The transition of money from poor to rich has ruined America

[CrusaderFrank]

i would like to give every person in the country enough money to retire. at least $500 million dollars.

You realize that a loaf of bread would cost $34 million, right?

 

[Orangecat]

Exactly. Like I said, fuck the poor.

I don't want to fuck over the poor. I just don't blame wealthy people for their problems. There are plenty of opportunities to make good money in our society if one makes wise decisions and works both hard and smart.

 

[Resnic]

I can't blame companies for wanting more money. It's what drives them to do what they do.

Technically I am part of the problem because I make and keep a lot more money than people below my stature does even though I am very middle class. Elon musk is at the top, homeless are at the bottom and everyone else in the middle are all guilty of being richer than someone else.

Without mega rich people and companies we wouldn't have smart phones, airplanes, skyscrapers, high end surgical equipment, and so on. That's the curse of a first world country, fewer people have most of the money. If you go to countries where wealth is more evenly distributed then they would be low end 2nd world countries at best.

I don't care if I am rich. I like being middle class and blue collared. Being rich isn't for me. All I want is enough money for my needs.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You realize that a loaf of bread would cost $34 million, right?

 

[Big Bend Texas]

The US is the land of opportunity. Despite the Left doing everything it can to destroy this country and succeeding far too many times you don't have to be poor if you get off your ass and go to work.

The poor commit the great majority of crimes in this country and we in our stupidity let them be a burden with welfare. These inner city ghetto shitheads are not going to get into Heaven for the most part. They are the scum of this country.

If you visit a city like say, Chicago, your chances of being murdered by a "poor" person is astronomically higher than being murdered by one of the rich people living there.

Republicans want to keep an even playing field so everyone has a chance to succeed, democrats just want to take from those who have succeeded and give it to everyone else.

Republicans build the middle class from the bottom up, democrats build it from the top down.

 

[sealybobo]

I don't want to fuck over the poor. I just don't blame wealthy people for their problems. There are plenty of opportunities to make good money in our society if one makes wise decisions and works both hard and smart.

I don't mean fuck the poor. What I'm saying is, you can't fix the poor. There will always be poor. But how poor? Today poor people aren't as poor as poor people were in the 1930's. Not with social safety nets, thanks to us liberals. We can't raise the minumum wage to fix the poor. A lot of small business owners rely on paying minimum wage and they can't provide healthcare. So us liberals got them Obamacare. Did these stupid fucks show up and vote? No. In fact a lot of them voted for Trump.

Point is, there will always be poor. Capitalism needs ditch diggers. My goal as a politician would be to fix the middle class. That fixes the poor and helps the rich. The rich sell us their shit and if there is a huge big successful middle class, the only people who are poor are the people who deserve to be poor.

 

[sealybobo]

Republicans want to keep an even playing field so everyone has a chance to succeed, democrats just want to take from those who have succeeded and give it to everyone else.

Republicans build the middle class from the bottom up, democrats build it from the top down.

Trickle down is a Republican thang dude.

 

[Flash]

It's why you don't get more jewish votes. They wanted to vote for Trump. He did spend 4 years kissing Israel's ass. But he sounded too much like a Nazi and that's why only 20% of Jewish Americans voted for trump.

You can't go after the Jews. You, Trump and GW Bush have been kissing their asses for 22 years now. And all for what? 20% of their votes? LOLosers.

Only stupid uneducated morally challenged moronic Moon Bats would put the hate on religious people that put America's interest ahead of foreign interest.

Libtard bigots.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

There's an effort to demonize the left? Really? When's the last time you heard of a 2%er who's was hurt - by anything?

Gas prices taking an emotional toll on them when their filling up their mega yachts & private jets, that it?

I've known millionaires who lost everything when an investment went upside down due a a market crash or a sudden jump in fuel prices or new gov't regulations that put them out of business.

 

[sartre play]

Just dont understand you people, Why do you hate your fellow working class Americans? What is wrong with being a garbage man? Do you want to haul your own garbage to the dump?

 

[Big Bend Texas]

Trickle down is a Republican thang dude.

Nice to see you don't understand the subject matter.

Wealth trickling down from the right to those at the bottom is how those at the bottom become middle class.

Taking wealth from the rich is how you make them middle class.

Republicans grow the middle class from the bottom up, democrats seek to do it form the top down.

That's their entire mantra about taxing the rich to redistribute their wealth to those at the bottom.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

Just dont understand you people, Why do you hate your fellow working class Americans? What is wrong with being a garbage man? Do you want to haul your own garbage to the dump?

I don't really know anyone who has a problem with garbage collectors, it's honest middle class blue collar work.

 

[sealybobo]

Only stupid uneducated morally challenged moronic Moon Bats would put the hate on religious people that put America's interest ahead of foreign interest.

Libtard bigots.

