Personally, I will criticize members of the 1% who... (Reply #165)

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165. Personally, I will criticize members of the 1% who...

deserve to be criticized. I will not, however, criticize nor stereotype all members of that class due to some misplaced perception that a person worth a certain amount of money is inherently evil.

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Do you know a really rich person? [View all]	togetherforever	Feb 2016	OP
I personally know some CEOs of huge corporations and plenty of filthy rich people	Buzz Clik	Feb 2016	#1
Good lord, how are you not on my Forever Ignored list? nt	valerief	Feb 2016	#3
No idea.	Buzz Clik	Feb 2016	#7
Yup, just plain folk.	sulphurdunn	Feb 2016	#75
Snort!	dchill	Feb 2016	#138
Splains the concept of 'trickle down' n/t	w0nderer	Feb 2016	#148
You sound like a very hateful person.	Purrfessor	Feb 2016	#161
You sound like a very judgemental, credulous and servile kind of person.	sulphurdunn	Feb 2016	#198
My comment to you is not a judgment but an observation.	Purrfessor	Feb 2016	#199
Uh-huh	sulphurdunn	Feb 2016	#200
How much more money and wealth	ultragreen	Feb 2016	#203
Define rich.	Purrfessor	Feb 2016	#207
Money divides	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#214
My problem is the notion that everyone who attains a certain level and of wealth...	Purrfessor	Feb 2016	#226
It's OK to be suspicious	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#230
So by your logic we should be suspicious of all poor people...	Purrfessor	Feb 2016	#237
False analogy	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#239
And Im not defending rich corporatists and their	Purrfessor	Feb 2016	#244
The social group you identify with--ie. the Rich	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#247
I don't identify with any group. Neither am I an apologist for any group.	Purrfessor	Feb 2016	#251
I think we all KNOW what numbers describe the Rich	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#257
What an odd response to your very simple statement.	7962	Feb 2016	#119
Yes, and the Romneys used an ironing board as a dining table while he was in school.	merrily	Feb 2016	#160
+1 LOL!	TIME TO PANIC	Feb 2016	#51
made my day!!!	erlewyne	Feb 2016	#65
Lmao	Kittycat	Feb 2016	#112
It can be interesting to see how far some will go.	merrily	Feb 2016	#154
Comic relief?	Fantastic Anarchist	Feb 2016	#212
Well then Clinton is clearly the candidate for you.	99th_Monkey	Feb 2016	#10
Yeah, I guess you know my friends better than I.	Buzz Clik	Feb 2016	#14
I guess when you're 'part of the club' or useful to them in some way,	99th_Monkey	Feb 2016	#22
My, my. Judge much?	Buzz Clik	Feb 2016	#26
Just taking you at your word. nt	99th_Monkey	Feb 2016	#31
Seems like someone likes the warm glow of the rich	packman	Feb 2016	#69
Lap-dog position and cubby hole. LMAO	PonyUp	Feb 2016	#87
Post removed	Post removed	Feb 2016	#126
Friends are people we socialize with. If you have all these rich friends,	Divernan	Feb 2016	#79
I have seen this, and second what you have said	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#216
This is a generalization and may not apply to your friends	creatives4innovation	Feb 2016	#81
Which means pretty much squat	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#71
Like it or not: "Income inequality makes the rich more Scrooge-like".	99th_Monkey	Feb 2016	#89
Mitt Romney gave 30% of his income to charity in one year	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#98
Good for him. Is Mitt one of your heroes ? n/t	99th_Monkey	Feb 2016	#101
Your "science" shows he's one of yours, no?	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#102
He's certainly an exception to the rule, yes.	99th_Monkey	Feb 2016	#103
I suspect most of it went to the Mormon church	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#108
