Why do Republicans forgive private business, but not government?

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Why don't you try that yourself?

Here's some info for you. Occupy Wall Street is right. The money really is all at the top. The middle class is gone, Congress is being paid to do exactly what they are told because the top 1% doesn't care about the other 99%.

Here's the top 14 of the 400 wealthiest Americans in 1985:

1. Sam Moore Walton, 67, Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart discount stores, $2.8 billion.
2. Henry Ross Perot, 55, Dallas, Electronic Data Systems, $1.8 billion.
3. David Packard, 73, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Hewlett-Packard, $1.5 billion.
4. Margaret Hunt Hill, 70, Dallas, inheritance, oil, $1.4 billion.
5. Caroline Rose Hunt Schoelikopf, 62, Dallas, inheritance, oil and real estate, $1.3 billion.
6. Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., 57, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
7. Donald Edward Newhouse, 56, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
8. David Rockefeller, 70, New York and Tarrytown, N.Y., inheritance, banking and real estate, $1 billion.
9. Henry Lea Hillman, 66, Pittsburgh, industrialist, $1 billion.
10. John Werner Kluge, 71, Charlottesville, Va., and New York, Metromedia, $1 billion. 11. Helmsley, Harry Brakmann, 76, New York, real estate, $1 billion.
etc. down to
14. Haupt, Enid Annenberg, 79, New York, inheritance (publishing), $180 million.

Roughly $16 billion, correct?

Now compare it to the top 14 wealthiest Americans in 2013 and note the difference in actual dollars:

1
Bill Gates
$72 B 57 Medina, Washington Microsoft
2
Warren Buffett
$58.5 B 83 Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway
3
Larry Ellison
$41 B 69 Woodside, California Oracle
4
Charles Koch
$36 B 77 Wichita, Kansas diversified
4
David Koch
$36 B 73 New York, New York diversified
6
Christy Walton & family
$35.4 B 58 Jackson, Wyoming Wal-Mart
7
Jim Walton
$33.8 B 65 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
8
Alice Walton
$33.5 B 64 Fort Worth, Texas Wal-Mart
9
S. Robson Walton
$33.3 B 69 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
10
Michael Bloomberg
$31 B 71 New York, New York Bloomberg LP
11
Sheldon Adelson
$28.5 B 80 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos
12
Jeff Bezos
$27.2 B 49 Seattle, Washington Amazon.com
13
Larry Page
$24.9 B 40 Palo Alto, California Google
14
Sergey Brin
$24.4 B 40 Los Altos, California

The richest 14 Americans less than 30 years ago had about the same income as No. 26 on the current Forbes 400 list: Paul Allen of Microsoft who has $15.8B.


Even translated into 2013 dollars from 1985, that's still a gross discrepancy. And these people have paid for what is happening to us ALL now.

You can fire Congress, burn every one of them at the stake, but the billionaires will just buy themselves a bunch of new whores and continue with their party.

two things: the Fed has been driving down the value of the dollar, note the difference between the 2 lists

If Capitalism worked as the CommProgs suggest the list would be static

So in 2012 total value of the list of richest 14 $478 billion!!
Remember this is Assets minus debts right???
So in 2008 households and nonprofits held $40,814,000,000 (That's trillions)) which is 1%!!!!

OH HUMMM... YAWN!!! BIG f...king deal! so 14 billionaires are moaning about and THAT's less the 1% of all households $40 trillion!


View attachment 27910

Total Assets of the U.S. Economy $188 Trillion, 13.4xGDP : rutledgecapital.com

It was assets minus debts in 1985, too.
Why are you quoting pre-recession data?
How many "households and nonprofits" does that take into account?
What are the figures for 2012?
Can you answer any of the above questions?

Oh, and that's "Billions" from 2009, not "Trillions" from your link. Do you know the difference?

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

It's a shame that nobody knows what the hell you're talking about.

Try using actual references, specific company names, and quotes. Shock us all by posting something of substance.

Why don't you try that yourself?

Here's some info for you. Occupy Wall Street is right. The money really is all at the top. The middle class is gone, Congress is being paid to do exactly what they are told because the top 1% doesn't care about the other 99%.

