Rich People: America's Greatest Threat

[MrScorpio]

Not terrorists, or dictators, or communists, or illegal immigrants or even killer bees have come this close to destroying the country.

This is what happened when we ceased from looking up to people who did their best for all us to those who only did their best for themselves.

Greed is not good.

Now we have the proof!

[valerief]

1. Ah, they planned the 9-11 attack anyway to get all they wanted from the Treasury and

then some. Everything they do is scripted. Everything is theater. We're expendable as long as they can get us to believe in whatever they want (religion, war, etc.).

[Naturyl]

2. K&R, and thank you for saying what needs to be said. (n/t)

[melody]

3. Bull

You know how many rich people helped after Katrina? You know that one actor in particular (who didn't want his name publicized) fed the entire Astrodome the whole period of time it was a shelter. Some of the best friends the poor and middle class have are rich people.

[MrScorpio]

4. Think about what I just wrote

It's more about the worship of rich people and the wealth creation cult than the rich themselves

and you're right, no group of people is all bad

[melody]

5. There's nothing wrong with aspiration

It's only when greed blinds a person that it gets in the way. MY point was that without money in the hands of good people, we'd be in a lot of trouble. Therefore, aspiring toward money isn't a negative or positive thing.

[Naturyl]

7. "The love of money is the root of evil."

Pretty good source on that quote, you know.

[JVS]

10. www.godhatesrichpeople.com

[Fly by night]

29. Matthew 19:24 says it all (if only rich Rethugs could walk their talk)

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."

Obviously, all these faux Xtians have never read the Bible, or they only read the parts they like, or they have no belief in the Kingdom of Heaven.

For that matter, neither do I. But I do believe in living right (left?), in helping others and in doing the next right thing. Most rich folks don't have a clue what those phrases mean. So there's only one thing left to do.

Eat the rich.

[melody]

12. And the acquisition of money can be used for great good

I'm an agnostic -- I don't do Bible.

[vssmith]

18. Not all rich people are bad but the people who are bring the country down are rich

[melody]

19. It's the immorality of the bastards doing it

All the money does is give them power.

[JVS]

9. Rich people suck.

[melody]

11. Suck what? n/t

[JVS]

13. Donkey genitalia.

[melody]

15. Better than proboscidean scrotum

[Romulox]

24. People shouldn't live or die based on the whims of a rich benefactor.

"Some of the best friends the poor and middle class have are rich people."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[melody]

30. Where did you infer that I thought they should?

That's an irrational conclusion.

[johnnyrocket]

6. Yea, poor damn rich people.

[JVS]

8. RICH PEOPLE HATE AMERICA!

[npk]

14. I hate rich people

Always gettin more and more money. Then they give each other awards, like tonight, for making so much money.

:P

[norepubsin08]

16. I have been saying this since that fucking moron

Ronald Reagan came to the White House with his bitchy plastic wife and make selfishness popular!

[earth mom]

17. The problem is most people in this country think they are going to be rich someday.

So they idolize the very bastards who are robbing them blind.

Fuck the rich! :grr:

[Dorian Gray]

20. The problem

is shows like My Super Sweet Sixteen. It's making people feel as though they are entitled to those things.

[MrScorpio]

22. God, I hate that show

Every single one of those brats are tyrants, drunk on their own power

All of their parents should so them a favor and throw them out of their McMansions the day they turn 18.

See who kisses their asses then

[vanderBeth]

31. Any time I see that show, I want to kick those girls in the head.

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. Always reaching for the proverbial carrot their Leaders dangle in front of them.

The fact that it's always just beyond their grasp, doesn't seem to register, does it? :silly:

[varelse]

21. Greed and ignorance

at all levels, is a worldwide threat to humanity, not just to America. The ultra-rich are one symptom - they are not the disease.

[mmonk]

23. I hate to say "rich people". Some rich people do not subscribe

to current ideology such as Warren Buffett. The greatest threat IMO has been the new ideology (or old since it goes back to the Gilded Age) that wants to undo the New Deal.

[Romulox]

25. Virtually all rich people subscribe to our immoral and unsustainable economic system

Hoarding while your fellows starve is not an ideologically neutral act, at any rate.

[Odin2005]

26. I don't hate "merely" rich people, what I do hate is the SUPER-RICH.

Nobody needs hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.

[deutsey]

27. FDR identified them as "economic royalists" n/t

[dysfunctional press]

28. it's time to give socialism an honest try.

if we the people bail it out, we the people own it.

[DemoTex]

33. Read "How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth" by Herve Kempf .

This European best-seller is now out in English. I just finished it. I highly recommend How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth by Herve Kempf (with foreword by Greg Palast). It will make you want to read (or re-read) Thorstein Veblen.

[cherokeeprogressive]

34. Yeah! Oprah sucks!