Damn, you're right. I forgot about Mitt's funny underwear. nt	99th_Monkey	Feb 2016	#113
I suspect a lot of that went to the Morman Church	Punx	Feb 2016	#109
Which is pretty much my point	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#110
Well we agree here	Punx	Feb 2016	#121
Wealthy give more dollars: Poor give more proportionally.	newthinking	Feb 2016	#152
Agree, except that	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#218
Agreed, we absolutely need to support the arts too	newthinking	Feb 2016	#248
Totally with you on that	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#249
Mitt Romney is a Mormon. I am familiar with Mormon charities.	JDPriestly	Feb 2016	#125
Did your source say what charities?	Mr.Bill	Feb 2016	#127
The Mormon Church and related organizations, I take it?	merrily	Feb 2016	#162
Nixon paid almost no taxes despite reporting over a million $ in income while he was presidunce	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#163
I am not seeing the connection between that and what I said. As to Romney, however, he	merrily	Feb 2016	#166
Nixon's tax scam involved the donation of significantly overvalued writings	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#172
Ok, I get it now. You hadn't mentioned the overvalued writings initially. Your original point is	merrily	Feb 2016	#173
So in his Benevolence, He gets to choose	Marty McGraw	Feb 2016	#259
We never feel secure. Hence, rich people never feel secure, and never feel that they	JDPriestly	Feb 2016	#118
Yep.	kristopher	Feb 2016	#131
I don't agree that greed comes from rich people not feeling financially secure.	merrily	Feb 2016	#167
Re: expecting special treatment as biggest donors to charity?	Divernan	Feb 2016	#217
That, too. And the society writers feed into it. However, the power, the	merrily	Feb 2016	#255
Yes yes yes!	mainer	Feb 2016	#186
Traditionally one way the poor get the rich to spread the wealth is by kidnapping.	Spitfire of ATJ	Feb 2016	#193
Thank you for the laugh . . . I needed that.	Petrushka	Feb 2016	#204
Sadly this is statistically true	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#215
plenty of filthy rich people	SoLeftIAmRight	Feb 2016	#19
Have you asked those questions of the author of the OP?	Buzz Clik	Feb 2016	#24
There are 3 for me by that definition	SoLeftIAmRight	Feb 2016	#30
Someone who lives in a shanty in Jakarta could make the same equally true statement about you	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#82
here let me help	SoLeftIAmRight	Feb 2016	#85
It would be pretty interesting to find research that can see into someone's character	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#91
+100	Tab	Feb 2016	#129
It's not necessarily a question of "sh*tbaggery" as much as it is an ability or inability to	merrily	Feb 2016	#164
That's not particular to rich vs poor	Major Nikon	Feb 2016	#171
Cool story bro	libtodeath	Feb 2016	#44
A place where people from our party defend the 1%	Hydra	Feb 2016	#111
It is sickening.	libtodeath	Feb 2016	#122
Personally, I will criticize members of the 1% who...	Purrfessor	Feb 2016	#165
And a place where people ignore that the global 1% starts at $34K for an individual	Recursion	Feb 2016	#189
Science says the rich tend to be less compassionate...	Akamai	Feb 2016	#105
I find the root of it more interesting	w0nderer	Feb 2016	#151
You say either or, as though it's "either or." Probably be a bit of a combination.	Akamai	Feb 2016	#183
Both	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#219
Do you know second and third generation really rich people? That's where the decadence	JDPriestly	Feb 2016	#117
Good point. Nearly ALL "rich" that i know are all self made, not inherited.	7962	Feb 2016	#130
i agree about the trust fund babies	questionseverything	Feb 2016	#134
the op does not say the rich are bad people	questionseverything	Feb 2016	#133
Thank you for that	togetherforever	Feb 2016	#136
