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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on September 24, 2011, 10:35:02 AM
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I know shocking, right? :lmao:
McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-23-11 11:39 PM
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Read These Stories Then Tell Me Why I Should Respect People Just for Being Rich? Updated at 11:39 PM
The Rothschild’s made their fortune the old fashioned way---from war, by financing the British military effort during the Napoleonic War. They then enlarged their fortune the new fashioned way, by stock market manipulation. After the Battle of Waterloo, Rothschild put his early knowledge of the British victory to use by selling a few shares in order to convince other investors that Napolean had won. When a mad selling spree erupted, he got bargains---and ripped off a lot of other investors in the process.
http://napoleon.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/11/09/the-ro... /
J.P. Morgan also made his fortune from war. In his case, he bought a bunch of worthless rifles cheap and then turned around and sold them to the Union Army. Not only were the rifles worthless as combat weapons, they also shot off the thumbs of soldiers who tried to use them. Morgan went to court to ensure that he would get paid for his treason.
http://iulzzang.hubpages.com/hub/johnpmorgan
John D. Rockefeller Jr. literally committed murder for the sake of profit in Ludlow, Colorado, when the state militia was used to suppress a mine strike. After months of violence directed at the strikers, the company finally decided to clear out all the workers and their families. They did this by enlisting the aid of the Colorado National Guard, which machine gunned the workers and set fire to their tent camp, suffocating women and children.
http://libcom.org/history/1914-the-ludlow-massacre
Henry Ford helped finance Adolph Hitler. He also made a bundle from the Nazi German division of his company. Prior to 1938, he made passenger cars for Hitler. After 1938, he made trucks and other vehicles for the German war effort. Profits were enormous, because Ford used slave labor supplied by the Nazis.
http://www.bulldognews.net/issues_ford_slave_labor.html
Cap. James Brown. Never heard of him? Maybe you have heard of Brown University. Brown made his money the really old fashioned way---as a slave merchant, dragging Africans from their native countries to the Americas to be sold as laborers. Apparently, the richest man in Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus was also a slave merchant. Some say he was the richest man of all time. And the Sauds of Saudi Arabia, who hold themselves up to be the ultimate defenders of Allah---they still own slaves.
http://www.eblackstudies.org/intro/chapter3.htm
So tell me, why do the rich whine and stamp their feet when asked to contribute their fair share? Their money does not make them better than anyone else. In some cases, it makes them much, much worse. They will call this “Class Warfareâ€, but I think maybe rich folks ought to pay a little bit more than others (rather than less) in order to make up for all the sins they commit amassing those great big piles of money.
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-24-11 07:52 AM
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27. Joe Kennedy taught his children a sense of responsibilty.
They never treated the poor like the dirt beneath their feet. Teddy, Bobby, and Jack all fought for them. Teddy did some really stupid, criminal things as a youth, but think of all the shit he waded through in the Senate, how much he got done for the regular folk, and how it just isn't the same without him. No one is fighting to cross aisles and get the job done like he did.
Jack and Bobby were trying to make this country a little more equal, a little less "work your ass off just to be able to survive" and they killed them. Sure his daddy was a bootlegger, but do not ever speak ill of the Kennedys to me. I like to imagine a world with them having lived into old age as public servants. We'd be much further ahead and in space travel and socially. I guarantee it.
Duckie
So Teddy gets a pass for doing stupid criminal things as a youth? Yet Bush getting a DUI where no one was hurt was a huge issue to these clowns.
YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-24-11 08:12 AM
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30. No, I do get it...
Do not put the Kennedys into the same ilk as the Bushes. That is disgusting and nauseating.
I agree that is nauseating, the Bush's are classy folks, whether you agree with all of their policies or not, the Kennedys were spoiled brats who used their money to keep them in govt for life.
YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-24-11 08:16 AM
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32. The HUGE difference is the Bush family are idle, spoiled and douche bags.
The Kennedys could have just lived off their trust funds, but no. They were public servants in the real sense of the word.
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They used their positions to gain more wealth and keep as much as that wealth as they could from going to the tax collector.
begin_within (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-24-11 12:03 AM
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3. The rich create poverty, by taking more than they need, thereby leaving less for others.
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Sep-24-11 02:45 AM
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17. eat the rich
they do too much harm
done
After the rich are gone, who is going to pay the taxes?
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Joe Kennedy was a huge supporter of Hitler as was the NYT.
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When people say that they hate the rich, all I can think is that they either don't have enough real problems, or even hobbies, to occupy them, or that they have massively misplaced the blame for their own choices. There are a lot of rich people in the world, and I don't think that a single one of them has had any affect on me or my money. When Bill Gates gets richer, nobody gets poorer as a result. He is not reaching into people's wallets to increase his wealth.
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When people say that they hate the rich, all I can think is that they either don't have enough real problems, or even hobbies, to occupy them, or that they have massively misplaced the blame for their own choices. There are a lot of rich people in the world, and I don't think that a single one of them has had any affect on me or my money. When Bill Gates gets richer, nobody gets poorer as a result. He is not reaching into people's wallets to increase his wealth.
Exactly, and oddly enough the entity that is reaching in all of our wallets to increase their wealth, the Federal Government, gets cheered by the DUmmies.
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My god what a bunch of bitter idiots. How much is too much money to these fools anyway? There are people in mud huts in the world that would call them rich. Do they get to eat the DUmmies? There is nothing noble about being a broke jackass.
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Joe Kennedy was a huge supporter of Hitler as was the NYT.
Further, Joe Kennedy made his fortune the old fashioned way....as a criminal......his money came from importing bootleg whisky from Ireland during prohibition.
Libs tend to overlook that........perhaps they should do some research on the phrase "Irish Mafia".......
I wonder why?
doc
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Henry Ford helped finance Adolph Hitler. He also made a bundle from the Nazi German division of his company. Prior to 1938, he made passenger cars for Hitler. After 1938, he made trucks and other vehicles for the German war effort. Profits were enormous, because Ford used slave labor supplied by the Nazis.
http://www.bulldognews.ne...ues_ford_slave_labor.html
I guess I am confused here. On one hand they are isolationists who profess to support everything Ford stood for during WWI and WWII. The next they claim he never should have continued business with a country involved in a war that meant nothing to us here in America (none of our business ring any bells?).
The truth is the nazis took his plants from him. He like every other business in countries not involved in the war continued to do business.
Why don't you Nadinâ„¢ what Henry Ford did for the allied war effort once we entered the war you freakin putzes?
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My god what a bunch of bitter idiots. How much is too much money to these fools anyway?
A single cent more, or anything slightly nicer then they have. The dummies can't stand anyone being better off then they are.
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That had to hurt--YellowRubberDuckie getting his ass handed to him by low post count DrunkenBoat.
And then there's this:
begin_within (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-24-11 12:03 AM
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3. The rich create poverty, by taking more than they need, thereby leaving less for others.
The DUmbest thing I've seen in a while.
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I was behind one of these "Class(less) Warriors" this past week while going through Newburgh, returning from a field visit. The DUchebag (maybe the primitive who tried to run for the Newburgh City Council?) was in a Toyota Sienna minivan, and had these gems on his tailgate:
"Tax The Rich 90%"
"the earth cannot afford THE RICH" (Or something like that).
What a DUchebag. I was considering taking a pic of the back of the thing.