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In reply to the discussion: America's Idiot Rich [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)62. Thanks for the information. I'll edit. I can't stand the Koch brothers...
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Spokesman for the one percent Ebeneezer Scrooge was unfairly picked on by Christmas Spirits.
gordianot
May 2012
#1
Scrooge is known for turning back on his evil ways. Not expecting these psychos to repent...
freshwest
May 2012
#37
It took radical intervention ultimately fear of death and horror to convince Scrooge.
gordianot
May 2012
#44
An article titled "America's Idiot Rich" calls the idea that there is prejudice against wealthy
KurtNYC
May 2012
#6
I would like to say that n2doc came off as very rude, imo, to your reasonable observation.
AlbertCat
May 2012
#34
corporations = the rich. if they paid more their stockholders would get less.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#39
The article's title does not specify "all". You're adding that. Logical inference would allow us to
patrice
May 2012
#42
The title doesn't necessarily imply all rich Americans are idiots. A sub-class of idiots exists
tclambert
May 2012
#52
+1. Though I think some do believe it, just like the local bigshot businessman believes it.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#40
agreed. it's not a new pattern, either. and they're doing the same thing in europe -- "left"
HiPointDem
May 2012
#50
"poor people, and not the finance industry, are responsible for the financial crisis..."
lastlib
May 2012
#11
Even the best of those people think of ordinary people in the same way the ordinary American
HiPointDem
May 2012
#43
"Welfare queens" of another order: being tax-dodging trust-fund babies degenerates the stock.
patrice
May 2012
#38
That's the myth. "Rags to rags in three generations." That's what we're supposed to believe.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#45
And when so many in that culture, and supporting it, assume at so many levels that
patrice
May 2012
#56
That poor people, and not the finance industry, are responsible for the financial crisis
TatonkaJames
May 2012
#53