Quote Originally Posted by Hlleonard View Post
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Good morning Mr. Horse... The government making a grab for your money pile and throwing it out the windows like confetti is the way hard liners interpret that 'spread the wealth' statement... I doubt you would find a very big percentage of people anywhere that actually advocate that... Money being piled up in a scrooge McDuck money bin of some kind does damage to the economy.. Folks getting better paychecks and turning that money into goods and services that others of us produce and getting better paychecks for producing those goods and services makes for a stronger economy but I think you know that, I don't believe for a minute that folks like yourself and other hardliners here think the rich getting richer at the expense of the rest of us is good for our economy... If somebody's money pile is growing, somebody's is shrinking, I don't believe our government prints money for the sole purpose of making folks richer while the rest of us just stroll along un-affected by this.... Better paychecks are a much better stimulus to the economy than cheaper labor, cheaper and cheaper labor causes a domino effect and we find ourselves going in the wrong direction... The reference to financial resources 'piling up like manure' is a good analogy to whats happening.
DJD made some excellent points!

Piling money in scrooge McDuck money bin does damage to the economy? Absolutely unbelievable, not to mention very discouraging that so many people feel like you.

What is damaging the economy the most is so many people looking for government support instead of working for their own McDuck piles.

My family spent an evening this week with some friends who are quite rich by Obama standards. I've known them since they were little more than teenagers, and they work harder than anyone I know. They started with absolutely nothing...got it? NOTHING. They busted their butts putting themselves through college at night while working days, 20 hour work days were (and still are) routine for them. Now they make a ton of money, their house is big enough for its own zip code, and they likely have a few million in their McDuck pile.

Their pile ain't buried in the back yard in mayo jars, its not sitting in the bank doing nothing, its danged sure not keeping your wages low. It is invested in the BY GOD AMERICAN ECONOMY. You feel me brother? Their money is invested in the American economic system.

You and those like you who have been brainwashed by the Democrats, believe my friends and many others like them should give more of their money to the government instead of putting it back into the economy.

Please Explain to me how that is better for America. I'll be waiting.

You call me a hard liner because I believe in the constitution, freedom, and a limited federal government. I believe people should be free to work as hard and get as rich as they want without people like you being able to take what they work for away.

That so many people agree with you is the root of what is wrong with our country.

I submit to you sir, it is YOU and those like you who are the hard liners. Those who believe its right to forcibly take what others work hard for and give to the less fortunate (a significant number of which sit on their ass and holler for Barack Obama to give them money) are socialist hard liners.

Show me a single person putting in 20 hour days like my evil rich friends who has his hand out to Barack Obama for money. I'll vote for a Democrat for every one you find.

Hard liner my ass.