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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 08:45 PM
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If I were an uberpowerful malevolent, greedy piece of shit who could operate on a global basis . . .
. . . I would work to steal the giant pot of wealth accumulated by people unfortunate enough to have been born in the decade and a half immediately following World War II. Twenty years ago, I would have induced them to invest in my global Ponzi scheme. Make it attractive and soon enough much of their money would be there. Then I'd start to manipulate the value of houses and remove that part of their wealth, too. My last gambit would be to remove from the equation any legal right they had to support in their golden years. No health care for them, either, as I would be far better with them, after stripping away their wealth, dead.

Does that fantastical plot seem to have any resemblance to reality?
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 08:47 PM
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1. I would go and have a beer with friends.
Oh, um, thats right.

I don't have the beer and travel money that is due to me.


Yet.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 10:31 PM
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6. You'd probably need some friends, too
Heh, heh, heh.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-11 12:23 AM
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8. That is an interesting concept.
While working on the current projects, I pretty much think all the time, and don't really step out often to make people friends. Basically there is no reason for that until things are corrected.

Although I am around some people that are acquaintances, and some people that show some friendship, to actually have friends would not make sense before the proper beer and travel money correction.

Without the beer and travel correction, I would have to have them pay for anything that friends do together, and that is not very friendly, so for the most part, have not tried to make friends, nor looked for that.

Also most places I go there are plenty of other things to work on while there anyways.

Have you noticed my posts here are not really geared to make friends with posters here, it is the same thing.

And in some way going out to live a normal life with friends and such would be accepting an unjust situation. For those that think I am not living life, they don't understand that years ago I said it would be better to not accept a wrong condition then have a fake life in a unacceptable condition.

So if that sounds like not having a life for the last decade or so, maybe that is why the debt owed keeps going up, and I don't need a life, if it does not match acceptable conditions, that would be not living anyways.

And I am still due beer and travel money.

And even the few times I do go out, that is just a different way to pass the time till the proper correction occurs, that is not having fun or anything, that wont happen until the proper beer and travel money is paid, why would it, that would be accepting wrong, I said the same thing years ago, and no argument or education has shown that decision wrong.
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 08:50 PM
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2. That generation did very well on housing,but the rest of it is true.
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 08:50 PM
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3. And after I've done all of that, then we could all go out for tea!
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WestSeattle2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 09:10 PM
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4. A brilliant summation of not only newspaper headlines over the last
five years, but it's also Goldman Sachs mission statement.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 09:41 PM
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5. You wouldn't be posting on DU..
QED
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 10:36 PM
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7. i've often wondered why
these people feel the need to accumulate such vast amounts of wealth. it really is obscene. what possible reason could they have? i'm serious....and frankly, it sort of scares me.
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