We're in a Recession Because the Rich Are Raking in an Absurd Portion of the Wealth

[Heracles 417]

:lol: Another sorry soul trapped away from home because of a piece of aѕѕ? Poor you.

Oh I am at home because the world is my whelk. I can stride across 2 continents and live in either and speak honestly about what I find because of the cherished freedom of speech which only actually exists as long as you wave the right little flag to suit your location.

Same small minds in every country. Trapped by their circumstances and clinging to god and guns - well here they are. We Europeans cling to the pieces of #### which you mention and they are of the opposite gender at least ( we ask and tell so we know the deal before and not after) and it's better than clinging to an uncertain future like the typical American.

Long live BP ! Viva British Technology ! God save the Queen !

What a dumbazz spook is.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Noone likes a busybody who can't mind their own business.

What do you do for an encore, Captain America?

[Captain Oates 911]

Nothing wrong with the wealthy generating wealth. I also never said we should take their money, rather, what I have said since day one is that instead of someone earning $100 million a year, they earn $60 million and the workers be paid a legitimate salary for their work. Which in turn they too get to spend and invest in the economy. This is how Canada, Australia etc does it and the results speak for itself. The US does the opposite and the status-quo here speaks for itself. Slowly but surely the United States is becoming a 2nd and 3rd world country, where the middle-class is nonexistent and a select few hold the wealth.

Theory is that the guy who gets 100 mill goes and expands his business and hires new employees at the market rate; whereas, if the workers get the 40 mill, they just go and booze it or buy drugs via Mexico - and then it's all gone

In fact it's all circular and the mexican drug bosses will spend it in Las Vegas on Tiger's ex birds. So the only way to make the poor richer is to educate them into not blowing the money they do get. So far nobody has found a way to do that and every country has it's self destructive underclass. They claim education does it but the majority don't want no education and never will.

The US has always been rich on average with the lower 50% scraping a living at best. If you have one foot in the fire and one foot in the fridge, then on average you are comfortable. That describes the US.

What a wonderful revenue lies in thrift

[Heracles 417]

You should probably go back and read my posts again. Helping haterz move is what I do for my country.

What a failure in education... So discussing others doing something better is now hating is it? When did this pathetic attitude become so popular here? Does explain the status-quo though, furthermore, why you guys beat on about freedom like it's 1734 and the rest of the world knows little about it.

In fact, Google Streetview now covers South Africa. Perhaps you should check out their roads and infrastructure and compare it to that of various parts of this superpower. What an absolute embarrassment..

[_Simpson_ 250]

Noone likes a busybody who can't mind their own business.

What do you do for an encore, Captain America?

You're making no sense Pike. The flag pole idea was only for my own happiness.

How did you get off on this whole curtain twitcher tangent?

[Heracles 417]

Theory is that the guy who gets 100 mill goes and expands his business and hires new employees at the market rate; whereas, if the workers get the 40 mill, they just go and booze it or buy drugs via Mexico - and then it's all gone

In fact it's all circular and the mexican drug bosses will spend it in Las Vegas on Tiger's ex birds. So the only way to make the poor richer is to educate them into not blowing the money they do get. So far nobody has found a way to do that and every country has it's self destructive underclass. They claim education does it but the majority don't want no education and never will.

The US has always been rich on average with the lower 50% scraping a living at best. If you have one foot in the fire and one foot in the fridge, then on average you are comfortable. That describes the US.

What a wonderful revenue lies in thrift

What the US has is a history or exploitation, pretty-much from day one. Over the decades they have used various terms to cover it up, now it's capitalism.

What gets me though is the number of people who are being exploited themselves yet cheer this on. It's truly a bizarre attitude to have. Then again, I assume a number of people on here with foreign spouse from x countries are business owners themselves; therefore, see no problem with this. Naturally the single mother at walmart working two jobs with three kids is just a slacker who overspends, while they are 'hard workers'.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You're making no sense Pike. The flag pole idea was only for my own happiness.