Here's the top 14 of the 400 wealthiest Americans in 1985:

1. Sam Moore Walton, 67, Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart discount stores, $2.8 billion.
2. Henry Ross Perot, 55, Dallas, Electronic Data Systems, $1.8 billion.
3. David Packard, 73, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Hewlett-Packard, $1.5 billion.
4. Margaret Hunt Hill, 70, Dallas, inheritance, oil, $1.4 billion.
5. Caroline Rose Hunt Schoelikopf, 62, Dallas, inheritance, oil and real estate, $1.3 billion.
6. Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., 57, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
7. Donald Edward Newhouse, 56, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
8. David Rockefeller, 70, New York and Tarrytown, N.Y., inheritance, banking and real estate, $1 billion.
9. Henry Lea Hillman, 66, Pittsburgh, industrialist, $1 billion.
10. John Werner Kluge, 71, Charlottesville, Va., and New York, Metromedia, $1 billion. 11. Helmsley, Harry Brakmann, 76, New York, real estate, $1 billion.
etc. down to
14. Haupt, Enid Annenberg, 79, New York, inheritance (publishing), $180 million.

Roughly $16 billion, correct?

Now compare it to the top 14 wealthiest Americans in 2013 and note the difference in actual dollars:

1
Bill Gates
$72 B 57 Medina, Washington Microsoft
2
Warren Buffett
$58.5 B 83 Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway
3
Larry Ellison
$41 B 69 Woodside, California Oracle
4
Charles Koch
$36 B 77 Wichita, Kansas diversified
4
David Koch
$36 B 73 New York, New York diversified
6
Christy Walton & family
$35.4 B 58 Jackson, Wyoming Wal-Mart
7
Jim Walton
$33.8 B 65 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
8
Alice Walton
$33.5 B 64 Fort Worth, Texas Wal-Mart
9
S. Robson Walton
$33.3 B 69 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
10
Michael Bloomberg
$31 B 71 New York, New York Bloomberg LP
11
Sheldon Adelson
$28.5 B 80 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos
12
Jeff Bezos
$27.2 B 49 Seattle, Washington Amazon.com
13
Larry Page
$24.9 B 40 Palo Alto, California Google
14
Sergey Brin
$24.4 B 40 Los Altos, California

The richest 14 Americans less than 30 years ago had about the same income as No. 26 on the current Forbes 400 list: Paul Allen of Microsoft who has $15.8B.


Even translated into 2013 dollars from 1985, that's still a gross discrepancy. And these people have paid for what is happening to us ALL now.

You can fire Congress, burn every one of them at the stake, but the billionaires will just buy themselves a bunch of new whores and continue with their party.

Do I smell the odor of the taint of the Socialist Beast raising it's head breathing down on all of us?

I have no problem with these people making the money they do.

I have happily contributed to the pockets of some of them because I really like the products they put out. Others have not seen much, if any of my money because I dislike their product or their company. Luckily for them, other do like their product and company.

I do not look forward to my "voluntary" donation to the Federal Government when so much of it is wasted on and in Government give-aways used to keep Socialists in power.

Sounds like somebody who doesn't realize his pension or SS check is at peril from this usurping of the middle class. You truly are a mushroom, Shroom. Happy to be kept in the dark with manure to keep you growing.

 

[OriginalShroom]

Do I smell the odor of the taint of the Socialist Beast raising it's head breathing down on all of us?

I have no problem with these people making the money they do.

I have happily contributed to the pockets of some of them because I really like the products they put out. Others have not seen much, if any of my money because I dislike their product or their company. Luckily for them, other do like their product and company.

I do not look forward to my "voluntary" donation to the Federal Government when so much of it is wasted on and in Government give-aways used to keep Socialists in power.

Sounds like somebody who doesn't realize his pension or SS check is at peril from this usurping of the middle class. You truly are a mushroom, Shroom. Happy to be kept in the dark with manure to keep you growing.

If I have to continue working, so be it. I don't expect to ever see a dime of my SS anyway the way the Democrats keep finding new people to give it to in order to buy their votes.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Do I smell the odor of the taint of the Socialist Beast raising it's head breathing down on all of us?

I have no problem with these people making the money they do.

I have happily contributed to the pockets of some of them because I really like the products they put out. Others have not seen much, if any of my money because I dislike their product or their company. Luckily for them, other do like their product and company.

I do not look forward to my "voluntary" donation to the Federal Government when so much of it is wasted on and in Government give-aways used to keep Socialists in power.

