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Subject: Re: Liberty for big Corporations to give death

Author:
Donny

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Date Posted: 23:54:49 11/02/00 Thu
In reply to: James 's message, "Re: Liberty for big Corporations to give death" on 23:39:35 11/02/00 Thu

Well nice try James, real nice.

So what good for you. There are people out there who need help and the rich won't give them any. So we need to take action and redistribute the wealth.

~Donny~

> Okay let me get this straight...
>
> ALL rich people deserve to be punished because they
> have been successful where others have failed. ALL
> rich people got their wealth through lying cheating
> stealing and breaking the backs of innocent poor
> people.
>
> Okay, look I work in a grocery store. I am a lowly
> produce clerk. Now I work for a good company that
> provides good pay, great benefits and superb job
> security. Let's just say I want to stay there and work
> for the next 20 years. It's not a bad job at all. Now
> I have the option of putting 8% of my paycheck every
> week into a 401k account. Then my company will match
> another 3% on top of that. Well with the intrest
> compounded over the next 20 years, I'll become a
> millionair.
>
> Now you tell me. Where did I step on another poor
> person's back? When did I acheive my wealth through
> lying cheating and stealing? I used MY hard earned
> money to create wealth FOR ME and my family. Nobody
> else did it for me. It was ME. Tell me what I did
> wrong and who I oppressed to achieve my wealth! And
> then tell me why I am an evil horrible person afer I
> busted my ass for 20 years in a grocery store.
>
> You see the point is most wealthy people become
> wealthy in this way. They work hard for it and put
> their money, even just a little bit to work for them.
> And with patience, adn hard work people can retire as
> wealthy as the top 1%. Now anybody can do this. There
> is nobody I work with who doesn't have a retirement
> plan, because we all know it will work.
>
> So again I challenge you. How does that make me evil?
> Why is being rich such a crime?
>
> James

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Re: Liberty for big Corporations to give death	James	00:16:27 11/03/00 Fri