I don't think you understand the type of arrangement I'm describing. :| Who owns AT&T and IBM?
If they were truly wealthy, they'd own the company & more like it.
Upper middle class? Privileged class? OK. Wealthy? No. The gulf between the truly wealthy and the upper middle class is now enormous, greater than it's been at any time since the 1920's.
Wealthy people don't depend on jobs to pay the overhead of their lavish lifestyles- they depend on ownership, on investment.
I don't think you understand the type of arrangement I'm describing. :| Who owns AT&T and IBM?
I understand it. Lets just say that if they were wealthy, they'd have large, diversified stock & bond portfolios with other holdings such as franchises & rent generating real estate valued at tens of millions of dollars or more. They'd work because they want to, not because they depend on the income.
That's exactly the kind of people I'm talking about. School friends that I grew up in the bubble with. Often corporations purchase their executives' homes for them and allow them to pay back only a certain percentage of the total cost, interest free.
So they don't really have mortgages, do they?
You're not rich when you make house payments, Spidey.
Misunderstanding? They make payments, they don't have mortgages.
So become one of the rich. I did and haven't looked back at the underling lazy fucks behind me.
His posts make a lot more sense if you recognize that almost everything he says is the opposite of reality.Then what are you doing posting in this thread?
You need to listen to the protesters, they think this is their "arab spring". Go do yourself a favor and google communist revolutions, how they start, the reasoning behind it and look at the motives of the folks supporting this.
Why are the Nazi party, the communist party supporing the protesters? Could it be because they wish them to succeed and believers in the cause?
Careful who you make friends with liberals, your true beliefs are being shown and to that I say - Please Keep It Up. Please.
Listening to the non-partisan news talk radio in Chicago this morning (WGN) morning host ( http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/mikemcconnell/ for you partisans) was saying how he went and talked to many of the Occupy Chicago protestors, and one thing that he said was common amongst a large percentage of protestors, was a strong devotion to Rachel Maddow.
Now, got me thinking, just look at this forum, and how many accusations get thrown around about being drones of Fox News and conservative talk radio - wonder where they get those ideas from...
For the dolts that said the Military is not on the OWS side:
10-31-2011
http://news.yahoo.com/occupy-vetera...RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3
Occupy Veterans Movement Growing Across U.S.
Since Occupy Wall Street protests have broken out in cities across the U.S. and abroad, support has come from what might seem like an unlikely corner: war veterans.
But two of the highest-profile protesters -- each from opposite ends of the country -- had served in wars.
OccupyMarines recently posted on its Facebook page advice about how to protest in winter weather. According to a Tweet by @Kruggurl, Occupy Marine Corps has offered protesters supplies for the winter.
"We are a collection of prior service Marines intent on protecting American citizens and their ability to exercise their First Amendment rights," a spokesperson for the group said.
Of course. Haven't you read the thread? A couple of OWS protestors have been accused of rape, therefore they're all rapists. Some have become violent, so all of them are violent. And so on, ad absurdum.erm, so because some veterans support OWS, all veterans and the whole military supports it?
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Serious question: Anyone heard of the OWS movement putting forth a candidate at the state and/or federal level?
Serious question: Anyone heard of the OWS movement putting forth a candidate at the state and/or federal level?
Why?
Of course. Haven't you read the thread? A couple of OWS protestors have been accused of rape, therefore they're all rapists. Some have become violent, so all of them are violent. And so on, ad absurdum.
And why shouldn't a couple bad apples reflect on the whole? How many times has this photo been posted just on this forum alone as representative of the whole Tea Party?
Here's the voice of Occupy Wall Street. Quite a movement you've got going there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsJPKMvWDmY
And why shouldn't a couple bad apples reflect on the whole? How many times has this photo been posted just on this forum alone as representative of the whole Tea Party?
They aren't the only ones who are "well stocked", I have a class 3 FFL.