Management skills are simple. They can be taught in a few short hours.
The balls to apply them is the hard part. The uber rich are often all
balls and no reason. They just plow ahead like Mac truck slamming
through a store and leaving a mess in it's wake. A massive correction
is needed for the big party the uber rich have had and left the hotel
room trashed.
On 02/26/2016 07:05 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
What do the uber- wealthy have to *give* you so that you can get ahead
and be prosperous?
You can give many people millions of dollars and in a few short years
they are broke again.
You can't give wisdom or management skills. They are learned.
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*From:* "olliesed...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Friday, February 26, 2016 6:56 AM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: very compelling article
The uber-wealthy share of taxes paid is down to 17% of their income. I
never paid a tax rate that low. Ever. Considering that they control
25% of the wealth of the entire country, they ought to pay much more
than 17%. That is obscene. And the reason I refer to it mental
illness, is that they have cornered not only this staggering amount of
wealth, but the entire country is now rigged to increase their wealth,
at our expense.
We are not talking about a wealth of millions of dollars, a sum that
would make the rest of us unimaginably rich. No, these are all
multi-billionaires. A billion dollars is equal to a person living to a
hundred years of age, and spending ten million dollars annually,
nearly a million bucks a month, from infancy. That is just ONE
billion. Incomprehensible.
Any time there is a bump in the economy, who benefits? The rest of us,
who haven't seen wages rise in 55 years? Nope. Always the wealthy.
We keep hearing from the servants of the rich, the media and
politicians, how we are a mighty and wealthy country, a world super
power, and yet the game is now so strongly rigged *against* the
efforts of the populace to get ahead, to have stable, prosperous
lives, that no one is listening.
This could be easily fixed, by bumping the rate on taxable investments
to say, 30 to 40%, what the middle class typically pays of its
stagnant wages to the Feds in taxes. Close some loopholes too. I am
not asking the one percent to contribute unfairly, only to the degree
that the rest of us do. There should not be this unspoken rule, that
once we achieve a certain level of wealth, we are then above the law.
The truly galling thing about this, is the rich would never miss it,
wouldn't even notice.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
The wealthy pay less in taxes? C'mon now! The top 10% pay 70% of tax
revenues. The remaining 90% pay 30%, while 47% pay next to nothing.
66% of spending is on Social programs i.e. SS, Medicare , Medicaid,
Welfair, CHIP, etc. The remaining 34% is on the military and the cost
of running the government and various discretionary spending.
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*From:* "olliesedwuz@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:11 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: very compelling article
Its deeper than that. All of those voting have watched their parents
work hard without getting ahead, and profits skimmed by the wealthy
who pay less taxes. In addition, the 1.2 trillion in student debt
hampers many graduates the chance for a fresh start, and they are the
group supposedly driving the economy. Its a rigged system, now more
than ever, and the incremental change offered by all of the candidates
except Sanders, amounts to treating the symptoms but not curing the
underlying cancer of growing economic inequality.
Your quote by Benjamin Franklin is spot on, in light of all the crony
capitalism going on, off shoring profits to avoid taxes, while
pointing the finger at someone collecting food-stamps, or throwing
people out of jobs that go overseas, and then complaining about them
collecting unemployment for too many weeks. That kind of greed is a
mental illness and must be stopped for the good of us all.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
Yeah, Bernie definitely offers more *free* stuff than Hillary. Bernsie
wants to offer *free* higher education to all. Hillary just wants you
to pay lower interest rates on your student loans. If you were a
student, who would you vote for?
When the people discover that they can vote themselves money, that
will herald the end of the republic.
Benjamin Franklin.
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*From:* "emily.mae50@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 24, 2016 8:45 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: very compelling article
You know, he makes some excellent points. It is true that Hillary is
not a great campaigner and she gets defensive, which doesn't come
across well all the time. Politically, neither her logo or her slogan
say it's about the people. They say it's about her. It is true that
Trump will do everything he can to lynch her and he won't let up. If
she defends, she loses. He will continue to play on people's fear and
she will be facing plenty of sexism, the kind that isn't talked about,
but that surely exists in the minds of both men and women. The
undermining has already started and has been quite effective. I will
agree that the more interesting match that would force us to choose
ideologically would be a Sanders/Trump choice. SuperTuesday is around
the corner.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
This is a very well argued article saying that Clinton cannot beat
Trump but Sanders can.
Unless the Democrats Run Sanders, A Trump Nomination Means a Trump
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