Posted on 10/17/2011 7:15:17 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said repeatedly Sunday that Republicans agree that too few people control too much wealth in America.
"We know in this country right now that there is a complaint about folks at the top end of the income scales, that they make too much and too many don't make enough," Cantor said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, toning down his earlier criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Every time I get to thinking Cantor’s learned NOT to step in “it.” There he is in “it” once again.
Eric, stop trying to go “populist.”
I also something needs to be done about the immunity politicians get from insider trading laws. These people are in a position to make huge sums of money based on votes they take that affect businesses.
Must be nice to be able to dump your stocks before voting to nail a company with unreasonable taxes or regulation. Even better to buy stocks in a company when they can turn around and tilt the table in their favor.
I think the headline is misleading...He acknowledged the complaint but I didn't see that he agreed with it.
Once you equate greed with the accumulation of wealth you lose the argument with everyone who is not a socialist wealth redistributionist at heart.
This philosophy is grounded in the belief that there is only so much pie; only so much wealth. And that every dollar in the hands of one person is a dollar taken from someone else.
I grew up in a small town where almost everyone would be considered low income today. Kids wore patched up jeans and worn out sneakers but as a rule the people were very industrious and hardworking. I never heard my family or friends discuss the honest accumulation of wealth, or people who earned wealth in those terms (greedy).
All we were concerned with was learning how to follow in their footsteps. I don’t care how much more others earn - I care how much I earn.
Have you ever been offered a job by someone who lives on money the government extorts from earners and producers?
“excessive greed is destroying the trust that the general public has in free markets and specifically in capitalism”
That may be true, but who cares? They’re wrong. We should tell them to shut up and worry about themselves, not indulge their illusions.
I tire of people calling these people RINO’s they are socialists just like their buds in the democrat party.....
And so the craven oil slick of ambition who is our House Majority Leader parrots one of Obama and the other Marxists’ favorite lines:
It’s just those greedy rich people who won’t do their duty and hire more people. (Really it’s not Obama’s fault at all.)
>> It’s just those greedy rich people who won’t do their duty and hire more people. >>
To me, that was the worst thing Cantor said. Not only did he parrot the liberal talking point, he demonstrated a breathtaking ignorance of what business is.
In the video, the man specifically states that dems who are joining with the protestors are largely at fault for the economic problems and that the republicans “want success for everybody”. We do want an economic environment that puts the most people to work, do we not?
In any case, Cantor was elected by and serves his constituents. If they’re dissatisfied, I’m sure they’ll replace him with someone else.
>> In any case, Cantor was elected by and serves his constituents. If they’re dissatisfied, I’m sure they’ll replace him... >>
Wow, not sure where you’re going with that. Sounds like you are stuck in the early 1800’s.
First, it’s not relevant. He was giving an interview as a party leader (as in national) on a national stage. He wasn’t having a Northern Virginia conversation on a local yokel radio station.
Besides, are you not affected by Barney Frank? You are, and he’s from Massachusetts. Are you not effected by Harry Reid? Of course you are, and he’s from Nevada.
So, how is all that local “constituency” thing working out for you? We haven’t had that kind of system since the Fed government got too big.
This is a primary reason why we should shift Social Security to a fully funded, private investment account basis. Currently, government takes approximately 10 percent (for the pension component of SS) of a person’s lifetime income in return to an entitlement to a barely poverty level stipend. Shift to a fully funded basis and within a generation virtually every American family will have at least a modest nest egg.
GREEDY are people who want all their somethings for nothing. GREED is NOT from the wealthy who pay out their arses to supply 50 percent of this country with all their somethings.
When I hear crap like this, I’m ready for a new party, a replacement for the GOP.
When I hear crap like this, I’m ready for a new party, a replacement for the GOP.
He’s drunk on Potomac water. Typical spineless Pubbie.
>> When I hear crap like this, I’m ready for a new party, a replacement for the GOP. >>
Nah, we need about one or two more tea party cycles like we had in 2010 and folks like Cantor will not be elected to party leadership. Right now we’re suffering from the fact that GOP leadership is coming from folks who gained seniority under the Bush-Hastert-Frist leadership days.
They need to be cycled out. Another 87 tea party folks in congress should do it.
Canotr has lost me permanently with his comments on Sunday.
Apparently he doesn’t believe that hard work & living a pretty straight & narrow life has no influence on a person’s ability to earn alot of money.
This country has the best FREE education system thru 12th grade.
Since there are millions of parents who don’t make sure their little gang thug wanna-bes don’t attend for all the days available to them, I have absolutely no sympathy for them. I paid property taxes since 1966 to support schools I didn’t send any kids to. My money has not been spent well.
Have you ever been offered a job by someone who lives on money the government extorts from earners and producers?””
Only in the Ethanol & Solar industries.....
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