2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBrigid
(17,621 posts)Come visit DU -- we'll give you an education. And it won't be anything like the bullshit you picked up at that fancy boarding school you went to, either. And what is "it," exactly?
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]You'd think with all her income and education, she'd be able to confine herself to speaking grammatically in just one person (2nd or 3rd, not both) for at least a whole sentence.
I'll bet all her bodily functions work just the same as those of less educated/lower income people, and she'll still have to leave all her loot behind when she croaks (which she most certainly will).
Just what is it that makes her so special, again?
Warpy
(111,405 posts)and yes, madam, we know how it works. That's why we want to overthrow it and your kind with it.
babylonsister
(171,104 posts)maryellen99
(3,790 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Today, Mitt Romney is holding a series of fundraisers in the Hamptons, culminating with a huge event at the home of billionaire David Koch. The LA Time in on the scene and reporter Maeve Reston caught up with a donor on her way into one of the events.
The woman, who wouldnt reveal her name, said the following:
I dont think the common person is getting it my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies everybody whos got the right to vote they dont understand whats going on. I just think if youre lower income one, youre not as educated, two, they dont understand how it works, they dont understand how the systems work, they dont understand the impact.
The recommended contribution for the event she was attending was $25,000.
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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/08/512645/romney-donor-says-lower-income-people-dont-understand-whats-going-on/
babylonsister
(171,104 posts)indie_voter
(1,999 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)There are a lot of people in the working class dumb (racist) enough to vote Republican, but that's going to sting.
JHB
(37,163 posts)...by making better product and thus increasing sales, vs. those that increase profits by squeezing employees and swindling customers? It seems the latter method is both easier to pull off and is more reliable (for instance, no chance of a competitor undercutting your product sales) in terms of delivering money to stockholders.
So obviously, you need some means of separating the sort of investment that creates jobs and benefits the "common people" when it is successful from the sort of investment that shows a profit by redirecting money that would have gone to the "common people" into the the accounts of the shareholders.
Pray tell, please enlighten us how you distinguish between the two, because if the only standard is the money it shoots your way then there's no incentivizing between the types of investment, which would seem to advantage the company reshuffling existing wealth into fewer pockets over the investment that creates new wealth. In other words, between the latter, which has interdependencies with "common people" to make and buy things, and the former, which profits by basically screwing "common people".
So yes, Milady, I don't understand how that works. But that's not due to any deficiency on my part: it doesn't work. The deficiency is where you think it does, and where your "education" really isn't worthy of that name because it's not preventing you from being dumb enough to believe bullshit.