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Do the rich deserve what they get?
St. Louis Post Dispatch ^
| 3//5/2011
| Todd Frankel
Posted on 03/06/2011 4:48:19 AM PST by mmanager
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To: raybbr
One could ask the question: Has rewarding the upper management to such an extent produced greater wealth for the nation in a proportional ratio?Their job is to produce wealth "for the nation?"
I didn't know Michael Moore was a Freeper!
To: Trailerpark Badass
Their job is to produce wealth "for the nation?" I didn't know Michael Moore was a Freeper!Oh, darn. You got me.
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posted on
03/06/2011 9:26:52 AM PST
by
raybbr
(People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
To: mmanager
Mark Rank usually focuses his attention on the low end of the income charts, on poverty. As a professor of social welfare at Washington University, Wow. How much does that gig pay?
Probably not at the low end of the income charts I'm guessing.
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posted on
03/06/2011 9:29:46 AM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: 30Moves
An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. D'Aconia and the Money Speech Do the rich deserve all that money? Yes, if they came by it honestly. In America, money can be made for those of the industrious and innovative nature. Those who are not such are destined to sell their skills to best producer he can. As for the poor? "Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants; money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money.
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posted on
03/06/2011 9:33:43 AM PST
by
EBH
( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
To: EBH
Francisco’s Money Speech should be required reading in every high school.
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posted on
03/06/2011 9:41:39 AM PST
by
r-q-tek86
("It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" - Dr. Sowell)
To: scooby321
“over 50% of the people have no idea what an income tax is in this country, is that fair?”
That’s the 50% that should be paying it all!!!
They’re the ones sucking their existance from the government!
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posted on
03/06/2011 9:43:13 AM PST
by
dalereed
To: Nepeta
The problem is that now we privatize profits and socialize losses. Execs are not on the hook for bad decisions, as it should be in a true market-driven economy.
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posted on
03/06/2011 9:48:34 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: mmanager
Do the welfare parasites deserve what they get? The welfare parasites suck money from the hard working tax paying class decade in and decade out. We, the tax payers are never thanked, just maligned and ridiculed. The welfare parasites (Democrats) just demand more and more. Shame on the welfare parasites and Shame on the Democrats who rob the tax payer class decade in and decade out.
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posted on
03/06/2011 11:12:03 AM PST
by
Chgogal
(American Mugabe, get your arse out of my bank, my car, my doctor's office & my elec. utility.)
To: r-q-tek86
Indeed it should be, I just had a rip roaring good bar chat on Friday night with a liberal acquaintance regarding this speech. I argued that the speech actually presents the survival of the fittest and sustainable capitalism. And that kind of capitalism is the only kind of sustainable development.
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posted on
03/06/2011 1:10:54 PM PST
by
EBH
( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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