Posted on 12/28/2013 9:14:07 AM PST by Baynative
That’s the simplest and best explanation I’ve heard yet.
I’m worried about the magnitude of my net worth, not the ratio of Mr. Bill’s to mine. If having a distribution skewed at the high end improves my prospects, and I believe it does, then I’m for it. Economic growth is the solution.
I would agree that this correlation is one of the most important points of the video.
That top 1% funds and owns both political parties, and controls the messaging that keeps the other 99% marching to their assigned drumbeats.
The only group breaking their assigned cadence is the TEA Party with the message: "Cut the taxes; cut the spending; cut the size of government."
“Democrats CREATED every single ghetto in America ...think about it!”
The fact that dems took control of all of them by pandering to the lowest common denominator, socially speaking, and after decades of transferring money from working families to non-working and non-citizen families, nothing has improved. If anything, the ghettos have grown and social condition has worsened.
Agreed, the terms are not important, but the situations have grown and worsened over the last 50 years, the period of Democrat/Liberal pandering political control.
The point is the Democrats do not want them to go away, ever. That is their ‘base’ and it would be a disaster to their party if they were to disappear.
I use this line of logic whenever I bother to take the time to discuss it with a ‘liberal’, and they remark:
The Democrats are for the ‘poor’ and the Republicans are for the ‘rich’.
To which I usually reply:
Okay, let’s take that statement as being ‘True’.
What, then is the purpose of any political party?
Answer: To gain political power by increasing the number of people who agree with them and will vote for them.
Therefore, by your statement, the Democrats must gain power by increasing the number of ‘poor’, and the Republicans must increase the number of ‘rich’.
Now which party do you want to belong to? The one that wants to keep you poor or the one that wants to make you rich?....................
Your reply is brilliant in both wisdom and logic. Thank you for the help in my dealings with liberals.
Well said!!
The bottom 40% he refers to also pay no taxes. The top 20% pays almost all.
He's fascinated by the free market system. How about getting some skills and making some yourself instead of fantasizing about others money?
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