I am for wealth accumulation through hard labor. If you do not labor,
you do not accumulate wealth, and therefore must depend upon the
kindness of strangers who will not give you enough to get through the
month without your having to labor.
If you do not work, you do not eat, and then you get to die and make
room for those who will labor.
clay
On Oct 19, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Tom Hargrave wrote:
The greatest wealth redistribution system this country has seen to
date
is the Earned Income Credit program. And because of Earned Income
Credit, funds are pulled from the Northern States and handed to the
Southern States one poor mother at a time. It's so bad that because of
Earned Income Credit, Mississippi actually draws a profit from the
Federal tax system. What's really a shame is that those in the North
East really aren't any richer, they just pass more cash though their
hands & pass a good perventage off to their greater tax burden.
But the damage runs even deeper & I have proof. Years ago, two of my
Sister in'laws & their families refused to improve their financial
position by finding better paying jobs for fear of loosing their
Earned
Incom Credit. When the kids aged out & moved on, they lost their
Earned
Income Credit & both families were very bitter about the loss - they
believed and still believe that the Government owed it to them.
Now the children of both families are having babies & are doing the
exact same thing! To-date 3 nieces & 1 nephew belonging to these two
families qualify & draw and when I pose the "do you want to find a
better job" question to them, I get the same response I got from their
parents!
So, who's for weath redistribution in this country? Not Me!!!!!!!
Tom
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From: Scott Ritchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Is Barack Obama a US Citizen? - flag pin
IMHO, in the real world when governments try to redistribute wealth
either
(a) the rich get richer and the poor get poorer or (b) the entire
economy
goes in the dumper so the rich leave and the poor get poorer. I
suspect
a
great deal of the current economic mess is a direct result of
politicians
trying to redistribute wealth and/or but votes. I believe the US has
serious short-term and a long-term economic problems. The short term
problem is a lack of confidence in the banking system (overvalued
collateral) that produced the current liquidity crisis. The long term
problem is that the US has, to a great degree, divested itself (except
for
farming) from the actual production of wealth by exporting those
activities
to other countries ... for environmental, regulatory, and financial
reasons.
I think this recession is only the beginning.
Scott Ritchey
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Behalf Of Bill R
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 15:57
To: 'Mercedes Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Is Barack Obama a US Citizen? - flag pin
Are you wearing your lapel pin all the time? Personally I don't have
one.
Does that make me un-American? The two kids I have in the military
[the
third is out now] would disagree. I agree with many economists that
the
redistribution of wealth in the past 8 years - some hundreds of
billions
of
$ annually from the middle class to the top few percent, does need
something
of a reversal. What Obama actually said to someone who presented
themselves
as making over $250k a year is that we do need to "spread the wealth
around." You would prefer the continued transfer from middle class to
upper
class? For anyone on here who makes profit in excess of $250k a year,
would
the extra few % on the amount over that $250k somehow destroy your
business
or life style? What has become a central point in the message of
McCain
has
the situation, the character and the 'facts' of the case all made up,
which
doesn't provide much confidence in McCain or his staff, even if he
wears
a
flag lapel pin on his pajamas. Certainly there is a real person out
in
the
United States somewhere who could have made the point without making
so
much
of it up.
BillR
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On Behalf Of LarryT
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 9:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Is Barack Obama a US Citizen?
why does obama refuse to wear the US flag lapel pin?
Sincerely,
Larry T (74 911, 91 300D 2.5T)
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