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Sharpton Astounded Rand Paul Thinks People Who Work Harder Earn More
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/10/2015 5:51:15 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

In the liberal universe, there's no correlation between hard work or ingenuity and financial success. As President Obama recently put it, the rich are simply "society's lottery winners."

Sounding a similar theme, Al Sharpton today declared it "astounding" that Rand Paul believes that income inequality is due to "some people working harder." Astounding, indeed! What's wrong with Rand? How could he possibly believe that someone someone who works, say, 60 hours per week might earn more than someone else who works 20?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2016election; alsharpton; election2016; incomeinequality; kentucky; msnbc; randpaul; thekycandidate
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To: TexasFreeper2009
If you have a skill you can do quite well at a manual labor job. Carpenter, electrician, welding, mechanic, oil and gas.

Unskilled, not so much but those are the entry level jobs.

Cops, firefighters, EMS do well in the cities. Not so well in small towns or rural areas.

21 posted on 08/10/2015 8:39:37 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

For ten years my typical day was getting up at 5:00AM, going to a rental that we were renovating, work until 7:15, cleaning up and going to my regular job 8:00-5:00, back to the rental by 6:00, dinner brought by my wife until 6:20, work on the house until 11:30, home and in bed by 12:00 midnight.

We provided a lot of rental property to people that could not afford to buy. Eventually, we made some good money as a result of our hard work.

I don’t see any lottery here, just hard work.


22 posted on 08/10/2015 9:00:51 PM PDT by super7man (Oh why did I post that, now I'll never be able to run for Congress.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Allow me to make a point off of your post. I think both Paul and Sharpton miss the mark on the question of income inequality. Income is just another word for the value of one’s labor. It is a product like any other product in the marketplace. The law of supply and demand are the determining factor, plus the productivity of the individual worker, based on the revenue each produces for the owner. If one breaks his back at work but produces $60,000 for the owner, while someone else pushes a pencil but his work product makes the company $600.000, who is more valuable has nothing to do with hard work, sometimes intelligence trumps, no pun intended, hark work. In my own company, in certain areas I value intelligence over hard work, especially in areas that require a lot of problem solving.


23 posted on 08/10/2015 9:35:24 PM PDT by gusty
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To: Team Cuda

There is a direct correlation between what someone produces and what someone earns. Your two examples produced boat loads of money for a few media companies, freely determined by the viewers, the customers. If Paris Hilton makes $8M dollars a year, you can bet the house that the media company she worked for made a lot more than that off of her work product.


24 posted on 08/10/2015 9:40:37 PM PDT by gusty
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Perhaps 'Rev' Al's cannot relate as his extortion, poverty pimping, race warload workloads just may be light assignments.

25 posted on 08/10/2015 9:47:17 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I know he’s lost a lot of weight, but, is it me or does Al’s head look too big for his body? Maybe some weird trick of the lens...


26 posted on 08/10/2015 11:53:03 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: gusty

Don’t know that I necessarily disagree with you about a correlation between what you produce and what you earn, although what are Paris or Kim producing when they get paid for a personal appearance at a party or venue?

The article, however, was about how HARD you work. Are you saying that Paris or Kim, getting paid to go make an appearance, are working HARDER than your average bricklayer? Or, if you don’t necessarily equate HARD work with physical labor, are they working HARDER than an electrical engineer?


27 posted on 08/10/2015 11:56:14 PM PDT by Team Cuda
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To: Team Cuda
I am saying how hard you work, physical labor or time, is irrelevant. It is what you produce. If someone is willing to pay you for your attendance at a party, then that attendance has a value. I myself might command zero to attend, Paris and Kim command thousands. Our work is a product like any other product, subject to supply and demand. There is a demand for their attendance, none for mine, no matter how hard I work at it.
28 posted on 08/11/2015 4:44:16 AM PDT by gusty
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To: Team Cuda

It is quite possible that it is difficult to always be “on” in public whenever you leave the house. I’m sure it is taxing and stressful and that there is actually some hard work that goes on in maintaining a celebrity visage.

It’s not just money flowing into your wallet being a celebrity, just as it isn’t that way being a lawyer, a doctor, an electrician, a contractor, or anything for that matter.

The choice of words by Ron was poor, but the intent of the discussion is that what one earns is directly proportional to the worth of their output. The worth of one’s output is determined by the customer (be it a consumer, a company, a distributor, the next slot in the production line, your boss, etc...).


29 posted on 08/11/2015 4:51:38 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It's not about hard work.

It's about how much value you provide to the people doing the paying compared to your competition.

30 posted on 08/11/2015 4:51:49 AM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
How could he possibly believe that someone someone who works, say, 60 hours per week might earn more than someone else who works 20?

Or that somebody who actually works might be judged more valuable than somebody who pretends to work.

31 posted on 08/11/2015 4:54:11 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And this from a grifter who NEVER worked a day in his life, got rich and does NOT pay his fair share. Makes sense to me.


32 posted on 08/11/2015 4:55:34 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Team Cuda
And I don’t even want to guess at the number of hours Kim Kardashian puts in for her $28M annual income!

Doing soft porn is grueling work.../ S

33 posted on 08/11/2015 5:29:28 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: gusty

Gee, that’s really nice that you are saying how hard you work is irrelevant. It is, however, totally irrelevant to the thread on this article, which is entitled “Sharpton Astounded Rand Paul Thinks People Who Work Harder Earn More”.


34 posted on 08/11/2015 8:00:28 AM PDT by Team Cuda
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s not how hard you work - it’s how much you accomplish.

I could sweep the kitchen floor for 8 hours straight, but if I don’t remove all the loose dust and dirt, I’ve not accomplished anything. Conversely, I could sweep the kitchen floor and effectively remove all the dust and dirt in 15 minutes. Clearly, I worked harder and longer in the first example, but accomplished more in the second.


35 posted on 08/11/2015 8:06:13 AM PDT by meyer (There is no political solution to this troubling evolution...)
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To: Team Cuda

How is pointing out that both Sharpton and Paul are wrong on the subject irrelevant to the thread. You brought up the examples of Hilton and Kardashian, not me. I was just trying to make sense to people why they make what they make. Irrelevant would be me explaining how to throw a slider, and I had a good one thirty years ago. But discussing income inequality and its reasons under an article dealing with income inequality is not irrelevant to the thread.


36 posted on 08/11/2015 5:55:01 PM PDT by gusty
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

GREAT catch, and fantastic article, FRiend!


37 posted on 08/13/2015 11:48:26 AM PDT by nutmeg (www.freetobelieve.com)
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