Quote:This message was promptly drowned out by calls to behead millionairs and try to pay a debt off that sadly according to my math would barely put a dent in the us debt.
If this is true, then we really are in BIG trouble. The top 1% of Americans owned %34 of the "Net worth" in America, while the bottom 80% owned just 19% in 2007. The top 1% of AMericans owned 43% of the "financial wealth" in America, while the bottom 80% owned just 7%.
In case you want to look at income instead of assets: In 2006, the top 1% owned 21% of the annual income, while the bottom 80% owned just 38.6%.
If the millionares can't afford to pay off the US debt, then there is not a snowballs chance in hell that you can pay it off by taking it from everybody else.
The fact of the matter is that there is something seriously fundamentally wrong with the USA's economic system. Corporations and the wealthy control virtually everything in this country, from the laws, to the wealth, to the jobs, to the land, to the resources. The rich and wealthy complain about progressive taxes as being "wealth
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Oh btw these guys are the real hostage takers, threating students, workers, young and old people, your kids so they can use the money that would have nomally go to those to line thier pockets instead, I mean when does a union have so much ownership of a company they dictate where they can and cannot work or do and dont do, arent the share holders supposivly responsible for that? The only real reason why unions (other than the few government pet ones which basically are more truer being a representative of the workforce) exist is because people dont know how to be worth anything valuable and to prove thier point chinese are able to do thier job better faster and cheaper, a union mans labor isnt worth it or there is little to no worth in it to begin with, time to change carrers or become invaluable.
Ad hominem fallacy. Whether or not some union did these horrible things you accuse them of is completely irrelevant to the argument at hand.
The argument is that corporations are driven by greed to such a point that their either violate the law and get away with it, or subvert the law - all to the detriment of the majority of natural citizens.