These people are thanked Philby. Every weekend actually. They're known as Evangelicals.:angels::wave2:
The Rootless World of the Super-rich
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These people are thanked Philby. Every weekend actually. They're known as Evangelicals.:angels::wave2:
Philbert
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I don't recall mentioning anything about tax breaks for the rich, but hey, predictable sound bites are fun. I suppose your boss makes the same salary as you do.
The facts remain; the mega rich exist and the since they exist and spend, that spending provide jobs. Jobs that I assume people like you, Facial King and myself don't create.
So, the rich are evil even though their wealth creates jobs.
Well, no...we create jobs too. We buy clothes and goods made by children in sweatshops over seas where we don't have to see them. We even spend good money on cheaply made items we don't need (anybody here buy an iPad) but we're not evil because we're not rich...even though we thrive on cheap near-slave labor.
I think I get it.
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Couldn't agree more. Peace of mind is worth more than all the money on earth.
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Funny, I recall reading more than a few times about corporate execs who got enormous salaries and fat bonuses even though they actually slashed their company's payrolls. Or they got the salaries and bonuses despite driving those same companies into the ground...
Oh, no, never mind. All of your Limbaugh/dittohead talking points are spot on.
Maybe Trickle down is no longer accurate to describe the largesse of the rich. Perhaps a more accurate label is the Fallen Crumb off the Master's Plate job/economic model?
"So, the rich are evil even though their wealth creates jobs."
- and of course, it's not politically correct to think that the people who DO the jobs actually CREATE the wealth that the rich people accumulate...
(they just don't get to KEEP all of the wealth that they create.)
- and of course, it's not politically correct to think that the people who DO the jobs actually CREATE the wealth that the rich people accumulate...
(they just don't get to KEEP all of the wealth that they create.)
As for what I highlighted in your 1st paragraph, you do realize that, one way or another, there are powerful individuals and groups within corporations that control how much money many of us make, right? They're called our bosses, and if they decide to increase their salary by 5% and lower yours by the same to balance it out, well, you probably won't have much of a say in that.
Your 2nd paragraph is just an extended non sequitur.
There's so much wrong with that post, and so many counterexamples to offer, I literally didn't even know where to begin. I'd love to hear all about the jobs that this guy created.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/27-3
Excerpt:
Does limited government mean allowing one man to take $4 billion from the economy in one year? Hedge fund manager David Tepper did this in 2009, making enough money to pay the salaries of every police officer, firefighter, and public school teacher in Chicago.
To anyone who cries socialism at the first hint of taxes, do you want to accept a system that says a person making a clever bet on the market is 50,000 times more valuable than the person who comes rushing to your house in an emergency?
Free market defenders claim that the rich deserve what they earn because of hard work and initiative, and that any redistribution of such compensation is socialism. But did Tepper 'earn' his $4 billion? Is that fair compensation for a savvy guess about the upturn of financial instruments? Isn't the financial system partly responsible for his success? The long history of market structuring and government deregulation fashioned by countless free-market advocates and supported by voters had something to do with it. Instead, a paycheck of $4 billion redistributes much of America's assets to one well-positioned man.
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Further, you really should read this:
http://www.amazon.com/One-Market-Under-God-Capitalism/dp/0385495048/ref=pd_cp_b_3