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Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by cleverhans
Gate is nothing more than a con artist. He contributed nothing to the development of the computer. He bought DOS from some kid, who modeled it after UNIX, and then sold it to IBM in what turned out to be the greatest con in history.
Most of the super rich are nothing but ruthless con artists, who have proven that crime does pay.
If the fed gov did its job, and rounded up all the Wall Street crooks, and made them pay for thier crimes, U.S. debt would disappear.
But How can we get our wealth back? How can we revive the Middle Class? The only possible scenario I have thought of that frees the enslaved to minimum wage is to ELIMATE CORPORATIONS AND THEIR ABILITY TO RECORD PROFIT.
Profit is a sh*t word used to increase investment by shareholders. People want to know that their company is doing well, so Accountants unlike me cook the books, make up these huge f*cking ridiculous profit earnings just to convince you as the employee to put money back into your company so the executives see higher dividend checks, while you believe that all those stock options will give you a nice nest egg in the future.
Originally posted by kro32
reply to post by TerryMcGuire
There are plenty of people who have made it from being poor to rich so ask youself why some can do it and others can't.
Some people would rather have children or other priorities other than sacrificing what they need to in order to achieve financial security so like I said it's either desire, intelligence, or hard work the poor people are lacking.
I will make a note however that some people are beyond choice. Those with sever handicaps or injuries are unfortunately stuck with limited choices.
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Originally posted by soficrow
Meet the Global Financial Elites Controlling $46 Trillion In Wealth
In total, US millionaire households have at least $45.9 trillion in wealth, the majority of this wealth is held within the upper one-tenth of one percent of the population.
Originally posted by deadeyedick
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Originally posted by soficrow
Meet the Global Financial Elites Controlling $46 Trillion In Wealth
In total, US millionaire households have at least $45.9 trillion in wealth, the majority of this wealth is held within the upper one-tenth of one percent of the population.
This is the most important fact.
I think the line should be drawn in the correct place if we really want change.
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Originally posted by soficrow
In total, US millionaire households have at least $45.9 trillion in wealth, the majority of this wealth is held within the upper one-tenth of one percent of the population.
Originally posted by wantsome
The should call it trickle up economics. I think we should linch the up 1% and redistribute the wealth. There aint no way they could stop 150 million of us.
Originally posted by TheMur
reply to post by kro32
Bill gates also gives more in charity a year than most rich ppledit on 13-8-2011 by TheMur because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by awareness10
Originally posted by TheMur
reply to post by kro32
Bill gates also gives more in charity a year than most rich ppledit on 13-8-2011 by TheMur because: (no reason given)
Charities owned by him or other elite zillionaires created for the purpose of making
Bill-ionaire look good while he works behind the scenes to destroy the human race
in favor of their own kind. Anyways, if he really gave that much to charity, don't
you think Africa would be much better off, they're still starving to death. And, if Bill
was really a smart guy who loved helping people, don't you think he'd have done
something to fix the economy so that Everyone could live above poverty level?