America's Wealthy Republicans Are Stupid Stupid People

[signalmankenneth]

And they deserve to have their wealth taken away from them.

That might sound awfully anti-capitalist to some, but it's really not. It's an intervention, and I say what I do actually in hopes of preserving our capitalist economy, because something has gone awry.

Possibly the most important realization about the secret 47% Romney video debacle is that a bunch of people who could afford a $50,000 donation (in the form of dinner theater) were actually expected to believe the line Mitt was selling them. They were expected to buy it, and they did. A fool and his money... so they say.

But really, these people are embarrassingly ignorant. Something has gone seriously wrong with our precious precious capitalist system. The mouthbreathers can afford $50,000 steaks. Survival of the fittest has broken down.

Mitt Romney's team sent him in there armed with a statistic on income taxes and a mythology to explain why he wasn't winning, that much is clear. Whether Mitt is dumb enough to believe it is totally beside the point (and I'm not sure I've ever heard "sincerity" in his voice other than in that video, so I'm inclined to believe he does).

The point however, is that Romney's team somehow felt assured that the wealthy donors in that room WOULD believe it - despite the fact that 1/5th of the 47% are seniors, or that the 47% includes combat vets and poor rural Republican voters - or even for Pete's sake that the idea that 47% of America thinks of themselves as victims seems at all rational. Romney's team knew the wealthy people in that room didn't know better. How could that be? But if they did know better, the mythology, the "excuse" for why Mitt was losing the election would be dead on arrival.

I'm not sure what's scarier, the idea that the potential next Leader of the Free World actually said what he said to a bunch of aristocrats, or that those aristocrats are stupid enough to believe it and can be expected to be that stupid by the NeoCons behind Romney's campaign.

If America's rich really are as stupid as Romney's team believe they are, and I'm sure the strategists believe what they do based on personal experience, then America is in serious serious trouble.

Survival of the fittest has become an aristocracy of the witless. We need to get capital OUT of the hands of people that deficient in brain cells, via taxes, via any means possible - for the good of capitalism itself.

By Snowcity

 

[canceled.2021.1]

And they deserve to have their wealth taken away from them.

That might sound awfully anti-capitalist to some, but it's really not. It's an intervention, and I say what I do actually in hopes of preserving our capitalist economy, because something has gone awry.

Possibly the most important realization about the secret 47% Romney video debacle is that a bunch of people who could afford a $50,000 donation (in the form of dinner theater) were actually expected to believe the line Mitt was selling them. They were expected to buy it, and they did. A fool and his money... so they say.

But really, these people are embarrassingly ignorant. Something has gone seriously wrong with our precious precious capitalist system. The mouthbreathers can afford $50,000 steaks. Survival of the fittest has broken down.

Mitt Romney's team sent him in there armed with a statistic on income taxes and a mythology to explain why he wasn't winning, that much is clear. Whether Mitt is dumb enough to believe it is totally beside the point (and I'm not sure I've ever heard "sincerity" in his voice other than in that video, so I'm inclined to believe he does).

The point however, is that Romney's team somehow felt assured that the wealthy donors in that room WOULD believe it - despite the fact that 1/5th of the 47% are seniors, or that the 47% includes combat vets and poor rural Republican voters - or even for Pete's sake that the idea that 47% of America thinks of themselves as victims seems at all rational. Romney's team knew the wealthy people in that room didn't know better. How could that be? But if they did know better, the mythology, the "excuse" for why Mitt was losing the election would be dead on arrival.

I'm not sure what's scarier, the idea that the potential next Leader of the Free World actually said what he said to a bunch of aristocrats, or that those aristocrats are stupid enough to believe it and can be expected to be that stupid by the NeoCons behind Romney's campaign.

If America's rich really are as stupid as Romney's team believe they are, and I'm sure the strategists believe what they do based on personal experience, then America is in serious serious trouble.

Survival of the fittest has become an aristocracy of the witless. We need to get capital OUT of the hands of people that deficient in brain cells, via taxes, via any means possible - for the good of capitalism itself.

By Snowcity

Actually it is you who is stupid. You see YOU believe Warren Buffett when he says "tax me more". You swoon with delight because you naively think "here is a rich guy who gets it". And you go whack off to IRS porn feeling oh so fulfilled.

