At Some Point Soon, The Rich Will Have To Start Stealing from Each Other

[Yavin4]

There's really nothing more to steal from the poor or the working class. Much of the middle class' wealth was tied up in their homes, and that's gone. All of the middle class paying jobs are migrating overseas to cheaper labor markets. Medicare and SS will eventually be cut or privatized given the pusillanimous Democratic party.

Thus, they will have to steal from one another soon. Being in the top 1% is simply not good enough. You have to be in the top 1/10 of 1%. So how does one get there? Well, the bottom 9/10 of the top 1% have money. Time to steal from them.

[CTyankee]

1. I got news. They already do. It's not called "predatory capitalism" for nothing!

[lonestarnot]

2. I've got more news. I care nothing for them. It's what they are stealing from me that flames my

ass hair.

[CTyankee]

4. Right! If nothing else, tho, take comfort in the fact that these effers would steal the dimes

off their dead grandmothers eyes, to quote my own late mother!

They can't be very happy, looking over their shoulders all the time...

[lonestarnot]

5. True that. There is something that they will never gain the benefit of in doing what they do and

that would be humanity.

[TexasObserver]

3. Last winter it was so cold I saw a Wall Street banker with his hands in his OWN pockets!

[Generic Brad]

6. You mean, like Bernie Madoff?

I thought that's exactly what he was doing quite successfully.

[cascadiance]

7. And then we'll have dueling "kingdoms" much like we had back in the Middle Ages...

where kingdoms fought each other so their rulers got richer and could exploit more peasants to do their bidding...

[CTyankee]

8. Ah, which brings us to the historical point where people got together and formed REPUBLICS.

They were sick of being serfs in some Duke's fiefdom.

We have the rich history of the various republics of the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in Italy being formed for just this reason. There are also reasons that people formed guilds, the labor unions of their day, and elected leaders of their governments. In Italy, they called themselves "communes" and they use the designation today (more like a "county" to us).