Many doctors have lost memory of before they were wealthy	TNNurse	Feb 2016	#146
Lost memory , I like that	togetherforever	Feb 2016	#149
This guy is pretty nice	TNNurse	Feb 2016	#155
Perfect example	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#243
How many is "plenty"? And what kind of sample is that. Besides it's really beside the point.	rhett o rick	Feb 2016	#139
I call bs.	merrily	Feb 2016	#153
I live in Silicon Valley	elljay	Feb 2016	#206
I bet they make fun of you	ultragreen	Feb 2016	#201
About those filthy rich people:	ultragreen	Feb 2016	#202
True	Albertoo	Feb 2016	#228
They look at us like we're dogs. Useful and loyal but not the same species. nt	valerief	Feb 2016	#2
They demand our loyalty even as they pursue policies that fuck us over. Repeatedly.	stillwaiting	Feb 2016	#12
Exactly,they wonder why we would want another .50 per hour while they worry how to save thousands on	libtodeath	Feb 2016	#45
Not too generous with the doggie treats, either!	merrily	Feb 2016	#168
Who unlocked your chains?	tazkcmo	Feb 2016	#4
I do not hold my opinion based on net worth, I realize lots of people do this,	Thinkingabout	Feb 2016	#5
oh please	grasswire	Feb 2016	#11
I asked the same question...the silence is deafening. Always is with this one.	Punkingal	Feb 2016	#41
I'm curious, too.	davidthegnome	Feb 2016	#61
For Pete's sake...	Punkingal	Feb 2016	#13
I'm also interested in your post.	Old Crow	Feb 2016	#55
I am all ears on this ???	togetherforever	Feb 2016	#66
Please provide an example of bad things Sanders has said about women.	7962	Feb 2016	#124
I am a woman and have never heard these awful these	passiveporcupine	Feb 2016	#180
He knows how people treated as second class citizens feel, right?	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#220
"Lets move away from the 1% just this once folks"	PowerToThePeople	Feb 2016	#6
Math is hard	feathateathn	Feb 2016	#35
expected	PowerToThePeople	Feb 2016	#38
So you're for absolute equality then	feathateathn	Feb 2016	#213
The math is easy	Hydra	Feb 2016	#115
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#222
One branch of my family is very rich	noamnety	Feb 2016	#8
The mafia always look after family	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#221
This message was self-deleted by its author	AZ Progressive	Feb 2016	#253
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Feb 2016	#9
More fit than Shillary.	hobbit709	Feb 2016	#16
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Feb 2016	#23
Ooh, great nickname	SCantiGOP	Feb 2016	#80
I'll call her what I want.	hobbit709	Feb 2016	#84
I do	tk2kewl	Feb 2016	#15
I conduct surveys for the gummit	Le Taz Hot	Feb 2016	#17
Taking gifts on a government job, eh?	jberryhill	Feb 2016	#33
I confess.	Le Taz Hot	Feb 2016	#42
Homemade tamales are to die for	passiveporcupine	Feb 2016	#181
The ones who have the least more often than not give the most	togetherforever	Feb 2016	#53
See my post 79 re working on the census	Divernan	Feb 2016	#100
I can't see it.	Le Taz Hot	Feb 2016	#106
I've known a few. Some were asses, some were OK, and few were human beings.	hobbit709	Feb 2016	#18
That is exactly what I was going to say.	mainstreetonce	Feb 2016	#144
yes , and all of them are very good people.	stonecutter357	Feb 2016	#20
Post removed	Post removed	Feb 2016	#27
Members of the elite parasite class	Mudcat	Feb 2016	#21
What do you mean by "really rich"?	mainer	Feb 2016	#25
The wealthiest was in the top 500	togetherforever	Feb 2016	#32
A bunch of us were going camping one weekend. 1%er showed up with a brand new CAMPER.	Hiraeth	Feb 2016	#28
yes, even at Burning Man	MisterP	Feb 2016	#78
I know one really rich person...	DemocratSinceBirth	Feb 2016	#29
You describe the RARE exception	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#224
Two different people so I must have been lucky./nt	DemocratSinceBirth	Feb 2016	#235