Sounds like somebody who doesn't realize his pension or SS check is at peril from this usurping of the middle class. You truly are a mushroom, Shroom. Happy to be kept in the dark with manure to keep you growing.

If I have to continue working, so be it. I don't expect to ever see a dime of my SS anyway the way the Democrats keep finding new people to give it to in order to buy their votes.

Well, while you are shopping for their products that you are so fond of, comfort yourself that these individuals pay far less in income tax than you do. At least Warren Buffet will admit it.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

If a government installation blew up the way that company did in Texas, Republicans would go on endlessly about "bad government and incompetency".

After BP, Republicans apologized to BP and blocked BP being investigated. What if a government accident dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf? Would Republicans be so "generous" and forgiving?

Every time Apple comes out with a new phone with all it's "glitches" or Microsoft comes out with a new buggy "Windows", Republicans don't seem particularly concerned. But when the government opens a new website catering to millions and millions of people and it crashes at the beginning, it's "proof" the government can't get anything right.

Republicans say only private industry can handle healthcare. Yet medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy and many Republicans feel the VA is the best healthcare in the world.

Why the double standard? Do you want even more examples?

That explains why Republicans are always talking about the how the government owned bridge in Minneapolis collapsed.

Wait, that is you, isn't it?

By the way, when Apple comes out with a product I don't like because it is full of glitches, I don't buy it. Come to think of it, I don't own anything made by Apple, I leave their products for pretentious assholes who think good intentions trump reality. Every single person I know who owns Apple products votes for Democrats.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Private companies do not have an endless supply of money. They fix their problems if they want to stay in business. Govt takes in trillions of our money, spends frivolously, and gives us websites that cost us 640 million and do not work. They don't have to worry. The money keeps flowing in. This isn't a difficult concept to understand.

sums it up rather nicely
bravo

Plus, no one is going to put a gun to my head if I don't buy the latest iPhone.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

It's a shame that nobody knows what the hell you're talking about.

Try using actual references, specific company names, and quotes. Shock us all by posting something of substance.

Why don't you try that yourself?

Here's some info for you. Occupy Wall Street is right. The money really is all at the top. The middle class is gone, Congress is being paid to do exactly what they are told because the top 1% doesn't care about the other 99%.

Here's the top 14 of the 400 wealthiest Americans in 1985:

1. Sam Moore Walton, 67, Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart discount stores, $2.8 billion.
2. Henry Ross Perot, 55, Dallas, Electronic Data Systems, $1.8 billion.
3. David Packard, 73, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Hewlett-Packard, $1.5 billion.
4. Margaret Hunt Hill, 70, Dallas, inheritance, oil, $1.4 billion.
5. Caroline Rose Hunt Schoelikopf, 62, Dallas, inheritance, oil and real estate, $1.3 billion.
6. Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., 57, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
7. Donald Edward Newhouse, 56, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
8. David Rockefeller, 70, New York and Tarrytown, N.Y., inheritance, banking and real estate, $1 billion.
9. Henry Lea Hillman, 66, Pittsburgh, industrialist, $1 billion.
10. John Werner Kluge, 71, Charlottesville, Va., and New York, Metromedia, $1 billion. 11. Helmsley, Harry Brakmann, 76, New York, real estate, $1 billion.
etc. down to
14. Haupt, Enid Annenberg, 79, New York, inheritance (publishing), $180 million.

Roughly $16 billion, correct?

Now compare it to the top 14 wealthiest Americans in 2013 and note the difference in actual dollars:

1
Bill Gates
$72 B 57 Medina, Washington Microsoft
2
Warren Buffett
$58.5 B 83 Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway
3
Larry Ellison
$41 B 69 Woodside, California Oracle
4
Charles Koch
$36 B 77 Wichita, Kansas diversified
4
David Koch
$36 B 73 New York, New York diversified
6
Christy Walton & family
$35.4 B 58 Jackson, Wyoming Wal-Mart
7
Jim Walton
$33.8 B 65 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
8
Alice Walton
$33.5 B 64 Fort Worth, Texas Wal-Mart
9
S. Robson Walton
$33.3 B 69 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
10
Michael Bloomberg
$31 B 71 New York, New York Bloomberg LP
11
Sheldon Adelson
$28.5 B 80 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos
12
Jeff Bezos
$27.2 B 49 Seattle, Washington Amazon.com
13
Larry Page
$24.9 B 40 Palo Alto, California Google
14
Sergey Brin
$24.4 B 40 Los Altos, California

The richest 14 Americans less than 30 years ago had about the same income as No. 26 on the current Forbes 400 list: Paul Allen of Microsoft who has $15.8B.


