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Title: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: ScubaGuy on November 04, 2011, 10:39:31 AM
There's no way anyone can read the DUmp and think it's anything other than envy.

It's not envy, we just want what they have (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2240514#2240755)

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Fantastic Anarchist Donating Member (394 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    Fri Nov-04-11 07:42 AM
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It is NOT about wealth-envy!!!
   
It is about not letting them have exclusive control to the levers of power.

It's really all that simple.

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DCKit (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 Nov-04-11 09:03 AM
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1. If anything, it's exactly opposite... our horror at their spending, at our expense.
   
I just got an email from a $6K/month sister who called me every name in the book, told me I was mentally ill, then went on to make some really disparaging remarks.

I'm not going to answer with an email, I'm going to use a lawyer.


This must be serious, I hope you have access to Pitts Ninja lawyers.

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badtoworse Donating Member (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    Fri Nov-04-11 09:12 AM
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2. Sue her for being an asshole?
   
That's a new one on me. What's a $6K / month sister?



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lunatica 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 Nov-04-11 09:16 AM
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5. Perhaps there's more to this story than you thing.
   

More than I thing?  Are you related to Nadin?

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randome (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    Fri Nov-04-11 09:36 AM
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8. Obviously.
   
Then what's the point of telling the story?


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DCKit (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 Nov-04-11 09:43 AM
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10. They committed fraud to gain $65. That's sixty five bucks.
   
Don't tell me I don't have a case.

$65?  You're getting a lawyer over $65?   :lmao:
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (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    Fri Nov-04-11 09:51 AM
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11. A case? Who knows? I have no idea at all what your posts
   
here mean. None. At all. Gibberish.



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treestar 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 Nov-04-11 09:15 AM
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4. This is true
   
They wish we envied them. That's why they "worked so hard." To be at the top. If that isn't acknowledged, what was the point?

Nope, no sign of envy there.

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DCKit (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 Nov-04-11 10:45 AM
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15. I'll assume that you secretly abhor them, as I do.
   
Anyone who "needs" more than $6K per month to survive is a parasite on all of us.

So now $72,000/year is outrageously wealthy?   :loser:

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Bigmack 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 Nov-04-11 11:18 AM
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19. Why would I envy a money-hoarder...
   
any more than I envy the old lady with the 137 cats, or the old fart who has 350 wrecked cars in his pasture?

Hoarding is an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Couple of million...? ... 10 cats... No problem.

Couple of Billion.... ? .... 137 cats....Problem.

The county can... and does... limit the number of cats you can have beyond reasonable norms.

The government should limit the amount of money you have beyond reasonable norms.

And there's the winner!

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randome (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    Fri Nov-04-11 11:25 AM
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20. Unfortunately, that sounds like 'socialism' or even 'communism' to most people.
   
I can't say I'd have a problem with certain features of your idea, though.

Say, any amount of money over a certain limit would need to be invested in creating a company (jobs) or in donations to a cause of your choice. Otherwise, it simply reverts to the government to do what it wants.

On the other hand, most people would never aspire to taking in more money than they need to avoid this limit and progress (from private enterprise) would grind to a halt and we would be left to the government to decide more than they do now.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Carl on November 04, 2011, 10:50:19 AM
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DCKit (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 Nov-04-11 10:45 AM
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15. I'll assume that you secretly abhor them, as I do.
   
Anyone who "needs" more than $6K per month to survive is a parasite on all of us.



That may qualify as the most inane statement I have seen from the DUmp.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: wasp69 on November 04, 2011, 10:52:19 AM
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Bigmack Donating Member (1000+ posts)     Fri Nov-04-11 11:18 AM
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19.

The government should limit the amount of money you have beyond reasonable norms.

Why?  It's not like they're going to suddenly give it to you, DUmbass.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: movie buff on November 04, 2011, 11:36:22 AM
"If anything, it's exactly opposite... our horror at their spending, at our expense."
Then why doesn't this DUmmy protest against the Obamas going on lavish, exorbitantly expensive vacations every couple months, also at our expense?
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Celtic Rose on November 04, 2011, 12:02:32 PM
These types of posts make me wonder if the DUmmies really believe what they are saying, or if they are just being obstinate for the sake of it. 

Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on November 04, 2011, 12:02:51 PM
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DCKit (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 Nov-04-11 10:45 AM
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15. I'll assume that you secretly abhor them, as I do.
  
Anyone who "needs" more than $6K per month to survive is a parasite on all of us.


:o Thanks to your president,$6K a month doesn't go as far as it did say 3 years ago?
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: SherryBaby on November 04, 2011, 12:06:08 PM
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The government should limit the amount of money you have beyond reasonable norms.



UGH UGH UGH...seriously feeling physically ill over the fact there are people in my country who truly believe this.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Wineslob on November 04, 2011, 12:12:52 PM
I see the Socialist's have come out of the woodwork. Funny, they seem to be just like the OWS supporters:

http://pjmedia.com/zombie/
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on November 04, 2011, 12:17:41 PM
I was gonna say penis-envy.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: JohnnyReb on November 04, 2011, 12:23:23 PM
I was gonna say penis-envy.

Careful now, Bonnie Fwank will want his fair share.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Erasmus on November 04, 2011, 12:29:21 PM
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1. If anything, it's exactly opposite... our horror at their spending, at our expense.
  
I just got an email from a $6K/month sister who called me every name in the book, told me I was mentally ill, then went on to make some really disparaging remarks.

I'm not going to answer with an email, I'm going to use a lawyer.

