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ladym55

(2,577 posts)
7. Why dislike the rich?
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 05:32 PM
Jan 2014

Let me count the ways ...

Their insatiable short-term greed is destroying us. We couldn't possibly invest in people, education, infrastructure ... then they control the message so that the poor turn on each other as they scrap over the leftover crumbs.

We deal daily with the results of their need to stay addicted to 19th century energy technologies. The "once in a generation" weather events happen with increasing regularity.

Apparently the very wealthy think that the consequences of their stupidity and greed will NEVER touch them.

Joe Strummer sang it best: FSogol Jan 2014 #1
When Donald Trump was asked how much money was enough... MicaelS Jan 2014 #2
yet he still can't get a good looking hair piece rurallib Jan 2014 #20
I think that mat on his head is really his own hair madokie Jan 2014 #40
you mean a barber would do that to him? rurallib Jan 2014 #41
Money talks madokie Jan 2014 #42
They just don't get it that we hate them because they've robbed us of the fruits of our labor Warpy Jan 2014 #3
Exactly... SomethingFishy Jan 2014 #4
The Roman vomitoriums. EC Jan 2014 #27
Wow, I'm agreeing with you! ReRe Jan 2014 #28
The productivity of the American worker has gone through the roof in the last several decades. trotsky Jan 2014 #36
+1 n/t Alkene Jan 2014 #51
I have no desire to be around them and certainly would never want to be like them deutsey Jan 2014 #62
I have been around some of them Warpy Jan 2014 #65
I never envy sociopaths... nt Bigmack Jan 2014 #5
It's really pretty simple. Jackpine Radical Jan 2014 #6
Mmm. Some truth there for sure.. SomethingFishy Jan 2014 #9
Someone posted on FB yesterday mac56 Jan 2014 #25
That's a good one. nt laundry_queen Jan 2014 #45
Why dislike the rich? ladym55 Jan 2014 #7
I dislike them because they are takers with their hands in everyone's pockets, nothing but Raine Jan 2014 #8
They call it "the politics of envy" gollygee Jan 2014 #10
Wow. Lots of hating on Alan Grayson, Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, the Kennedys, and John Kerry, Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #11
There is a difference between SUPER RICH and Rich.. SomethingFishy Jan 2014 #12
Oxfam's "Working for the Few" report, for those who haven't seen it yet Electric Monk Jan 2014 #14
All rich people are not assholes, just the majority. juajen Jan 2014 #18
You probably know rich people without knowing that they are rich. Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #31
Oh bullshit. They just want to be unnoticed in their thievery. lonestarnot Jan 2014 #39
You mean upper middle class? Quantess Jan 2014 #53
So the problem is the Nancy Pelosis? (net worth $100 million) Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #57
Do they parade around calling Obama a Socialist, flashing their rolexes and claiming victimhood? tenderfoot Jan 2014 #64
somehow marions ghost Jan 2014 #46
Really, you can't differentiate between the ones you mentioned... ReRe Jan 2014 #30
I don't respect that kind of wealth. Full Stop. hunter Jan 2014 #37
Interesting - I have not heard one of those people complain about having to pay higher taxes tenderfoot Jan 2014 #63
Being billionaire is obscene IMHO rickyhall Jan 2014 #13
So you consider JK Rowling to be an "obscenity"? (nt) Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #44
J K Rowling is no longer a billionaire... prairierose Jan 2014 #48
+1 nt laundry_queen Jan 2014 #56
succinctly put. heaven05 Jan 2014 #15
Their only God is money and they have no conscience. Triana Jan 2014 #16
+1 ReRe Jan 2014 #32
It's because they buy our government florida08 Jan 2014 #17
Exactly! ReRe Jan 2014 #33
The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. lumberjack_jeff Jan 2014 #19
see that's the thing LittleGirl Jan 2014 #21
Hoarders.......of $$$. yourout Jan 2014 #22
I love the super rich! They are going to fill up Hell one day Rex Jan 2014 #23
rec frwrfpos Jan 2014 #24
Isaac Asimov was once chased down by an outraged 1%-er . . . cer7711 Jan 2014 #26
Gawd, I hope that's a true story! Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2014 #49
It Is! Asimov Recounts It . . . cer7711 Jan 2014 #52
Read about the junkie screwing a whole country out of its natural resources wealth undeterred Jan 2014 #29
I have no problem with how money one has. deathrind Jan 2014 #34
The High Priests of our national religion, Capitalism. Skeeter Barnes Jan 2014 #35
Because I don't like liars and thieves and the big I little you syndrome that possesses them. lonestarnot Jan 2014 #38
They're assholes and they're takers and fuck them. Iggo Jan 2014 #43
The rich marions ghost Jan 2014 #47
I went to graduate school at an Ivy League university after graduating from a Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2014 #50
I could care less about the super rich Puzzledtraveller Jan 2014 #54
So do you think it would be better if Kentucky had a republican B Calm Jan 2014 #58
I do not recall implying that. Puzzledtraveller Jan 2014 #59
My old employer didn't have the money to give us a decent raise, but had the money B Calm Jan 2014 #55
I personally don't dislike (super) rich people; Jamaal510 Jan 2014 #60
Because so many have all the solipsism of your average abuser booley Jan 2014 #61
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