Even translated into 2013 dollars from 1985, that's still a gross discrepancy. And these people have paid for what is happening to us ALL now.

You can fire Congress, burn every one of them at the stake, but the billionaires will just buy themselves a bunch of new whores and continue with their party.

Thanks for displaying complete ignorance about cause and effect, economics, and politics. Now all you need to do is demand that other people pay you to be ignorant and you will be qualified to be just like Obama.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why don't you try that yourself?

Here's some info for you. Occupy Wall Street is right. The money really is all at the top. The middle class is gone, Congress is being paid to do exactly what they are told because the top 1% doesn't care about the other 99%.

Here's the top 14 of the 400 wealthiest Americans in 1985:

1. Sam Moore Walton, 67, Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart discount stores, $2.8 billion.
2. Henry Ross Perot, 55, Dallas, Electronic Data Systems, $1.8 billion.
3. David Packard, 73, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Hewlett-Packard, $1.5 billion.
4. Margaret Hunt Hill, 70, Dallas, inheritance, oil, $1.4 billion.
5. Caroline Rose Hunt Schoelikopf, 62, Dallas, inheritance, oil and real estate, $1.3 billion.
6. Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., 57, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
7. Donald Edward Newhouse, 56, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
8. David Rockefeller, 70, New York and Tarrytown, N.Y., inheritance, banking and real estate, $1 billion.
9. Henry Lea Hillman, 66, Pittsburgh, industrialist, $1 billion.
10. John Werner Kluge, 71, Charlottesville, Va., and New York, Metromedia, $1 billion. 11. Helmsley, Harry Brakmann, 76, New York, real estate, $1 billion.
etc. down to
14. Haupt, Enid Annenberg, 79, New York, inheritance (publishing), $180 million.

Roughly $16 billion, correct?

Now compare it to the top 14 wealthiest Americans in 2013 and note the difference in actual dollars:

1
Bill Gates
$72 B 57 Medina, Washington Microsoft
2
Warren Buffett
$58.5 B 83 Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway
3
Larry Ellison
$41 B 69 Woodside, California Oracle
4
Charles Koch
$36 B 77 Wichita, Kansas diversified
4
David Koch
$36 B 73 New York, New York diversified
6
Christy Walton & family
$35.4 B 58 Jackson, Wyoming Wal-Mart
7
Jim Walton
$33.8 B 65 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
8
Alice Walton
$33.5 B 64 Fort Worth, Texas Wal-Mart
9
S. Robson Walton
$33.3 B 69 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
10
Michael Bloomberg
$31 B 71 New York, New York Bloomberg LP
11
Sheldon Adelson
$28.5 B 80 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos
12
Jeff Bezos
$27.2 B 49 Seattle, Washington Amazon.com
13
Larry Page
$24.9 B 40 Palo Alto, California Google
14
Sergey Brin
$24.4 B 40 Los Altos, California

The richest 14 Americans less than 30 years ago had about the same income as No. 26 on the current Forbes 400 list: Paul Allen of Microsoft who has $15.8B.


Even translated into 2013 dollars from 1985, that's still a gross discrepancy. And these people have paid for what is happening to us ALL now.

You can fire Congress, burn every one of them at the stake, but the billionaires will just buy themselves a bunch of new whores and continue with their party.

two things: the Fed has been driving down the value of the dollar, note the difference between the 2 lists

If Capitalism worked as the CommProgs suggest the list would be static

So in 2012 total value of the list of richest 14 $478 billion!!
Remember this is Assets minus debts right???
So in 2008 households and nonprofits held $40,814,000,000 (That's trillions)) which is 1%!!!!

OH HUMMM... YAWN!!! BIG f...king deal! so 14 billionaires are moaning about and THAT's less the 1% of all households $40 trillion!


View attachment 27910

Total Assets of the U.S. Economy $188 Trillion, 13.4xGDP : rutledgecapital.com

So in 2008 households and nonprofits held $40,814,000,000 (That's trillions)) which is 1%!!!!

