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DetlefK

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Tue Sep-20-11 05:39 AM
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Need help. Looking for a word.

If the poor use government to rip off the rich, that's class warfare.
If the rich use government to rip off the poor, that's what?

The only words that come to my mind right now are corruption, oligarchy and capitalism, but that can't be true.
Maybe I should ask a republican.

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rucky

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Tue Sep-20-11 05:43 AM
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1. We're not trying to rip anybody off.

We're just demanding fairness so we can have equal opportunity and a safety net in tough times.

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DetlefK

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Tue Sep-20-11 05:47 AM
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2. I meant "class warfare" in its historic sense, not in Fox News newspeak.

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Tennessee Gal

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Tue Sep-20-11 05:49 AM
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3. The Republicans have been practicing "class warfare" in favor of the rich.

It is as simple as that.

Read this:

You Bet It's Class Warfare

http://www.ostroyreport.com/2011/09/you-bet-its-class-warfare.html

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EffieBlack

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Tue Sep-20-11 05:54 AM
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4. They call it "job creation" n/t

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flpoljunkie

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Tue Sep-20-11 06:01 AM
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5. Crony capitalism. A government that's corrupted by money and works to serve these special interests.

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orpupilofnature57

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Tue Sep-20-11 06:04 AM
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6. Hamiltonian Democracy

Edited on Tue Sep-20-11 06:08 AM by orpupilofnature57

The usurping assholes that try to claim ancestry to the wheel ,and make the rest of us feel non + if we're not Franchised with them ,pretentious snowball.

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eShirl

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Tue Sep-20-11 06:14 AM
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7. Vampire Economics

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TexasProgresive

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Tue Sep-20-11 06:16 AM
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8. Status quo. n/t

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nuxvomica

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Tue Sep-20-11 06:30 AM
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9. Feudalism

When the rich have more power and authority than the nation state.

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lunatica

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Tue Sep-20-11 06:42 AM
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10. Since when have the poor used government to rip off the rich?

Your premise is faulty and also non existent.

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sofa king

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Tue Sep-20-11 07:00 AM
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11. Kleptocracy.

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, from Greek: κλέπτης (thief) and κράτος (rule), is a term applied to a government subject to control fraud that takes advantage of governmental corruption to extend the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats), via the embezzlement of state funds at the expense of the wider population, sometimes without even the pretense of honest service. The term means "rule by thieves". Not an official form of government such as a democracy, republic, monarchy, or theocracy; a kleptocracy is rather a pejorative for a government perceived to have a particularly severe and systemic problem with the selfish misappropriation of public funds by those in power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy

Jared Diamond offers a more relaxed definition of kleptocracy, suggesting that all governments are kleptocracies to one degree or another because all of them use their authority to redistribute wealth. One could probably argue that redistribution always trends toward enriching those with the most wealth and power.

The United States of 2001-2009 perfectly satisfies either definition.

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FSogol

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Tue Sep-20-11 07:13 AM
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12. "If the rich use government to rip off the poor," that's Republican politics.

:shrug:

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66 dmhlt

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Tue Sep-20-11 07:38 AM
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13. The repubican's Holy Grail

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