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To: tejek who wrote (201517)	9/11/2004 9:49:02 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1574059

Because the rich almost always take from the poor that's how their share of the pie keeps growing. This is a remark made out of sheer stupidity. Most of the rich make money by INVESTING. NOT by trouncing the poor. Please, tell me how Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, the family of Sam Walton, or even George Soros -- tell me how these people take away from the poor. The Waltons provide decent jobs for more unskilled (poor) people than any company on Earth. At the same time they provide reasonably good merchandise at reasonably good prices to the poor -- to the point they are the butt of jokes about it. Your so full of it you can't see straight.

To: tejek who wrote (201517)	9/11/2004 9:49:02 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1574059

Because the rich almost always take from the poor that's how their share of the pie keeps growing. This is a remark made out of sheer stupidity. Most of the rich make money by INVESTING. NOT by trouncing the poor. Please, tell me how Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, the family of Sam Walton, or even George Soros -- tell me how these people take away from the poor. The Waltons provide decent jobs for more unskilled (poor) people than any company on Earth. At the same time they provide reasonably good merchandise at reasonably good prices to the poor -- to the point they are the butt of jokes about it. Your so full of it you can't see straight.

To: tejek who wrote (201517)	9/17/2004 6:35:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574059

Because the rich almost always take from the poor that's how their share of the pie keeps growing.. Its not even clear that there is a really long run trend of their share of the pie growing (look at the great "robber barons" compared to the poor of their days or the before that the richest nobles and merchant families compared to the peasants and poor city dwellers.), but if it is, it is because the rich are participating in, or financing activities that create wealth. They aren't stealing it from the poor, or at least the vast majority of them are not. The long run trend is for the poor to also get wealthier. Tim