More rich people should go broke and become homeless

[Deja Q]

Nothing seems to happen in this country unless/until a rich person cries out for it.

Otherwise they do things to make life more miserable for those who don't have money.

It's sad, if there was a big crisis, the only people who would survive through it would be the rich. And they happen to be the very people who don't deserve to survive. Selfishness is not a prime aspect of a CIVILIZED society and many of the rich are selfish, what with their greed and all.

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[JanMichael]

1. "When capitalists are intelligent enough to care whether the whole...

...community is healthy and pleasant and happy or not, even when the unpleasantnesses do not come under their own noses, they become Socialists."

Bernard Shaw.

[Nikia]

6. They are becoming too separate

Capitalists who live amongst their workers and see them as people tend to care about their community. Somewhere along the line, those in charge began buying other businesses and building many locations. They began living in gated communities with other rich people. They never have to see their workers if they so choose. They can pretend that those people really are not people like themselves because they don't know any. They do not know their community anymore.

[Maple]

2. Hoooookum

and ideology.

[Clete]

3. Fat chance of that.

To be fair, there are a lot of rich people who care about their less fortunate fellow human beings and the trashing of our planet. Unfortunately, there aren't enough of them.

[spooky3]

5. such as Sen. Kennedy and a few of his relatives.

[AP]

4. I had to cancel my NYTimes partly because of something related to this

I finally couldn't take in any longer on the Sunday when the NYT ran about 5 stories which conveniently mentioned Arnold in a posititve light, four of which weren' even about the recall (the most outrageous was on the cover of the business section -- they did a story on how Arnold's promotion of the Humvee helps sell cars for the Big Three, and another was about how sensibly Arnold invests his money).

But the story which reall shocked me was an article on the cover of the business section about a white guy who got a crack addiction and went from being a Dartmouth grad, Wall St lawyer and extremely well-paid executive, to homelessness and poverty.

The tone of the article was generally, "can you believe we live in America which let a guy as rich and successful as this go poor? we must fix this!" It was appalling. To me, the shocking story about America is that we place barriers on so many people from going UP the wealth ladder, and that crack addiction is often the result of a life of desperation with few opportunities.

[Clete]

7. NY Times has joined the Media Ho's in my book.

I trust the European papers will print the truth about Arnold. I don't think it will get the press it should here.