His attitude is more than likely the reason that he is "independently wealthy". While there have always been selfish and greedy people among us, there was a time when people with a charitable attitude were more common. When the society was more agrarian, in particular, the tendency toward helping neighbors, fellow workers, and employees in small businesses was more prevalent. "Big" everything tended to break down the more personal relationships that developed in a mostly agricultural society.

Richest 1 Percent To Own More Than Half Of The World's Wealth By 2016,
| By Jade Walker

The rich keep getting richer, and by next year, just a handful of the upper-class will have accumulated more than half of the world's wealth.
A new report released on Monday by Oxfam warns that this deepening global ine******y is unlike anything seen in recent years.
Using research from Credit Suisse and Forbes' annual billionaires list, the anti-poverty charity was able to determine that the richest 1 percent of the world's population currently controls 48 percent of the world's total wealth.
If trends continue, Oxfam predicts that the most-affluent will possess more wealth than the remaining 99 percent by 2016, The New York Times reported.
Drill down the numbers even more and you'll learn that the 80 wealthiest people in the world possess $1.9 trillion, which is almost the same amount shared by some 3.5 billion people at the bottom half of the world's income scale.
Thirty-five of the lucky 80 were Americans with a combined wealth of $941 billion. Germany and Russia shared second place, with seven uber-rich individuals apiece.
Not surprisingly, the richest were titans in the finance, health care, insurance, retail, tech and extractives (oil, gas) industries, and they paid fortunes to lobbyists to maintain or increase their riches. Seventy of the world's wealthiest were men. And 11 members of the elite 80 simply inherited their wealth.
"Do we really want to live in a world where the 1 percent own more than the rest of us combined?" Oxfam executive director Winnie Byanyima said in a letter. "The scale of global ine******y is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast."
This week, more than 2,500 of the world's rich and powerful will fly to Switzerland on hundreds of private jets to attend the World Economic Forum. There they will chat about the financial markets and economic trends while eating the finest food and staying in Davos' five-star hotels.
Oxfam will also be in Davos, urging the wealthy and powerful to tackle the rising ine******y situation. The charity hopes to encourage world and business leaders to improve public services, introduce living wages, end the g****r pay gap and crack down on tax-dodging corporations, Reuters reported.
In the meantime, more than 1 billion people on this planet continue to live on less than $1.25 a day

I started reading and research some of the appalling issues based on our country and our behavior and what we were lead to believe.

When I read the presidents EO on immigration and all the talk about amnesty and i******s but all it boils down to is further securing the border and giving i*****l i*******ts who are the parents of US citizens a path to legalization nobody is getting amnesty. Why is this a problem many of these people have been in this country for years, but we try and blame the current administration for these people being here.

I was thinking back of some of the Atrocities committed by Americans against the Vietnamese people. The rape and murderous destruction of peasant village sand napalm ing of children and the bombing of North Vietnam including dikes, schools, and hospitals. But sure we can find justification for our actions but how does the rest of the world look at the US people from our actions. I am sure they find it appalling the same way we see ISIS as being appalling.

Just think about that period in time when we rounded up every native born Japanese Americans and legal residents and put them in concentration camps. The rest of the world I am sure they found this appalling just as US citizen found it appalling when other nations do the same things. What made it okay for the US to do these things but when other nation do the same thing we find it appalling.

Let's look at the heavily redacted report on Bush/Chaney administration program of torture launched in 2001 wether it worked or not the US and most nations signed a treaty saying torture is a criminal Act. But we find it appalling when other nations or terrorist groups do the same thing. How does the rest of the world look at our nation. Are we that hypocritical. When our citizens or military are tortured we want justice what makes it different for the way Bush/Chaney acted.

The police in the US have become militarized also in training, that they now are more of an army than peace officers. We now see police constantly using deadly force such as in the case of watching a police car race directly onto a park lawn and within 2 seconds shot and k**led a 12 year old kid playing with a toy gun. It's crazy to think these cops could have pulled up into a safe distance and told this kid to drop his gun. Then the Michael Brown k*****g where the facts were so distorted by a DA and news agencies we could never get the real facts. Also the choking death of Eric Gardner for selling lose cigarettes how does this happen. Then Fox News finds crazy justification for choking the guy.

We have 2.4 million people in our prisons and only 2/3 have been actually been convicted with most awaiting trial because of high bails imposed for minor offenses. Then it is estimated 20% of the actual prisoners in jail are actually innocent but we have no avenue for review. The US has 5% of the world population but account for 25% of the world prison population we live in a punishment obsessed society. Most are gun related and instead of controlling
Guns we as a society advocate more gun sales by listening to the NRA which are controlled and financed by gun manufacturers. So we have the corporate elite in the private prison business and the corporate elite gun manufactures controlling our society of guns and prisons. And we except this

What made me really sick is we have communities and states making it illegal to feed the homeless. We have a GOPTP congress that wants to get rid of food stamps , SNAP all in favor of corporate subsidies, tax breaks for the wealthy,while real people starve, with no real path out of poverty, and every avenue is blocked by the GOPTP in favor of the corporate elite. So stop food stamps and then create laws that takes away the ability for volunteers from feeding these people why are we not appalled at this GOPTP agenda.

