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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:04 AM Original message |
One thing to think about when ranting about going after the "rich" |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
1. Ya know, those conditions you cite are PRECISELY the result of countries |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. and their rich colonial overlords |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 02:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. These terrible conditions are often the result of corruption in the governments |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Exactly! The rich in those countries exploit the poor! |
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sjdnb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. Thanks to the unequitable distribution of wealth - UN study 2006 |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I believe that you can reach a point where the concentration of wealth |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 01:40 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Wealth is useless if its circulating in a stagnant pool of a very few people. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
5. Thank you for the perspective. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
6. Just because the world's wealthy live here doesn't mean we're part of that 2% |
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sjdnb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:32 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yeah, there are ultra, make me wanna puke wealthy, in NA |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
8. Right...what's a little infant mortality here in the good ol' USA? Things could get worse! |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 09:53 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Yeah, about 6 or 5 out of every 1000 live births compared to I think 45 or so per as the world |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 11:37 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. If we can just get that infant mortality rate up, maybe YOU won't have to feel so GUILTY! nt |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 02:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. I don't feel guilty, its just to the bottom 10 or 20 % the top 80% or so look the same at the top |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-11-07 10:00 AM Response to Reply #23 |
33. So? This game can be played by ANYONE. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
9. The One Percenters are multinational and multicultrural |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
10. and your point is what? |
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David Dunham (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 01:33 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Effective birth control is needed to combat poverty in the Third World |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 03:22 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. The best birth control in the Third World is education for women and girls |
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AdHocSolver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
12. The problem is not rich people per se. It is the rich people who are never satisfied with ... |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 02:19 AM Response to Original message |
15. The next thing to think about: |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
17. its funny i often think that when i see the we hate the rich threads |
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fed-up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
18. taking my then 16 YO to Belize (a developing country) was the best thing I have ever done |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 04:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. I have a great idea for a reality show... |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
19. Yes, some of us are. Then there are those who will have no home to sleep |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 03:31 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. Yes, last night my church fed a hot dinner to a couple hundred people who |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 03:56 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Priorities plus judgement plus indifference plus fear plus the need to punish... |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
21. U.S. Roots in Pictures |
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Angela Shelley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 02:19 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Thanks for the link, flashl |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 02:36 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Pictures of America's other class, 'the underclass' |
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Perry Logan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
27. Good point, RG. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
30. i know many people who are 'rich'. Most are liberals. |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-10-07 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
31. Yeah, but this is where we could be headed if this crap continues. |
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