But here is what Buffett knows that you don't know. It doesn't matter what the tax rate is, he doesn't earn the type of income that is being discussed. He has more than enough money.

Here is what else he knows that you obviously don't know because you are too stupid or willfully ignore. If taxes increase, Buffett stands to make a fortune. How you may ask? Well, look at Berkshire holdings. He owns numerous insurance entities. Why is that important, you liberal mind is wondering? In a high tax environment vehicles like annuities become extremely attractive. This is how Buffett stands to profit. He is playing long ball and if he has to feed dipshits like pablum like "I want to pay higher taxes", then it is no skin off his shriveled old balls.

Lastly I will leave with this little nugget. Buffett s currently embroiled in a fight with the IRS over billions in taxes for one of his businesses. Ironic huh?

 

[Rune]

Fascinating. Kenneth print a theory and the right proves Kenneth's theory almost immediately.

 

[NOVA]

[h=2]America's Wealthy Republicans Are Stupid Stupid People[/h]

If any of them ever gave you a job and actually paid you, I'm inclined to agree with you....

 

[NOVA]

So Romney had a fund raiser with big donors ?....Heres a few you failed to mention...

Obama Victory Fund apparently charged £10,000 a ticket at last night's fundraising meal

Beyonce Wows In Red Oscar De La Renta Dress At Obama $40,000 a plate Fundraiser Event

Pearl Jam frontman played for the president and 85 guests at a $20,000-per-person dinner

there will be a dinner entertained by Jeffrey Katzenberg with the prevailing United States President at a nearby restaurant and the tickets for the dinner are available starting at $25,000.

Americans Abroad for Obama, the event’s sponsor, says on its Web site that guests are paying $15,000 per person to dine with Clooney, $5,000 for a photo with him and $1,000 to attend a reception before the dinner.

Obama picked up some $4 million at a Manhattan fundraiser hosted by entertainer Beyoncé and hubby Jay-Z before a more-traditional, shirtsleeves-in-a-ballpark rally in Woodbridge, Va., on Friday.
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Romney said that 47% of the workers will vote for Obama no matter what....don't you believe that....
Don't you believe they rely on government for what they get ....
That a tax cut means nothing to people that don't pay any taxes in the first place....

The truth is something you pinheads can't seem to accept....I think its kinda refreshing to hear a politician tell the truth even when it may cost him the election....

He may not walk away as the incumbent but he'll have his dignity.....unlike the lying weasel that Obama has proven he is.

 

[Southern Tea]

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/09/22/are-we-entering-the-age-of-inherited-wealth/

. . .

Yet if the Waltons were counted as a single family fortune – like many others on the list – they would have $87 billion, making them the richest family in America. They would easily surpass Bill Gates at the top of the list, with $59 billion. As he and Mr. Buffett give away more of their fortunes to charity, the individual Waltons could well wind up cracking the top five.

Along with the Waltons, we have the Koch brothers. They inherited the predecessor to Koch Industries from their dad. To their credit, they grew their fortune into much larger businesses, while lots of people inherit businesses and ruin them. Still, it would be a stretch to say the Koch brothers are entirely “self made.”

The rise of the heirs on the Forbes list signals a larger worry, however. America may not be able to create new wealth the way it has for the past 20 years. All of the forces that drove billionaire creation – strong economic growth, a 20-year-bull market, huge technological change and investment – are weakening. We will still create new billionaires, with the occasional Zuckerbergs keeping the flame alive.

Yet preserved family wealth may well start eclipsing earned new wealth. It’s possible that we could be heading into a period like the 1930s, 40s and 50s, when most of the large wealth in America came from one of two places – oil and trust funds.

. . .

How many of the wealthy did it without government funds somewhere...no such thing as self-made anymore, is there? Koch brothers get regular government welfare checks, but yet pay money to state legislatures and republicans in congress to slash your checks.

 

[Airstrip One]

How come I'm not wealthy, then?

 

[Lowaicue]

Fascinating. Kenneth print a theory and the right proves Kenneth's theory almost immediately.

