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Sorry, Folks, Rich People Actually Don't 'Create The Jobs'
Business Insider ^ | 11/30/2013 | Henry Blodget

Posted on 11/30/2013 11:16:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Fightin Whitey

“Anytime one is reading anything in which a particular “ecosystem” or “community” or “lifestyle” or type of “activism” is pitted against another—then one can immediately move on to reading something else.”

You are 110% correct. Those terms are the hallmark of a theoreticist...not a theoretician. This is one whose propensity is to fall in love with some latest theory and to reject out of a love for novelty or boredom with the old and boring the known-to-work, simple, direct, and proven.

Everything you know is wrong, I/we know better, and history starts today. I have a gig on TeeVee and you’re a piece of dirt, so I know better, because you have no right nor I any responsibility to validate or be held accountable for what I say today in a week.


61 posted on 11/30/2013 1:06:03 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: parisa

No amount of empirical evidence can shake a liberals foundation of delusion. it must really suck to be them and always be wrong about everything.


62 posted on 11/30/2013 1:09:11 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: whitedog57

yes, Gub’mint jobs.

and aint’t that all that matters to these people?

private jobs are just a stepping stone to gub’mint jobs to them.


63 posted on 11/30/2013 1:11:26 PM PST by esoxmagnum (Turtles don't win fights, they just turtle up. Victory belongs to the aggressor, not the turtle.)
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To: SeekAndFind
yeah, i guess it's the EBT Nation buying all that stock then...
64 posted on 11/30/2013 1:20:31 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Bullish

The tragedy is that they don’t know how much it sucks to be them. It’s their great unknown unknown as Donald Rumsfeld would say.


65 posted on 11/30/2013 1:23:44 PM PST by parisa
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To: SeekAndFind

I have been perusing the content on Business Insider because it appears to be referenced more often on Free Republic for a few months.

This Business Insider seems to be to purveyor of liberal opinion, not news. It seems to be ANYTHING except an inside view into business, unless one counts it as a liberal’s view on business.

From a perspective of a window into the liberal mind, it seems suitable (and who needs any MORE vile and putrid windows into the liberal mindset) but for anything else, why are we treating this as if it means anything?

I just don’t get why we are seeing it referenced more often. Is there something about this organization I don’t get?


66 posted on 11/30/2013 1:35:19 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: SeekAndFind

A barf alert would have been helpful. Thanks to you I wasted a couple of minutes.


67 posted on 11/30/2013 1:43:10 PM PST by nomad
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To: SeekAndFind
Everybody knows it's really Government that creates the jobs.

</sarc>

68 posted on 11/30/2013 2:57:05 PM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: SeekAndFind

This article is just one more of a dreary string that makes me wonder why this site is featured so often on FR.


69 posted on 11/30/2013 3:22:49 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. [Ludwig Von Mises])
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To: SeekAndFind

I enjoy the BI site. But it regularly contains Obama propaganda articles. Often full of lies or distortions As expected. You just have to skip those articles is all.


70 posted on 11/30/2013 3:49:19 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: HereInTheHeartland
I've seen something like that. It was amazing - 75 years ago people paid something like 15% of their income TOTAL in taxes of all kinds. Today its around 50%.

When looked at it from that perspective the liberals claim that tax rates are historically low is ridiculous.

71 posted on 11/30/2013 4:22:09 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Steely Tom

Yep basically a criminal bankster type that didn’t see jail like the small people would have.


72 posted on 11/30/2013 4:34:38 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: SeekAndFind

The author is incorrect. There’s not enough domestic production, and we’re seeing the consequences of an anti-competition regime. Many regulations (e.g., zoning) should be repealed and taxes decreased, beginning at local government levels. Simply get out of the way of men who want to produce, and leave their families alone (dump anti-family policies). And yes, small manufacturing operations run by do-it-yourself-ers could compete.


73 posted on 11/30/2013 4:57:21 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: skeeter

A chart like that should be used in every campaign against a liberal politician.


74 posted on 11/30/2013 5:07:56 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t care if they create jobs or not. It is their money!!!! Whether they earned it or it was inherited, it is their money.


75 posted on 11/30/2013 5:36:38 PM PST by sheana
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To: SeekAndFind

The private sector creates jobs, government creates white collar welfare!


76 posted on 11/30/2013 5:51:16 PM PST by dalereed
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To: pallis
the ultra wealthy in this country have done exceedingly well under bammey the boy....

jobs have been lost...jobs shipped elsewhere....jobs down graded....

less people actually working now than 30 yrs ago....

so our good ultra wealthy have done nothing to create jobs....they've done everything to save that multimillion dollar bonus by cutting jobs, or shipping jobs overseas to some third world stinkhole....

so let me ask, these great "producers" and the "wealthy" that so many worship here, are they creating jobs HERE in America or over in Viet Nam?....are they making tons of money...YES!!!....by destroying jobs HERE in America....???

they are not saints...they are not Henry Fords and do not care one iota about making jobs only about making profits....

look at that scum in the Solar industry debacles.....they STOLE money for "green" projects went bankrupt and collected a big payoff....

77 posted on 11/30/2013 7:07:43 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: nomad

RE: A barf alert would have been helpful. Thanks to you I wasted a couple of minutes.

The responses to the article would have been worth more of your time.


78 posted on 11/30/2013 7:23:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: parisa
The power of self-rationalization and justification of left-wingers is spellbinding. It doesn’t matter how many times it is proven to them, historically proven them, flesh and blood w/ human cost all around proven to them, that they and their cockamamie mindset are UTTERLY, 100%, destructively, miserably, bloodcurdlingly wrong, they go on beating their drumroll like a good jamboree man on mastas’ plantation and not listen. There is no way to get sucked into their arguments. They’ll never admit anythings. They are the living-deads.

The #1 personalty trait of leftist "leaders" is hubris, and they have it by the rail-car load!

Their base way at looking at human beings, other than themselves, is that human beings are flawed, and they can be improved.

And they believe that their ideas are good and right, and the only reason that those ideas have failed in the past (every time they've been tried) is because the people who tried to implement their perfect plans just weren't good enough to make it work.

But these "leaders" KNOW how to make it work, because they're better and smarter than everyone else in history.

Mark

79 posted on 11/30/2013 7:47:09 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: skeeter
The top rates were higher in the past, but the income brackets were set so high that there were very few paying them.

And don't forget that there used to be all sorts of tax deductions which have been eliminated. For instance, you used to be able to deduct credit card and loan interest rates (other than mortgage interest).

Mark

80 posted on 11/30/2013 8:05:01 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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