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To: i-node who wrote (174873)	10/29/2011 12:38:07 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 541753

Time to buy...mortgage back securities..?? learn up......and prosper..... <g>

To: i-node who wrote (174873)	10/29/2011 5:30:28 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 541753

"It is HOW you accumulate it?" Not really. Try again.

To: i-node who wrote (174873)	11/4/2011 11:52:47 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 541753

The issue is about the obligation that you have to return to society a part of the wealth that the society has helped you to accumulate. Off course, this is a great country. The only country in the world that welcomes immigrants with open arms to come and make money. But it also expects these folks who have made the money to give it back to the society and to keep only that much as is necessary to lead a comfortable life. I would like to point you to Steve Jobs who could have died filthy rich. But he chose not to. Instead he wanted to enjoy life with only that much which is necessary. And he is the one, who left behind a sense of loss to the community, not his filthy riches. I am sure we will not say so in the case of Koch brothers etc. I mention Koch brothers to differentiate them from the likes of Buffet and Gates who have started to become the "Zen Buddhist" that Jobs already became decades ago. It is not class war, it is about a person's morals.