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No I do not Smedley Butler. They create jobs...and they cut jobs...what moral and ethical crime have they committed?? What law have they broken??
“Rich people don’t create jobs. Companies create jobs,” he continued. Politics are to blame for the “coddling of the rich” as Buffett said.
I just watched Bill Maher's "But I'm Not Wrong" and he had one really poignant comment on this exact topic; the super rich don't create jobs, they create wealth.
Originally posted by SmedleyBurlap
reply to post by orangetom1999
No I do not Smedley Butler. They create jobs...and they cut jobs...what moral and ethical crime have they committed?? What law have they broken??
If you had paid attention to the thread instead of going on long, rambling tangents, you would have known that this was never the point.
The thread was always about the GOP LIE that the rich are job creators. As you have affirmed repeatedly throughout this thread, the rich love to get rid of jobs. They only create jobs when it is impossible to generate more wealth using the robots currently on the market. If the goal of the wealthy is to eliminate the need for labour by investing in machinery and artificial intelligence, then why does the GOP claim that tax breaks for the rich create jobs? This has never been a critique of the 'need' for competition. This has always been a criticism of the GOP's outright LYING to an underemployed electoral base that is demanding MORE and BETTER jobs.
Originally posted by Alxandro
Originally posted by TupacShakur
reply to post by Misoir
That's an argument I've never really understood, "Rich people create jobs".....how? Does a millionaire one day say "You know what, I'm sick of golfing, I'm going to build a factory and provide lots of jobs for my community!".
Question, How many poor people have you ever worked for?
Originally posted by SmedleyBurlap
reply to post by orangetom1999
Feel free to chase the socialist bogeyman somewhere else. This thread is about a lie sold to the electorate by a political party that benefits from the lie. I do not pass judgement on businesses for increasing efficiency. I criticize politicians for lying to their constituents. If you want to debate another point, then you do not want to debate with me, or in this thread.