No. $65.7 trillion, not $40.8 trillion. The most current number is a bit under $75 trilion.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

What the government is doing now, is not an accident, it is deliberate. Deliberate acts don't get forgiven.

Congress....It's not "the government". It is Congress.

Hate to point out the obvious, but Congress is the government.

 

[Harry Dresden]

What the government is doing now, is not an accident, it is deliberate. Deliberate acts don't get forgiven.

Congress....It's not "the government". It is Congress.

it isnt?....is not one of the 3 branches of Govt...the Legislative Branch?.....

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It's a shame that nobody knows what the hell you're talking about.

Try using actual references, specific company names, and quotes. Shock us all by posting something of substance.

Why don't you try that yourself?

Here's some info for you. Occupy Wall Street is right. The money really is all at the top. The middle class is gone, Congress is being paid to do exactly what they are told because the top 1% doesn't care about the other 99%.

Here's the top 14 of the 400 wealthiest Americans in 1985:

1. Sam Moore Walton, 67, Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart discount stores, $2.8 billion.
2. Henry Ross Perot, 55, Dallas, Electronic Data Systems, $1.8 billion.
3. David Packard, 73, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Hewlett-Packard, $1.5 billion.
4. Margaret Hunt Hill, 70, Dallas, inheritance, oil, $1.4 billion.
5. Caroline Rose Hunt Schoelikopf, 62, Dallas, inheritance, oil and real estate, $1.3 billion.
6. Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., 57, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
7. Donald Edward Newhouse, 56, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
8. David Rockefeller, 70, New York and Tarrytown, N.Y., inheritance, banking and real estate, $1 billion.
9. Henry Lea Hillman, 66, Pittsburgh, industrialist, $1 billion.
10. John Werner Kluge, 71, Charlottesville, Va., and New York, Metromedia, $1 billion. 11. Helmsley, Harry Brakmann, 76, New York, real estate, $1 billion.
etc. down to
14. Haupt, Enid Annenberg, 79, New York, inheritance (publishing), $180 million.

Roughly $16 billion, correct?

Now compare it to the top 14 wealthiest Americans in 2013 and note the difference in actual dollars:

1
Bill Gates
$72 B 57 Medina, Washington Microsoft
2
Warren Buffett
$58.5 B 83 Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway
3
Larry Ellison
$41 B 69 Woodside, California Oracle
4
Charles Koch
$36 B 77 Wichita, Kansas diversified
4
David Koch
$36 B 73 New York, New York diversified
6
Christy Walton & family
$35.4 B 58 Jackson, Wyoming Wal-Mart
7
Jim Walton
$33.8 B 65 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
8
Alice Walton
$33.5 B 64 Fort Worth, Texas Wal-Mart
9
S. Robson Walton
$33.3 B 69 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
10
Michael Bloomberg
$31 B 71 New York, New York Bloomberg LP
11
Sheldon Adelson
$28.5 B 80 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos
12
Jeff Bezos
$27.2 B 49 Seattle, Washington Amazon.com
13
Larry Page
$24.9 B 40 Palo Alto, California Google
14
Sergey Brin
$24.4 B 40 Los Altos, California

The richest 14 Americans less than 30 years ago had about the same income as No. 26 on the current Forbes 400 list: Paul Allen of Microsoft who has $15.8B.


Even translated into 2013 dollars from 1985, that's still a gross discrepancy. And these people have paid for what is happening to us ALL now.

You can fire Congress, burn every one of them at the stake, but the billionaires will just buy themselves a bunch of new whores and continue with their party.

In 1985, US GDP was a bit over $4 trillion, currently, despite Obama's best efforts, it's about $16 trillion.
It is sad that Microsoft made so much money, Buffett is such a good investor, Oracle is used by so many, the Koch brothers are good investors, so many people shop at WalMart, Bloomberg terminals are so useful, and that people like to gamble, shop online and use Google. Just awful.
We should be more like Russia where the only wealth is that stolen by the government, eh comrade?

 

[Harry Dresden]

Rdean is what happens when you take politics way too seriously. Friends don't let friends Rdean

no kidding
seems some people eat, sleep and breath nothing but politics...it consumes their lives so much they come up with threads like this.... it has to be a miserable existence...

not with Dean.....he eats sleeps and breaths Republicans.....its called an obsession.....