I do not know	UglyGreed	Feb 2016	#34
When I was in college I worked concrete construction in the summers.	Hassin Bin Sober	Feb 2016	#43
I hung doors	UglyGreed	Feb 2016	#176
I happen to know a couple	madokie	Feb 2016	#36
Our adult son is good friends with a rich man from a very rich family and it always....	Tikki	Feb 2016	#37
A couple I used to work for....	Punkingal	Feb 2016	#39
I've known a number of very wealthy people	magical thyme	Feb 2016	#40
Yes I do. Great guy, great friend - and very disconnected.	NRaleighLiberal	Feb 2016	#46
That's not true for rich people who used to be poor or middle class	MaggieD	Feb 2016	#47
Have you looked at the upward mobility in the US?	Loudestlib	Feb 2016	#104
Unless you are interacting with some people	zalinda	Feb 2016	#48
Sorry, that's not really true IME	MaggieD	Feb 2016	#49
Most people, rich or poor, don't know you exist	mainer	Feb 2016	#72
If you don't make a conscious effort to be an exception to the rule,	Rebkeh	Feb 2016	#50
I've met a very rich person -- the CEO/Chairman of the mid-sized corporation I work for	Martin Eden	Feb 2016	#52
Yes	ismnotwasm	Feb 2016	#54
I know plenty of really rich people, probably worked in the same industry you did	dorkzilla	Feb 2016	#56
I think it depends on HOW they got their money.	mainer	Feb 2016	#57
Yes, my ex, a millionaire.	narnian60	Feb 2016	#58
Yes I did, and we do not even exist to them any more than a homeless person does.	LiberalArkie	Feb 2016	#59
Seriously?	Snerd	Feb 2016	#60
and Democrats are represented by everyone in this thread!!!	Skittles	Feb 2016	#93
Read The Great Gatsby.	jalan48	Feb 2016	#62
"Hillary was on the Board of Walmart"	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#225
I know quite a few rich people - their personalities vary as much as most other people I know	EffieBlack	Feb 2016	#63
Agree	frazzled	Feb 2016	#70
+1	onenote	Feb 2016	#92
yup Reagan also didn't come from wealth	JI7	Feb 2016	#145
yes, humans do show all stripes	ellennelle	Feb 2016	#150
I'm with you.	PatrickforO	Feb 2016	#64
Someone in my synagogue had 300 million	jg10003	Feb 2016	#67
Only one.	davidthegnome	Feb 2016	#68
I've known Republican and Democratic wealth.	senz	Feb 2016	#73
money's not an amount to them--"I have N so I can buy something that costs M"	MisterP	Feb 2016	#74
i do know some really rich people.	barbtries	Feb 2016	#76
I have never met anyone I knew was super wealthy.	Half-Century Man	Feb 2016	#77
Really nice post. Thanks for sharing.	7wo7rees	Feb 2016	#83
I've been friends, quite by chance with several billionaires.	Nitram	Feb 2016	#86
But because of her ties	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#229
I don't know any. They apparently don't enter my circle often.	Juicy_Bellows	Feb 2016	#88
Like you, before I retired, I worked with some of the richest people in	Cleita	Feb 2016	#90
I know someone worth $50 million, and he's a good person	JohnnyRingo	Feb 2016	#94
My father-in-law became rich and he didn't change at all	PonyUp	Feb 2016	#95
personally know	PatrynXX	Feb 2016	#96
I grew up around rich people	Rebkeh	Feb 2016	#97
yes, OP. Hillary making 1/4 to 1/2 mil a speech does not support the $15 minimum wage everywhere.	greymouse	Feb 2016	#99
define "really rich"	shanti	Feb 2016	#107
Yes. I've known a few.	JDPriestly	Feb 2016	#114
Some of the rich are OK . .	FairWinds	Feb 2016	#116
I didn't say they were all bad people	togetherforever	Feb 2016	#137
Lots of people do. Like Trump said, "I've personally hired tens of thousands	closeupready	Feb 2016	#120
Yeah, I know a few	Tab	Feb 2016	#123
I have worked for celebrity royalty	olddots	Feb 2016	#128
That's exactly what we have done in my family.	malokvale77	Feb 2016	#132
I've heard/read politicians in D.C. say what a bubble they live in.	Lodestar	Feb 2016	#135
Bernie is a charter member of the Washington elite	EffieBlack	Feb 2016	#185
KICK	kgnu_fan	Feb 2016	#140
I don't know exactly how much wealth people had when I met them...	steve2470	Feb 2016	#141
