Hillary epitomizes everything that is wrong with America.
She's as status quo as they come.
A zionist, a corporate lackey, a warmonger.
I fear that she's gonna win, b/c sheeple think it's time for a woman POTUS. (qualified or NOT)
Hahaha Santorum is running again? This I gotta see
Its not simply lobbying that's the issue, its the legalised bribery that is endemic in US politics, brought about by decisions like Citizens United allowing corporations and private interests to buy elections. The point I'm making is that these elections are not free and fair without proper regulation of campaign finance which you actually do get in European countries. Here in the UK there are strict rules on not only lobbying where MPs have to register their financial interests including remunerated employment outside Parliament but also donations above around £7,500 must be publicly declared.
The top 1% have got 95% of all income growth since 2009 whereas the incomes of the bottom 99% have risen by just 0.1%.
It's funny that you made fun of ''the six hour workday'' and now you are trying to pretend less is actually more. You can't have it both ways, either the ''socialist six hour workday'' is more productive or it's the 40 hours that americans work to earn 30k.
No one said 'less is more'. Its about productivity, i dont understand why that is so hard for you to understand. Humans are not robots, they work differently, have different mindsets and intelligence, counting productivity based on hours for the whole population is absurd.
It's not about blaming anyone, it's a simple reality that the american society is a society with low social mobility where birth is a bigger virtue than hard work. There is definitely a low amount of self-made people but, more than hard work, it's about opportunity and luck. It's ingrained in the ''temporarily embarassed milionaire'' mentality of americans to admit none of these facts because it makes self-flagellation easier.
NO, the reality is anyone can change themselves if they wanted, but blaming the rich for being poor has never got anyone no where.
..and LUCK, are you serious? this is something 12 year old kids believe in. Like i mentioned before, you situation today is due to the consequences of the actions you took earlier in your life. There is no luck to it.
He may or may not have done well at school, it doesn't change anything. Good schools do give better SAT results and university outcomes but, more important than that are the ressources and networking opportunities they give. The computer that was at lakeside was Gates' introduction to programming and he wrote his first code on it. You can't pretend that none of that had anything to do with his success. Sure, he is a genius who worked very hard and there are dozens of rich kids who had the same opportunities and ''all'' they did from them is stagnate in the 1% (since wealth breeds wealth and america has low social mobility, it's rare for 1 percenters to be ejected from the 1%, even if they are dumb and lazy), he took his opportunities with both hands and rose far above his station at birth. But that doesn't change the fact that he is where he is today thanks to being born rich.
You are now dragging the discussion on one person by bringing excuse after excuse, the point was anyone could achieve success if they wanted to, bill gates isn't the only selfmade man, there are thousands and thousands of people who went from rags to riches.
The point I am making is that they managed to make huge companies from nothing because IT was a new sector with lower entry level investment. You can't do that today because agregation of wealth is the nature of the american market. There are roughly a dozen super-corporations (like, famously, unilever) who are responsible for more than a fourth of the GDP. The government can definitely influence that, there are a lot of ways to favour SME over bigger corporations since SME are universally better for innovation and competition. One of the methods used in other capitalist countries is a strong safety nets which makes people more willing to take a chance.
Have you heard of the word COMPETITION?
This is not about aggregation of wealth, its simply that there is more competition and if it wasn't for competition we wouldn't even have half the things we have on this planet.
Your excuses are now turning into whines.
And, yes, people like Larry Ellison are example of poorer backgrounds rising in the social hierarchy. But they are a minority since less than 40% of america's 1000 richest people come from a middle class background. And among the remaining 60%, yes, there are people like Bill Gates and Zuckerberg who were born in the 1% but have become richer than their parents ever were thanks to the opportunities afforded from being born in the 1%, but there are just as many people like the Waltons, Donald Trump and the Kochs who inherited a significant portion of their wealth. And this is the reason you can't peddle a myth of meritocracy to justify income inequality because, by definition, income equality goes with low social mobility and makes it so that being born rich is far more important than being smart or being hard working.
You'll find examples of self-made rich people everywhere in the world, including Pakistan, Russia or Brazil. The fact of the matter is that, if these countries are not meritocracies, then neither are the USA.
Zukerberg was not from a rich family, yes he got in to Harvard but FB was built by him from scratch from hardly big money.
Like i said, its about intelligence and your mindset, almost all people who inherit money or win the lottery end up going bankrupt which explains how bs the whole income equality rubbish is.
Like i've mentioned before, its about your ambition and intelligence, if you want to go up and become successful, there is no one who can stop you. People who sit at home, do nothing and blame the rich will always remain poor.
Yes pakistan might have some self made rich people, Malik Riaz? and others BUT how many of them are there? probably enough to count on your fingers, whereas US is literately filled with them in every town and every corner.
Agree , if they could elect an idiot like Obama, twice, thay can elect anyone.
No it didn't refute anything - I've already told you about the US Army records showing General Westmoreland wasn't even in Detroit on the day Carson claimed to meet him, that Carson made up the "full scholarship" to West Point offer as there's NO SUCH THING as a full scholarship to West Point, its free tuition and the story about him stabbing a schoolmate only for his BELT BUCKLE to get in the way was so laughable even Donald Trump mocked him.
) at the idea Obama wasn't vetted. Do you follow American politics ? Do you not remember the birth certificate furore ? The right-media have relentlessly attacked Obama from day one - that he's not American, he's a secret Muslim etc. Go back and watch the CNN debates again. The GOP were given softball after softball with lame questions like "What did you think about what Donald Trump said about you ?" with no questioning on substance whereas Anderson Cooper turned up with a machine gun against the Democrats.
