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To: Lady Jag

If all the money and property in the world were divided up equally at, say, 3 o’clock in the afternoon, by 3.30pm there would already be notable differences in the financial conditions of the recipients. Within that first 30 minutes, some adults would have lost their share. Some would have gambled theirs away and some would have been swindled or cheated out of their portion (thereby making some others richer). The disparity would increase with growing momentum as time went on. After 90 days, the differences would be staggering. And, I’m willing to wager that, within a year or two at the most, the distribution of wealth would conform to patterns almost identical with those that had previously prevailed.
John Paul Getty


31 posted on 02/12/2014 10:16:51 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: null and void

Dave Chapelle did a skit on that, in which blacks were given millions in reparations; the white news anchors were commenting on how eager blacks seemed to give the money back. One guy bought a truck loaded with menthol cigarettes, while another actually became the wealthiest man in the world by gambling his money in dice games. They also had the stock for phone companies go up as millions of delinquent accounts were paid up...


32 posted on 02/13/2014 5:06:47 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: null and void
LOL! You have no idea how long I've searched for that quote and all I had to do was ask you.

THANK YOU!




38 posted on 02/13/2014 8:56:22 AM PST by Lady Jag (Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. - Aristotle)
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To: null and void

As demonstrated by lottery winners everywhere.


43 posted on 02/13/2014 9:31:25 AM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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