PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post

pawoSD · #8 10-25-2011, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emmerich

You do a good job, make your company money, make the stockholders happy, you get a bonus. Its called hard work and the American way. But I guess there are people who just sit on their ass and expect others to pay all their bills and do all the work....liberals.

Its not hard work nor the American way, most of the people who get those huge bonuses spend a couple hours ripping people off, then go golfing the rest of the day and talk with others like themselves about how full their money towers are.

Rome was filled with greed and unbalanced wealth, and we all know what happened to that society. Lest we learn from the past. But people never do, at least not in this country. We are a very "in the moment" nation. No future outlook or observations of the past. Blind greed and complete lack of education. A society where 1% hold most of the wealth cannot function that way forever without collapse or rebellion.

Another idea people seem to never grasp is that, you don't *need* to have enormous amounts of possessions and $$. In the end, you won't be taking it with you, which shows just how meaningless it is, focus on the more important things in life. The richest country in the world should not have anyone facing poverty or starvation, yet we do. And somehow a huge part of the population manage to pretend its not there, and carry on in their self centered ways.

It seems these days that anything focused on helping those in need, balancing living standards, or looking for change, is considered socialist or "liberal". If so, perhaps conservative is just code for "selfish and greedy".

Trickle down theory is just that, only a trickle gets to those below the top 1%.