I was reading an article about Amazon in Seattle this morning and how
Jeff Bezos is a libertarian and we know how cruel that thinking is. it's
sink or swim, "I've got mine and to hell with everyone else." Not only
that you probably noticed that the previously apolitical software
programmers decided that libertarianism was the "cat's meow" back in the
1990s. Society is doomed with that kind of thinking. It's very
Dickensonian.
Are rich really that stupid? Must be or wealth has fogged their minds
and they are one pointed about one thing: making more money even though
they have plenty already. They are destroying society. Not that this
is anything new it has happened before and regardless of what we try to
do history just repeats itself.
The article on Amazon:
http://www.geekwire.com/2014/commentary-amageddon-seattles-increasingly-obvious-future/
I was last in Seattle in 2007 and it has lost it's charm. Downtown
looked like something out of "Bladerunner".
On 11/23/2014 11:01 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
The current situation is shameful. It is lying with statistics, based
on an outmoded tax structure - Let the ultra-wealthy give something
back, besides the minimum. The only reason that chart is trotted out,
is to quiet those who know they are being screwed, and to appease the
very rich.
How is someone worth a billion dollars, going to miss a hundred
million or so? The ultra rich use a disproportionate share of the
common, and they should pay their fair share, without any tax breaks.
If they did that, and corporations chipped in their fair share, that
would be good enough for me.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote :
On 11/22/2014 2:28 PM, fleetwood_macncheese wrote:
>
Yes, I agree that a larger safety net is necessary, and the bucks
for that should come from the ultra wealthy who shirk their
national responsibility, by evading taxes.
>
/A new CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair
share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share.
http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share//
>
Otherwise, we will continue to see the middle class disappear,
and be headed for a second revolution, eventually.
Part of the issue, is that corporate titans are seen as great
visionaries and geniuses, instead of simply being true to their
charter, which is to turn as big a profit, as possible, resources
and populations be damned. We need real leaders, not Warren
Buffet and a bunch of unethical salesmen, running this country.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <noozguru@...>
<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
One of the ways of doing it would be guaranteed annual income.
That's a safety net and keeps people from becoming desperate. In
fact the crime reduction it might produce might pay for it. You
can look up the different countries implementing it and see how
they are going to pay for it. Otherwise limit how much money
anyone can have because we're seeing that billionaires are
mentally ill and don't deserve the power they wield.
Americans are so brainwashed with a Tarzan like "capitalism good,
socialism bad" meme that its difficult to get any decent change
and it'll just send us back to the middle ages where there are
two classes the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor. Don't
stand for it!
Nothing brings this out more than than the holiday season or
"Crassmust".
On 11/22/2014 10:20 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@...
<mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Yes, but I don't know how that would be possible. This area
I now live in, was a paradise for the natives, for 3,000
years - no inter-tribal warfare, and absolute respect for
territorial boundaries. But, they had nothing, and lived
entirely off the land. I like my tech, and modern life, and
not sure how that would happen, without monetary rewards.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <noozguru@...>
<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
People sure are desperate for making money so they come up
with their weirdest ideas. If there is a future it's going
to be VERY, VERY weird. Just think what a nicer world this
would be if people didn't have to worry about making money.
On 11/22/2014 08:11 AM, fleetwood_macncheese@...
<mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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