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Really, tell us how the trickle up economics is working in Russia.
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Russia!? Home of the oligachs!?
Really, tell us how the trickle up economics is working in Russia.
Really, tell us how the trickle up economics is working in Russia.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan
Why do I find myself agreeing so often with Reagan's quotes and yet find so many of his presidential policies abhorrent?
How serious a problem is the wealth gap between the wealthy and the rest of us?
Really, tell us how the trickle up economics is working in Russia.
Russia saw virtually no increase in life expectancy from 1990 to 2010 and lagged behind more than 100 countries in the key health statistic over that period, according to a global study released Tuesday.
Read more: Life Expectancy in Russia Is Stagnant, Study Says | News | The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times
It is an issue, but not for the reason that most would expect..... It's an issue because the bottom portion of this nation's citizenry have neglected their end of the social bargain. They no longer want to even try to better themselves. They slide further down into the cesspool of humanity, allowing the rich to get further and further away from them and then expect the middle and upper classes to "save" them from themselves. Sorry, not interested.
I know that - but if enough of the masses demanded that there were no more bailouts, there would be no more bailouts.
"Bailouts" aren't the problem. America's problem is a refusal to penalise those who have benefited most greatly by exploiting the political system as it presently operates.
One example: Who is more deserving of the death penalty: One guy in Boston who helped kill three people or the owner of a fertiliser plant in Texas that killed 15 people? How about the Texas politicians who allowed a plant that created explosive materials to be built across the street from residences, a middle school and a high school - because they believe in the free market and think any type of zoning codes are an imposition of capitalists?
Huge issue that could one day lead to the next civil war.
As fewer and fewer get more and more, while the vast majority fall out of the middle class and into the lower class....emotions and anger will increase by orders of magnitude.
Without a strong middle class - it's only a matter of time before the power keg goes off.
The real issue is privilege.
Even if it's 99% versus the 1%, good luck with your pitchforks versus the weapons of mass destruction the rich can afford.
It's a serious problem for the rich.
They have to worry if their money is earning enough return. The have to keep up appearances. They have to make sure the Maybach and the Lear jet have leather that matches and isn't a different dye lot. They have to hire people to hire people to hire people to maintain multiple homes. They can't have real friends or trust anyone. No matter how many people the screw over they still can't be as rich as Carlos Slim, a Mexican.
I feel sorry for them. Their only real use is to keep all this excess money from causing inflation.
Even if it's 99% versus the 1%, good luck with your pitchforks versus the weapons of mass destruction the rich can afford.
that's up there in the hall of fame of really really stupid posts
"Bailouts" aren't the problem. America's problem is a refusal to penalise those who have benefited most greatly by exploiting the political system as it presently operates.
One example: Who is more deserving of the death penalty: One guy in Boston who helped kill three people or the owner of a fertiliser plant in Texas that killed 15 people? How about the Texas politicians who allowed a plant that created explosive materials to be built across the street from residences, a middle school and a high school - because they believe in the free market and think any type of zoning codes are an imposition of capitalists?
Explain the basis for your uncomplimentary statement. Am I wrong? Or are you just in a bad mood today?
How serious a problem is the wealth gap between the wealthy and the rest of us?
you are making an idiotic stereotype
most of us who are rich (using the obama definition or even the top one percent)
don't have lear jets
don't have multiple homes
don't have people watching people who watch our homes
have plenty of friends
trust plenty of people
don't give a damn or even know who that Mexican guy is
and don't screw over people anymore than anyone else
your post demonstrates a savage combination of jealousy and stereotyping silliness
Or the volunteer firefighters who may have used water on a fire in an industrial facility, possibly causing the release of explosive gases when water hit some of the otherwise stable chemicals. Since all is not know, why don't we wait and find out what really happened before deciding to blame anyone. BTW, Texas towns do have zoning codes. Whether the town of West had any or not, due to it's small size, I cannot say. Also, the facility was first built in 1962. How many of those people are still alive anyways and exactly what was next to it at the time it was built? Were the residences, middle school and high school there in 1962 or were they build across the street from the Fertilizer plant. Also, if people don't own fertilizer plants, how would farmers get fertilizer to grow your food?
While your busy fuming about how many people died in an industrial accident you want to blame on capitalism, perhaps you should use that time to look up the number of people that have died or were harmed by industrial complexes in socialist countries. Maybe start with Chernobyl.
Neal Langerman, a chemist with the San Diego-based consulting company called Advanced Chemical Safety, speculated the explosion in West happened this way:
Anhydrous ammonia tanks are never more than 85 percent filled with the liquid chemical. The other 15 percent of the space is taken up by ammonia in gas form. When the fire got to the tanks it heated the part of the tank over the gas bubble to the point where it melted.
At that point, Langerman said, the gas would have escaped and been ignited by the fire, which was well over the 1204 F ignition temperature. The liquid ammonia in the tank would then have vaporized, escaped and caught fire too--all in the fraction of a second.
“The explosive release of the ammonia--both gas and liquid--would have very quickly transitioned to an actual detonation,” said Langerman, who has also served as an official of the American Chemical Society.
In fires that threaten stores of anhydrous ammonia the strategy is to spray water on the tanks to keep them cool enough so that the metal doesn’t melt. Rising pressure inside the tanks blows out relief valves, which allows the contents to vent and burn in a controlled way. All that, however, must be done from a safe distance.
“What the standard says is: You back off, up to a mile if necessary, and you only apply water remotely. You get your people out of there,” Langerman said.
The three key questions at this point are: Where did the fire start? Was West Fertilizer operating the depot according to standards? Did the firefighters recognize the particular risk of stored anhydrous ammonia?
Wow, that overbearing government with all of its oppressive regulations and business-destroying actions, you just can't beat 'em. :roll:The Texas plant that was the scene of a deadly explosion this week was last inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1985. The risk plan it filed with regulators listed no flammable chemicals. And it was cleared to hold many times the ammonium nitrate that was used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
How serious a problem is the wealth gap between the wealthy and the rest of us?
Huge issue that could one day lead to the next civil war.
As fewer and fewer get more and more, while the vast majority fall out of the middle class and into the lower class....emotions and anger will increase by orders of magnitude.
Without a strong middle class - it's only a matter of time before the power keg goes off.
How serious a problem is the wealth gap between the wealthy and the rest of us?
It's a serious problem for the rich.
They have to worry if their money is earning enough return. The have to keep up appearances. They have to make sure the Maybach and the Lear jet have leather that matches and isn't a different dye lot. They have to hire people to hire people to hire people to maintain multiple homes. They can't have real friends or trust anyone. No matter how many people the screw over they still can't be as rich as Carlos Slim, a Mexican.
I feel sorry for them. Their only real use is to keep all this excess money from causing inflation.