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Target_For_Exterm (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:39 PM Original message |
Why do the rich hate the poor? |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't think they hate the poor... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. That's about 90% of it |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 11:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
44. I think they have been taught a lot of garbage as truth. |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't think they hate them |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's a by-product of capitalism |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. The rich don't hate them |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. Everything belongs to the rich elite |
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DeeDeeNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. Pure greed |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
8. Because there are a lot more poor people then there are rich people |
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Howardx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:59 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. amen |
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obreaslan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. My thoughts exactly... |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. And now, the "Bug's Life" quote that fits a lot of situations, including this very one!! |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 03:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
25. Much of that is due to projection of their own greed/acquisitiveness on others. |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 04:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. Well said. n/t |
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Howardx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 05:05 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. indeed |
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smirkymonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 08:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
39. Don't they understand that the more desperate people get, the |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. Social disassociation. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
10. Guilotines. Machetes. Dynamite. |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
11. you hate what you fear... |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. Yup. The wealthy fear they wouldn't survive a single week as a poor person does. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
12. I think many are simply indifferent to them |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
13. because of a belief in scarcity |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
15. The rich hate the poor |
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warrens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
16. Greed |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
17. GREED. No matter how much money and how many material possessions they have, |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
20. Maybe this explains a little . . . |
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laundry_queen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
21. I think it's a belief |
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Megahurtz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 05:45 PM Response to Reply #21 |
37. Good Post. |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
23. So they don't have to feel bad about robbing them |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
24. becaue they know that thier society can not function without the poor |
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gemma (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
26. yes, but there is unfortunately no cure nt |
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newyawker99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 04:50 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Hi gemma!! |
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gemma (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 04:56 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. hi |
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Not_Giving_Up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
27. It's not that they hate the poor |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
28. the poor (and the middle class) are just in the way |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
29. In student government, the sagest advice I was given was |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 04:15 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Pursuing Wealth and Power is an Addiction Just Like Heroin.... |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 10:11 PM Response to Reply #29 |
43. Very wise post--the rich are in a different world than we are |
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LittleClarkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
35. That's awfuilly general isn't it? Not everyone with money |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
36. Because in this country we're taught that poverty is a moral failing |
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thingfisher (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 05:50 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Many believe in social darwinism. |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
40. Does Soros hate the poor? |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
41. They don't hate them. They simply don't ever think of them. |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-08-06 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
42. Would someone please tell me who "they" are? |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-09-06 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
45. Power corrupts |
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Codeblue (466 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-09-06 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
46. Is is justified for the poor to hate the rich? |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-09-06 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
47. ...Hands and feet are all alike |
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Lipton64 (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-09-06 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
48. The site of some poor bastard..... |
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