Not all rich people suck.

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cali  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-31-09 12:08 PM
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Not all rich people suck.
   
With all the ranting and raving here about how the wealthy are, one and all, evil bloodsuckers, I thought I'd take the unpopular position of noting that not all people who are wealthy are leeches who drain the life blood out of the poor and middle classes.

FDR was a rich man. The Kennedys are a wealthy family. And there are more than a few rich people who advocate against their own narrow self-interests, including Bill Gates Sr and Chuck Collins (Collins is coauthor, with William H. Gates, Sr., of the book Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes, which argues that the estate tax is both fair and necessary. He is also coauthor of Robin Hood Was Right and several other books.) Not to mention Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. These are just a notable few. There are more.

Of course the Madoff's and the Wall Street thugs are despicable. Of course we need greater regulation and higher marginal tax rates on the wealthy, but all people with money aren't monsters who do nothing but exploit the poor.

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The elite who advocate stealing other peoples wealth are okay with the DUmmies.

datasuspect  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-31-09 01:27 PM
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38. i know, rich people are so hard done by
   
it is incumbent upon all of us to realize how nice so many of them really are. we need to be collectively ashamed because we average folk don't take the time to truly understand how wonderful some wealthy people are.

they are practically victims what with all this class warfare and stuff.

some of them even get their expensive items delivered in plain brown wrappers from high end boutiques to their mansions, because they feel guilty about having so much money. i mean, really, who wants to be seen carrying a tiffany bag around in this economic climate.

I'd still rather be seen with that "tiffany bag" as you call it, looks far better that your dented tin cup full of CHANGEâ„¢.

Township75  (1000+ posts)    Sat Jan-31-09 12:36 PM
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23. So what do you think of these rich people
   
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
The Clintons
John Edwards
John Kerry
Mikey Moore
Keith Olbermann
The list could go on.

They all support robbing other rich people ; they're all clearly examples to be upheld.

Stinky The Clown  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sat Jan-31-09 12:40 PM
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27. Obama and Biden are simply not rich   Updated at 8:53 AM
   
Biden, in fact, was the least wealthy Senator when he was in the Senate. Almost all his "wealth" is in the value of his house and his government pension.

stray cat  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-31-09 12:11 PM
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2. Absolutely, if it wasn't with wealthy dems the democrats would never win national elections
   
Edited on Sat Jan-31-09 12:11 PM by stray cat
Like low income voters who vote GOP seemingly against their interests, many people with solid finances vote against their financial interests by voting dem. Poverty doesn't make any one a good person nor does wealth make one bad.

Warpy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)    Sat Jan-31-09 12:11 PM
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5. Even the wealthy who know they need to pay back their good
   
fortune have been sidetracked by excess the past 28 years.

Higher taxes are a great disincentive to greed as the only way to avoid them is reinvesting the money in the society at large.

Higher taxes are a disincentive to growth and production you dimwitted jackass.

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George Soros all but bankrupted the British pension system while producing no tangible goods or services and the DUmmies would fellate him for the price of a bemused smile.

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when these people speak on almost any subject they are utterly idiotic

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when these people speak on almost any subject they are utterly idiotic

Truer words have never been spoken.  Well, typed.

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Since all the poor yearn to be rich, aren't we all evil in the beginning?  Or is there a special point during wealth accumulation that a switch is tripped? 

In the case of Bill Gates, how is it noble to hold on to 1/20th of a trillion dollars while doling out relative pocket change to the lofty ideas of social causes and equity?   Why shouldn't Gates and every other "rich camel" be required to unburden themselves of all their wealth cargo, down to the proclaimed threshold of $250,000, so they can easily enter into the Promise Land of Liberalism through that small gate known as The Eye Of The Needle?