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SnakebiteSnakebite74

(25 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 04:58 PM Sep 2012

I'm a retired Maker; am I now a Taker?

I taught and coached for 34 years. Are teachers Makers or Takers? I paid my taxes, mortgage and credit card bills.

20+ of my ex-students went into the military. They protected the junk bond salesmen, hedge fund managers, and derivative bundlers. Were they Takers because they were civil servants?

Were the Wall Street fatcats Makers when they crashed the economy but made billions for themselves? When they took billions of taxpayer bailout money, were they Makers or Takers?

If the SS tax is 14% and it is taken out of a poor non-income tax payer's paycheck, yet Womney pays no SS and pays 13% tax rate, who is the Maker and who is the Taker?

If I don't want to Take this anymore, can I Make Womney kiss my ass?

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I'm a retired Maker; am I now a Taker? (Original Post) SnakebiteSnakebite74 Sep 2012 OP
According to Mitt Romney, yes. You are a taker. Laelth Sep 2012 #1
Unless you die on a factory line you are a Taker MattBaggins Sep 2012 #2

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. According to Mitt Romney, yes. You are a taker.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 05:02 PM
Sep 2012

Doesn't feel very good, does it? Certainly doesn't make you want to vote for him.

-Laelth

MattBaggins

(7,901 posts)
2. Unless you die on a factory line you are a Taker
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 05:05 PM
Sep 2012

You should die in place and you fellow workers should have to drag you out and bury you during lunch, but they damn well better clock out.

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