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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:10 AM
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If you and I have no right to financial security, then the wealthy
have no right to it either. If we have no right to health, shelter, or food, then they do not either. The idea that we are now making decisions at all levels of government which create a right to extreme wealth at the expense of all others flies in the face ofdemocracy and equality.

Wealth is not your right!
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:14 AM
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1. We have the right to pursue it, but no right to have it.
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ehrnst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:49 AM
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7. There are obstacles in place to acquiring wealth - in order to make it easier to retain wealth. (nt)
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galloglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 01:35 PM
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12. You cannot pursue things
that are already "claimed as owned" by others.

So, how does one "pursue" them if all tangible things (including stock, money, ownership, etc.) are already spoken for? And when there is no ability to create additional "things" for the rest of humanity. We are, after all, limited to the size of this planet in our accretion of goods and valuables.

Where you gonna pursue yours at? To the ends of the Earth? After all, it is limited.


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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:16 AM
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2. Wealth is not a right!
It is a privilege we allow in our society.

Like the kings of our feudal past, they are allowed to rule and obtain wealth as long as the people allow it.

It's way past time to do some redistribution.
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el_bryanto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:16 AM
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3. Property is not a right?
Not that I disagree with the fact that Conservatives are agressively screwing over the working class in favor of the wealty; they clearly are.

Bryant
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RadiationTherapy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:19 AM
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4. Property is a privilege.
Google: George Carlin rights privileges for details.

Basically, there are no rights. You can easily be connived against and sued by a few more powerful than you and they will eventually get your property or they will make your life unsustainable.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:19 AM
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5. You know we WILL be forced to pry it from their hands.
Knowing that what they have done is wrong,is step one, and of all the steps needed to destroy these domestic enemies of democracy this first step is probably the easiest.




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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:23 AM
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6. Isn't that stealing?
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:50 AM
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8. Scavenging.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:41 AM
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9. Very convenient thinking.
Edited on Tue Mar-15-11 10:42 AM by dkf
I guess that's what the ex-con that broke into my house thought he was doing. All my jewelry got melted at the pawn shop and I'll never get them back.

I'm sure he thought he needed it more than me.
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:43 AM
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10. Minimum wage is theft n/t
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:45 AM
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11. It's taxing.
Tomato, to-mah-to
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