Bull crap. That entire statement is 100% wrong. Both are wrong. There was was not a single supportable claim there.
You may not have understood the context of the statement.
The wealthy like socialism because socialism is big government...and most of the wealthy get their wealth from big government....aka crony capitalism, the wealthy and connected exploit big gov to enrich and empower themselves.
The rest of us are subject to fending for ourselves, hence we are subject to the laws of rugged individualism. The middle class working hard to make peanuts and the poor receiving government handouts, that are less than peanuts.
A common misconception promoted by the media and DNC, is the wealthy are greedy conservative capitalists. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you believe that lie, you need to get informed.
No, I'm sorry, but that is just flat out wrong. Some, a few of the wealthy, get their wealth from Government. The vast vast majority get their wealth, by producing wealth.
The CEO of Walmart, started off, working as a part time seasonal worker, unloading trucks for Walmart during the summer. He did not become wealthy because of government. He became wealthy because he worked his way up the corporate ladder, taking on whatever job he was offered. Working his butt off.
The CEO of my last company, was a low level Engineer for Micro Electronics. When the local branch "Micro-Com" was being sold off, he mortgaged his home, and staked everything he had on buying it. Now he's a millionaire. Government didn't give him his wealth. 20 years of working for Micro Electronics, saving up money from his blood and sweat, and taking the huge risk of staking everything on buying this branch, made him wealthy.
And Micro Electronics, by the way, was built by two guys that started off as low level employees of Radio Shack stores. Government didn't make them wealthy. Their hard work and effort did.
You are wrong. Sanders and King were wrong. All that garbage, is just crap.
Generally speaking, the only people that are made wealthy by government, are the people in government, and those that work socialist projects. Like green energy funding. Yeah, if you hand out money for government projects, that socialists support, not capitalists, then yes, they get wealthy off of government. But that's a dozen wealthy, out of millions.
Wrong. This is your wake up call.
I am talking about the billionaire class, not people who work hard every day building a business...and remember Big Ears said, You didn't build that...
People like Gates, Soros, Buffet, Facebook dork, Google creeps, etc....these jackasses are socialists. These people support leftism and leftist pols...in effect, they own the political class, but the pols like Big Ears expects them to give him lots of money and be out spoken promoters of socialism then BO extends government protection to their interests. Think of it as being EXACTLY like the Mafia.
Read this column. It spells it well.
Why are So Many Rich People Liberals?
That article, and your claims, are not the same. You said these people got rich off government. That is absolutely, 100%, undeniably false.
Buffet is wealthy because of government?
Buffet started investing money when he was a child. And contrary to the claim that he doesn't produce anything, Berkshire Hathaway has invested billions into manufacturing. They own Duracell, Dairy Queen and Fruit of the Loom. They own Clayton Homes, NetJets, and GEICO.
And quiet frankly, you may not like Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, but the fact is, they have created hundreds of trillions of dollars of value, year over year, world wide. Government didn't make them rich. The consumers who choose their products, over your irrelevant opinion, did.
If your position is that ultra-wealthy are generally left-wing, then the article supports that claim. But then I never denied that.
But if your position is that the ultra-wealthy got wealthy through socialism, then the article doesn't make that case, and neither do you. You are wrong.
You are not informed.
Some in the billionaire class make extraordinary sums of money because of their connections to government. They may not have started out this way, but once they reach the billionaire class, they buy government protection from competition and obtain sweet heart deals on all sorts of things.
The article I posted should have informed you, but you chose to limit it's scope to my comments in my post. Not the way to look at it.
Getting sweet heart deals on what?
I've read your article, and it doesn't support the claim you made. Period. Even the article itself, admits they didn't get rich off government, and even does a intellectual dance, to avoid admitting it.
From the article YOU POSTED....
Today’s socialist rich appropriate for themselves the existing wealth of the nation through media, television, newspapers, advertising, fashion or the arts. They are movie producers, TV producers, movie idols and TV stars. They are involved in publishing, communications and information like Michael Bloomberg, the multi-billionaire liberal mayor of New York City, whose Bloomberg News service carries financial stories and data.
But no oil drilling, or coal mining or tractor manufacturing…
Or they get rich through computers or the internet, which is information and data as well. Google is super liberal, and its employees gave 98% of their campaign contributions to Obama in 2008.
They "appropriate" money from media? Television? Newspapers? Advertising? Fashion and Arts?
Appropriate? Are you telling me, that Americans do not CHOOSE to pay for such things? They are buying those things, because they want those things. Because those things have VALUE to the people buying them. There is absolutely no economic, or capitalist difference between people paying for Oil, and people paying for a newspaper.
The only reason people pay anything for either one, is because either one has value to those buying them.
Even so, what the article is in fact admitting is that didn't make their billions off of government, but rather off of producing goods and services people value.
I even like how they selectively list things that none of the people are involved in. Oil production. Coal production. Manufacturing tractors. What's that about? Because Buffet has spent billions producing natural gas. Neat that they skip over that resource. And while Google hasn't produced many tractors, they do produce phones, laptop computers, and several other nifty items still in development. All that ignores the software products that allow other people to make manufactured goods that use that software.
Again, my argument to you
is not that some of the super wealthy are flaming left-wing freaks. They most certainly are.
My argument is with the idea that the super wealthy have their wealth through socialism. It's simply not true. Facebook is a service people like. That's why Zuckerberg has money. He didn't get it from government. He didn't "appropriate" it.
Now if you want to argue that Americans should spend less money on entertainment, and media.... That again, is a claim I wouldn't be against.
But look what is happening right here, right now... as we speak. Where do you think US Message Board get's money from? People like you and me, on here, seeing ads, and donating money. Is US message board socialist? It's just an information exchange, which the article you posted claims to be against.
How is you on here, supporting US Message Board, any different than other people using Facebook, which supports Zuckerberg?
Same difference.
