The peasants are revolting! Yeah, they stink on ice!.........
Posted on 08/06/2012 8:34:08 AM PDT by jakerobins
Billionaire Jeff Greene is a different kind of rich Democrat.
The man who made his fortune hedging against the real estate market -- and since 2009 accumulating mortgage-backed securities -- still wants to represent the poor, improve their lot, convince his rich friends they should pay more taxes.
But is his political ideology built on compassion? On a sense of social justice and social order?
Not exactly, says Joel Endelman, "Jeff is definitely not about compassion."
(Excerpt) Read more at sunshinestatenews.com ...
Jeff should save himself by giving every last dime to the poor.
The peasants are revolting! Yeah, they stink on ice!.........
No way. This Dimocrat should fear the wrath of the people against the government. He should fear economic collapse in which case, we will have anarachy, repression and civil war. That’s no good for the poor, middle class or the rich.
There’s a little section on the tax return form where a filer can send an additional amount of money to the IRS. I find it rather funny that these so called ‘generous rich people’ seem rather reluctant to ‘set an example’ and use that section. It’s also rather ironic that study after study over the years have shown that rich liberals are some of the cheapest people you will meet and least likely to donate money to charitable causes.
IIRC, this is the guy who ran in 2010 for the Dem nod for the Senate. He lost to the genius Kendrick Meek who lost big to Rubio.
IIRC, this is the guy who ran in 2010 for the Dem nod for the Senate. He lost to the genius Kendrick Meek who lost big to Rubio.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
It is not inequality of wealth that leads people to revolt. Revolt occurs when those who have less come to believe that they have no opportunity to better themselves socioeconomically. America has done just fine, without class embitterment for most of its history - because it has been envisioned by most as the ‘land of opportunity’.
In short, it is class mobility that is essential to keep a system like our viable. Now we have large swaths of the population who don’t believe that they truly have the ability to move upward socioeconomically. They’ve been conditioned to think that they do not really have the opportunity or the ability to be upwardly mobile. This loss of the hope and belief that one can become better off on the basis of their own efforts is a dangerous step in the path toward socialism.
Europe was ripe for socialism because it was very hierarchical with no real opportunity for upward mobility. It remains very hierarchical, without much real opportunity for upward mobility, except they now use socialism as a way to keep resentment in check. This appears to be the model that Jeff Greene is espousing.
Fear of a French revolution is why a lot of wealthy people support socialists. Which is odd because socialists mine hate the rich envy for power.
Globalism made his billions possible and Globalism, combined with Clinton and Rubin cooking up a plan to use banks to fund housing for low income people, has just about dissolved the middle class in America.
Government corruption, the cultural cleansing program of multi-culturalism and illegal immigration has misplaced Americans in thier own homeland and dissolved our Western and constitutional culture which was this idiot’s real insurance against a meltdown by the barbarians.
The government taking this man’s 2 billion is not going to solve the economic and social problems going on in America. Feeding the power of envy and big government is last thing fearful billionaires should be doing.
Forget party; forget taxes. Why don’t these rich dorks just donate 20% each of their worth to a big money pot, and personally distribute it to the poor, completely bypassing any government agency, which would only eat most of the money?
Because they’re not serious about paying taxes themselves. Any doubts about this will be removed by a quick look at the fleet of accountants and tax attorneys they pay.
No, there really are people out there who believe to the very marrow of their bones that because their ten-generations-back ancestors were captured and sold into bondage by the next tribe up the river that they, and their children into perpetuity, are owed free goodies for life.
Revolt of the poor? Give us a break already. Section 8, housing, free health care, food stamps, welfare, automobiles, ac, education, no taxes and on and on. Yup the pooor really have it rough in the old USA.
democracy is necessary as the means of making possible peaceful changes in government, so that a dissatisfied majority would not have to resort to revolution or civil war to have its way.
“if you have 50,000 angry people coming across the river, you think you’re safe?”
Those 50,000 are too lazy to get a job or make a business. They won’t be coming across any rivers, much less half a mile down the road.
Taxes are a serious and punative thing. One does not ever “donate” extra to any entity that has the power to tax.
Ask the French.
They just elected a government that passed a 75% tax rate on their “rich dorks”.
Next year, France will be bemoaning the lack of rich dorks who speak French.
I couldn’t agree more. And I suspect the rich dorks I cited also agree with you. And, given that, I find it contemptible that they suggest raising taxes on everyone else so that they can score compassion points, when they really don’t deserve them. It’s only the loud mouthed ones I target as phonies.
BTW, I didn’t suggest they donate 20% to the government; only to a big community pot, then distribute it directly, bypassing government and other institutions that eat up the money in the form of “administrative expenses.” In the end, it’s personal acts of charity that are far more successful at addressing poverty than any program any government could ever conceive.
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