Posted on 07/12/2012 5:46:33 AM PDT by Cronos
Edited on 07/12/2012 5:48:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
SOME 39% of adults think that the rich in their country deserve their wealth according to GlobeScan, a market-research company which polled 12,000 people in 23 countries. Top earners have attracted more opprobium as their salaries and the performance of the economy have headed in opposite directions. Europeans and Latin Americans tend to have similar attitudes to the rich; the Anglo-Saxon world is a bit more forgiving. The biggest contrast, though, is between emerging economies (a group in which Russia sits, rather awkwardly).
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Because lawyers and most doctors are not GOPers.
Notice how coverage of Russia is turning negative now that Putin is cracking down on the sodomites.
I see Kenya is in the top 5. Maybe Obama should consider running for Commissar there after November and he will be redistributing goats there in no time.
I am of the opinion that, at least in the US, most rich people got their money through their own hard work and efforts and I don’t begrudge it to them. I don’t want to tax the Hell out of them to support myself. But I sure as Hell don’t want to bail them out.
btt
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