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To: marshmallow

I can’t muster any sympathy for the rich, except that it’s a shame she didn’t spend that wealth she had before she lost it to help those less fortunate.


6 posted on 01/23/2009 9:54:21 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

Why ? It was HER money. She and her husband earned it, and in the process paid taxes, some of which were used to help the “less fortunate”.

What a private person does with their own money is THEIR business, not anyone elses. . .


9 posted on 01/23/2009 9:59:18 AM PST by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
I can’t muster any sympathy for the rich

Just... wow.

18 posted on 01/23/2009 10:17:00 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: GraniteStateConservative

It was her money and it was stolen from her. Again, it was her money to do with as she wished and it was stolen from her.

The granite state must grow them different, because I thought conservatives were about respecting private property and not envying others for what they have.

I’ll never have 7 million dollars myself but I can certainly sympathize with someone near retirement age having their entire nest egg stolen from them.

Maybe, her government should have taken all of her money and spent it for her? Yeah, that would be better/sarc. Maybe you should have taken it from her and spent it as you thought best. A thief is a thief is a thief.

Can you tell that I’m peeved?


33 posted on 01/23/2009 10:56:28 AM PST by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: GraniteStateConservative
I can’t muster any sympathy for the rich...

Shove off then. They could use a bit of your envy politics at DU.

34 posted on 01/23/2009 11:00:30 AM PST by TankerKC (Yes we can? I already could.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

How can you call yourself a conservative when you feel it is your prerogative to decide how others should spend their money?


36 posted on 01/23/2009 11:05:45 AM PST by MediaMole
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To: GraniteStateConservative
it’s a shame she didn’t spend that wealth she had before she lost it to help those less fortunate.

The article says she spent $400,000 each year. I'd wager the majority of that DID, in fact, go to people less fortuante than she was.

Quit yer bitchin, we live in a capitalist society, where wealth is still spread.

38 posted on 01/23/2009 11:11:49 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
I can’t muster any sympathy for the rich, except that it’s a shame she didn’t spend that wealth she had before she lost it to help those less fortunate.

Sounds rather leftist...

57 posted on 01/23/2009 1:16:53 PM PST by Allegra
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