“At a certain point you’ve made enough money.” Says who? The President of the United States. He also said, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” In a CBS News story entitled “Obama Versus the ‘Fat Cats,’” President Obama “ratcheted up his rhetoric against Wall Street” calling them “fat cat[s]” and scolding them for not showing “‘a lot of shame’ about their behavior and outsized compensation.” And Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign is built almost entirely on coveting – the promise to reach into the wallets of rich “Fat Cats” and take their money away.And you know what? Coveting is WRONG. SO SAITH THE
If we minded our own business, and followed the Helpful Guideline to not covet, it would not matter to us if our neighbors had more. There would be no class warfare. We would never descend into the covetous madness of declaring what’s “fair” between what our neighbors have and what we don’t have. Following this one Guideline alone would end the most corrosive debate of our time: the covetous urge to take away from the “haves” and give to the “have-nots” in pursuit of some mythical fantasy of fairness in a world that has never been fair – not once, not for a second – since our Ten Helpful Guidelines were first etched into stone.Y'hear that? STOP COVETING JAMIE DIMON'S STUFF. Because he DOESN'T COVET YOURS.
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WTF is with all the biblical shit now? Is it election-year serpent-oil selling or something?
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These shitheads always conveniently overlook recent history.
The Bush tax cuts: "Reagan proved deficits don't matter."
- Dick Cheney
So now that the national debt has been more than doubled with wars for the rich, bailouts for the rich, and those tax cuts, they want to cut Social Security to pay for it.
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And all those biblical injunctions against usury (and shellfish!) are no longer applicable.
the promise to reach into the wallets of rich “Fat Cats” and take their money away.
If they keep acting like dicks, this is a reasonable response.
They really are tripling-down on the lecturing-to-the-inferiors aren't they?
"envy is unseemly"
It's not envy, assholes, it's VENGEANCE.
The first rule of Republican class warfare: accuse anyone who mentions it of waging class warfare.
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I thought the first rule was "Fuck You I Got Mine".
perhaps that is Rule 0.
a world that has never been fair – not once, not for a second
I hate this "Life is not fair, so shut up" crap. "Life" is arbitrary & random, but human activity is, almost by definition, often unfair.
I hate this "Life is not fair, so shut up" crap. "Life" is arbitrary & random, but human activity is, almost by definition, often unfair.
Right?
And notice that the wealthy are not shutting up AT ALL when life is not being unfair in THEIR FAVOR.
If they move they'll take cash with them; if their cars blow up there is a stimulative economic effect.
If they move they'll take cash with them; if their cars blow up there is a stimulative economic effect.
See Anastasio (Tachito) Samoza. Those trying to make this a more perfect banana republic should think about all the implications.
Of course Paraguay was/is a weird place and I'm not sure that it reaped much benefit from Tachito's demise.
I don't know that Donald Trump's atomization would be equivalent to Somoza's, so maybe some sort of experiment is in order.
The debt bondage passage mentioning scouring latrines and sewing now disappointingly proves that there is no form of bondage I would be good at.
Most I can offer is a roll in the hay where I wear a black corset. Or somebody wears a black corset. That's as far as I can go.
OK, MAYBE SOME LIGHT SPANKING!
If we're lucky, they'll all move to Paraguay and we'll get along just swell without the whiny little parasites.
What wiley said.
Did everyone get the covet-cat coffee part?
The Jubilee-year debt-forgiveness idea for bankrupt banks is too important to waste on home-owners.
Did everyone get the covet-cat coffee part?
Also.
Talk about your niche market...
No, vs, I did not get that.
Thnx? I won't be paying more for coffee that was pooped out of an animal.
Oh, sorry--- that was Smut Clyde.
Shoulda known.
I don't trust any food unless it comes from a nice clean factory.
The most trustworthy food is that you grow or kill yourself.
Or grow AND kill, perhaps.
I tried to grow some cilantro on the windowsill. It fell over and became TINY compost.
So I killed a couple of cottontails over behind the golf course with a crossbow and made a nice stew. I used a half bottle of Gewurztraminer. It was AWESOME.
I put the non-food bunny remains out for the Ocelot. Gawd, we're starting to really bond here in my neighborhood...
Ocelot? Where's your camera?
The most trustworthy food is that you grow or kill yourself.
You could be a zombie.
Covert Cat will drink your milkshake.
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Please don't call me honey.
Snookums?
Substance likes to be called Angel-Nuts. IT'S LIKE YOU PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HIM AT ALL.
He told me it was Mr.Goth Hammer Master of Discipline.
And just when I confessed to being bad at bondage!
Just means you can't get out.
The calls are coming from INSIDE the wetsuit!!!
being bad at bondage!
Now look what VS made me upload.
What could you do? Your hands were tied.
The boot was on the other foot.
Condo bondage? Is that when you REALLY can't get out of your lease?
I need a copy of Condo Bondage, like, yesterday.
FOR A FRIEND.
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