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Does the GOP need to fear the 99% Movement?

Should the GOP should fear the 99% movement

  • Absolutely should fear it

    Votes: 19 31.1%

  • Somewhat fear it

    Votes: 7 11.5%

  • Fear it a little bit

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Fear it a tiny bit

    Votes: 3 4.9%

  • Absolutely nothing to fear

    Votes: 20 32.8%

  • Don't know

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 6 9.8%

  • Other (explian)

    Votes: 4 6.6%
  • Total voters
    61
What if...? said:
Not taking it from others, taking it before others can get to it.

Picking all the apples. FAR more than they could ever use before spoilage. Then charging others extra due to the apple shortage.
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If someone else is faster at picking all the apples, that should encourage and provide incentive for you to find a better way, or get quicker yourself. Instead, you're seeking an outside influence to demand no one should be quicker than anyone else and that selling the apples should be regulated. The deficiency is in the slow apple pickers, whining about how unfair it is they have to pay more for the fast guys apples. If you want your own apples... get faster or get smarter.
 
Well the billionaires are doing great.

The rest of the economy, not so much.

So while a billionaire CAN be good for the economy, there's no guarantee in our GLOBAL economy he WILL.

A thousand millionaires WILL spend more into the general economy acquiring THINGS. Many more things in many more places than one Billionaire who may just take his billion to play somewhere else.
 
Ockham said:
If someone else is faster at picking all the apples, that should encourage and provide incentive for you to find a better way, or get quicker yourself. Instead, you're seeking an outside influence to demand no one should be quicker than anyone else and that selling the apples should be regulated. The deficiency is in the slow apple pickers, whining about how unfair it is they have to pay more for the fast guys apples. If you want your own apples... get faster or get smarter.
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You support the "dog in the manger with a cash register" model.

I do not.
 
Fear it as in start boarding up their windows at home and putting extra security in their lobbies? Not at this point.

Fear it as in reconsider the extent of their obligations to the working class? Definitely.
 
What if...? said:
Well the billionaires are doing great.

The rest of the economy, not so much.

So while a billionaire CAN be good for the economy, there's no guarantee in our GLOBAL economy he WILL.

A thousand millionaires WILL spend more into the general economy acquiring THINGS. Many more things in many more places than one Billionaire who may just take his billion to play somewhere else.
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Billionaires always do great... they're billionaires.
 
What if...? said:
You support the "dog in the manger with a cash register" model.

I do not.
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I support the free market capitalism - you support the slow whiny apple pickers.
 
I would fear the stinky hippies if it is possible to get VD by watching them on YouTube.
 
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After seeing these signs and listening to a large number of interviews with these Protesters, I have come to understand that they are right about that 99% number and what it truly represents.

I know believe that 99$ of these Protesters and as dumb as box of rock.

They claim to be College Graduates but either they're lying their asses off or the education system has really gone to hell since I left school.

Even if it's true that all these people carrying the signs quit their jobs to Protest, it shows something an intelligent person would not do then announce their ignorance to the whole world.
 
Most of the far right here seems torn between complete bewilderment from something they have no capacity to understand and jumping to antagonistic vitriolic attack mode.

Yes, that translates to fear.
 
haymarket said:
Most of the far right here seems torn between complete bewilderment from something they have no capacity to understand and jumping to antagonistic vitriolic attack mode.

Yes, that translates to fear.
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Did you study psychiatry at the local technical school?
 
TurtleDude said:
...Your crap about the military is rather telling--you completely ignore the fact that it is entitlements and handouts that are costing us the most
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its cute how you dishonestly focus on the increasing costs of entitlements and NOT the decreasing tax-rates on the wealthy.

cute...and pathetic.
 
TurtleDude said:
true, not everyone gets on a message board constantly whining about the rich. ITs those who do I believe are envious or spiteful towards the rich....
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I see no evidence that they are envious of the rich. Who they ARE envious of, are middle-class Americans who can afford to own a home, own a car or two, send their kids to college, take two vacations a year, have health insurance, have all the food they need, etc..

No, I don't think these people are envious of the filthy, greedy, narcissistic wealthy.
 
