Oh How I HATE The Wealthy.

[MisterBeale]

Sounds unduly unkind to me.
Sometimes people are poor and need help.

 

[Crepitus]

Why?

For the good of the people.

 

[MisterBeale]

For the good of the people.

Well, now you aren't making any sense.

That isn't very good for the people.

More government and less private sector have always, in every case, proved ruinous.

 

[Crepitus]

Well, now you aren't making any sense.

Of course I am. As billionaires they have far too much influence.

Time to curb that.

 

[el midgetron]

This is what giving BILLIONS of dollars in government subsidies to educational institutions like Harvard gets you.

 

[Orangecat]

Because he doesn't have any and no one will give him any of theirs.

IOW, jealousy.

 

[fncceo]

Of course I am. As billionaires they have far too much influence.

Time to curb that.

Politicians have far too much influence… time to curb that.

 

[Orangecat]

For the good of the people.

Capping a person’s financial freedom does nothing good for the people. You sound like a Marxist useful idiot, tbh.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Are you fucking kidding?! The rich became rich by exploiting the poor. Take Andrew Carnegie for example. He viewed the long hours of his 7 day work week, the poor working conditions and low pay as "survival of the fittest." As if he was doing humanity a favor. When what he was actually doing was stuffing his pockets with as much money as they could hold. And let's not leave out what he and other industrialists at the time were involved in. Child labor. Which they are still doing today. Just in other countries.

Carnegie came up working in those same conditions. He was a dirt poor immigrant who got rich through his own efforts, then gave away the majority of his wealth to better working people,

 

[AZrailwhale]

The problem is that "hard work" mostly comes at the expense of those they employ. Thake for example a contractor who is building a house. He will work very hard to build that house. He no doubt expects all of his employees to work as hard as he does. But after all is said and done, he by far earns the most money.

Because he takes all the risks. If he looses money on a job, his employees still get paid, he is the one who cuts his income, he is the one doing the books at night and working weekends to drum up business while his employees go home to dinner and watch TV.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Capping a person’s financial freedom does nothing good for the people. You sound like a Marxist useful idiot, tbh.

He's not very useful.

 

[The Duke]

Oh, c'mon now!

 

[AZrailwhale]

ME! I am suffering, asshole. I always have been. (And I know that there are MANY like me) For example, I used to work at a meat packing plant down in Texas. They said that if you worked there for 10 years, you could "retire." Whatever that meant. But you had to work your ass off there. I doubt very much if anybody could last 10 years there. Unless they were part of the management.

Also, right now I an retired and on Social Security. That means I am about as poor as you can get in this country. Being able to afford a car even if it was given to me for free is FAR beyond my means. Also, I get food stamps. I also get an additional food allowance through my insurance coverage. (Which is free) They give me more of a food allowance than food stamps do. Even then, I CAN'T AFFORD TO FUCKING EAT!!! Though I could easily enough if I wanted to just eat Ramin Noodles all the time. Another thing is that right now I have 16 dollars to last me a week. I might be able to buy enough food to get me to the 1st of next month. But it will be tight.

If you depended on SS for a retirement, you are an idiot. But your posts already show that.

 

[AZrailwhale]

According to my web search, there are 771,480 homeless people in the U.S. I doubt if they're all junkies. And I used to be homeless myself. Drugs weren't the cause of it. Need I go into the working poor? Also, around 500,000 American families experience bankruptcy due to medical expenses. I wonder how many of them end up homeless.

I spent years working on L.A. s skid row. What I learned is the vast majority of the homeless are either druggies ,alcoholics or mentally ill. Of the few who aren’t, most are only homeless for a short time because there are a lot of programs available to help them restart their lives. The remainder are pan handling scam artists who don’t want to work.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Mike Rowe has a net worth of roughly $40,000,000.00...

And he constantly works for it. If you listen you hear his voice constantly narrating movies and TV programs, plus he has used the money he earned to produce shows.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Tax savings is not welfare. For the millionth time. These corps contribute a ton to the economy. Really, they shouldnt pay taxes at all

Corporations and other businesses don’t pay taxes, they are part of overhead and they pass them on to their customers,

 

[AZrailwhale]

I am guessing that it is an average for them all. Some more, some less. For example, there is one pharmaceutical drug company that made a drug called Acthar. The company who made it raised the price of it by 100,000%! I'll bet that not only the CEO but the management got a nice chunk of change out of that.

How many thousands of drugs did they develop at great expense that failed to pan out? Al, those expenses have to be covered by the few successful drugs. I don’t like the expense, but without it there will be no new wonder drugs.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Those other countries you speak of aren't America. Neither do the vast majority of them share a land border with Mexico.

It’s funny, I had no problem finding jobs in the eighties including my eventual career in a major TELCO. Some of them weren’t great jobs, but they put food on the table and a roof over my head.

 

[Captain Caveman]

If only there was a FUCK OFF emoji.

Send yourself several thousand. You're not contributing well to the thread.

 

[Captain Caveman]

You can take all those super wealthy fuckfaces and shove them up your ass. They should have never been allowed to become so wealthy to begin with. Another guy who was super wealthy and ended up giving most of his wealth away was Andrew Carnegie. But considering how he treated his workers, all that money he gave away was basically blood money. It would have been better if he had himself buried with it.

You would get very minimal innovation. They're only wealthy because you use them, they offer things you want and you buy them. Why not use a free operating system, don't use Windows or Apple. What's that, they're not as good!!

Money is the root of all evil.

Have you ever bought a lottery ticket?