Maybe they would not have to be so close fisted if your sole purpose in life were not to devise schemes by which you forcefully wrest such riches from their grasp, somehow thinking you deserve it more by the virtue of your envy.
Yeah I signed up for that "free" Robert Kiyosaki investment seminar in pensacola and am skipping work tomorrow , how about you?
Pat Robertson is that you? "Only one or at most two" were related to the humanitarian mission of Operation Blessing. The rest were "mining-related." http://www.skeptictank.org/robem2.htm
Its not being rewarded as a matter of government policy. Government should be leaving the money and our lives the hell alone. You propose to penalize it as a matter of public policy. I say it is none of the government's business.
Unless we are talking some exotic tribes in the amazon or wherever else, the rich run the show ALWAYS. Even in communist societies the "elite" has villas and access to foreign goods/foreign travel, the difference being it was not dervived from capitalistic activity but party rank. Just look at the lack of oversight of Wall Street post financial meltdown that could have destroyed the world. There is none. Mark to market was done away with (I don't whether or when they are going to put it back), over the counter trading of derivatives has not stopped and it is not regulated anyway, no margin requirements, nothing to address moral hazard. People like S&P, Fitch and moodys have not been prosecuted for fraud (putting AAA on CCC investments by slicing them up and mixing and matching) Douchebags on wall street have the audacity to hand out record bonuses at a time of serious misery that was caused by the financial sector. Being rich is rewarding in and of itself, to think that they are a dying breed and somehow their rights are being trampled upon is to be a naive simpleton (yes piker that means you!)
Collectivist malfeasance with respect to wall street is damming evidence that it should be universally applied. Yet you somehow interpret it's failings as providing a rational for more meddling , and 'social justice" applied to productive people. Some people are just stupid others so full of envy they don't care , which are you?
exactly - we would be far better with no government intervention. We would have saved trillions in tax dollars. If the government was not there as the back stop - the chinesse would not have lent the money to these corrupt schemes. If the government was not there to payout AIGs debt to goldman the bankruptcy trustee would have most likely taken 6 billion back from goldman and they would have been gone. But, Goldman would not have done such stupid shit if they did not have the backstop. Government is the problem... crooked government cronyism is even worse. Look what it did in Japan - look at what it is doing now. How can anyone think the government deserves more money and more power?