Posted on 01/20/2012 9:03:58 AM PST by Charles Henrickson
I’m gonna git me a kitty to purr against my unloved skin.
PING!
Because some of them have guns? What do I win?
Yeah, since robbing isn’t illegal at all, right? Silly DUmmies!
overtax the rich, they will just bolt, and your poor just lost their best customers. the very definition of pyrrhic.
See if we've got one in stock, would ya?
You have to be a registered DUmmie in order to win a Kewpie Doll. Besides, DUmmie TomClash has already claimed today's.
Why Not Rob The Rich?
Why Not Rob The Rich?
If 75% of the wealth of the richest one-tenth of 1% of American society were immediately expropriated. . . .
If 75% of the wealth of the richest one-tenth of 1% of American society were immediately expropriated, there would be no need to discuss cuts to spending that affects the well-being of the vast majority.
Was this written by Foghorn Leghorn?
Ah repeat, was this written by Foghorn Leghorn?
I did the repetition because I had more than one comeback for that comment.
I know this is a FUnny thread, but I can never let statements like this go unchalleged:
“If 75% of the wealth of the richest one-tenth of 1% of American society were immediately expropriated”
The total wealth of the nation is approximately $49 trillion.
The top 1% own 35% of it, or $17 trillion.
I don’t know how the top 1 tenth of the top 1% really flushes out, but lets continue with the 35% - or $6 trillion.
And the DU genius only wants to take 75% of that (how gracious), so his confiscation scheme would net the government $4.5 trillion...or less than the debt run up in the Obama presidency alone.
We think its obvious - but its a powerful argument to people who have never really thought about it: NOT ENOUGH WEALTH EXISTS TO CONFISCATE!
A liberal in the office thought Rupert Murdoch could solve all our problems, if the government picked his pockets. I worked it out that each man, woman, and child in our nation would get $28. Thats it. He was stunned, and I think I may have knocked some sense into him.
Another example - Michael Moore wants to confiscate the wealth of America’s 400 billionaires...called them ‘little Mubaraks’ to imply they had stolen it anyway. Their total wealth - $1.5 trillion...that won’t even pay Obama’s credit card for one year.
These people genuinely believe there is money lying around, to pay for everything, and some ‘meanies’ just won’t give it to them....but a small fraction will listen to common sense, if you show them some simple math.
mr leghorn 100x smarter than this. he harvested the hens’ eggs but never ate them. trying to eat the hens was henery hawk’s job.
Tax the rich,
Feed the poor.
Till there are no rich no more
It's about envy more than greed. They'd rather everyone be poor rather than let anyone be rich. If we follow the advice of the song, the poor would starve once the rich were no more, but hey, at least we'd all be equal in our misery.
Male Peasant (Michael Palin): What you got for us today then.
Moore: Well I've managed to find you four very nice silver spoons Mr Jenkins.
Male Peasant: (snatching them rudely.) Who do you think you are giving us poor this rubbish?
Female Peasant (Terry Jones): Bloody silver. Won't have it in the house. (throws it away) And those candlesticks you got us last week were only sixteen carat.
Male Peasant: Yes, why don't you go out and steal something nice like some Venetian silver.
Female Peasant: Or a Velasquez for the outside loo.
Moore: Oh all right. (turns purposefully)
(Usual montage of Dennis Moore riding plus song.)
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Riding through the land
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Without a merry band
He steals from the poor. And gives to the rich
Stupid bitch.
(Dennis Moore reins to sudden halt and looks over to camera.)
Moore: What did you sing?
Singers: (speaking) We sang... he steals from the poor and gives to the rich.
Moore: Wait a tic... blimey, this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought.
Yes, I too thought of Dennis Moore as I did this DUFU.
Well that’s a fine how-do-you-do, ah say , that’s a fine how-do-you-do.
A brandy new Smith & Wesson 686 and ten thousand rounds of ammunition!
Foghorn did repeat himself a lot, tho. Ah repeat...
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore,
He’s not in this bit!
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