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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:34 PM
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If I were just another filthy rich bastard...
I would trust the Kochs only as far as I could throw those corpulent assholes.

Here you have two pasty white yahoos with EVERYTHING and still they want MORE.

After they're done bleeding the rest of us dry, what's to stop these greedy fuckers from going after their fellow millionaires and billionaires?

Their greed is like a bottomless pit that they're desperately trying to fill with everyone else's livelihoods.


I figure that they won't stop raiding until they're dead… And expect a lot more from their spawn.


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dkofos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:36 PM
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1. Terrorists??
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Curmudgeoness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:44 PM
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2. Many rich bastards have this attitude. I think
that it is a game to them. The more they accumulate, the more they feel like they win.

It isn't about the money anymore.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:47 PM
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3. "It isn't about the money anymore."
My thoughts exactly
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Newest Reality Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:53 PM
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4. It is my philosophical viewpoint that
those kinds of people are like black holes. Nothing less than all will satisfy them and they are probably trying to fill the void within them, though it is a bottomless abyss. We get to pay for their syndrome, illness, whatever you want to call it.

That is why checks and barriers are so very important. They don't seem able to stop themselves, no matter how much they take from us. They require firewalls erected by us so that they know clearly when they have reached a wall of protection we have erected.

As long as there are people empowered by wealth, (and the power they TAKE from us, not that they have inherently) who choose to utilize it as a means to gain more wealth and power and political control, it compels us to respond for our own sake. We are obliged to act with diligence and fortitude when everything we have, and will create for our children and future generations, is clearly at stake.

This is a time of deep contemplation and a place to build solidarity so that we can lift each other up and deal effectively with the marauding Goliaths that are stomping on our country like petulant children throwing very dangerous temper tantrums with no concern for anyone else.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 02:58 PM
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5. I can explain that, what they want is something else.
Edited on Fri Mar-11-11 03:09 PM by RandomThoughts
But they think they will get it through some other means. It is like trying to get love, but going after power.


In the same way, all I want is the beer and travel money that is due, and many experiences, and I keep finding other things.

:shrug:

So someone should help them find, or maybe they should find themselves, what they really want and need, so they wont be striving for something else from the desire to strive but never being full.

I still think that is the starving cow eating the fat cow but never being full, or the dried corn eating at the healthy corn never being satisfied.


Although that was taught before.

Rolling Stones - Satisfaction (I think that is about everyones need for love, )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTA0aelnyzw

And why they are losing every day
The rolling stones-You can't always get what you want
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIX0ZDqDljA

So in that the 'trying' is figuring out what you need, not going after different things.

People always have goals above where they are at, that is how you find a purpose, but some goals are not that helpful, to self or others, but are always a bit out of reach, since there always is another goal to keep a purpose.

So the correction is to help people find goals that are better by education.


And I am still due beer and travel money, and many experiences.


And I think the hippies, and people long before them learned that and the concept of being nice even to an enemy to help them. Since that is what all people really want anyways, to be accepted, to be loved, to be treated fairly, to have justice, and feelings of worth and dignity.

It makes sense.

And I am due beer and travel money and many experiences.



Another poster added something.

It is about consent and choice, and I completely agree with that. People also want freedom, so part of things is people want to choose for themselves, so any restriction, becomes an enemy, even if just and if it makes sense, buy only because it restricts someone.

So some people just want to be free to do anything, even if society can not operate that way. So then anything that limits anyone becomes an enemy, and that includes any law or regulation.

In my case the limitation by economic attacks, and attempts to remove beer and travel money is unjust, so it can be argued. But some that already have more then moderation, can't use justice to defend against a restriction, because they are already unjust, so they have to disregard concepts of justice to fight for 'freedom' because they can't accept that there should be rules for people. But the freedom they fight for oppresses others, for them to be more free. Their freedom has no concept of social contract, or idea of having to operate within a society.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 03:15 PM
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6. With the Kochs, even the greediest of the greedy saw them and went "wow, that's fucking greedy."
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 03:25 PM
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7. It's sport, It's about power & changing the world.
Edited on Fri Mar-11-11 03:27 PM by The_Casual_Observer
Bill Gates also is doing it, however he's trying to do good stuff.
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yesphan Donating Member (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 03:28 PM
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8. Perhaps a new astrophysical phenomenon
Koch hole.
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