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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!"
There is this huge gap between the rich, and everyone else. Things for the rich are selling really well, while the rest of us are living in a recession.
People don't understand just how rich the rich are in the U.S. The incomes at the top are in the hundreds of millions of $$ per year. The top 5% own more than 80% of everything in the country. That means that 95% of us are trying to get along with 20% of everything. (If you have a mortgage, you don't "own" your house.)
The Bush tax cuts, which go almost entirely to the top 1% (and were opposed by 70% of the public), cost TRILLIONS of dollars over this decade. It means we don't have medical care, prescription drug coverage, repairs in the nation's schools, repairs of our bridges, and now they are even cancelling student loan programs. AND because of this the government is now using our SOCIAL SECURITY money to cover the money going out to the tax cuts. And this is because a few people at the top are making SO MUCH MONEY that cancelling this small tax cut would pay for all these things!
If people undstood just how much money is now being moved from regular people to the few people at the top they might start talking about doing something about it.
Is VA so hard up it's resorting to advertorializing for totally worthless junk?
Oh, and if you think the rich actually buy crap like this, do yourself a favor and read The Millionaire Next Door. Most millionaires would never say something like this is "cool".
Not everyone can be successful. What about the failures?
Just because you are successful and all your rich friends are successful, doesnt mean everyonne is or can be. Theres going to be failures, its your responsibility as a human, to make it so even if you fail, your life still means something, failures need to have SOMETHING.
Alot of people wonder how a person can suicide bomb, its usually a rich person wondering this, how about we look at life from their point of view.
Lets look at a third world country. Say you are from a third world country, all your friends have Aids, People only live to
age 30-35, your family members have aids, one of your kids starved to death and the other is sick, and You have aids. You see rich guys coming and taking away the natural resources so you cant hunt or live off the land anymore. Why not go suicide bomb them? What do you have to lose? You have nothing to lose.
How about we look at how life is for people in the USA? Say you live in the ghetto, you grew up with a single parent, barely surviving off welfare, you didnt get a good education due to shitty public schooling, what options do you have to survive? You cant live off a Mc Donalds wage, and thats about all you can get.
Here are your options.
1.Sell Drugs/Steal
2.Sell Drugs/Steal and Work at MCDonalds
3.Be Homeless
Because these people have nothing to lose they dont fear going to jail. Someone whos homeless or close to being homeless on the
street eating 1 meal a day, would be happy to go to jail and get 3 meals a day, weights, TV, and so on.
Do you see whats happening? You have to give people something, you MUST care about society, because if you dont, society will eventually collapse and destroy you along with it.
With lower taxes, more people become poor, why? Less education or lower quality education from public schools, no healthcare,
no social security, I mean with no social security people cant even look forward to retiring.
They have NOTHING.
The problem with not sharing the wealth is, as more people have nothing, society breaks down. You can only fill the prisons so much, you cant stop terrorists for ever. The solution, is to make sure everyone has SOMETHING to lose, what stops you from going to prison? Oh thats right, you might lose your house and all your possesions, you wont be able to do all those great things which a rich person can do, like go shopping, or sit in your nice hottub. You have something to lose being in prison
because for you life outside of prison is better than life in prison. If you keep lowering taxes, it makes life for failures not worth living at all, you think we have a problem with terrorists from afganastan? IF you get rid of public schools, society security, healthcare, welfare, being poor is to alot of people worse than being dead. Their options, commit suicide, or live life as a homeless person begging for food.
For every Winner, theres a loser, in order to keep society from collapsing, the losers have to continue to play the game.
Everyone must play the game, losers need a reason to keep player, if its winner takes all, the losers will stop playing, and
will do one of two things
A. Take from the winners
B. Destroy everything so no one has anything
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I've found that the answer "zero" correlates highly with success. Whether this is a causal relationship or not is still anybody's guess.
Zero is a good answer, for success, to the question "At age 30, how many children did you have?"
Overbreaders tend to be stupid and lazy - it's sad that their traits are passed though genes and rearing to the next generation.
Then, after their ruined their life and the lives of their children, the have the gall to as for more hand-outs, more tax-breaks, and more food and housing.
Maby I'm turning in to a nasty rat-bastard, but we definatly sould think about Norplanting people on welfare - the men could get a premenent snip.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.