Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

[quote=dtucker300][quote=Milosia2][quote=dtucker30

8 people own equivalent wealth of 50% of this country. When should it stop. How much is enough?


Name the 8 people who own the equivalent wealth of 50% of the country?[/quote]


Would you want everyone to know you own all that wealth. Little girls can’t get a free lunch. Would you want people to know??
I will say this, though of the 10 (ten) richest people in this country,
8 are Walton Family members.
Yes, the Sam Walton Family Members.
Yes the WalMart Owners.
As awestruck as you probably are about this consider this, they don’t pay employees enough to to live on, so YOU need to subsidize them with your Tax Money. For rent, food stamps, etc.
yes your taxpayer money to subsidize the richest people on earth.
Go ahead say something nice about them.
About somebody taking their money.
But try to remember they don’t even blink when they use your money to pay Their Employees.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Never shop at Walmart, too many dangerous 300 plus pounders with shopping carts.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

And you think they own 50% of the wealth in America?! Get a life. We might as well rename this country The United States of Walton and select one of them as President.

They don't use my money because I don't shop at Walmart (and I never watched the TV show with John-boy either). You sure do like to make a lot of assumptions about people on OPP who you know nothing about. I am not awestruck by anything about The Waltons, but I am awestruck by your continued ignorance to say they control half the wealth in America.

Be careful not to set the Straw-man on fire and burn yourself.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

“We might as well rename this country The United States of Walton and select one of them as President.”

I never said it was the 8 Walton’s of the 10 richest in America.”
Why would any of them want to be president.
But if it was legal to buy politicians they could Pick their very own president.
Oh wait. The Supreme Court said it was legal.
To Buy as many of your American politicians as they wanted.
And you just got left out again.
But go ahead I know you’re gonna try to protect them.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Is it obvious? But you still really don’t know, right?
Unfortunately, there are too many people who don't have valuable sk**ls and think they deserve $15/hr.
Here’s a flash!!!
They don’t pay owners by the hour.
It must be hell for you being trapped in that little mind.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Actually, you haven't said a thing up to this point. I asked you who controlled half of America's wealth and you have chosen to ignore answering this. Probably because you know this to be pure hogwash. Instead, you resort to confounding and confusing remarks to control the conversation on your terms since you know you are making spurious assertions. Goodbye!

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

It is little tyrants like yourself that eventually try to become big tyrants. That never ends well.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Ok here it is but it’s already 3 years old so it’s probably even worse now

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

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World's eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%
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A new report by Oxfam warns of the growing and dangerous concentration of wealth
Larry Elliott Economics editor
Sun 15 Jan 2017 19.01 EST Last modified on Thu 6 Sep 2018 04.58 EDT

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The world’s eight richest billionaires control the same wealth between them as the poorest half of the globe’s population, according to a charity warning of an ever-increasing and dangerous concentration of wealth.

In a report published to coincide with the start of the week-long World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam said it was “beyond grotesque” that a handful of rich men headed by the Microsoft founder Bill Gates are worth $426bn (£350bn), equivalent to the wealth of 3.6 billion people.

The development charity called for a new economic model to reverse an ine******y trend that it said helped to explain Brexit and Donald Trump’s victory in the US p**********l e******n.


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Oxfam blamed rising ine******y on aggressive wage restraint, tax dodging and the squeezing of producers by companies, adding that businesses were too focused on delivering ever-higher returns to wealthy owners and top executives.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) said last week that rising ine******y and social polarisation posed two of the biggest risks to the global economy in 2017 and could result in the rolling back of globalisation.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Now you're changing it to Global Wealth instead of the United States. Sheesh, make up your mind what it's going to be. What you mean is that they have more wealth than the lowest 50% of the population in the world. That is a lot different than the way you originally framed your facts. And what difference does it make whether it is 8 people, 8,000 people, or 8 million people who control the wealth? More people today have a much better standard of living than all the people living a century ago thanks to capitalism. You keep redefining what you are talking about. I'm not about to play your game where you keep moving the goalposts. So basically, these billionaires DO NOT control half of the wealth in America, nor the World! How can I trust anything you said to be t***hful? You don't even know when you are telling the t***h or just pulling facts out of your butt. It will take a lot to earn back what little trust I had for anything you assert. How can I believe anything you say from here on out?

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Nothing gets through that thick little skull,
Does it?

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Try this one, no shortage of info out there.

Ine******y.org

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

My mistake there’s 3 in America that possesses more wealth than bottom 50%
Three Men Own as Much as the Bottom Half of Americans
Total wealth in $ billions

Sources: Institute for Policy Studies and Forbes. Bottom 50% data from 2016. Top 3 from 2019.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Three Men Own as Much as the Bottom Half of Americans
Total wealth in $ billions

Sources: Institute for Policy Studies and Forbes. Bottom 50% data from 2016. Top 3 from 2019.
Won’t load for me
But it’s right there on the front page.
Explain it away,
I’m listening.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

The billionaires are just that for a reason.
Do what they did, become a billionaire and b***h about something different.