 

[rdean]

The difference is that we're not forced to give to corporations.....unless we elect to not have health insurance then we're forced to pay the govt.

No one is forcing you to stay in this country. Being born here gives you the right to live here "free". Why do you think you have the right to live here FOR "free"?

And who are you to tell anybody where and when they have to live? Typical leftard crook who can't stand others people freedom.
For now you do not have your way, so deal with it

Freedom is not "free". It costs money.

Blue states pay to keep Red states viable. Because Republicans prefer to live in a cesspool with very little rights.

 

[rdean]

It's a shame that nobody knows what the hell you're talking about.

Try using actual references, specific company names, and quotes. Shock us all by posting something of substance.

Why don't you try that yourself?

Here's some info for you. Occupy Wall Street is right. The money really is all at the top. The middle class is gone, Congress is being paid to do exactly what they are told because the top 1% doesn't care about the other 99%.

Here's the top 14 of the 400 wealthiest Americans in 1985:

1. Sam Moore Walton, 67, Bentonville, Ark., Wal-Mart discount stores, $2.8 billion.
2. Henry Ross Perot, 55, Dallas, Electronic Data Systems, $1.8 billion.
3. David Packard, 73, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Hewlett-Packard, $1.5 billion.
4. Margaret Hunt Hill, 70, Dallas, inheritance, oil, $1.4 billion.
5. Caroline Rose Hunt Schoelikopf, 62, Dallas, inheritance, oil and real estate, $1.3 billion.
6. Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., 57, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
7. Donald Edward Newhouse, 56, New York, publishing, $1.1 billion.
8. David Rockefeller, 70, New York and Tarrytown, N.Y., inheritance, banking and real estate, $1 billion.
9. Henry Lea Hillman, 66, Pittsburgh, industrialist, $1 billion.
10. John Werner Kluge, 71, Charlottesville, Va., and New York, Metromedia, $1 billion. 11. Helmsley, Harry Brakmann, 76, New York, real estate, $1 billion.
etc. down to
14. Haupt, Enid Annenberg, 79, New York, inheritance (publishing), $180 million.

Roughly $16 billion, correct?

Now compare it to the top 14 wealthiest Americans in 2013 and note the difference in actual dollars:

1
Bill Gates
$72 B 57 Medina, Washington Microsoft
2
Warren Buffett
$58.5 B 83 Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway
3
Larry Ellison
$41 B 69 Woodside, California Oracle
4
Charles Koch
$36 B 77 Wichita, Kansas diversified
4
David Koch
$36 B 73 New York, New York diversified
6
Christy Walton & family
$35.4 B 58 Jackson, Wyoming Wal-Mart
7
Jim Walton
$33.8 B 65 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
8
Alice Walton
$33.5 B 64 Fort Worth, Texas Wal-Mart
9
S. Robson Walton
$33.3 B 69 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
10
Michael Bloomberg
$31 B 71 New York, New York Bloomberg LP
11
Sheldon Adelson
$28.5 B 80 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos
12
Jeff Bezos
$27.2 B 49 Seattle, Washington Amazon.com
13
Larry Page
$24.9 B 40 Palo Alto, California Google
14
Sergey Brin
$24.4 B 40 Los Altos, California

The richest 14 Americans less than 30 years ago had about the same income as No. 26 on the current Forbes 400 list: Paul Allen of Microsoft who has $15.8B.


Even translated into 2013 dollars from 1985, that's still a gross discrepancy. And these people have paid for what is happening to us ALL now.

You can fire Congress, burn every one of them at the stake, but the billionaires will just buy themselves a bunch of new whores and continue with their party.

In 1985, US GDP was a bit over $4 trillion, currently, despite Obama's best efforts, it's about $16 trillion.
It is sad that Microsoft made so much money, Buffett is such a good investor, Oracle is used by so many, the Koch brothers are good investors, so many people shop at WalMart, Bloomberg terminals are so useful, and that people like to gamble, shop online and use Google. Just awful.
We should be more like Russia where the only wealth is that stolen by the government, eh comrade?

Why shouldn't those billionaires invest in the country where they were able to make so much money? Republicans think there is no end to cutting taxes. But if they got rid of all taxes and government, it wouldn't be long before another government came in and took over. If that happened, they would wish for the good old days when we really were free.

Freedom isn't "free". It costs money.