O' and Kenny Boy ain't bought the first bullet with their tax dollars due to the Bush Tax Cuts, but retired Vets have bought the Bullets, flags, bells and whistles from the Carlyle Group, instead of food, shelter and clothing!

First the Chicken Hawks CHICKEN OUT, then they refuse to support the troops with their own tax dollars, then they get rich from selling arms to the government, then the people like Halliburton move in and make billions while we the taxpayers pay for troops to win wars and guard Halliburton while they steal and plunder in Eastern Europe Iraq and Afghanistan! I ask ya Bill, WHO ARE THE REAL PATRIOTS?

[IowaBiker]

68. Sing it Hubert! nt

[Hubert Flottz]

70. Rumbo pissed me off bigtime, when he said what he said about

the draftees! First they don't count the veterans votes in 2000 in Florida! Then they apply the mega-weenie to every vet in America every chance they get for the last 3 years! Then a total dick-wad like Billy O' has the fucking gall to thump his chickenhearted girly man chest and publicly question our love for our country, because we don't go along with their NAZI-like shit! I took an oath once to protect and to defend MY country and I will to the day they plant my dead ass! Bill Never Did do anything for his country but try and suck up every benefit it had to offer! While we were chewing dirt for our country Billy was chewing sugartitty!

Welcome to DU IowaBiker!

[GOPBasher]

66. Quick response:

Bill, what we shouldn't have is an economic system in which 1% of the people own more wealth than the bottom 95% of the people combined.