Do the rich deserve what they get?

St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 3//5/2011 | Todd Frankel

[Trailerpark Badass]

One could ask the question: Has rewarding the upper management to such an extent produced greater wealth for the nation in a proportional ratio?

Their job is to produce wealth "for the nation?"

I didn't know Michael Moore was a Freeper!

[raybbr]

Their job is to produce wealth "for the nation?" I didn't know Michael Moore was a Freeper!

Oh, darn. You got me.

[Texas Eagle]

Mark Rank usually focuses his attention on the low end of the income charts, on poverty. As a professor of social welfare at Washington University,

Wow. How much does that gig pay?

Probably not at the low end of the income charts I'm guessing.

[EBH]

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. D'Aconia and the Money Speech

Do the rich deserve all that money? Yes, if they came by it honestly. In America, money can be made for those of the industrious and innovative nature. Those who are not such are destined to sell their skills to best producer he can. As for the poor? "Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants; money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money.

[r-q-tek86]

Francisco’s Money Speech should be required reading in every high school.

[dalereed]

“over 50% of the people have no idea what an income tax is in this country, is that fair?”

That’s the 50% that should be paying it all!!!

They’re the ones sucking their existance from the government!

[dfwgator]

The problem is that now we privatize profits and socialize losses. Execs are not on the hook for bad decisions, as it should be in a true market-driven economy.

[Chgogal]

Do the welfare parasites deserve what they get? The welfare parasites suck money from the hard working tax paying class decade in and decade out. We, the tax payers are never thanked, just maligned and ridiculed. The welfare parasites (Democrats) just demand more and more. Shame on the welfare parasites and Shame on the Democrats who rob the tax payer class decade in and decade out.

[EBH]

Indeed it should be, I just had a rip roaring good bar chat on Friday night with a liberal acquaintance regarding this speech. I argued that the speech actually presents the survival of the fittest and sustainable capitalism. And that kind of capitalism is the only kind of sustainable development.