How did you get off on this whole curtain twitcher tangent?

Where did you make it your business to call people haters and demand that they leave. Perhaps you should leave or better still, learn to mind your own business.

[_Simpson_ 250]

Where did you make it your business to call people haters and demand that they leave. Perhaps you should leave or better still, learn to mind your own business.

I demanded nothing, I only offered to pack so quit it with the drama Pike.

You do know that saywhat posted his/her opinions in a public forum right? So your whole "mind your own business" argument is a fail.

[_Simpson_ 250]

What a failure in education... So discussing others doing something better is now hating is it? When did this pathetic attitude become so popular here? Does explain the status-quo though, furthermore, why you guys beat on about freedom like it's 1734 and the rest of the world knows little about it.

In fact, Google Streetview now covers South Africa. Perhaps you should check out their roads and infrastructure and compare it to that of various parts of this superpower. What an absolute embarrassment..

Go back and read his/her posts and if you can find anything that could be considered constructive criticism then we will talk.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I demanded nothing, I only offered to pack so quit it with the drama Pike.

You do know that saywhat posted his/her opinions in a public forum right? So your whole "mind your own business" argument is a fail.

So what? It's simply not appropriate for you or anyone to tell others to leave.

All it indicates is that you are an intolerant individual.

[Captain Oates 911]

What the US has is a history or exploitation, pretty-much from day one. Over the decades they have used various terms to cover it up, now it's capitalism.

What gets me though is the number of people who are being exploited themselves yet cheer this on. It's truly a bizarre attitude to have. Then again, I assume a number of people on here with foreign spouse from x countries are business owners themselves; therefore, see no problem with this. Naturally the single mother at walmart working two jobs with three kids is just a slacker who overspends, while they are 'hard workers'.

I know !

Example:

My mother was a tea lady in an engineering factory. She pushed the tea trolley between the lathes. You can imagine her pay. Yet she was very pro royalist and pro bosses. My dad was one of the returning soldiers from Burma in 45/6 who voted overwhelmingly for a socialist government to give us free universal health care. He worked as a van driver for the co-op delivering cardboard boxes of groceries and earned the same as her - peanuts

They use to go and vote and cancel each others vote out.

My OH's mother lives in Milwaukee on $700 a month for everthing including rent - she is an avid capitalist/republican supporter too. Perhaps the decent but poor get to see the rest of the poor as they are so close to them - and are thereby turned off by them and see the self destruction. Other poor people don't lose faith in their fellow poor and think all they need is a hand up.

Truth is that some of the poor will accept the hand up but many won't. I took the hand up in the way of very generous grants which were more than I was earning - but my daughter refuses a hand up and prefers a permanent life on benefits.

Weird - same world - same circumstances - but people in the same boat come to different conclusions. Bit like mutiny on the bounty.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Go back and read his/her posts and if you can find anything that could be considered constructive criticism then we will talk.

There's no requirement for that.

[_Simpson_ 250]

So what? It's simply not appropriate for you or anyone to tell others to leave.

All it indicates is that you are an intolerant individual.

Once again Pike, I only offered to help pack.

Nothing he/she said was constructive so get off your high horse and quit it with this nonsense.

[Craneman 2]

That's not really accurate. There are companies that are employee owned and operated that have been successful. Although it may require outside capital to start a company, that doesn't mean it must come from the wealthy. Financial institutions can provide the needed capital to upstart such companies. The old paradigm that individuals with a large amount of wealth are what creates jobs is outdated and largely fictional.

Don't Bogart that joint my friend, pass it over to me.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Telling people to leave is not constructive. Does that mean I get to help you throw your ####### in boxes?

You act like you've never expressed this opinion before and I should restrict my comments to this thread. Intended meaning is clear - you want people who don't think like you to leave the country.

Since you have no power to make it happen, I bet that just chew you up at night