Why Is Being Rich Bad?

[PoliticalChic]

See if you can reply without reference to Romney or Obama.

Why is it bad?

It isn't. Who says it is?

The very same guy who'll be lookin' for work after November:


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoqI5PSRcXM]Obama-Spread the wealth around - YouTube[/ame]

 

[beretta304]

Misleading question. Being rich is NOT bad.

The question should be:

Is being rich a good or bad way to be?

It wasn't misleading to the 132 posters before you...just saying.

Yes it was. You assumed the answer to whether it is good or bad by asking why it is bad. Since it is obviously not bad, your question is misleading.

Similar to, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" being asked to someone that has never beat his wife.

No, I asked it the way I did because prior to the posting of the thread being rich was being portrayed as something to be ashamed of by quite a s few posters here.

As I said, 132 prior posters got the point of it, sorry you didn't.

 

[Claudette]

Being rich isn't bad.

The bad part comes when the jealous figure that because your rich you should fund everything.

They figure you made your money so you should spread it around. You know. Your "fair share."

Of course they want you to pay more but they themselves should never have to pay more.

 

[Freemason9]

Many religions consider great wealth ("being rich") as a bad thing. Certainly the Christian New Testament does (Jesus referred to a camel and the needle's eye), and Buddhists completely reject the sort of greed and corruption necessary to gain great wealth.

On a sociological/societal level, extreme wealth reflects a desire to gain power over others; this desire is often rooted in some form of childhood trauma (often related to dominating father figures).

 

[asaratis]

It wasn't misleading to the 132 posters before you...just saying.

Yes it was. You assumed the answer to whether it is good or bad by asking why it is bad. Since it is obviously not bad, your question is misleading.

Similar to, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" being asked to someone that has never beat his wife.

No, I asked it the way I did because prior to the posting of the thread being rich was being portrayed as something to be ashamed of by quite a s few posters here.

As I said, 132 prior posters got the point of it, sorry you didn't.

It was not being portrayed as being bad in this thread. It has not been proven to be bad in any thread (because it cannot be proven to be bad).

Your OP assumed that being rich is bad...when it is not. It was misleading to state it they way you did.

 

[beretta304]

Yes it was. You assumed the answer to whether it is good or bad by asking why it is bad. Since it is obviously not bad, your question is misleading.

Similar to, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" being asked to someone that has never beat his wife.

No, I asked it the way I did because prior to the posting of the thread being rich was being portrayed as something to be ashamed of by quite a s few posters here.

As I said, 132 prior posters got the point of it, sorry you didn't.

It was not being portrayed as being bad in this thread. It has not been proven to be bad in any thread (because it cannot be proven to be bad).

Your OP assumed that being rich is bad...when it is not. It was misleading to state it they way you did.

I'll tell you what. If you want to argue over semantics...argue. 132 people before you and so far a couple after you got the point. So did you. But you just either want to nitpick or are dense. You're the only one to take issue with it "so aren't you special"!

Frankly I don't care one way or another if you reply or not.

 

[blastoff]

It's not being rich that is "bad".

It's the method in which you become rich that can be bad. Tax evasion via loop-hole, aggressive/crony business practices (guised as "capitalism").

There are many more way to get rich via taking advantage of the system, people and services than there is via an honest living. It has almost become mandatory.

I'll give you credit for adopting the most descriptive screen name you possibly could.

For example, only a liberal would consider it bad to take advantage of our tax code in order to pay the least amount of taxes legally possible.

Being aggressive in business in a free market economy is good. I want as much of my competitors' market shares as possible, all of it if I can get it. That's not immoral at all as long as no laws are broken. If the management of a competing business isn't smart enough or doesn't want to work as hard as we do, that's touch shit if their business shrinks or fails outright. Heck, I'd go so far to say that's immoral in terms of letting down their rank and file workers who would suffer because of incompetent management.

 

[buckeye45_73]

See if you can reply without reference to Romney or Obama.

Why is it bad?

I have never heard any say they thought being "rich" were bad, but "how" you become rich may be in quesition. Selling drugs, stealing and cheating, false claims on services or products.Fraud. Getting rich at the expense of someone else's misery?
Lame ass question anyway.

So namevsome good rich people. I see a lot of liberals bitch about car elevators, so why complain?

 

[emptystep]

I think there is also a huge difference between Old Money and New Money.

 

[JoeB131]

The parable of the young rich man and the camel is WIDELY overused by some liberals.

Jesus wasn't saying that the rich can't be saved. The message was that it was impossible for ANYONE to be saved by human power alone. No one is EVER worthy of God.

Actually, that makes God sound like kind of a dick.

 

[Desperado]

Why Is Being Rich Bad?

Being Rich is not bad.
There are Rich bad people just like there are poor bad people, but the fact that some one is rich does not make them bad.

 

[P@triot]

See if you can reply without reference to Romney or Obama.

Why is it bad?

It's not. Not at all. But the left is filled with bad people full of bad feeling like hate, jealousy, envy, bitterness, and laziness. It all adds up to a small group of communists who cry like little bitches about the wealthy.

 

[francoHFW]

Greedy rich Pub a-holes are bad, and stupid, just not as stupid as their dupes they screw 24/7/365/100...

 

[emptystep]

There's only one thing Old Money hates more than the ignorant poor, New Money.

That's why Ryan against student loans. The hungry young with an education = new money. Cut off the education and problem fixed.

 

[Mr. H.]

I was bad when I was rich, I was bad when I was poor. I'm bad no matter my income or assets.

Can anyone solve this riddle?

 

[Mr. H.]

True story. The story of my life. C'mon take a stab this isn't a test. Hell I've been here 3 years and nearly 13k posts you know the answer.

 

[Avatar4321]

Because im not rich?

 

[emptystep]

True story. The story of my life. C'mon take a stab this isn't a test. Hell I've been here 3 years and nearly 13k posts you know the answer.

Sorry, in the morning perhaps, late morning.

 

[Mr. H.]

Geez almighty you're all as bad as a class of Freshman high schoolers.

I'm bad to the bone. The bane of America. The instigator of wars, the killer of babies and the cause of Global Warming. Droughts, fires, brimstone, and melting ice caps. In the eyes of many I am the Devil incarnate... no matter that I grew up in poverty nor that I returned to poverty time and again throughout my career. A million dollar taxable income one year, $30k the next. Beans, rice, pasta for dinner night after night (if there was food at all for the table).

The one constant throughout my life... I'm bad.

 

[SuMar]

Being rich isn't bad and yet certain "socialists" want to penalize rich for being rich.