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In reply to the discussion: Why dislike the super rich? Envious? Jealous? That's what they think. [View all]ladym55
(2,577 posts)7. Why dislike the rich?
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.
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Why dislike the super rich? Envious? Jealous? That's what they think. [View all]
SomethingFishy
Jan 2014
OP
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
The productivity of the American worker has gone through the roof in the last several decades.
trotsky
Jan 2014
#36
I have no desire to be around them and certainly would never want to be like them
deutsey
Jan 2014
#62
I dislike them because they are takers with their hands in everyone's pockets, nothing but
Raine
Jan 2014
#8
Wow. Lots of hating on Alan Grayson, Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, the Kennedys, and John Kerry,
Nye Bevan
Jan 2014
#11
Do they parade around calling Obama a Socialist, flashing their rolexes and claiming victimhood?
tenderfoot
Jan 2014
#64
Interesting - I have not heard one of those people complain about having to pay higher taxes
tenderfoot
Jan 2014
#63
Read about the junkie screwing a whole country out of its natural resources wealth
undeterred
Jan 2014
#29
Because I don't like liars and thieves and the big I little you syndrome that possesses them.
lonestarnot
Jan 2014
#38
I went to graduate school at an Ivy League university after graduating from a
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2014
#50