[BobL]

“I vote for the revolution. It’s time to cull the herd anyway, and get rid of the freeloading class that we taxpayers have been supporting for decades.”

I’m not far from you. For the people who work for companies we bailed out, like Goldman Sachs, GM, AIG, Fannie, etc., I think that we should simply take everything that everyone makes over $250k per year. If they cannot live on that, then they can go to another company that hasn’t added to the debt that my kids (and future grand kids) will be stuck with.

And once we do that, we need to dig into their assets. I would say that $2 million should be enough for them to live comfortably through retirement (although maybe I could be pushed up a million more).

And I feel the same way about welfare...if you take government money, then you SURE AS HELL should be poor - which means no plasmas, no Nike’s, no I-Pads, etc. If you really need the government to extort other people’s money, then PROVE IT and LIVE IT.

[ModelBreaker]

“I’m not far from you. For the people who work for companies we bailed out, like Goldman Sachs, GM, AIG, Fannie, etc., I think that we should simply take everything that everyone makes over $250k per year. If they cannot live on that, then they can go to another company that hasn’t added to the debt that my kids (and future grand kids) will be stuck with.”

This is a “deal with the devil” solution. The problem is, the devil is a powerful government that has the monopoly on the use of force. You will never get the government to punish those it has elevated, unless to protect itself. Those folks are rich because they were part of a group picked to be rich by the same people you would be relying on to punish them.

Pretending to do that has been the progressive meat and potatos for over a century.

[Jim Robinson]

Spread the wealth around, eh?

[ChiMark]

Do you believe in free markets? How did you economic model come up with $250K? Zer0's number? The only debt created is by your buddy Obama.
Why do you people hate the productive people of our country and seek justice from the theives? Stalin dictated how much a person should make, how much wheat a farmer could grow, eliminated private property
etc.

[Minn]

And once we do that, we need to dig into their assets. I would say that $2 million should be enough for them to live comfortably through retirement (although maybe I could be pushed up a million more).

If you are serious - it's hard to tell - I don't have much respect for your cognitive skills. Yep, you worked for a company that got a bail out, so what you thought you were saving all these years really belongs to the mob because BobL knows what you need to get by.

[grey_whiskers]

I think that we should simply take everything that everyone makes over $250k per year. If they cannot live on that, then they can go to another company that hasn’t added to the debt that my kids (and future grand kids) will be stuck with.

Read Feed Your Family on $10 billion a day.

Cheers!