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15 Aug 2011, 1:10 pm

In my view the Democrats are just as much a Rich people's political party as the Republicans are both are funded and supported by and run by Rich/Wealthy Lobbyists who here agrees ?

http://www.socialistalternative.org/...10.php?id=1297

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15 Aug 2011, 5:58 pm

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What do you have against becoming rich?

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15 Aug 2011, 6:28 pm

ruveyn wrote:

mikecartwright wrote:

What do you have against becoming rich?

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They think rich people are somehow evil...

Anyways while if I remember correctly the richest individual in Congress currently is a Republican, he got his wealth from inventing a product, not the stock market.

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15 Aug 2011, 6:43 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

They think rich people are somehow evil...

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That is an opinion. I want to hear it directly from the OP.

There are three ways of becoming rich.

1. Create a value that produces an income. This could be an invention, a service or some kind of valuable thing extracted from nature.

2. Inherit it or win it in a game of chance. While it is not earned, neither is it taken by wrongful means.

3. Get it by force or fraud.

Number 3 is the only kind of rich that one should dislike.

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15 Aug 2011, 6:44 pm

As Warren Buffet points out, the super rich have conned the "tea party" into waging their battles for them. People who make money with money often pay lower rates than working people and some think that's just great.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opini ... &seid=auto

The Democrats certainly have corporate interests in mind at times but there is no question that the lines in the tax rate wars leave the GOP solidly on the side of the wealthy and super wealthy. Once you factor in their position on environmental protections and corporate responsibilities, it's a slam dunk. Bachmann wants to disband the EPA ffs. :lol:

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15 Aug 2011, 6:50 pm

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If the New York Times is your star witness your case is in serious trouble. They have been hemoraging readers because they have lost all credibility, and they are so blatently in the pocket of the DNC, that they might as well be called the Democrat Times.

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15 Aug 2011, 6:52 pm

I thought news of Warren Buffet might have reached your white trash hamlet. Give it a few months for the pony to arrive.

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15 Aug 2011, 6:55 pm

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I thought news of Warren Buffet might have reached your white trash hamlet. Give it a few months for the pony to arrive.

sarcasm: Ah another wonderful example of liberal progressive tolerance. :roll:

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15 Aug 2011, 7:00 pm

Wanting to become rich is like wanting to become like Ebenezer Scrooge.

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15 Aug 2011, 7:02 pm

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Wanting to become rich is like wanting to become like Ebenezer Scrooge.

Riiighhtt.....

Explains why rich conservatives tend to donate large amounts of money to charities... :roll:

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15 Aug 2011, 7:18 pm

Although Ebinezer Scrooge did not voluntarily contribute money he was in fact better than today's conservatives because he paid his taxes and that money was used to help the poor.

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15 Aug 2011, 7:20 pm

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Although Ebinezer Scrooge did not voluntarily contribute money he was in fact better than today's conservativews because he paid his taxes and that money was used to help the poor.

More like some "poor" political appointee's pocket.

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15 Aug 2011, 7:40 pm

Rich people always have an excuse not to help the poor.

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15 Aug 2011, 7:41 pm

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Rich people always have an excuse not to help the poor.

That's bollocks and you know it.

Tax the rich too much - or, indeed, tax anyone too much - and they'll stop working any more than they need to. Less money for the 'poor', less money for the government to piss up the wall.

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15 Aug 2011, 7:42 pm

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Rich people always have an excuse not to help the poor.

Explains Bill O'Reilly's Wounded Warriors project.

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15 Aug 2011, 7:46 pm

I always thought it would be nice to, have millions of dollars but if that money would turn me in to a tyrant like Ebinezer Scrooge would it be worth losing my soul ?

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