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Why we must lose the darn 1 percent
nypost.com ^ | 25 Oct 2011 | Frank J. Fleming

Posted on 10/26/2011 5:47:56 AM PDT by shove_it

The Occupy Wall Street crowd has correctly identified two distinct groups in this country: the wealthiest 1 percent and the other 99 percent, who suffer from the 1 percent’s vast wealth: The wealthiest 1 percent not only have more money than us, they have much, much more money. That’s just wrong.

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Liberal logic explained.
1 posted on 10/26/2011 5:47:59 AM PDT by shove_it
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To: shove_it

Frank J. Fleming, clearly not Einstein. Frank, you can’t NOT have a top 1%.

Classic liberal ILlogic.


2 posted on 10/26/2011 5:52:48 AM PDT by NYpeanut
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To: shove_it

A) That entire article (including the poor writing skills) looks like it was written by a third grader.

B) Idiot author of this piece is also the author of an upcoming book “Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything”

Nuff said.


3 posted on 10/26/2011 5:53:21 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: shove_it

It’s easy to see how the wealthiest 1 percent are devastating our country. Let’s say you took part in a raffle and won a prize of $500. Happy at your good fortune, you’d start thinking of all the neat things you could buy with $500.

But say the person next to you won $1 million. Then, suddenly, your $500 would seem like nothing in comparison, and all your ideas of what to do with that $500 would seem pathetic compared to what you could do if only you had the other person’s $1 million.

Ummm.... if you entered the wrong raffle, then it’s YOUR fault! If you didn’t get the First prize, be happy with what you won. Is this really how they think????


4 posted on 10/26/2011 5:55:10 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: shove_it

I could while away the hours,

Conversing with the flowers,

If I only had a brain...


5 posted on 10/26/2011 5:55:21 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: shove_it

Where have all the rich folk?
Long time passing
Where have all the rich folk?
Long time ago
Where have all the rich folk?
Gone to Galt’s Gulch every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?


6 posted on 10/26/2011 5:55:21 AM PDT by magslinger (To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
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To: shove_it

“...99 percent, who suffer from the 1 percent’s vast wealth...”

‘suffer’?? Really????

It must be absolute he(* on earth receiving student loans (recipients have NO intention of repaying), credit cards (used with equal disregard for repayment), the perpetual, unconditional and fawning indulgence of parents, the government, teachers, banks....etc.

Yea... that has to be h%$#!!!!


7 posted on 10/26/2011 5:55:28 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." Edmund Burke)
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To: shove_it

Haha - love it!

And for everyone else:

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html


8 posted on 10/26/2011 5:56:35 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: shove_it

Satire, I assume.


9 posted on 10/26/2011 5:57:04 AM PDT by aberaussie
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To: autumnraine

Learn to recognize satire.


10 posted on 10/26/2011 5:57:08 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: shove_it
After we’ve taken care of their wealth, to keep the nation happy and prosperous we should pass a law making it illegal for there to be a wealthiest 1 percent -- this country should just be the normal 99 percent...Sure, that isn’t mathematically possible, but government shouldn’t be about what’s possible; it should be about what’s fair.

LOL! Excellent article!

When I see all these privileged little twits waving their I-Phones around complaining because they're not as rich as Steve Jobs, I want to smack them upside the head.

11 posted on 10/26/2011 5:57:31 AM PDT by livius
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To: aberaussie

with the best satire - it’s hard to tell.

Some of my lib friends could have written that column with a straight face and not have a clue why people might laugh.


12 posted on 10/26/2011 5:58:44 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: NYpeanut

The article is satire.


13 posted on 10/26/2011 5:58:53 AM PDT by livius
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To: aberaussie
"Satire, I assume."

I assume so too. The alternative is too painful.

14 posted on 10/26/2011 5:59:08 AM PDT by Think free or die
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To: shove_it
I read this today and wasn't sure if it was real or satire. Re-reading it, I think the guy is serious. He is coming out with a book entitled “Obama, the Greatest President in the History of Everything”. Must be satire, right?

What happens when you outlaw the top 1% as he suggests? Why, the next top 1% (previously the 99% group), becomes the top 1%. Let's outlaw the too. And so on...

What nonsense. How does the Post print this Socialist dribble. We are the land of opportunity. The rich employ the rest. Get over it. Don't take the job and hang out in parks all winter.

If anything, get those that get rich off the government and us taxpayers off the dole. Oh, and outlaw unions while you're at it. At least the fat cats that run the unions - they are easily part of that 1% this guy hates.

15 posted on 10/26/2011 5:59:25 AM PDT by dan on the right
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To: NYpeanut

It’s satire.


16 posted on 10/26/2011 5:59:27 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: autumnraine; NYpeanut
When one person takes the property of another, that’s tyranny, but when lots of people get together and do it, that’s democracy. So we should legislate that the 1 percent no longer get to keep that vast wealth and must instead distribute it among the rest of us. (I should get the largest portion because it was my idea.)

Satire.

17 posted on 10/26/2011 5:59:50 AM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: autumnraine

Are we sure this isn’t parody??
lol


18 posted on 10/26/2011 6:00:12 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: magslinger

gone, gone, gone.


19 posted on 10/26/2011 6:01:05 AM PDT by magslinger (To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
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To: NYpeanut

Fleming is a satirist.


20 posted on 10/26/2011 6:01:12 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Real solidarity means coming together for the common good."-Sarah Palin)
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