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Jacuzzi with 42'' Plasma TV
[RNP]Venom writes "Now this is cool. Jacuzzi has a new "private" collection for people with too much money. Only question is do you prefer this Whirlpool Tub with a 42'' Plasma TV, DVD, and all the trimmings, or a more subtle tub with a 10'' screen, but jets that can do 30 Gallons per minute? Things like floating remote controls and underwater lightning are also included. Now all you'd have to do is mod the tub with a computer and wireless internet, and you'd never have to leave!"
Water and high-voltage electronics (eg, TVs) don't mix well in general -- have they found a solution?
If you have a lot of money to throw around on products such as this, at least use some common sense...
Designed exclusively for individuals with the most discerning taste
This is the first line of the description of the product. This can be generally translated as follows:
"Created for, and sold to, people who think 'If it's expensive, it's good and therefore I need it.'"
Anything that suggests you have "discerning taste" when you buy it is just trying to lighten your wallet.
Everyone knows that when you're filthy rich you have everything custom built (and engineered).
;)
Your first two paragraphs are pretty much accurate. So what are you proposing? The government is responsible to tax the rich people into poverty so all of "us poor folk" can have rich people things too?
.) have kept on getting richer and richer with their nice cushy "consultant" jobs, but the city populous as a whole is getting fucked.
:p )
How about instead the government just cut the bullshit and stop creating make work for the rich?
My city has spent over half a BILLION dollars PLANNING on how to put down a mass transit system
Over the course of 10 years.
The committee members (hardly engineers, but all upper crust. . .
End corrupt administration, end favoritism towards the rich;
That sounds familiar -- wasn't that what they tried to do in Communist Russia? and China?
(and fuck the commies, they suck too.
It's not the federal government's responsibility to pay for your medical care or prescription drugs.
So if somebody spends 60+ years working their ass off caring for others and helping society improve and grow and saving lives and helping others;
they should just be left on the street to die?
Uh huh.
f-u-c-k you
And if you're counting on social security to live on when you retire, you're a freaking idiot.
Yah, those FAMILIES earning all of 20 thousand a year or so from both parents working 8-10+ hour shifts;
yah, I can just see how they have SOOO much money to spare.
Unless by some chance one of them GETS SICK, or the CAR BREAKS DOWN, or there is a STORM and something notquiteinsurancepolicyactivating happens to their house.
Then there goes their entire nest egg in one fell swoop. Or at least a goodly chunk of it.
People who work hard and then have bad shit happen to them should NOT just be considered "poor shit luck" cases and left to the winds, hell no. People who work hard to help out society should get something back from society.
And quite frankly they should get back a lot more then they currently are.
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I am such a friggen' retard.
I wish I posted anonymously.
damn damn damn damn, shame on me.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
I just don't buy into the "my problems must be caused by someone else" mentality. Being rich is not a sin. My success doesn't preclude yours. If you are a failure, my success is not your problem.
Surely there are actual examples of rich people who got that way by defrauding others, but this poster highlights no such example. Instead, we get a rant about how the Bush tax cuts are taking food out of starving mouths.
I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the top 1% of earners pay over 30% of all income tax. If you find yourself agreeing with Dr. Strawman there, the question you've got to ask yourself is, "Just how much do those rich people owe me?"
I've found that the answer "zero" correlates highly with success. Whether this is a causal relationship or not is still anybody's guess.
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In 1993 Clinton's budget raised taxes only on the very rich. The Republicans SCREAMED! They insisted it would lead to a depression.
Clinton also raised the minimum wage and brought in the Earned Income Tax Credit which actually gave some cash to poor people who are raising kids.
The result was a HUGE economic expansion - high economic growth for the longest time in our country's history. (And not funded by borrowing money like Reagan's economic growth was.) The huge Reagan deficits went away and we started paying off the massive Reagan debt. (Which meant paying less interest which helped pay off even more debt.) (Bush has reversed this.)
Why did this happen? Think about it - we have a consumer economy. More money in the hands of the large numbers of regular people means they're able to buy more stuff. OBVIOUSLY things like increasing the minimum wage, paying off debt, and taxing the rich in order to recirculate the money in the economy are good for the economy. Just look at history, when these policies are in place we have economic growth, and when Republican policies are in place we have low growth. That's not to hard to look up - the highest economic growth has occurred when we have the highest taxes on the rich.
Antique clawfoot tub............$450
CD of the Wiener Philharmoniker playing Mozart's Requiem
A dozen or so candles $.....6
Time soaking in the tub *away* from video screens.... Priceless
What makes you think the Clinton was the hero of the economy? What Alan Greenspan does with the economy as Federal Reserve Chairman has much more influence on the economy than anything the President does. Plus, do you realize that most of the ups and downs of the economy are caused by the NORMAL economic cycle? You sound like one of those party loyalists who are like, "My God! The economy soared while he was in office! He must be a good president!" Give poor Greenspan some credit once in a while.