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5. How does someone this idiotic amass such a fortune?

Fri Dec 20, 2013, 03:32 PM

Dec 2013

Don't bother answering. Scary that he has power over millions.

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Bloomberg on poverty. "Sometimes some of us are lucky and some of us are not" [View all] madfloridian Dec 2013 OP

Uh, excuse me Mike, but God didn't do that. progressoid Dec 2013 #1

Always so easy to say when you're on "God's good side" whatchamacallit Dec 2013 #2

The scary part is that they BELIEVE this, bvar22 Dec 2013 #3

So Bloomberg is saying HE is extremely lucky? Rex Dec 2013 #4

Yep, he is very lucky. The poor are not, according to him. God did it. madfloridian Dec 2013 #8

How does someone this idiotic amass such a fortune? adirondacker Dec 2013 #5

"Blessed are the lucky, for they shall inherit the earth" deutsey Dec 2013 #6

deutsey, good to see you. madfloridian Dec 2013 #7

I lurk a lot here and make random potshot posts like this one deutsey Dec 2013 #11

IOW, blame God. There ya go, Mikey... CTyankee Dec 2013 #9

Calvinism, a large influence on Protestantism in this country, teaches this AZ Progressive Dec 2013 #10

Predestination madfloridian Dec 2013 #13

Fate FarCenter Dec 2013 #18

DRIVEL. GeorgeGist Dec 2013 #22

He is a disgusting excuse for a human seveneyes Dec 2013 #12

So glad he is gone! Starry Messenger Dec 2013 #14

That was an awful thing for him to say. madfloridian Dec 2013 #15

Bloomberg has got to be one of the most hated politicians out there. painesghost Dec 2013 #16

Somebody please drop-kick Bloomberg into brentspeak Dec 2013 #19

I had read parts of it. So intense. madfloridian Dec 2013 #23

OK, so men are responsible for poverty. ananda Dec 2013 #21