Thunder said:
its cute how you dishonestly focus on the increasing costs of entitlements and NOT the decreasing tax-rates on the wealthy.

cute...and pathetic.
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the rich should pay the same rate as everyone else. right now half of america pays a zero income tax rate
 
Thunder said:
I see no evidence that they are envious of the rich. Who they ARE envious of, are middle-class Americans who can afford to own a home, own a car or two, send their kids to college, take two vacations a year, have health insurance, have all the food they need, etc..

No, I don't think these people are envious of the filthy, greedy, narcissistic wealthy.
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how many rich people other than a few hollywood elites or Soros meet that definition?
 
What if...? said:
Not taking it from others, taking it before others can get to it.

Picking all the apples. FAR more than they could ever use before spoilage. Then charging others extra due to the apple shortage.
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Good analogy!
 
Catawba said:
Good analogy!
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it's called "the early bird gets the worm".... it's a saying that's been around a long time.

waiting for someone else to give you worms has also been around a long time... but it's generally not celebrated as the proper way to live.
 
TurtleDude said:
the rich should pay the same rate as everyone else.
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We have found that has been detrimental to the financial health of our economy. Trickle down economics has been a failure for the middle class.

Why should we vote to continue it???
 
TurtleDude said:
the rich should pay the same rate as everyone else. right now half of america pays a zero income tax rate
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So did GE in 2010, yet I'm willing to assume, knowing your political leanings, that your against higher corporate taxes. Yet when it involves the most vulnerable among us it's fine to suggest that they don't pay enough. It does seem to me like that 50 percent is exaggerated not to mention that those who don't pay income tax either make so little it's ridiculous to assume they could afford taxes or they've taken advantage of tax credits to lower their tax rates, most of these if not all are also available to the rich. So who's being whiny now. Your whining about how some people make so little that it's possible for them to totally erase their taxes through creative(and i don't mean the illegal kind) accounting but even though the wealthy can take the same actions they can, it's still somehow unfair.
 
Catawba said:
We have found that has been detrimental to the financial health of our economy. Trickle down economics has been a failure for the middle class.

Why should we vote to continue it???
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No you are being dishonest

we have not had that scenario so you cannot possibly claim that at all
 
alexxouellette said:
So did GE in 2010, yet I'm willing to assume, knowing your political leanings, that your against higher corporate taxes. Yet when it involves the most vulnerable among us it's fine to suggest that they don't pay enough. It does seem to me like that 50 percent is exaggerated not to mention that those who don't pay income tax either make so little it's ridiculous to assume they could afford taxes or they've taken advantage of tax credits to lower their tax rates, most of these if not all are also available to the rich. So who's being whiny now. Your whining about how some people make so little that it's possible for them to totally erase their taxes through creative(and i don't mean the illegal kind) accounting but even though the wealthy can take the same actions they can, it's still somehow unfair.
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You are the one who whines. what is unfair are those who cannot provide for themselves demanding that those who can have a duty to give them more and more and more without ever doing anything for us in return

Here's the story

IF you cannot afford the level of government you want, you need to demand less government NOT that others pony up to pay for what you want
 
Thrilla said:
it's called "the early bird gets the worm".... it's a saying that's been around a long time.

waiting for someone else to give you worms has also been around a long time... but it's generally not celebrated as the proper way to live.
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After a pride of lions finishes off a carcass the birds move in to peck at the scrapings. Is that what you expect the middle class aspire to? I may be wrong but I don't think the majority of the country are going to vote against their own interest next November. The protest movement is a fairly clear heads up of that realization.
 
Catawba said:
After a pride of lions finishes off a carcass the birds move in to peck at the scrapings. Is that what you expect the middle class aspire to? I may be wrong but I don't think the majority of the country are going to vote against their own interest next November. The protest movement is a fairly clear heads up of that realization.
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I expect the middle class to stop being addicted to the milk government feeds them from the public teat but rather they go out and do some hunting on their own
 
Catawba said:
After a pride of lions finishes off a carcass the birds move in to peck at the scrapings. Is that what you expect the middle class aspire to? I may be wrong but I don't think the majority of the country are going to vote against their own interest next November. The protest movement is a fairly clear heads up of that realization.
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I expect people to aspire to greatness, not to be content with scraps.
 
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