You are mentally ill, first of all.  Second, you're going to sue your sister because she makes $6k per month?  $6k a month isn't rich, dear.  I can see why there are multiple occurrences of liberals at DU bitching because their families effectively disown them.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Freeper on November 04, 2011, 12:38:06 PM
It is nothing but envy, they envy the rich so much that they  want to destroy them so they become poor too.

Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Karin on November 04, 2011, 12:48:31 PM
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Anyone who "needs" more than $6K per month to survive is a parasite on all of us.


That may qualify as the most inane statement I have seen from the DUmp.

Well, Old Don the Grouch pegged the number at $50K.  He said that we could all live quite comfortably on $50k.  Thanks, Don. 

What a thread.  "It's not about wealth envy!!!... "My $6K sister blah blah blah." 
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Maxiest on November 04, 2011, 01:02:08 PM
That may qualify as the most inane statement I have seen from the DUmp.

 I agree, these DUmmies trip me out.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: miskie on November 04, 2011, 01:16:07 PM
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DCKit (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 Nov-04-11 10:45 AM
Response to Reply #9
15. I'll assume that you secretly abhor them, as I do.
  
Anyone who "needs" more than $6K per month to survive is a parasite on all of us.

Oh bite me, mental midget. I live in Massachusetts - and not in a wealthy community either - and a decent apartment will run you $1200 a month. Thankfully, we bought this house in '98 and $1200 is sightly more than our mortgage. Needless to say, the remaining $4800 goes pretty quickly.

-And that's just here.

I'm certain that a more expensive neighborhood or state will consume 6K in three weeks or less.

Honestly, the missus & I make slightly under 100K a year before taxes, and with three kids it all goes quickly.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Ballygrl on November 04, 2011, 01:19:59 PM
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DCKit (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 Nov-04-11 09:03 AM
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1. If anything, it's exactly opposite... our horror at their spending, at our expense.
   
I just got an email from a $6K/month sister who called me every name in the book, told me I was mentally ill, then went on to make some really disparaging remarks.

I'm not going to answer with an email, I'm going to use a lawyer.

If it's about spending then why are you all supporting Obama and Democrats?
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on November 04, 2011, 01:26:45 PM
If it's about spending then why are you all supporting Obama and Democrats?
I saw that too and was wondering how exactly Wall Street is spending "their" tax dollars? The mental gymnastics are incredible to behold!  :rotf:
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: miskie on November 04, 2011, 01:33:58 PM
If it's about spending then why are you all supporting Obama and Democrats?

Their righteous anger only goes as far as the perceived politics of the person/people they rail against. If the wealthy oppressor is one of their own, he/she gets a pass. 
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Ballygrl on November 04, 2011, 02:13:17 PM
Their righteous anger only goes as far as the perceived politics of the person/people they rail against. If the wealthy oppressor is one of their own, he/she gets a pass.

So as usual they're hypocrites?
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 04, 2011, 03:52:15 PM
So as usual they're hypocrites?

Bally, please tell me that you're kidding here.
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: USA4ME on November 04, 2011, 04:46:55 PM
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DCKit

They committed fraud to gain $65. That's sixty five bucks.
   
Don't tell me I don't have a case.

Primitives lie all the time.  I bet it wasn't even $65.  It was probably more like $64 and change.

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Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: cmypay on November 04, 2011, 05:13:45 PM
Primitives lie all the time.  I bet it wasn't even $65.  It was probably more like $64 and change.

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Who commits fraud for $65? That would make the sister as stupid as the OP
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Duke Nukum on November 04, 2011, 05:22:29 PM
Capitalism doesn't create Greed-it accepts it as inevitable & mitigates its negative effect. Marxism doesn't create Envy-it exploits it. --@FreedomEdge via Twitter
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Evil_Conservative on November 04, 2011, 08:16:10 PM
Only $6,000 a month?

Those DUmmies would be pissed to know about the monthly incomes I see on a daily basis while processing loan documents for a big evil bank.  :rotf:
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: BattleHymn on November 05, 2011, 01:33:28 PM
Well, Old Don the Grouch pegged the number at $50K.  He said that we could all live quite comfortably on $50k.  Thanks, Don. 




50K?  seriously? 

 :rofl:
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Evil_Conservative on November 05, 2011, 01:38:32 PM
50K?  seriously? 

 :rofl:

I know, right!

We made over $50K last year and still owed the government money when we filed our taxes.  That guy is a fool to think people can live comfortably on $50,000.  Maybe if it's just two people with no kids who live well within their means.  Which means a BUDGET, DUmmies.  :)
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: BattleHymn on November 05, 2011, 02:20:12 PM
I know, right!

We made over $50K last year and still owed the government money when we filed our taxes.  That guy is a fool to think people can live comfortably on $50,000.  Maybe if it's just two people with no kids who live well within their means.  Which means a BUDGET, DUmmies.  :)

/DU mode
When life's little problems crop up, be sure to take them to Planned Parenthood, before they spread. 
/DU mode




Another thing I'll add to that- is that 50K, including all the benefits that you get from work, including 401K match, health care, ESOP or other ownership programs, unemployment insurance, etc?

If I add all these in to what my wife and I made last year, we are clearly in Don's 1%.   ::)
Title: Re: It is NOT about wealth-envy!!! (yeah, right)
Post by: Vagabond on November 05, 2011, 08:36:48 PM
Why?  It's not like they're going to suddenly give it to you, DUmbass.

Oh, but that is what these great unwashed idiots think.  They think that people that earn abiver their specified anount will, against almost all human nature, continue to work just so others can live off of their work.  What can't be true, won't be true.