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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (362652)12/13/2007 3:46:23 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1571793
 
Unless they are getting rich from fraud or theft or from government advantages that enable them to rent seek they are getting rich to the benefit for the non-rich, and in many cases to the benefit of the poor.

Is it fraud to manipulate the gov't in ways that they pass legislation which benefits your industry and your business? Is it fraud when the gov't passes pork that benefits your business.....like the bridge to no where? Is it fraud to convince the gov't to cut your taxes under the dubious theory that cutting the taxes of the rich stimulates the economy?

Maybe not fraud but its using your power and wealth to maximize that power and wealth at the expense of the poor.

So one of their own, FDR, came into power and he made sure a little more of the wealth got down to the lower classes.

Yeah FDR's policies really helped the poor. Prosecute people for discounting (after all poor people don't benefit from low prices right?) burn agricultural products (after all poor people don't have to eat), impose more regulations, taxes, and restrictions on entities that create jobs (the poor don't need jobs right?)

Yeah, the rich got nervous. Their worst nightmare....the communist party.....was gaining strength with the American working class. If they didn't want to end up on the guillotine, they had to do a little bit more sharing. However, that was over 60 years ago and it seems that lesson has been forgotten.
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