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The Pitchforks Are Coming...For Us Plutocrats
Politico.com ^ | 6/29/14 | Nick Hanauer

Posted on 06/29/2014 8:45:11 PM PDT by hoagy62

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This guy is filthy rich. He knows how to make money. Besides all the stuff he says he's done/bought/invested in the article, he's also part (majority, I think) of the Seattle Sounders soccer team.

So you know, the article at the website covers 4 pages. I read the whole thing though

Do you think he's right, or is he talking out his backside?

1 posted on 06/29/2014 8:45:12 PM PDT by hoagy62
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horse hockey


2 posted on 06/29/2014 8:49:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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“The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.” — Jack Vance “The Houses of Iszm”

“Capitalism allows the individual other options beyond that of being poor.” — Captain Compassion


3 posted on 06/29/2014 8:53:15 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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I read this the other day. Afterward, I tweeted him: “I loved your memo, Jerry.” I couldn’t help myself. The level of stupid burns.


4 posted on 06/29/2014 8:53:39 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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This has already been posted.


5 posted on 06/29/2014 8:53:42 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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He’s got some weird feddish for pitchforks and his numbers are suspect. And he should give 10% of his income directly to the charities of his choice and not use the government to force everyone else to do so.


6 posted on 06/29/2014 8:53:53 PM PDT by Citizen Zed ("Freedom costs a buck o five" - Gary Johnston, TAWP)
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The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day.

Amazingly nobody ever includes celebrities, athletes and political bigwigs in these predictions of revolution.

7 posted on 06/29/2014 8:58:33 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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We will only kill the plutocrats that got there using bought government influence to change the rules for themselves like G.E. and Warren Buffet when the revolution comes.

If you earned you millions or billions honestly then you will be spared.

Which means that the liberal rich bastards will be at the top of the Treason List...


8 posted on 06/29/2014 8:59:48 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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I can see a lot of anti-freedom Celebretards and Big Businessmen who are pushing amnesty being the “First against the wall”


9 posted on 06/29/2014 9:03:35 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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I think he should be able to pay his employees as much or as little as he wants. If he wants to be generous, good on him. If he wants to be miserly, good luck finding good employees. As for having government set wages like “speed limits”—no way!


10 posted on 06/29/2014 9:04:03 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (America for Americans first!)
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11 posted on 06/29/2014 9:06:34 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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Exactly. When the revolution starts, do they really think they will be safe?


12 posted on 06/29/2014 9:06:57 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Backside.


13 posted on 06/29/2014 9:09:52 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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ping


14 posted on 06/29/2014 9:10:44 PM PDT by wintertime
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And he’s so modest, too!


15 posted on 06/29/2014 9:16:36 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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Politico? Buhhh!


16 posted on 06/29/2014 9:17:01 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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I think that all of them have entirely way too much confidence in there security detail.
17 posted on 06/29/2014 9:17:37 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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I read this to my wife. She mentioned that he failed to factor in one of the strongest forces out there: greed.

Greed is the bane of capitalism. It says “I want to keep what I got. What’s mine is mine, and it’s gonna stay mine.” Put a different way...”I got mine. F**k you.”

His idea won’t work for many reasons...but the biggest one is that people are greedy, whether they wish to admit it or not. This will NEVER change.


18 posted on 06/29/2014 9:22:23 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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The “pitchforks” generally come as the result of oppressive taxation at the hands of government, and the victims are those whose wealth derives from government.


19 posted on 06/29/2014 9:28:38 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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When the revolution starts, do they really think they will be safe?

Yes. They really, actually do, with all their hearts.

And that is the evil of the effectiveness of the collective dream - that denial and delusion and narcissism and immaturity.

They simple refuse to grow up and take personal responsibility for their lives, and collectivism rewards them for their cowardice by calling them adults - literally for avoiding adulthood.

And so they believe it and will hurt others for it, because the alternative is facing themselves, and that they refuse to do.

Unfortunately, history has shown that by the time they realize that their moral temper tantrum doesn't work, the world can be left in a smoking ruin.

20 posted on 06/29/2014 9:30:21 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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