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Antipodean Bucket Farmer wrote:
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:55:12 -0800, SoCalMike
wrote:

Sgt.Sausage wrote:

Anything else is simply theft -- rob from the rich
to feed the poor.

the rich get rich on the backs of the poor.

Well, the poor can always do what the rich did.

Start their own business, risk everything they own, and hope they
don't go belly up.

Or, they can sit around and whine and ask Uncle Sugar to save
them.

The vast majority of wealth in America in private hands is inherited
wealth. The above is typical of the Social-Darwinist myth put out by
the rich to the effect that that the rich are rich because they deserve
to be rich, because they earned their money by working for it. Nothing
could be further from the truth. For every self-made multi-millionaire,
there are probably hundreds of worthless, Paris Hilton-like, trust fund
brats out there. They don't even usually have brains enough to manage
their own investment portfolios and require professional management to
do it for them. Thus, their wealth may grow while in their hands, but
it is a rare occasion when the owner of that wealth had anything to do
with it.

So? If I give you a gift, does that magically entitle
somebody else to steal it from you, since you didn't
earn it?

No, and nothing in my post suggests otherwise. I was merely pointing
out that the Social-Darwinist myth of the "deserving" rich is utter and
complete nonsense in the vast majority of cases.

Jeff