It really is the fault of the top 1%

[Freeper]

Speck Tater (8,933 posts)

 
It really is the fault of the top 1%

And by the way, if your household income is above roughly $30,000 per year YOU are in the top 1% world wide. So yes, it IS your fault too.

(Disclaimer: I am NOT in the top 1% world wide)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002850624

Yay I'm in the 1% now. 

[Kyle Ricky]

Speck Tater is one big douchenozzle. His job must be a minimum wage one flipping burgers at the local Wendy's. That would explain why he is so jealous. I will lay ten to one that he never did anything with himself after he graduated high school, that is if he even did graduate.

[Delmar]

Woo hoo. Mom, your son is a success.  And Dad, you were wrong when you said I'd never amount to anything.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002850624

Yay I'm in the 1% now. 

It's never the fault of retards who only think of how much a politician will steal from someone else to give to them...

[I_B_Perky]

Speck Tater (8,933 posts)
 
It really is the fault of the top 1%

And by the way, if your household income is above roughly $30,000 per year YOU are in the top 1% world wide. So yes, it IS your fault too.

(Disclaimer: I am NOT in the top 1% world wide)

I got one thing to say:   

$30,000 is what... twice min wage? Shiiite boy. I could make more than that cutting freaking yards if I did it full time.

[thundley4]

The sad thing is, millions of actual poor people the world over who struggle to survive are probably happier than the richest of the DUmmies.

[jukin]

Then I've been in the top 1% since graduating college.

[Tantal]

$30,000 is what... twice min wage? Shiiite boy. I could make more than that cutting freaking yards if I did it full time.

Yes, but that would require actual labor, which is something that DUmmies see as being beneath them.....being intellectually superior and all.

[Big Don]

Speck Tater is one big douchenozzle.

I object to the term douchenozzle, say instead, enema nozzle...

[diesel driver]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002850624

Yay I'm in the 1% now. 

ME, TOO!   

And I'm only part-time!   

I object to the term douchenozzle, say instead, enema nozzle...

How about "enema receptacle"?   

[miskie]

The missus and I <<just>> make six figures before taxes. I guess that makes us corporate overlords or something.. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Egalitarian Thug (1,872 posts)

3. This post is so insane, irrelevant, incomplete, and misleading it makes my head hurt. n/t

Speck Tater (8,934 posts)

8. So raping and pillaging the rest of the planet...

...is an acceptable way to sustain the American way of life? Do we of the U.S. really have the right to hog more than our fair share of the world's resources?
 
I suppose the U.S. 1% think it's O.K. for them to get multi-million dollar bonuses, so it stand to reason that the global 1% also think they are entitled to steal from the poor people of the world.
 
I don't suppose it's realistic to expect anyone to admit that they are greedy and take more than their share; more than they are entitled to.
 
But then who the hell cares about the little brown people in distant places. The fact that our greed contributes to their suffering is something easily forgotten. So forget it.

MightyOkie (64 posts)

10. I forgot about it before I even started. nt

Zalatix (5,160 posts)

12. Nice job pissing on the brown people here in America. But you don't care about them, do you?

Oh and the fact that you can post this *ahem* message means you're part of that 1%. Your standard of living is higher than that of 99% of people in other nations. You should ditch your computer and be homeless. In fact, people who believe as you do would argue that our dumpsters have better meals than is found in 99% of the rest of the world.

dionysus (21,121 posts)

14. give up all your shit and live in a cardboard box. don't be a hypocrit.

mmonk (46,589 posts)

11. Agreed.

This is about income inequality in the US and about how quickly we have sunk among industrialized nations. We are now par with countries such as Cameroon, Rwanda, Uganda, etc.

RevStPatrick (1,040 posts)

6. Yes, I am in the top 1% worldwide, and yes it is my fault.

About $55,000 household income last year, between 2 of us.

For where we live, we're not doing that great.

But we are surrounded by, and have the pleasure of sampling some of the finest things this planet has to offer.
 
Yesterday, Sweetie and I were relaxing with our iPads in our garden (something most FOXCONN employees don't get to do), sharing a bottle of 2 dollar Dry brand Lemongrass soda. It tasted SO GOOD, and was such a frivolous purchase, and the thought popped into my head that there is some kid growing up in some dingy factory town somewhere who will never in this life have the opportunity to enjoy such a simple and peaceful moment.
 
That's not my fault, I understand, that's fate, or luck or whatever, but I realized that many of the choices I have made are available to me on the backs of people who will never have those choices. I am not cautious enough when voting with my dollars, and I don't do all that I can do to clean up the mess that I make as a (relatively) wealthy consumer.
 
I don't feel guilty about being able to have a good life, but I know that I could be doing something more significant than talking about it on some internet discussion forum.
 
So yes, it is my fault too.

Speck Tater (8,934 posts)

7. And the American way of life...

...is only possible by exploiting the poor around the world. We eat their bananas, drink their coffee, enjoy their chocolate, use their exotic wood in our furniture, use our high-tech gadgets made in their sweat shops,... and on and on.
 
The American way of life cannot, ever, be enjoyed by the rest of the world because in order to enjoy what we enjoy we take more than our share. We are the greedy. We are the 1%. And we complain when the U.S. 1% do to us what we as the global 1% are doing to the rest of the world.
 
And just like the U.S. 1% who are proud of their multi-million dollar bonus checks, WE TOO are proud of how we rape and pillage the rest of the planet's peoples to sustain our greedy way of life.

dionysus (21,121 posts)

15. are you going to give up your internet connection and go live in an alley for penance?

[JohnnyReb]

Speck Tater (8,934 posts)

8. So raping and pillaging the rest of the planet...

...is an acceptable way to sustain the American way of life? Do we of the U.S. really have the right to hog more than our fair share of the world's resources?

Yes it is...when you consider we feed much of the world and support with money many other countries....yes, it's fair for those that produce the most to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

We have spent billions trying to raise the standard of living all over the world. While they haven't attained our level yet, we have tried mightily....BUT DUmmies, Obama included, have decided that if we can't raise their standard of living to ours, we must lower our standard of living to their third world level.

[Karin]

Tiresome, this self-flaggelating post of Speck's.  "Rape and pillage the planet..." is there a more tired cliche?  Also, the thread didn't go over quite as well as he hoped, perhaps.  It is hypocritical to post this tripe on an internet board, using a computer, electricity, and an IPS.  Reading it, all I can hear in my head is "blah blah blah."

[freedumb2003]

What is funny is the responses are downright conservative.

The only variable is the amount.  Make it $100,000 and all of sudden they will all be on the "you are greedy" bandwagon.  Look at the response by the OP (emphasis added) that gets poo-poohed:

I don't suppose it's realistic to expect anyone to admit that they are greedy and take more than their share; more than they are entitled to.

So they admit indirectly that the liberal definition of more than "fair share" is "more than I make."

Hypocrites -- and this exposes them.

[USA4ME]

H5^ to freedumb2003.  He's correct.

Speck Tater

I suppose the U.S. 1% think it's O.K. for them to get multi-million dollar bonuses, so it stand to reason that the global 1% also think they are entitled to steal from the poor people of the world.

Given the totality of what the primitives claim to believe, the above is an accurate statement.

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