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Sun Jul-24-11 07:42 AM
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Use to be in America the poor and unemployed had the right to be angry, but lately it seems to be the very wealthy that are the angriest. What gives a wealthy person a reason to be angry?, help me out here people I am confused. Have the wealthy taken away our right to be angry too?.
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Sun Jul-24-11 07:48 AM
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1. The Revolt of the Elites. |
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Sun Jul-24-11 07:50 AM
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2. Certainly a lot of them are revolting. |
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Sun Jul-24-11 07:51 AM
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3. 1. It's fake, made for tv anger. 2. The other "rich" who are angry |
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are stupid. They aren't really rich but live to make people think that they are rich. Stupidly, they truly think that they will be allowed into the rich persons' club one day. To me, it looks as though the U.S. branch of the club is no longer accepting new members.
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:05 AM
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4. What about the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch, they are real. |
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:14 AM
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6. The "anger" they display is rooted in their personalities and |
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in things that don't have anything to do with their class. They are despots, racists, and fascists. You don't need to be rich to have those views.
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:21 AM
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9. Also, see my point number one. They are using fake anger |
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Edited on Sun Jul-24-11 08:28 AM by dissidentboomer
about non-issues to whip up the ire of the ignorant masses.
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:42 AM
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13. the so-called American dream is to strike it rich |
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and when it happens the dreamers want to keep it. It's the lottery mentality along with the idolization of royalty,and super stars. Our society appeals to our basic greed.
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Sun Jul-24-11 09:33 AM
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17. Is there any law that does NOT allow them to keep it? Please.... |
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Also, some studies show that the U.S. now has less upward mobility than most of the western world. Your chances of becoming wealthy in the U.S. are now slim and none and slim just left town. U.S. "culture" is sick.
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Sun Jul-24-11 01:56 PM
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21. No. 2 is what I have witnessed -wait til they find out the truth!!!oooops |
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:12 AM
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5. They don't like it that "the little people" don't LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV them as much as |
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they think they SHOULD be LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUVED (being "job creators" and all). We peons make fun of them, we're constantly threatening to eat them, and some are even proposing new businesses like "Pitchforks 'R' Us", threatening to write cookbooks entitled "To Serve the Rich", and are introducing a new line of exclusive barbecue sauces with names like "Trump L'Orange," "Koch Sublime," and "Crispy Blankfein" (all with our exclusive "Grapes of Wrath" essence, and soon to be available in your local "Pitchforks 'R' Us" store, right next to the guillotine aisle).
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:17 AM
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7. LOL! good stuff. Thank you. |
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Sun Jul-24-11 04:59 PM
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22. You too, thanks for all the imput. |
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:19 AM
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8. They fear that they will be taxed as much as their fathers, the guys who earned the fortunes. |
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Start with a heft inheritance tax using today's lower end limits and exempt "family farms" (if you can find one).
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:27 AM
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11. However, their activism is not limited to a single issue (i.e., death tax rates). |
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They are active across a broad range of issues, political and economic. They are peddling a world view - a philosophy of governance that started to die with the American and French revolutions and appeared to be finished off at the end of World War I.
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:21 AM
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10. Because they don't have it ALL yet |
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These sociopaths always have an all-consuming hunger for more, more, more. Nothing is ever enough, because they are hollow inside.
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:32 AM
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12. True about many of the rich. Money is a cruel, consuming mistress. |
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Edited on Sun Jul-24-11 08:32 AM by dissidentboomer
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:50 AM
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15. Ayn Rand. According to her, non-millionaires are "parasites" and useless eaters. |
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Freeloaders, whiners wanting handouts, etc. It's all part of a scheme to ensure that the poor think they've got another thing comin', and it ain't an unemployment check.
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Sun Jul-24-11 08:52 AM
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16. It's the "nouveau" rich who are the angriest and most vindictive. n/t |
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Sun Jul-24-11 09:34 AM
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18. Maybe so.... I WAN'T A PONY!!!! |
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Sun Jul-24-11 09:37 AM
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19. It's called class warfare |
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We're out to get them. Didn't you know that?
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Sun Jul-24-11 10:09 AM
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20. They have everything to lose. |
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The smarter ones voted for Obama hoping that he was a new FDR. Better to keep 10% of billions than 100% of zero.
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Sun Jul-24-11 05:46 PM
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23. They can't take it with them. |
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Sun Jul-24-11 05:57 PM
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24. It is their sense of entitlement - they believe they are entitled to have it all and do |
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not care much about how they get it or who gets hurt as long as it is not them. Everything else is just self serving justification and their sense of superiority running wild. It's easier for them to hate than to love. It's all a game because ordinary life bores them.
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