[Williams]

He’s brilliant.

Saw DeeDee Meyers on TV this weekend. She said Obama’s campaign is that many people believe there is no good reason wealthy people make so much more, that they are not really any more intelligent, that it’s because the system is “rigged” against some people and the wealthy are using “gimmicks” to get rich.

I wanted someone to yell at her for being a damn communist and challenge every sylable of the nonsense she was spouting.

I don’t see rich people as “superior” however does she honestly think most CEO’s are not smarter than the average guy loitering on the street?

We allow liberals to sooo BS us. It is not “fair” for a non working non contributing person to have lots of kids, take drugs, commit crimes, get supported by working people - and then dare to point to income disparities!

[jazusamo]

Well said.

The vast majority of well to do and successful people are that way because they worked their rear ends off to get where they are.

The complainers for the most part are lazy bums willing to live off others success. I have Zer0 sympathy for them and him that resides in the WH.

[Chgogal]

Too bad a fellow pundit didn’t point out the obvious. DeeDee dearest, it is quite clear that you are not the most brilliant and that you used the “rigged” system to acquire all the money you have. When are you going to hand it all over to the Salvation Army?

[Smokin' Joe]

She said Obama’s campaign is that many people believe there is no good reason wealthy people make so much more, that they are not really any more intelligent, that it’s because the system is “rigged” against some people and the wealthy are using “gimmicks” to get rich.

When those people assume responsibility for multimillion dollar projects, work 12 hour days (minimum--some run 20) far from home, for weeks back to back, and often in difficult conditions, until the project is done (whenever that will be), they we can discuss the question of their compensation being 'fair'.

In the meantime, I will continue to resent the implication that I in some way owe any share of the fruits of my labors to those who will not lift a finger other than to claim they 'deserve' a cut.

It is only the thought that some small fraction of the checks I cut annually to the US Treasury goes to those who work even longer hours in worse conditions (with their lives on the line) that makes it possible for me to sign those checks, especially when I consider that often the annual amounts of those checks exceed my total earnings for over half of the years I have worked.