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Cantor: Republicans agree there is 'too much income disparity' (Barf alert)
The Hill ^ | 10-17-11 | Julian Pecquet

Posted on 10/17/2011 7:15:17 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said repeatedly Sunday that Republicans agree that too few people control too much wealth in America.

"We know in this country right now that there is a complaint about folks at the top end of the income scales, that they make too much and too many don't make enough," Cantor said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, toning down his earlier criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; ericcantor; jobs; wallstreet
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Every time I get to thinking Cantor’s learned NOT to step in “it.” There he is in “it” once again.

Eric, stop trying to go “populist.”


41 posted on 10/17/2011 8:23:59 AM PDT by ScottinVA (`Tis the Risin` o` the Moon!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I also something needs to be done about the immunity politicians get from insider trading laws. These people are in a position to make huge sums of money based on votes they take that affect businesses.

Must be nice to be able to dump your stocks before voting to nail a company with unreasonable taxes or regulation. Even better to buy stocks in a company when they can turn around and tilt the table in their favor.


42 posted on 10/17/2011 8:24:39 AM PDT by cripplecreek (ALCS/NLCS playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2789907/posts)
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To: RockinRight
Saying that you know there is a complaint (which there is, regardless how misguided), isn’t the same as agreeing and wanting to “fix it” by government handouts.

I think the headline is misleading...He acknowledged the complaint but I didn't see that he agreed with it.

43 posted on 10/17/2011 8:25:16 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Gumdrop

Once you equate greed with the accumulation of wealth you lose the argument with everyone who is not a socialist wealth redistributionist at heart.

This philosophy is grounded in the belief that there is only so much pie; only so much wealth. And that every dollar in the hands of one person is a dollar taken from someone else.

I grew up in a small town where almost everyone would be considered low income today. Kids wore patched up jeans and worn out sneakers but as a rule the people were very industrious and hardworking. I never heard my family or friends discuss the honest accumulation of wealth, or people who earned wealth in those terms (greedy).

All we were concerned with was learning how to follow in their footsteps. I don’t care how much more others earn - I care how much I earn.

Have you ever been offered a job by someone who lives on money the government extorts from earners and producers?


44 posted on 10/17/2011 8:29:23 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama's secret: "Once you learn to fake sincerity you've got it made")
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Think it's time to acknowledge the reading comprehension and/or critical thinking deficit of FReepers?
45 posted on 10/17/2011 8:31:11 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Gumdrop

“excessive greed is destroying the trust that the general public has in free markets and specifically in capitalism”

That may be true, but who cares? They’re wrong. We should tell them to shut up and worry about themselves, not indulge their illusions.


46 posted on 10/17/2011 8:31:45 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I tire of people calling these people RINO’s they are socialists just like their buds in the democrat party.....


47 posted on 10/17/2011 8:32:08 AM PDT by stockpirate (Why are homosexuals so hetrophobic?)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

And so the craven oil slick of ambition who is our House Majority Leader parrots one of Obama and the other Marxists’ favorite lines:

It’s just those greedy rich people who won’t do their duty and hire more people. (Really it’s not Obama’s fault at all.)


48 posted on 10/17/2011 8:32:59 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

>> It’s just those greedy rich people who won’t do their duty and hire more people. >>

To me, that was the worst thing Cantor said. Not only did he parrot the liberal talking point, he demonstrated a breathtaking ignorance of what business is.


49 posted on 10/17/2011 8:34:47 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Iron Munro
Once you equate greed with the accumulation of wealth you lose the argument with everyone who is not a socialist wealth redistributionist at heart.

Its a half step away from calling for social "justice". It just ain't right that someone else has more than me.

I live in a village with a population of of people with a wide range of economic means. I'm the poor boy in my immediate neighborhood and I'm content with having less than my neighbors. Over the years my lack of concern for what my neighbors have has created real trust and unity. My neighbors don't lock their doors because they know I have no interest in what they have.

I do hold to a strict rule about not doing business or borrowing from neighbors.
50 posted on 10/17/2011 8:45:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (ALCS/NLCS playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2789907/posts)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

In the video, the man specifically states that dems who are joining with the protestors are largely at fault for the economic problems and that the republicans “want success for everybody”. We do want an economic environment that puts the most people to work, do we not?

In any case, Cantor was elected by and serves his constituents. If they’re dissatisfied, I’m sure they’ll replace him with someone else.


51 posted on 10/17/2011 8:50:57 AM PDT by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: Darnright

>> In any case, Cantor was elected by and serves his constituents. If they’re dissatisfied, I’m sure they’ll replace him... >>

Wow, not sure where you’re going with that. Sounds like you are stuck in the early 1800’s.

First, it’s not relevant. He was giving an interview as a party leader (as in national) on a national stage. He wasn’t having a Northern Virginia conversation on a local yokel radio station.

Besides, are you not affected by Barney Frank? You are, and he’s from Massachusetts. Are you not effected by Harry Reid? Of course you are, and he’s from Nevada.

So, how is all that local “constituency” thing working out for you? We haven’t had that kind of system since the Fed government got too big.


52 posted on 10/17/2011 8:55:52 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: C. Edmund Wright

This is a primary reason why we should shift Social Security to a fully funded, private investment account basis. Currently, government takes approximately 10 percent (for the pension component of SS) of a person’s lifetime income in return to an entitlement to a barely poverty level stipend. Shift to a fully funded basis and within a generation virtually every American family will have at least a modest nest egg.


53 posted on 10/17/2011 8:59:41 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Gumdrop

GREEDY are people who want all their somethings for nothing. GREED is NOT from the wealthy who pay out their arses to supply 50 percent of this country with all their somethings.


54 posted on 10/17/2011 8:59:51 AM PDT by battletank
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To: C. Edmund Wright

When I hear crap like this, I’m ready for a new party, a replacement for the GOP.


55 posted on 10/17/2011 9:13:30 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: C. Edmund Wright

When I hear crap like this, I’m ready for a new party, a replacement for the GOP.


56 posted on 10/17/2011 9:13:43 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: C. Edmund Wright

He’s drunk on Potomac water. Typical spineless Pubbie.


57 posted on 10/17/2011 9:14:06 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: DesScorp

>> When I hear crap like this, I’m ready for a new party, a replacement for the GOP. >>

Nah, we need about one or two more tea party cycles like we had in 2010 and folks like Cantor will not be elected to party leadership. Right now we’re suffering from the fact that GOP leadership is coming from folks who gained seniority under the Bush-Hastert-Frist leadership days.

They need to be cycled out. Another 87 tea party folks in congress should do it.


58 posted on 10/17/2011 9:18:00 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Canotr has lost me permanently with his comments on Sunday.

Apparently he doesn’t believe that hard work & living a pretty straight & narrow life has no influence on a person’s ability to earn alot of money.

This country has the best FREE education system thru 12th grade.

Since there are millions of parents who don’t make sure their little gang thug wanna-bes don’t attend for all the days available to them, I have absolutely no sympathy for them. I paid property taxes since 1966 to support schools I didn’t send any kids to. My money has not been spent well.


59 posted on 10/17/2011 9:25:50 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Iron Munro

Have you ever been offered a job by someone who lives on money the government extorts from earners and producers?””

Only in the Ethanol & Solar industries.....


60 posted on 10/17/2011 9:42:21 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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