Some families just have something in them. Some families are great at music through generations. Granted, many of the greats children get started simply because their parents were musicians. Frank Sinatra was great, his daughter went on to make some good music too (I am not talking boots are made for walking). The Douglas Family in acting. The Fonda family. Of course once you get into a scene you have a better chance of being noticed for something. Is it hard to believe that a politician who was smooth and connected enough to get elected as president or congressman ended up with a kid who had a decent ability at it and could use the connections of his parents to get elected? It doesn't make it right or wrong. If your parents ran a business, you have a decent chance of following in their footsteps. It doesn't make it a conspiracy to control the world. A conspiracy signifies something illegal and hidden.
Should there be a cap on attainable wealth?
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Padawanbater2
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Your reasoning is completely confused.
The last thing I'd ever want in my life is to control the fucking world.
Rob Roy
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You are getting warmer....why not decentralize a little more?
I think what Rob is trying to say is...
[video=youtube;JVwoDbFMK-8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JVwoDbFMK-8#t=46s[/video]
timbo123
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Excellent point. I suppose some would say that the marketplace upon learning this would correct this corporate behavior by selecting a different automaker to reward with their business. Of course those who say that would be ignoring two important facts:
1) The people who got fried in their Pintos won't have the luxury of hindsight to enable them to adjust their unfortunate purchase because they are now dead.
2) Last time I checked... Ford is still pumping out cars many years after the Pinto debacle... where is the alleged invisible hand of the market that theoretically would have acted en masse to punish the evil corporate decision that led to the extermination of some unfortunate consumers who paid the ultimate price?
RyanTheRhino
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[video=youtube;UnX7TNFIELg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UnX7TNFIELg[/video]
timbo123
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So... I wonder if this guy spent some of his wealth to produce this commercial out of a sense of concern that indeed "socialist" policies would cripple our economy and the well being of the nation... or if his chief concern was hanging on to his own mad stacks of cash that his Wall Street empire has enabled him to feather his mansions with?
RyanTheRhino
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You know There is no way to really tell. I mean he said vote republican not mitt.
I wouldn't put it past him if its just to save his wealth.
But the other side of me
says he came here as a nobody with a dream & it must feel good to accomplish that and want others keep that dream.
Studying engineering dropped out and moved to america
Became an architectural draftsman. Basically the guy who draws the sketchs for plans
computer programmer
then started in the stock market
Padawanbater2
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Capping attainable wealth =/= Socialism
RyanTheRhino
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how so? If the cap is at 5 Billion & I own a company that makes 500 million a year what happens when I reach the cap.
Where will the money the my company made go and why. The answer is an undeniably socialism.
Who decides where the money goes? a majority
Who will it benefit? the majority. that is the essence of socialism
Padawanbater2
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Wealth isn't the only reason people change the world.