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8 Ways the Prophets of Capitalist Greed Justify Their Success and Your Slide Toward Poverty

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/8-ways-prophets-capitalist-greed-justify-their-success-and-your-slide-toward
 
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1. The "Get a Job" Critic

This usually well-connected person criticizes the jobless for being lazy. But in a recent poll that asked if "the government in Washington should see to it that everyone who wants to work can find a job," 68% of the general public agreed, while only 19% of the wealthy were in agreement.
 
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2. The Illusionist

It all started with a "world is flat" reverie, by which every individual in the world is empowered to accomplish great things. Then on to "create your own job" hyperbole, and on a global scale to the capitalist's belief that "a billion people have been lifted from poverty through free-market competition."
 
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3. The Self-Made Man

Wealthy individuals pride themselves on their successes from meager beginnings. Many of this self-congratulatory group grew up as educated white males in the richest nation ever in the most productive time in the history of the world. They rode the technology engine for thirty years, benefiting from federal funding that provided almost half of basic research funds into the 1980s, and half of research in the communications industry as late as 1990.
 

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4. The Government Hater

This candidate opposes government intervention of any type, unless it's for national defense, homeland security, surveillance, prison funding and the drug war, any subsidies to oil and coal and agricultural companies, bailouts and Quantitative Easing, tax expenditures that mainly benefit the rich, and anything to do with women's bodies.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022597017

Supposedly, these cheap caricatures describe conservatives to a T.

Yet, the Proglodytes are perpetually miserable because conservatives are continually successful while all they can do is sit there and watch and hope someday some bureaucrat will come riding to their rescue.

[98ZJUSMC]

alternet.org

 

Congratulations!  That's some of the most non-sequitrish, mish-mash Fauxchohants-inspired drivel they have come up with yet. 

[Wineslob]

But in a recent poll that asked if "the government in Washington should see to it that everyone who wants to work can find a job," 68% of the general public agreed, while only 19% of the wealthy were in agreement.

Typical.   

[98ZJUSMC]

But in a recent poll that asked if "the government in Washington should see to it that everyone who wants to work can find a job," 68% of the general public agreed, while only 19% of the wealthy were in agreement.

Typical.   

How much of that 68% is this:

The most reliable constituency for Big Government is single women, for whom the state is a girl’s best friend, the sugar daddy whose checks never bounce. A society in which a majority of births are out of wedlock cannot be other than a Big Government welfare society. Ruining a nation’s finances is one thing; debauching its human capital is far harder to fix.   -Mark Steyn

Lots, I'll wager.  But, .....FeMiNiSm!!!111!!!elEvEntY!111!

[hillneck]

the government in Washington should see to it that everyone who wants to work can find a job

The problem with the DUmmies is that they don't want to work, they want freebies and handouts.

[USA4ME]

Losers in life look for excuses for why they're losers rather than facing the truth by looking in the mirror. So alternet provided a nice check off list for the losers to use. They don't even have enough initiative to come up with their own lists of excuses.

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