And if you believe half of that drivel, go and live in Venezuela with the other fucking socialists.
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Gruss wrote: > > Put another way, not only didn't the wealthy "trickle down" to you, > your wealth just trickled down. > > Here is where your entire argument falls flat. People in the US today have more material wealth than ever before in the history of mankind. Did wages stagnate? Yes, but so did prices for many, many basic goods. The share of income a typical middle class family pays for all manner of goods has fallen drastically over the past twenty years. At the same time, all that money flowing into countries like China turned into a flood of inexpensive goods that have enabled even regular people to have all manner of goods that were not even available twenty years ago. Nevertheless, we feel poor because our produce and consume culture has created a picture in our minds that we all need flat panel TVs, iPods, computers, new shoes, new cars, new everything. > > So has there been wealth redistribution over the last 20 years? Damn > straight. The government has redistributed it to the wealthy. > In the last twenty years, the US government has redistributed more money from the top of the economic ladder to the bottom of the economic ladder than at any time in the history of mankind. To claim that the government has re-distributed money up is the worst kind of falsehood and demagoguery. The entire argument of socialists and the Democratic Party is that income inequality is a Bad Thing. Who said? If the rich get really rich and the middle class all gets materially wealthier than at any time in history, how is that bad? Sounds like a win-win to me. So what this whole game really comes down to is a philosophy of punishing success because one person's success is another person's failure. It's more or less another take on the zero sum game theory, that in order to get rich I have to make you poor. That argument is so fundamentally at odds with the history of free enterprise that I am shocked anyone can even espouse it with a straight face. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:290126 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
