Hypocrisy of the one percent? You make the assumption that those of us who are liberal leaning and financially successful and well off don’t play the game as well as you do. Sounds like a smart business decision to me. Them’s the rules, we play the game.

Now, if you want to discuss hypocrisy, how about that the wealthiest 400 individual Americans possess the same wealth as the bottom 200 million? And yet have far more say in how governments at all levels of the country are run…except at the ballot box.

mike, let’s drop the “boy” crap, OK?

Actually, the top 400, while they did financially support some Democratic candidates, mostly overwhelmingly supported Republicans in the latest election.

http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/05/27/more-on-the-politics-of-the-super-rich/

Okay, first, you tell me the 400 gave money to my ‘boy,’ to use your racially-charged epithet. Then, you tell me they’re ‘pro business, and who is going to not only mess with their livelyhood (sic)’ and ‘force more regulation, creating a more expensive product’.

I really don’t think they’re all that worried about the more expensive product. What they’re worried about is their outrageous wealth, outrageous salaries as CEOs, and figuring out more and better ways to rip off the rest of us. They blame regulations, and uncertainty, and the ‘tax and spend’ Democrats.

It’s all bull. They charge what they charge because that’s what the market will bear. If anything, they use those factors as cover…much like some here do…insurance premiums go up every year…suddenly it’s ‘Obamacare’s fault.’ How then to explain all the premium increases over the past two decades prior to Obamacare? Which hasn’t fully been implemented, anyway?

As to your other point: Socialism failed? Tell that to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the UK, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Norway…we have certain aspects of socialism and they’ve worked quite well. Even aspects of capitalistic society feature socialism (example: the cost of shipping one envelope of papers overnight anywhere in the country would cost me thousands, if I had the only envelope…however, because FedEx and UPS combine hundreds, thousands of shipments together at one time, each of us gets a far lower rate than we would otherwise. Socialism!)

Also, suddenly we’re all worried about the economic powerhouse known as China. Last time I looked, it’s a communist country. How on earth did they achieve that economic dominance if they’re a socialistic/communist country? Since this is obviously the greatest nationonurthinhistoryUSArockz!

I see two failures posted in your reply, in history and mathematics: the USSR collapsed only about 20 years ago, not hundreds. And it wasn’t due so much to socialism, or Reagan, or Bush I, as much as it was with an economy that was so dependent upon very high oil prices that it couldn’t survive if prices fell. Which they did.

Finally, I’m not sure where you’re going to flee, LLM (though I have a few ideas, but I’ll keep them to myself), and especially since you work in an absolutely socialistic system known as public education.

Pot, meet kettle.

Andy: I can certainly find an uninformed, unintelligent bigot, though, since I can always count on you to chime in with vitriol after a post. I must really get under your skin.

“uninformed, unintelligent ”
Tell you what Goofery, I’ll stack my education, earning power, overall track record, and net worth up against yours any day. Show me what ya got.

“And my dad can beat up your dad” !!

Comparing incomes !! Really — C’mon guys, really !! LOL

(Now I’ve stirred up a hornets nest, sorry guys, just thought it was funny).