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RE: Dubious honor
By Nfarce on 2/5/2009 10:47:00 AM , Rating: 5
Dude where have you been? Don't you know living now means you have to live for communal standards? Why, it is not fair that you can afford to run a thermostat at 76 degrees in winter when someone else can't. It is not fair that you have four PCs and three big screen TVs when someone else doesn't even have one. It is not fair that you have a bigger home than someone else.

You should sacrifice yourself for your fellow human being and give up the "wealth" that you have and transfer it to those who do not have as much, no matter if you worked hard to get where you are. We should all be relegated in the same 900 foot government allocated housing facilities. Therefore, every person and every family will be on equal footing and get the same amount of government money every month - no rich, no poor - just like good little communal Eastern Bloc dwellers.

Get with the program man. Don't you feel just a little guilty about having more than someone else? No? You greedy neocon!

/sarc off

RE: Dubious honor
By Ananke on 2/5/2009 3:10:48 PM , Rating: 2
You should understand that political extremes didn't occur without any reason. What you describe happened because of massive wealth inequality, and it may happen again - in one or another form. So, yes, smart people who don't want their wealth nationalized at one point, usually are contributing to the society through taxes. I guess, that wizdom was forgotten for the last two decades in USA.

RE: Dubious honor
By corduroygt on 2/5/2009 4:24:03 PM , Rating: 2
That's why we have the second amendment in this country.

RE: Dubious honor
By Spuke on 2/5/2009 6:02:22 PM , Rating: 2
He said "/sarc off" at the end of his post. What do you think that means? I personally LOL'd at what he said. That's what some people here are really thinking and he said it out loud. I'd rate him up.

RE: Dubious honor
By Nfarce on 2/5/2009 6:32:27 PM , Rating: 3

Huh? Of course the "smart" people are contributing to society through taxes - a heavily progressive and mandatory scheduling at that (top 25% of income earners pay 87% of all federal income taxes by private filers).

If they didn't, they'd go to jail. Unless they were Obama Democrat cabinet picks like Tom Daschle of course. Then it's just, OOOPS, they forgot. Silly them!

