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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 23, 2019 at 9:19 am
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The majority of the rich didn't make their money, they inherited it and collect interest based on the work of other people. IDK if a person who collects interest on daddys billions knows more about money than the kid who lost daddys billions, either.
The entire song and dance is silly to begin with, since the purpose of government isn't to make money, anyway.
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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 23, 2019 at 9:27 am
(December 23, 2019 at 9:19 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: The majority of the rich didn't make their money, they inherited it and collect interest based on the work of other people. IDK if a person who collects interest on daddys billions knows more about money than the kid who lost daddys billions, either.
The entire song and dance is silly to begin with, since the purpose of government isn't to make money, anyway.
Nor are they supposed to hand it out like a rich uncle trying to curry favor with the nieces and nephews...
Or Robin Hood.
Politicians need to be financially RESPONSIBLE....
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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 23, 2019 at 9:37 am
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Quote:Nor are they supposed to hand it out like a rich uncle trying to curry favor with the nieces and nephews...
Or Robin Hood.
Wow what warped view
Quote:Politicians need to be financially RESPONSIBLE....
Lol you mean financially sociopathic
(December 23, 2019 at 9:19 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: The majority of the rich didn't make their money, they inherited it and collect interest based on the work of other people. IDK if a person who collects interest on daddys billions knows more about money than the kid who lost daddys billions, either.
The entire song and dance is silly to begin with, since the purpose of government isn't to make money, anyway. Tue very true
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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 23, 2019 at 10:27 am
Whether the majority of the rich made their money or inherited it depends on what you define as 'rich'. The majority of people with 1-10 million dollars built it up over 20 years or more, usually by running a small business. They're in the top 1%...but not the top .001%. Each order of magnitude you go up is an entirely different ballgame and the odds that you made your money in just your own lifetime go down.
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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 23, 2019 at 12:44 pm
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Actually, yeah, allocating resources to citizens that need them is -precisely- the point of government.
The "financial responsibility" thing is garbage. It's a euphemism for ballooning the deficit with tax breaks and obscene spending-for-grift....and then insisting that the only way to pay our bills is to push granny off a cliff while starving the poors.
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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 24, 2019 at 8:00 am
(December 20, 2019 at 3:49 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: As I understand it, the EC has elected every president the US has ever had, regardless of the popular vote. Were they all appointed, then?
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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 24, 2019 at 8:31 am
(December 23, 2019 at 12:44 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Actually, yeah, allocating resources to citizens that need them is -precisely- the point of government.
The "financial responsibility" thing is garbage. It's a euphemism for ballooning the deficit with tax breaks and obscene spending-for-grift....and then insisting that the only way to pay our bills is to push granny off a cliff while starving the poors.
Perhaps in your country.
Here in the US the constitution provides for the GENERAL welfare - not the INDIVIDUAL welfare.
There is no constitutionally mandated standard of living.
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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 24, 2019 at 9:05 am
Quote:Perhaps in your country.
Nope the US
Quote:Here in the US the constitution provides for the GENERAL welfare - not the INDIVIDUAL welfare.
Interpretation
Quote:There is no constitutionally mandated standard of living.
Interpretation
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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 25, 2019 at 5:25 pm
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It's not as if imagining that the constitution is concerned with general welfare will change the calculus. In a country of starving and impoverished people, the "general need" is the sum total of individual need, as the "general welfare" is weighed against the sum of individual welfare.
That;s the funny part. Imagine whatever shitty thing you have to about the poor and government and the relationship between them. Anything. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. The fact of their poverty is still the problem to solve - unless we want to kill the poor. If they cant afford food because they're lazy assholes and the government doesn't exist to help lazy assholes, since their individual welfare is unassociated with the general welfare....then fine, are we executing lazy assholes?
As long as we're clear, lol. ARE THERE NO WORKHOUSES!
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RE: Donald Trump Officially Impeached!
December 25, 2019 at 5:35 pm
(December 25, 2019 at 5:25 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: It's not as if imagining that the constitution is concerned with general welfare will change the calculus. In a country of starving and impoverished people, the "general need" is the sum total of individual need, as the "general welfare" is weighed against the sum of individual welfare.
That;s the funny part. Imagine whatever shitty thing you have to about the poor and government and the relationship between them. Anything. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. The fact of their poverty is still the problem to solve - unless we want to kill the poor. If they cant afford food because they're lazy assholes and the government doesn't exist to help lazy assholes, since their individual welfare is unassociated with the general welfare....then fine, are we executing lazy assholes?
As long as we're clear, lol. ARE THERE NO WORKHOUSES!
I would imagine he would love workhouses.
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