The budget bill was really scary with new laws being created that will enable Wall Street to become one big gigantic crime scene. The place where trillions of $ has been taken from the pockets of poor and middle class people which created this wide gap of income ine******y. Not one of the to big to fail banks have ever been charged. But changing campaign finance laws have allowed the. GOPTP congress to reward these corporate donors through deregulation and go back to the same agenda we had in 2008. But through GOPTP propaganda we have convinced a certain segment of the American people that the democratic leadership created the problem and Dodd Frank fixed the problem then the GOPTP repealed the act that would prevent it from happening again. Why are we not outraged all this done in a GD budget bill.

The next is the trillion $ a year in defense spending. In 800 location around the world we occupy these countries we feed these people at a time when 50 million Americans are food insecure and many are children but we continue to support nations all over the world while cutting food stamps unemployment watching our bridges roads and schools fall apart. And no national outrage. But no outrage when we occupy these countries but get outraged when Russia occupies. How does the rest of the world look at the US when we occupy a country.

This country eliminated the Jim Crowe laws in the south that for years kept black people from v****g now we have a political group called the TP trying Hardin the south and a number of other red states to make difficult or impossible for people of color to v**e. And our conservative controlled courts are allowing it to happen. Why is the rest of the country not outraged at these GOPTP controlled states.

It's crazy that the American citizens are more concerned about there IPhones or there god given right to own an unlicensed assault weapons and allowing under citizens united to buy our government officials directly like your buying a piece of meat. But the conservative courts have allowed this to happen, along with the corporate elite owned congress, but no outrage.

We now have an overwhelming majority of GOPTP control that no longer want to provide basic services to the poor or women or giving the poor a fair shot at climbing out of poverty. Where is the outrage.

We have a GOPTP controlled congress that no longer that everybody would be able to attend a sufficiently funded public schools. Over the years with the conservative back door approach have defunded public schools in lieu of funding corporate tax breaks and convinced a certain portion of this country that public schools are no longer teaching our children. Well if you defund these schools how do we generate an environment to teach properly. But the GOPTP has convinced this country we need private schools. Where is the outrage.

We have a GOPTP that actually believe that people should not be in titled to health insurance. But 50% of this country are against the ACA because they lost any common sense of shared responsibility. As long as 50% were able to get there employer based insurance and listen to lies and the GOPTP demonizing the ACA they are convinced it's bad for this country. I think through the GOPTP agenda we have become the country of me, me, and the hell with everybody else. Where is the outrage

Now let's talk climate control. The US has been the primary contributor to carbon emissions the facts on a per capita basis we Americans dump more carbon emissions into the air and then deny that we are not polluting the air water and soil never mind c*****e c****e it guess that part can be debated.

The GOPTP ran on and won big with there claims that the GOPTP is the party of solutions founded on conservative values, pro growth economics , deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy that they claim were successful. Somebody has to explain where it's crazy it does not work for all people but it does work for the wealthy because they are not going hungry but 50 million others are hungry.

But we as a nation over the last 75 years should really sit back and look at where this nation was and where we are headed to. Stop blaming Obama

Ever since Reagan’ 1980 e******n campaign, it’s been an article of faith among movement conservatives that tax cuts pay for themselves. They don’t of course. The evidence is overwhelming, and economists across the political spectrum—even top Republican advisors such as Greg Mankiw, quoted above—have said so repeatedly over the years. But that’s the thing about articles of faith—they don’t depend on evidence at all, they depend on belief. And believing that tax cuts pay for themselves has been a pretty successful political strategy, regardless of the less-than-steller economic results. (Reagan’s tax cuts in 1981 were supposed to pay for themselves, so were Bush’s 20 years later. Both created massive deficits instead.) That political success is why Time’s Justin Fox found such widespread enthusiasm for the idea among top GOP politicos in late 2007.

Economist Mark Thoma took note that the notion was still alive and well with some GOP Senate candidates in October 2010, despite the fact that “the Bush tax cuts did not even come close to paying for themselves,” and actually “cost us around $1.7 trillion in revenue from 2001 through 2008.” Two years later, Media Matters noted that both Romney and Gingrich were on board with the idea in 2012, and CBS treated it as “an open question’—despite the fact that Mankiw and a bevy of other Republican economists they cited dismissed it in no uncertain terms.
http://www.salon.com/2015/01

Read more at http://www.salon.com/2015/01/07/the_rights_new_war_on_t***h_math_reality_and_the_real_reason_fox_news_economics_cant_be_trusted/

No need to get insulting. Oops, sorry, a seeming prerequisite on the Right. My bad. By all means insult to carry the day.

You said: "Forever means into the future until the end of time." Flawlessly, envisioning everything that is to come and being clear as to how to adjust and deal with it? Knowing the weapons of the future and the changing plurality of the world? Perfectly foreseeing all the effects in the changes of an essentially agrarian society to an industrialized one? Having foreknowledge of an overpopulated planet and a "shrunken world" due to communication and other advances, leaving no continent isolated?

Granted, even with such prescience, there are basics to freedom that are eternal. The Second Amendment I grant is one of those, though as a pacifist I would like not to agree. Yet basic common sense tells us, demands of us, to look at this right in the light of present reality and not the isolated, agrarian, Christian perspective of 1790.

I really don't believe that the left of the right ever became the voice of the Tea Party. There were some attempts made by both the left and the left of the right to weasel into the Tea Party to start their anti-propaganda to ruin the Party. But they have since been culled and are not able to integrate as easily as they once did simply because most people never thought that even they would be crooked enough to try something as blatantly low as this.

The Tea Party is still the greatest party for anyone who remembers our freedom as our Constitution declared it to be. But people would have to be old enough to remember outhouses and Burma Shave signs to relate to this. But to you that can't remember, we were once served by our elected officials.