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Thanks. Ever the PollyAnna, I

Oxy Mora — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:09:15 +0000

Thanks. Ever the PollyAnna, I just wonder if the argument can be framed less on wealth distribution and more on the public responsibility of owners of capital to employ capital for the common good in this country. Seems it might be an easier sell than tax increases. It's too bad we did away with stockades, a great tool for public shaming, and we could have put some bankers in them. But there is always the bully pulpit, if President Obama would use it.

The rich will never take

Richard Day — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:19:06 +0000

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The rich will never take responsibility for anything, ever. It is not in their make-up because they feel that they have earned their money.

Noveaux riche will never take accountability because throughout their miserable lives they have been at war. They won so they could never surrender.

The poor in Arkansas are just idiots. They will always be idiots. You can change the educational experience of every single one of them and yet, they will bow to monied interests.

I have given up, really. Education has so little to do with the social issues of the day.

The corporate oligarchy in this country counts upon this strange cultural value system.

There is no freedom in working for an international corporation. The rules are so strict that in most cases an individual could never win in court. Every worker ends up signing waivers contained in contracts without benefit of counsel that take away any chance of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness.

I have met people who have been imprisoned by laws enacted by repubs who vote republican. They vote against their own economic and individual interests every frickin time.

It is just amazing to me.

I like this distinction

Orlando — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:08:26 +0000

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I like this distinction between responsibility for responsibility and responsibility for capital. It's the fact that you can't divorce the two things in reality that causes the problems, because you can't fulfill your responsibility to responsibility unless you have access to the capital.