If a man

[Fire Walk With Me]

[valerief]

1. You got that right! Makes me wonder when the show Hoarders will feature

.01%ers.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Fantastic! nt

[firehorse]

3. Yes our country is fine with hoarding "personal monopolies" for some illogical reason.

Yet, in theory we are not fine with corporate monopolies. But we are OK with CEO's having personal monopolies especially if they hide behind the umbrella of a corporation.

[rfranklin]

35. However, Scrooge McDuck was always mocked in the cartoons...

and he was the prototypical money hoarder, probably modeled on Rockefeller.

[Lance_Boyle]

36. Carnegie, not Rockefeller. n/t

[Initech]

4. Ain't that the truth!!!

[redqueen]

5. K&R

[Arkansas Granny]

6. K & R

[handmade34]

7. the truth

people hoard because of a sense of insecurity...


http://understanding_ocd.tripod.com/hoarding1_why.html

The following reasons of why people Hoard...

SENTIMENTAL VALUE...for the person that Hoards, the usefulness and/or value may lay in the most unexpected things...This value is also about feeling the item is part of "you", not just an independent object.

DECISION MAKING...Those with Hoarding Behavior find it extremely difficult to make decisions, and end up avoiding having to make any by keeping everything.

ORGANIZING...difficulty with knowing how to organize objects,... may very well be the only way he can sense some control and order...

RESPONSIBILITY... a tendency for people to feel Hyper- Responsible for what is happening around them...

CONTROL/PERFECTION...when you throw something away, it's gone and you will never be able to find this item again.

SCARED OF FORGETTING/PERFECTION...the inability to accept that he can't be in total control...

LETTING GO OF THINGS...the fear of letting go, of moving on.
Letting go of things in life is so needed if we want to experience some sense of freedom

[DirkGently]

8. Next on A & E: Wealth Hoarders.

:rofl:

[peace frog]

27. It would be worth watching to see the interventions

they would fail miserably, of course, but that's entertainment!

[Blue Owl]

9. K&R

:kick:

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Fire Walk With Me.:thumbsup:

[geardaddy]

11. K and R

[sam11111]

12. 1% has 16 trillion

Top 1% have $16 trillion

(link was included as part of daily KOS)

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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nxY_tso8jLcJ:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/04/789523/-Citigroups-Shocking-Plutonomy-Reports-h-t-Michael-Moore+plutonomy&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&strip=1

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The Wealth Report
Plutonomics ...
By Robert Frank, Wall Street Journal - Jan 8, 2007

... The nation’s top 1% of households own .... more than $16 trillion in wealth ...
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The top 10% have $33 trillion

Note that in the bar graph you add the top part to the second part to get the top ten percent's share of the wealth. That is,
34.6% plus

38.5%
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73.1%.....is the percent of all US wealth now in the hands of the top ten percent of people.
( 45 trillion being the total wealth...though some estimates put it as high as 155 trillion...see Federal Reserve site)



In short:

The 1%have .....................16 trillion.

The top 10% have 33 trillion. Says Mother Jones mag....--------------
footnote: the whole Mother Jones source article is at--
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

See what grandma doesn't eat, but the 1 % does eat -

www.ediblegold.com

[Whiskeytide]

13. Well, that's something a...

...newspaper hoarding cat lady would say! :evilgrin:

[one_voice]

14. K&R.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Oh, that's perfect.

[Motown_Johnny]

16. dunno why the word "trailer" is in there, but I like it anyways

[Coexist]

17. knr

[treestar]

18. I like it

Greedy idiots - they don't know they could just stop.

[femrap]

19. What's wrong

with living w/ a bunch of cats?

But I get your point...I would just prefer a different example. Like...maybe the dude should live w/ the cats and the woman should have the newspapers.

I get very, very tired of gender stereotyping. But maybe this B. Lester is pre-1960's before the Women's Movement....of course now, one would never know it occurred.

[pam4water]

20. The old golden rule...

He who has the gold makes the rules :P ;)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. thanks B. Lester. you said it well.

[azul]

22. Who is B Lester?

Though she says it quite well.

[neoconn]

23. Amen!

[rustydog]

24. No, they are called job creators

[baldguy]

26. What do you call "job creators" who don't create any jons?

Parasites.

[patrice]

34. They could create nothing without the workers, so the workers are the real job creators. nt

[jwirr]

25. Very good point.

[Douglas Carpenter]

28. so I can keep my newspapers and my cats?

:+

[fasttense]

29. No, they are doing God's work.

God gave them all their money because they are soooo deserving of his special attentions.

Jesus doesn't mind that they steal their money from the poor. He doesn't mind that they get their money through cons and boughten politicians.
:sarcasm:
I guess God gave the cat lady her cats and the newspaper hoarder his newspapers too.

[malaise]

30. Freaking perfect

Kick

[themadstork]

31. Amen!

amen!

[lonestarnot]

32. K & R!

[Beavker]

33. So true, so true.