Is a millionaire ...a billionaire? Is it ALL of them, or just the ones that vote GOP? Is it a trust fund baby? Is it people that just inherited it, like 90% of the Kennedy family? Is it world class athletes? Is it Hollywood?
It's the Koch Brothers. Box illustrated in another thread showing George Soros is a good rich guy that spends his wealth influencing the proper causes.
who decides if you're a 'bad person' that shouldn't be rich? who decides if you're a 'good person' that shouldn't be rich?
it's about:
1. they have stuff I want 2. they have it easy
who decides if you worked hard enough for what you have? we've all worked with that stupid sandbagger co-worker that really does not much of anything and yet either earns what you make or a little more just because they smiled a little more than you. yeah, that's fair share?
us fighting over who is rich or not is very petty and exactly what the system wants us to pay attention to so that every time we get a bone tossed to us we 'feel better'.......
it's about access and power....both of which come in multiple forms that do not have to do with money.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
You all have read Bumbler's "Lame Stream Media" complaints. He blasts the media every chance he gets, saying that it's a 'tool of government almighty". We've all heard his drill. BUT BUMBLER IS OUR OWN BOARD LAME STREAM PROPAGANDIST! If Bumbler reads it on one of his backwards Right Wing Hate Blogs, he posts it and swears that IT'S TRUE! Take the above post for example... Bumbler would have you believe that it is a quote of Abraham Lincoln... but of course we all know that his bogus post is a lie. Who wrote Bumblers "lincoln" speech? Honest Abe? Of course NOT! It was written by Rev. William John Henry Boetcker was a Presbyterian minister and notable public speaker who served as director of the pro-employer Citizens' Industrial Alliance
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
A british oil company is cutting its new CEO’s pay by more than half, in a rare win for shareholders who had opposed the company’s initial proposal for compensating chief executive Helge Lund. After major shareholders and a U.K. government official publicly opposed BG Group’s plan to award Lund 12 million pounds ($19 million) in stock this year, the company announced Monday that it will stretch the award out over 5 years and attach stricter performance incentives to it. It now expects the award to be worth 4.7 million pounds, or about $7.4 million.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
A british oil company is cutting its new CEO’s pay by more than half, in a rare win for shareholders who had opposed the company’s initial proposal for compensating chief executive Helge Lund. After major shareholders and a U.K. government official publicly opposed BG Group’s plan to award Lund 12 million pounds ($19 million) in stock this year, the company announced Monday that it will stretch the award out over 5 years and attach stricter performance incentives to it. It now expects the award to be worth 4.7 million pounds, or about $7.4 million.
hahahahahahaha.....dog and pony.....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Most Welfare Recipients Have a Job Wall Street Journal: “It’s poor-paying jobs, not unemployment, that strains the welfare system.”
“One key finding from a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, that showed the majority of households receiving government assistance are headed by a working adult.”
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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WE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL WHO THE 'RICH' ARE.....
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In the past, you could see the competition and had more time to prepare. Now, blue-chip slaying ideas and products go from garages to millions of users in a few years or even months. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 firm is down to just 15 years, and some 40% of the index will disappear over the next decade.
3D printer. 3D printers take digital designs and fabricate them layer-by-layer on the spot. Who’s next? The trillion-dollar manufacturing industry is ripe for disruption by the digitization of products, computer-guided fabrication technologies (like 3D printing), and the further automation of industrial processes by a new generation of intelligent robots.
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Virtual reality may well revolutionize entertainment. But how will immersive virtual offices and meetings impact business travel? Might we be able to offer more effective training or help folks suffering from phobias with VR? What entirely new services will appear? And what traditional practices are doomed?
An array of exponential technologies are aimed at finance too.
You’ve heard of bitcoin. The popular yet volatile virtual currency is receiving plenty of attention. But experts say it isn’t about bitcoin—or any one virtual currency—it’s about the underlying blockchain technology. Blockchain may drive technologies impacting banking, payments, contracts, and more.
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...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
By one measure, Hillary earned more than America's top 10 CEOs
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is drawing a populist bead on lavish Wall Street pay packages as she revs up her march to the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but in some respects the fat-per-speech fee she can charge puts her far ahead of the top 10 highest-paid American CEOs.
"I think it's fair to say that if you look across the country, the deck is stacked in favor of those already at the top. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the American worker...," Clinton said during her first campaign swing last week at an Iowa community college.
Bashing Wall Streeters is part of Clinton's strategy of remaking her image to appear more sympathetic to middle class voters, while also appealing to left-wing Democrats who are attracted to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and the even more radical supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist who talks of seeking the 2016 nomination.
Clinton's reported premium speaking fee of $300,000 per speech pales by comparison to the $131.2 million paid to McKesson CEO John Hammergren, but, depending upon how the data is calculated, there is more — and less — that meets the eye in Clinton's assault on Wall Street compensation Clinton gives more than one paid speech per year, just as corporate CEOs typically receive their total compensation from multiple sources like stock options, pension contributions and salary. This means a fairer comparison is to look at Clinton and the top 10 CEOs by calculating their total compensation divided by the Department of Labor standard of 2,080 work-hours in a year, as in the nearby chart.
On that basis, the CEOs are pikers compared to an hour of Clinton speaking for $300,000. Hammergren, for example, makes only $63,076 for the same hour of labor. Clothing magnate Ralph Lauren, the second best-paid CEO on the Forbes list receives $32,067. Vornado Realty's Michael Fasitelli, the third-place CEO, gets $30,961 per hour
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Impugn the source, never challenge the numbers. Good move box.
Cissy is such a dimwit. I agreed with you Cissy.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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