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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:16 AM Original message |
Rich people are leeching of our economy. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:18 AM Response to Original message |
1. Sounds about right to me... |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:21 AM Response to Original message |
2. How much money do you need to be considered rich? |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:26 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. If you're in a housing project in America |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Thank you for getting more specific |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:37 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Collectively, it would matter |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:43 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Yes, thank you. |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:51 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. OK. I'm a bit confused |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 05:07 AM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Let's not get hung up on grey areas |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:54 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. You can do that |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I don't have to go to Darfur for that. Mexico is far enough. |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I think people misunderstood my point |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:37 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I did give a definition |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:40 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Well how is that Middle Class? |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:47 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. huh? |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:54 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. My bad - let's try that again |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 05:01 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Over time, it gets spent back into the "economy" |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 05:04 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. People don't inherit money anymore? |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 05:07 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Sure, to be given to the 2% |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. 7.5 million - US millionaires |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:41 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. You and the OP are working with vastly different definitions |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:52 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Not needing a mortgage for a house??? |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:56 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. The OP defined rich as: "Anyone making more money than they can spend" |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:59 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. It's clear to people who aren't rich |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 05:05 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Well, that was just one of the definitions put forward |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 05:24 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. I also could say "anyone with an internet account" |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 12:59 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. We're not talking about Sudan's economy though, are we? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 11:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. True. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 04:24 AM Response to Original message |
3. we are sustaining the investor class |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 11:33 AM Response to Reply #3 |
31. It's still $3/gallon, and oil prices had dropped. Indeed, |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 06:51 AM Response to Original message |
27. A corrupt management tier with the collusion of their BOD's are draining the coffers of publicly |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
28. Krugman agrees with you |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 11:28 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I'm glad to be in good company |
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satya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 01:03 PM Response to Original message |
33. "...only put their money IN the economy if they are sure they can get more money OUT of it" |
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WHAT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
34. My question, similar to yours... |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-24-07 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
35. I wrote a post on this last week |
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