Lefties have most of the loot...
 

With 8 years of Obama comes more rich lefties....

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...01-15-19-02-51

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- The gap between the super-rich and the poorest half of the global population is starker than previously thought, with just eight men, from Bill Gates to Michael Bloomberg, owning as much wealth as 3.6 billion people, according to an analysis by Oxfam released Monday.

Here's the list:

Oxfam used Forbes' billionaires list that was last published in March 2016 to make its headline claim. According to the Forbes list, Microsoft founder Gates is the richest individual with a net worth of $75 billion. The others, in order of ranking, are Amancio Ortega, the Spanish founder of fashion house Inditex, financier Warren Buffett, Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim Helu, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle's Larry Ellison and Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York.

Not exactly a Who's Who of hardcore right wing ideologues. Looks like we need to do some serious wealth redistribution. :p

You're just jealous. If you want money, get off the couch, move out of your Moms basement and get a job, loser.

That wooshing sound you're hearing is the wind whistling through those empty spaces between your ears, Mike. You should really do a modicum of work before displaying your petulant ignorance for all to see.

The Gates Foundation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%...tes_Foundation

It appears to me that liberals have the creativity and ingenuity necessary to succeed in the modern-day economy and build some of the world's biggest businesses with the power of their brains and not daddy's wealth. Good for them.

The Giving Pledge is a commitment by the world's wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy.

CURRENT PLEDGERS I am willing to bet that there are more liberals here than conservatives. Guess whose name is missing? ;)

https://givingpledge.org/

Let's see;

After all of these years of Conservatives going on about how lazy and dependent Liberals are, now they whine about the wealth and success that Liberals have accrued? All the while taking up the mantle of people who'd rather waste their lives sitting on a barstool, bitching that they want the government to give them their lousy coal jobs back rather than get some fucking ambition and lift themselves up?

My, how the roles have changed.

That's because philanthropy for that asshole is just a tax shelter scheme and a way to make rubes think he gives a shit about the troops. (Ref. Wounded Warriors sham.)

It's even worse than that. His charitable foundation was a method by which to collect money from other people and then buy goodies to display at Mar a Lago, including a painting of himself. He defines grifter and charlatan (and is illegal under "self-dealing" provisions of such foundations).

In the face of an investigation of his "charitable" foundation by the New York AG, Trump is trying to dissolve the foundation. However, the judge is making him keep it open (though it is not allowed to solicit any more funds) until the investigation is completed.

The Trump Foundation spent $30,000 to buy two large portraits of Trump himself, including one that was hung up in the sports bar at a Trump-owned resort. Trump also appears to use $258,000 of his foundation’s money — legally earmarked for charitable purposes — to settle lawsuits involving two of his for-profit clubs.
In addition, the Trump foundation gave a $25,000 gift to a campaign committee backing Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) even though nonprofits like the charity are not allowed to give political gifts.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nat...44N/story.html

My, my, still ranting on the coal people.

So having a Democrat in the Oval office is good for the economy. Nothing new here, the Reps will just tank it leaving yet another mess for the Democrats to cleanup again!


http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome.../www.bing.com/

Barney

This is hilarious. A couple of years ago the left was bleating about the evils of the 1% and how they were screwing up the world and stacking the deck against the 99%. Now that it turns out that the left comprises a hefty portion of the 1%, the leftists in this forum extoll the virtues of the 1% by suggesting that the 1% are charitable.

So which is it: is it a good idea that the 1% have most of the loot because they're virtuous and they donate their loot to charity? Or is it a bad idea that all that wealth is concentrated within 1% of the population, and the folks who have it are still a threat to the 99% who they're stealing the loot from regardless of their political leanings?

And why exactly are you criticizing the 1%? Your party doesn't approve of "class warfare," remember? It seems you only dislike rich people with a social conscience, but worship the greedy SOB's. Figures.

The claimed ideological tilt of some set of rich people is immaterial. The high concentration of wealth created by the system that allows an undefined and limitless portion of the surplus to be claimed by owners is always, inherently, and inescapably unjust and harmful.

Thank you for posting drivel that has nothing to do with the point of the OP. :rolleyes:

The left has been railing against the rich forever, who we've been told have been stacking the deck against the rest of us and are just the "evil rich". Of the Occupy Wall Street whiners, Obama stated that he was on their side. The evils of the rich were pointed out with gusto right here in this forum during the OWS protests. If I remember correctly, Don's kids joined the protee

Here comes an article that points out that the left is a healthy chunk of the 1%, and you guys rush to their defense by pointing out their charitable giving?

Hypocrisy alert!

Point out to me where I criticized the 1%? In fact, I've often been chided in this forum for "defending them". No, that's your job Finn, and i wouldn't dream of taking that job from you.

As for your other childish attempt at making a debate point, you'd have to demonstrate that all rich folks on the left are not "greedy SOB's". Good luck with that.

""A rising tide lifts all boats"" So a great economy will be ergo good for the 1%.

The increases coming from the economy not tax cuts!



Barney

You're talking about the very people I grew up around. Ohio = Coal and steel. Democrats who have become Trump-drones, because they think he's going to give them their ____ back. The irony is that now, they now support Republicans.......You know, the party that has been telling them to just move on, find another way, lift yourself up for the last 40-50 years? Do you know anyone who has done little more with his life other than bellyache and toss around blame over some job he lost 30 years ago? I do.

Tell me you see no irony there?

It is somewhat refreshing to see that people on both sides are coming to realize that selfish greed run amuck is not good. I recall hearing Rightists applaud wealthy businessmen who stick it to American workers saying; "I don't blame them. They can make a lot more money manufacturing elsewhere. That's just smart business."...... How'd that work out for our country, Mike? ;)

So, tell me, Mike; are "all rich folks" on the right "greedy SOB's"?

As to your first question, the "we can make a lot more money manufacturing elsewhere" mindset - as practiced by Apple for example - helped bring us the Trump presidency.

As to the 2nd question - I have no idea. You'd have to ask Finn or someone in the OWS crowd . They seem to have keen insights into the personality ticks of the uber rich. :rolleyes:

Apple, GE, Ford, GM, Boeing, USS, etc., etc., etc.......damn near everyone AFAIK. It became quite popular for a few decades to outsource, raid and downsize, then flaunt the personal wealth it brought. Especially in the 1980s and '90s as I recall. "Greed is Good!".... Remember those days, when some of us celebrated corporate greed? :rolleyes:

I was just reading about the Davos get together in Chris Hayes' Twilight Of The Elites.
He said it is a demonstration about the uber rich still trying to go that extra hill to get to the very top...google C. S. Lewis and the Inner Ring speech. Hayes points out it is an exercise in humility and paranoia for those who are rich enough to go. The 1 percent are bussed to the chateau while the .0001 percent are flown in from Zurich on private whirly birds. The "humiliation" is on purpose. The 1 percent will do all things moral or not to get in the inner ring of those fortunate to get flown in. Something about a fractal model for wealth and status.

Probably why with all his money Trump still felt the need for the Presidency.

http://www.lewissociety.org/innerring.php

Good reading.

Then one would expect a smidgen of sympathy on your part, but what creeps through is utter contempt.

I read a statement of reality. Coal jobs are not going to come back, period for any number of reasons. Same with manufacturing jobs. The best politicians can do is to impose tariffs on those that manufacture outside the US and sell it here thus avoiding employment taxes. Otherwise where is the incentive to manufacture goods here?

If a company wants to move all of it's manufacturing outside the US, there is not law to stop it. Do the Trump supporters know this?

(There may be exceptions for those are under a government contract).

Indeed, but post#6 is awfully couched.