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pwb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 07:42 AM
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The angry rich.
Use to be in America the poor and unemployed had the right to be angry, but lately it seems to be the very wealthy that are the angriest.
What gives a wealthy person a reason to be angry?, help me out here people I am confused. Have the wealthy taken away our right to be angry too?.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 07:48 AM
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1. The Revolt of the Elites.
http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/lasch.html
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 07:50 AM
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2. Certainly a lot of them are revolting.
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dissidentboomer Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 07:51 AM
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3. 1. It's fake, made for tv anger. 2. The other "rich" who are angry
are stupid. They aren't really rich but live to make people think that they are rich. Stupidly, they truly think that they will be allowed into the rich persons' club one day. To me, it looks as though the U.S. branch of the club is no longer accepting new members.
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pwb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:05 AM
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4. What about the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch, they are real.
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dissidentboomer Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:14 AM
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6. The "anger" they display is rooted in their personalities and
in things that don't have anything to do with their class. They are despots, racists, and fascists. You don't need to be rich to have those views.
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dissidentboomer Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:21 AM
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9. Also, see my point number one. They are using fake anger
Edited on Sun Jul-24-11 08:28 AM by dissidentboomer
about non-issues to whip up the ire of the ignorant masses.
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judgegblue Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:42 AM
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13. the so-called American dream is to strike it rich
and when it happens the dreamers want to keep it. It's the lottery mentality along with the idolization of royalty,and super stars. Our society appeals to our basic greed.
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dissidentboomer Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 09:33 AM
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17. Is there any law that does NOT allow them to keep it? Please....
Also, some studies show that the U.S. now has less upward mobility than most of the western world. Your chances of becoming wealthy in the U.S. are now slim and none and slim just left town. U.S. "culture" is sick.
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lunasun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 01:56 PM
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21. No. 2 is what I have witnessed -wait til they find out the truth!!!oooops
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Buns_of_Fire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:12 AM
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5. They don't like it that "the little people" don't LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV them as much as
they think they SHOULD be LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUVED (being "job creators" and all). We peons make fun of them, we're constantly threatening to eat them, and some are even proposing new businesses like "Pitchforks 'R' Us", threatening to write cookbooks entitled "To Serve the Rich", and are introducing a new line of exclusive barbecue sauces with names like "Trump L'Orange," "Koch Sublime," and "Crispy Blankfein" (all with our exclusive "Grapes of Wrath" essence, and soon to be available in your local "Pitchforks 'R' Us" store, right next to the guillotine aisle).
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dissidentboomer Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:17 AM
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7. LOL! good stuff. Thank you.
:rofl:
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pwb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 04:59 PM
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22. You too, thanks for all the imput.
It was fun.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:19 AM
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8. They fear that they will be taxed as much as their fathers, the guys who earned the fortunes.
Start with a heft inheritance tax using today's lower end limits and exempt "family farms" (if you can find one).
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dissidentboomer Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:27 AM
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11. However, their activism is not limited to a single issue (i.e., death tax rates).
They are active across a broad range of issues, political and economic. They are peddling a world view - a philosophy of governance that started to die with the American and French revolutions and appeared to be finished off at the end of World War I.
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:21 AM
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10. Because they don't have it ALL yet
These sociopaths always have an all-consuming hunger for more, more, more. Nothing is ever enough, because they are hollow inside.
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dissidentboomer Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:32 AM
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12. True about many of the rich. Money is a cruel, consuming mistress.
Edited on Sun Jul-24-11 08:32 AM by dissidentboomer
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:50 AM
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15. Ayn Rand. According to her, non-millionaires are "parasites" and useless eaters.
Freeloaders, whiners wanting handouts, etc. It's all part of a scheme to ensure that the poor think they've got another thing comin', and it ain't an unemployment check.
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BumRushDaShow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 08:52 AM
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16. It's the "nouveau" rich who are the angriest and most vindictive. n/t
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dissidentboomer Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 09:34 AM
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18. Maybe so.... I WAN'T A PONY!!!!
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 09:37 AM
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19. It's called class warfare
We're out to get them. Didn't you know that?
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 10:09 AM
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20. They have everything to lose.
The smarter ones voted for Obama hoping that he was a new FDR. Better to keep 10% of billions than 100% of zero.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 05:46 PM
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23. They can't take it with them.
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kiranon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 05:57 PM
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24. It is their sense of entitlement - they believe they are entitled to have it all and do
not care much about how they get it or who gets hurt as long as it is not them. Everything else is just self serving justification and their sense of superiority running wild. It's easier for them to hate than to love. It's all a game because ordinary life bores them.
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