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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Another progressive plan to be fair by being unfair.
    So you think the wealth "earn" their wealth, they don't exert influence and privilege in order to maintain it?

    Or do you think that 1% of the people are that much smarter than the rest of us?

    ok - whatever. Mac's here, he'll keep you busy from now on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    So you think the wealth "earn" their wealth, they don't exert influence and privilege in order to maintain it?

    Or do you think that 1% of the people are that much smarter than the rest of us?

    ok - whatever. Mac's here, he'll keep you busy from now on.

    Most, yes.

    Yet you want to give capital to those who definitely did not earn it.

    I don't think what you think I think, nice try though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cigar View Post
    That would solve 99% of our Problems
    It would solve 0% if our problems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    We would have to have a two tier Army. Draftees have no place in our high tech, well disciplined combat arms. I guess we can make them combat service support.

    Make them MP's. I never met an MP who could spell cat if you spotted him the C and the T.

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    Every Millionaire Cries Himself to Sleep Every Night Because He's Not a Billionaire

    Quote Originally Posted by Mac-7 View Post
    I may have been complaining about our stupid trade policies longer than you.

    We allow cheap foreign products to be imported and American jobs disappear.

    But you only know how hate corporations for doing what they have to do.
    They don't have to do it at all. They try to scare us into thinking they'll have to pull the plug if they can't make as much money as they can, any way they can, even it amounts to economic treason.
    On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders

    We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.

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    "My Way or the Highway" Means That the Plutes' Way Is the Low Way

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    Right, and let government manage capital like in the Soviet Union, or North Korea.
    Typical rhetorical extortion, scaring us into thinking we have to submit to either the GreedHeads or the GovHeads, with no other alternatives.
    On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders

    We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.

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