I know...that sucks. I had hoped we could get another bailout because the $800 million will only impact my children. I was hoping we could spend enough so my grandchildren could also be a part of the Hope & Change. :hihi: I guess if I now want to participate in Redistribution of Wealth I'll have to go hang out in the cities where people always vote for the party of inclusion. I wonder how long it would take me to redistribute my earnings if I stood down on Claiborne Avenue.
You're wrong, of course and up to your usual stereotypes. I'm a fairly rich guy myself and . . . Ta-daaa . . . getting richer by letting my money make more money for me. My investment and small-business income will dwarf my pension in retirement. I'm just not deluded into thinking that my upper-middle-class income and net worth makes me have anything in common with the Truly Wealthy who make almost all of their money from INT/DIV/CG rather than salary and business profit and get a HUGE freaking tax break on it that working people don't get. Yes, some of the things I advocate will make me a bit less money on my investments, but I think it is good for America and good for me in the long run. Why? Because America has prospered best when there was a huge middle class and a few rich and a few poor. We suffered none of the class warfare of Europe. But now the shrinking middle class sees the Extremely Rich owning a larger and larger share of the total wealth, while the Desperately Poor grow in numbers and have no prospects of good jobs or affordable education. We will end up with a large, poor class that features high crime and low achievement and will be be an anchor on the economy and the prosperity of all of us. We've seen it in the Roman Empire any many European empires . . . gradual dissolution of national unity with a small group of extremely rich and powerful rulers, and large group of excluded poor, and no significant middle class.
So take from the rich and prop up the poor? Let the rich be rich and let the poor pick themselves up by the bootstraps. America is not an aristocracy. If Obama would quit trying to implement his "Rules for Radicals" we could go back to a capitalistic economy which would reward innovation and hard work. As long as idiots keep re-electing crap like Reid, Boxer and Frank, they deserve to be excluded from the American Dream.
have you already forgotten what this country was like when you were a young man---sweatshops, child labor, monopolies, carnegie, rockefeller, getty? we are quickly heading for the same social structure---no middle class.
Nice to know you are doing so well. Since you are such a fan of that dick head kenyan and his policy I can send you my paypal info and you can help a brother out with some Christmas shopping. Just a little "redistrobution" it is what you support right?
