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Originally Posted by somerfrost
OK, I've listened to enough ranting...let me repeat myself...NOBODY NEEDS ALL THAT MONEY! It amuses me that the same old greed-filled arguments are pulled out to defend folks right to be rich! Let me get my hankie so I can cry over the fate of someone forced to live on a measly few million dollars...wawawa! Explain to me why you NEED a two million dollar house, or a private jet?? Explain all these NEEDS to folks living on the streets and eating out of garbage cans...oh yeah, that's right...they're just lazy and deserve to suffer..right?? Just like those kids who starve to death in the Third World or die from diseases for which we have had cures for years! Yes, I guess you are right...my way of thinking is UnAmerican...afterall, like the lady in the song, you can buy the stairway to heaven! What right do I have to tell someone that they have enough money? What right does anyone have who sees injustice to speak?? I'm the bad guy? All I want is to end poverty and human suffering...excuse me if some folks have to slum it in a cheaper home or fly on a commercial airliner, or join one less country club! What arrogance!! You guys actually believe that some folks DESERVE unlimited wealth and power while others DESERVE pain and suffering?? Please, tell these people how they must suffer so that you can buy another Rolls! Oh, and the only thing wrong with communism is communists...human nature unfortunately trumps the best intentions.
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The other posters can decide which one of us is "ranting".
I want to end poverty and human suffering just as much as you do.
You ask why someone needs a $2 million house? You can't even get a really nice house for $2 million in Beverly Hills. In Beverly Hills, you might be able to get a 2,500-3,000 sq. ft house for that price. But I guess everyone should just have a small house according to you.
By the way, I'm not rich. So I'm not being selfish by wanting to protect the rights of all people including rich people. It doesn't help me for Oprah to have $500 million, but I'm still going to stand up for her rights as much as I would stand up for the rights of a poor person. So that makes me the bad guy?
You accuse us of arrogance, yet you are the one who wants to take away people's money that they made fair and square.