Originally posted by sp00n1
Are you really suggesting that if the rich werent so rich this whole country would fall apart? Do you have any historical precedent to back this
up?
Absolutely, it's a little experiment called
The United States of America. Historically in America, the
wealthy ALWAYS hold the nation
together, ALWAYS keep the economy afloat. The middle class, the
consumers, merely facilitate cash flow, moving money from one hand to the
next. If the wealthy closed their coffers,
nobody in the middle class would have paychecks,
nobody in the middle class would be able to
take out loans,
nobody in the middle class would even have jobs.
And don't give me that hooey about small business being the
backbone of America, or that redneck line of crap about "bustin' mah ass"
somehow being responsible for America's dominance of the world economy. It's
the wealthy who make America what it is, and the middle class
are just
users of that wealth.
Originally posted by sp00n1
Seriously, if instead of the income gap being sooooo wide, what if the distribution were a little more like this: Instead of the top 1% having 90% of
the wealth, the top 10% have 90% of the wealth? ...How about if the breakdown were like this; top 50% have 60% of wealth?
And
how do you propose to facilitate this illegal, Robin-Hood-like redistribution of
other people's wealth?
There's a reason
that the "top 10%" and the "top 50%"
aren't in the "top 1%," and it's because
they haven't EARNED it. What part of
earning your wealth do the Democrats (I mean Libertarians) fail to understand? Why must the Grand Plan always include a
raid on
other people's wealth to appease the seething masses?
Originally posted by sp00n1
The current wealth accumulation of top 1% having 90% of all wealth is UNPRECEDENTED!!! Trying to argue that it is somehow good or necessary for
the rest of us to perpetuate this theft is preposterous!!
Before we go any further with this Libertarian/Marxist propaganda, I'm going to put you on the spot and ask you for your
source on these
ridiculous
and indeed mythical statistics about the "richest 1%" of Americans owning 90% of the wealth. See, I've gone over the statistics
of the U.S. Census Bureau, and
no where do I see the math that adds up to
your claims. The number fluctuates yearly, but the most
recent U.S. Census data seems to indicate that the "richest 1%" own and control about 35% of this nation's wealth. Which is
still a
considerable amount, but it
sure as hell isn't
over 90%.
Meanwhile, let's look at
global wealth... The richest 1% of people
in the entire world own about 85% of the
entire world's
wealth.
Now,
that is a major disparity — but, you know what? This tells me that the "inequality of wealth" in the United States
is not nearly
as great as it is in the
rest of the world. In fact, the distribution of wealth in America, while not equal across the board, is more than
TWICE as fair as it is anywhere else in the world!
Meaning, the middle class in America
already has it pretty good compared to the glaring inequality of wealth elsewhere — but that's what any
honest observer already knows. This propaganda about the
capitalist pigs in their ivory towers, leeching the lifeblood of America's
downtrodden middle class, is pure and unadulterated Marxism.
Call yourself what you will — Libertarian, Democrat, left-leaning Republican or whatever — but if you endorse
redistributing America's
wealth, then you're a spokesman for
socialist totalitarianism, my friend.
— Doc Velocity