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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh QUELLE SURPRISE, America! Published in my RW Rag today: "What's so Awful about the One Percent?"
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. . . and it was written a month ago.
Get excited!!! THEY'RE NOT ALL BAD!!!
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/04/opinion/la-oe-schiller-who-is-the-one-percent-20111204
Oh bullshit. Jobs was no liberal. Apple makes their crap in Chinese sweatshops that work their slaves in punishing hours and conditions; some even killed themselves due to their intolerable plights. He also fired workers just for unintentionally rubbing him the wrong way.
Let's see, does he worry about where his next meal is going to come from? Does Howard Schultz pay the mortgage OR the electric bill this month? Does he go into work every day with a 500 pound figurative anvil strapped to his back that says "YOU could be NEXT, peon, so work harder!!!"?? Does Howard Schultz have to worry about paying a five-digit student loan debt or worry about getting thrown out of his house for the crime of getting sick??? Really? Are you that effing stupid, Bradley?
Uh, most of the people on that list enriched China, Indonesia, Malaysia and India in significant ways moreso than they have American workers. Especially Phil Knight. Some of the Forbes 400 are figureheads that had nothing to do with the origination of their product/service. And damn it, no one is entirely self made.
Oh, but let's not forget, folks . . . if THEY could do it with a little hard work and elbow grease. . . why . . . any of us can!!
These storied rises from "rags to riches" are what make America the unique and prosperous nation it is. Some critics would have us believe that the American dream is dead. But that's a view purveyed by those without the vision, the grit, the energy or the single-mined determination to build a better mousetrap. Starry-eyed inventors and entrepreneurs have no doubts about that dream. They know it exists and that they are going to achieve it. Maybe not on the first try, but eventually. That's the entrepreneurial spirit that drives competitive markets, that not only makes the American dream come true for some (the 1%) but also improves life for the many (the 99%).
Oh just SHUT it with the class warfare card, slappy. Horatio Alger is a lottery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Alger_myth
What can you say about hackneyed, deluded articles like this? What can you say about the state of education in this country where a person like this; one who cannot even look out of his own window but would rather form an opinion based on the teachings of the likes of Friedman (Milton AND Thomas) and Hayek, becomes a professor and author?? There needs to be more widespread progressive voices to counter this sort of idiocy.
Tomay
(58 posts)by various right-wing propaganda outfits (Faux News, Limbaugh, etc.) to justify the existence of the super-rich. They've pushed this free-market Horatio Alger nonsense for decades, but now they are finally being challenged on the basic premises of their arguments by Occupy Wall Street. As today's events proved, OWS is not dead; it's just getting started, and the 99% WILL be heard, regardless of the efforts of rightist propaganda to defend greed as good.
xmas74
(29,676 posts)I noticed it was written nearly a month ago-do they not have comments for OP/Ed or did someone take too many boo-boos in the comments and they closed them?
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)It is weird they don't have a comment section on this.
Of course, if this were the Cleveland Plain Dealer, every backwoods Bill O fan and their brother would be on there defending "Teh Free Marketzzzz" while the oligarchs laugh collectively.
xmas74
(29,676 posts)I would think that an OP/Ed of this nature would have everyone coming out of the woodwork.
And the KC Star often includes comments from those who have just crawled out from under a rock. I'm used to reading idiotic comments.
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HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)b. Did you even read the link, Herman Cain?
Our markets are only free for the oligarchs to manipulate. "Free" for the rest of us? Whoever told you that lied to you and isn't your friend. For every Oprah Winfrey, there are tens of thousands that didn't make their dreams happen for whatever reason.
Hint: There is no such thing as "self made". EVERYONE gets help, whether they choose to believe that or not.
eyewall
(674 posts)because you have to be asleep to believe it."
- George Carlin 2005