NYT Quote of the Day...

[dajoki]

"Americans don’t dislike wealthy people; they want to be wealthy people."
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN, of Arizona.

[fenriswolf]

1. but we do hate the obscenely wealthy

and we have a big problem with the power mad maniacs too.

[dajoki]

6. They go hand in hand...

The more wealth one has, the more power one has.

[TomClash]

2. C rack pipe dreams nt

[MrScorpio]

3. "Get rich or die tryin'"

50Cent

[Tom Strong]

4. On the other hand...

"Wealthy people don't dislike Americans; they'll just be goddamned if you try to raise their taxes even half a percentage point to give every American health care."

j/k

[dajoki]

7. I think they do dislike ordinary Americans n/t

[TahitiNut]

5. Some still believe in the COMMON wealth.

It's not in wanting to be wealthy that we go wrong. It's in wanting to DENY OTHERS any wealth that we go wrong. We've designed a system of EXCLUSION.

We insist that public tranportation have utilization rates of 70% or more ... but we make major investments in private (ours ALONE - not shared) transport easily accepting utilization rates below 20%.

The most perverted among us have ceased being motivated by being wealthy ... and have the SOLE motivation of denying others that wealth. They're called "Republicans." (Some are called "Democrats" - and can be found on DU, too.)

[gratuitous]

8. Just keep telling yourself that, John

It soothes your sold-out conscience.