Funny you say that

Democracy is supposed to enact the will of the people. But what if the people have no clue what they’re doing?​

OK, so that just happened. Donald Trump always enjoyed massive support from uneducated, low-information white people. As Bloomberg Politics reported back in August, Hillary Clinton was enjoying a giant 25 percentage-point lead among college-educated voters going into the election. (Whether that trend held up remains to be seen.) In contrast, in the 2012 election, college-educated voters just barely favored Barack Obama over Mitt Romney. Last night we saw something historic: the dance of the dunces. Never have educated voters so uniformly rejected a candidate. But never before have the lesser-educated so uniformly supported a candidate.

Trump owes his victory to the uninformed. But it’s not just Trump. Political scientists have been studying what voters know and how they think for well over 65 years. The results are frightening. Voters generally know who the president is but not much else. They don’t know which party controls Congress, what Congress has done recently, whether the economy is getting better or worse (or by how much). In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, most voters knew Al Gore was more liberal than George W. Bush, but significantly less than half knew that Gore was more supportive of abortion rights, more supportive of welfare-state programs, favored a higher degree of aid to blacks, or was more supportive of environmental regulation.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

Study Socialism and Communism. There is little to no middle class. As Morgan Freeman sited, even China had to enable a middle class - albeit- limited.

China had nothing resembling a middle class at all until they went to a quasi capitalistic economic model. The gov't still owns a majority stake in all Chinese businesses but the 49% are starting to do pretty well.

Of course they are all getting richer off of slave labor.

 

[Nostra]

Dimtards claim the poor don’t have anything, and yet all the mega-rich got that way by taking shit from the poor. Dimtard logic.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

Funny you say that

Democracy is supposed to enact the will of the people. But what if the people have no clue what they’re doing?​

OK, so that just happened. Donald Trump always enjoyed massive support from uneducated, low-information white people. As Bloomberg Politics reported back in August, Hillary Clinton was enjoying a giant 25 percentage-point lead among college-educated voters going into the election. (Whether that trend held up remains to be seen.) In contrast, in the 2012 election, college-educated voters just barely favored Barack Obama over Mitt Romney. Last night we saw something historic: the dance of the dunces. Never have educated voters so uniformly rejected a candidate. But never before have the lesser-educated so uniformly supported a candidate.

Trump owes his victory to the uninformed. But it’s not just Trump. Political scientists have been studying what voters know and how they think for well over 65 years. The results are frightening. Voters generally know who the president is but not much else. They don’t know which party controls Congress, what Congress has done recently, whether the economy is getting better or worse (or by how much). In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, most voters knew Al Gore was more liberal than George W. Bush, but significantly less than half knew that Gore was more supportive of abortion rights, more supportive of welfare-state programs, favored a higher degree of aid to blacks, or was more supportive of environmental regulation.

Having a college degree isn't necessarily a mark of intelligence.

I've known PhaD's that couldn't change a flat tire and engineers that couldn't build a bird house much less a house to live in.

Intellect is simply the ability to learn and that include people who develop technical and blue collar skills and those who own and operate all sorts of small businesses.

 

[sealybobo]

Nice to see you don't understand the subject matter.

Wealth trickling down from the right to those at the bottom is how those at the bottom become middle class.

Taking wealth from the rich is how you make them middle class.

Republicans grow the middle class from the bottom up, democrats seek to do it form the top down.

That's their entire mantra about taxing the rich to redistribute their wealth to those at the bottom.

You said this

Republicans build the middle class from the bottom up, democrats build it from the top down.

How do you do it from the bottom up?

Republicans are the trickle down party. That's from the top down stupid. You're saying Democrats build it from the top down? Are you just saying things that sound good in your head? Because it sounds dumb from where I'm sitting.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

Trump owes his victory to the uninformed

An educated, intelligent person would know the difference in being uninformed and uneducated.

Anyone who is a student of history and keeps up with current events is, "well informed" even if they are not "well educated".

 

[Big Bend Texas]

You said this

Republicans build the middle class from the bottom up, democrats build it from the top down.

How do you do it from the bottom up?

Republicans are the trickle down party. That's from the top down stupid. You're saying Democrats build it from the top down? Are you just saying things that sound good in your head? Because it sounds dumb from where I'm sitting.

I've already explained that, I don't understand why you continue struggling.

I came from a lower middle class family but when I sold off everything and retired at 50 I was able to give away nearly 10,000,000.00 to various charities and retire quite comfortably.

I did that by working hard and getting a decent education along with taking advantage of every opportunity that came my way.

That included staying sober, staying off of dope, and out of prison.

I built up and sold off 8 businesses over 20 years along with 3 ranches.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Nobody is forced to buy a product so no. Our corrupt govt is the biggest problem. Go live in a communist dump for a year. This country has no idea of what poor is.