In the 1950's, 60 and 70's it was different. They were leaders. Now, not so much.	Festivito	Feb 2016	#142
I used to know some really rich people....	Spitfire of ATJ	Feb 2016	#143
Oh, those "Upstairs, Downstairs" woes.	valerief	Feb 2016	#156
Clinton and other oligarchs by definition don't relate to the little people.	SciDude	Feb 2016	#147
In answer to your question...no. But if I did...	JustAMaverick	Feb 2016	#157
Yes	ananda	Feb 2016	#158
Bernie fosters inclusion, cooperation and consideration for others.	Dont call me Shirley	Feb 2016	#159
I think this story encapsulates: We were having a discussion about battered women with children.	merrily	Feb 2016	#169
Thats been my experience	zentrum	Feb 2016	#170
I think you may have experienced some selection pressure.	NNadir	Feb 2016	#174
You exaggerate	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#238
Please avoid telling me what I do and do not know.	NNadir	Feb 2016	#254
Any reply to you would be a waste of time	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#258
You're correct this time. I'm not interested in simplistic things or, for people who don't have...	NNadir	Feb 2016	#260
You didn't talk to either my husband or me.	Loki	Feb 2016	#175
Thank you for expressing it very well.	mainer	Feb 2016	#182
I've been close with a number of wealthy AND extremely wealthy people - most of them were the most	blm	Feb 2016	#177
Well she said she...	deathrind	Feb 2016	#178
Many. I grew up with many and live amongst many (not by choice). Hillary is nothing like them.	kerry-is-my-prez	Feb 2016	#179
Yes I worked with rich people and they are no better than I am	kimbutgar	Feb 2016	#184
I don't think it's wealth that launched Hillary into La-La Land	Sen. Walter Sobchak	Feb 2016	#187
Just about everyone I know in the US is in the global 1% by PPP income, so yeah	Recursion	Feb 2016	#188
A word about "the rich" and why they isolate themselves	mainer	Feb 2016	#190
You describe the sickness well	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#236
I consider myself one of them. I'm a Bernie supporter.	mainer	Feb 2016	#240
OK, defend the rich	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#241
You attacked a whole category of people	mainer	Feb 2016	#242
I said	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#246
Just watch that TV show "Undercover Boss"	Curmudgeoness	Feb 2016	#191
This message was self-deleted by its author	Denis 11	Feb 2016	#192
Worst OP I've seen this election season	Chico Man	Feb 2016	#194
You people are really sad!	katmille	Feb 2016	#195
You don't know rich people or the dog eat dog business world	AZ Progressive	Feb 2016	#252
Most of the truly wealthy would commit suicide or have nervous breakdowns if they were	brewens	Feb 2016	#196
well said	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#234
My brother is an insurance adjuster. He had to visit a	LibDemAlways	Feb 2016	#197
I know dozens of rich persons. They may not be wealthy, but they know . . .	Petrushka	Feb 2016	#205
I think that much of that	braddy	Feb 2016	#208
you know them by what they do, how they act.	pdsimdars	Feb 2016	#209
She had to conform to get where she is...	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#232
Yep	loyalsister	Feb 2016	#210
"they don't think of themselves as equals with us"	BainsBane	Feb 2016	#211
As Democrats you'd think we'd all be against prejudice.	LAS14	Feb 2016	#223
Everyone judges	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#231
"that's how intelligent people discuss things."	mainer	Feb 2016	#250
Of course	marions ghost	Feb 2016	#256
Excellent and timely post. nt	ladjf	Feb 2016	#227
Since the beginning (around 2006), Hillary's campaign has been entirely about Hillary	Doctor_J	Feb 2016	#233
A home in Hillary's NY hometown of Chappaqua	UglyGreed	Feb 2016	#245

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