I do not think the rich of any shade are necessarily stupid.
The truth is far, far worse than that.
During the course of our lives most of us work fairly hard and respect those that we come in contact with,
That respect is a normal human condition, it is there because we all understand that there may come a time when we might need some help, a little hand up, a sympathetic ear. And it works. For most people. Because, for all our posturing and all our machoism, underneath we understand that we are weak and have limitations.
All that is because alone we cannot be completely safe from laws and enemies.
However, when we become rich (and I do not mean millionaires of which there are millions upon millions) I mean rich like we are the richest in our town or community, something dawns on us.
'Hey. We don't need you any more. We don't need to respect anyone. We don't need to doubt our own adequacies. Our money brings huge power over our fellows.'
Now we can take and continue taking and never feel guilt or remorse. Take, take, take from the truly stupid people who never had the chance/luck/opportunity to grab what we grabbed.
Now you see the bush mob, the cheneys, the romneys, the waltons.
Just occasionally, very occasionally, one of those people decides, for differing reasons to give part of his fortune away. It makes him feel really good - but, of course, he still doesn't need to worry about the price of potatoes.
But this guy has got his. He has stamped on more than a few to get to where he is and perhaps during his latter years he develops a conscience, he certainly has not a shadow of one in his early years.
No, rich people are not stupid. But remember that riches are simply a proxy for power. And power has no point until it is exercised. Hey presto, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the sociopath.
You want one to determine your future? Then vote for Romney.

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Mitt Romney's team sent him in there armed with a statistic on income taxes and a mythology to explain why he wasn't winning, that much is clear.

Except that, in May, when this occurred, he WAS winning. He was the front-runner throughout the primaries. So what is clear is, the person who wrote this, doesn't know what they are talking about.

The point however, is that Romney's team somehow felt assured that the wealthy donors in that room WOULD believe it - despite the fact that 1/5th of the 47% are seniors, or that the 47% includes combat vets and poor rural Republican voters...

Except that, the 47% Romney was talking about, are Obama supporters who believe in Big Government. This 47% doesn't include all the seniors and certainly not all, or even a majority, of all combat vets or poor rural Republicans. In fact, most Republicans won't be voting for Obama at all. So again, what is clear is, the person who wrote this is really dumb.

America's Wealthy Republicans Are Stupid Stupid People
And they deserve to have their wealth taken away from them.

Well no... they really AREN'T. And no... you probably won't be taking their wealth away from them.

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

What people are now calling the Boca Moment wasn’t some trivial gaffe.


It was a window into the true attitudes of what has become a party of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy, a party that considers the rest of us unworthy of even a pretense of respect.


The party’s contempt for the working class is apparently too complete, too pervasive to hide.


Consider the Twitter message sent out by Eric Cantor, the Republican House majority leader, on Labor Day — a holiday that specifically celebrates America’s workers.


Here’s what it said, in its entirety: "Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success."

• Yes, on a day set aside to honor workers, all Cantor could bring himself to do was praise their bosses.

Consider Romney’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.


What did he have to say about American workers?


Actually, nothing: the words "worker" or "workers" never passed his lips.

• Romney waxed rhapsodic about the opportunities America offered to immigrants, he declared that they came in pursuit of "freedom to build a business."

What about those who came here not to found businesses, but simply to make an honest living?


Not worth mentioning.


Romney’s remarks spoke to a widespread belief on the right that taxes on working Americans are, if anything, too low.

• The Wall Street Journal famously described low-income workers whose wages fall below the income-tax threshold as "lucky duckies."

What really needs cutting, the right believes, are taxes on corporate profits, capital gains, dividends, and very high salaries — that is, taxes that fall on investors and executives, not ordinary workers.


This despite the fact that people who derive their income from investments, not wages — people like, say, Willard Mitt Romney — already pay remarkably little in taxes.


The GOP has been taken over by an Ayn Rand-type vision of society, in which a handful of heroic businessmen are responsible for all economic good, while the rest of us are just along for the ride.


In the eyes of those who share this vision, the wealthy deserve special treatment, and not just in the form of low taxes.


They must also receive respect, indeed deference, at all times.


That’s why even the slightest hint from the president that the rich might not be all that — that, say, some bankers may have behaved badly, or that even "job creators" depend on government-built infrastructure — elicits frantic cries that 'Obama is a socialist'.







http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion...taxes.html.csp

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

How come I'm not wealthy, then?

Because you're a government employee, and stupid.