How can the "rich" get rich at the expense of the "poor" if the poor have no money?

Question

Clearly all the caring that liberals do for the "poor" in America is just a class-warfare election tactic because the logic of the argument makes no sense.

Tax cuts that benefit only the rich is what liberals claim. The gap between the rich and poor is getting larger the liberals whine. If all this is true, I ask liberals, where is all the money coming from? The typical response ... blank stares.

The rich can't steal money from the poor because poor people don't have money. Could it be that capitalism, like it always does, continues to create an ever-expanding WORLDWIDE middle-class and the capitalists who started it all are just benefitting from their work? A rising tide lifts all boats, even the rich.

Answer 1

Maybe the reason the poor have no money is BECAUSE the rich
are exploiting them. Seriously,if there was no such thing as exploitation by the rich than why are there labor unions? Why are
there labor laws? It's not as much of a problem as it once was,
but on the other hand more people in the U.S. fall under the poverty line every year. Not that I'm a socialist,I think capitalism
is the best economic system we can have,but no system is
perfect. It's human nature for some to take advantage of others.

Answer 2

You are correct. You can't get rich from the poor. The liberals will argue that the rich take advantage of the poor by holding them down and making them do the bad jobs for minimum wage allowing the large companies to make more money since they need to pay less. That is complete and utter twisting of the truth to suit the left. People do these jobs because they can't do a job that requires more skill or education. We will not, nor should we pay someone 50,000 a year to clean the bathrooms. It takes no educaton or skill to work at a minimum wage job. Then when that point is brought to the liberals that say the poor are getting a worse education therefor are forced into such jobs. Everyone, regardless of race, location or family income has the same rights to a high school education. Dropping out of high school at 16 is a choice. People get rich because they work hard, have a skill that is unique, and usually educated. Anyone can go to college if they choose. The only difference is how much you have in student loans when you are done. Which is small in comparison to your job. If you have $100000 in student loans, (a very large amount by the way) and you make only $10,000 extra each year because of you education, by the time you are 35 you will have paid off the the loans and you still have 30 years of your career to make the money you want. The excuses of race, location, or parents/family income is not releavant. If you want to work hard and make small sacrifeces you can be rich. Maybe not a multi millionaire, but you could drive a Mercedes and live in $750,000 house and never worry how you will pay yours bills. But, we create a culture where we give the poor everything they need, even if they don't work for it. So how can you expect someone who is in that culture to want to work hard? You can't, those people are the exception to the rule. It is the liberals and their hand outs to those who don't want to work, that are holding the poor down. As long as you keep popping babies out and don't work your rent and food will be paid for by me and everyone else who does work and pays taxes.

Answer 3

What a convoluted way of thinking you have. Of course the rich get richer off the poor, when they don't raise salaries but raise prices where does the profit go?? When the minimum wage won't support 1 person let alone a family? When the oil companies make obscene profits for their owners and stock holders and the working man can't afford to go to work, for minimum wage or any normal wage because he/she can't afford to fill their gas tank? When prescription prices are the highest in the world in the good old USA and people can't afford them, try to get them from Canada, where they are so-o-o-o much cheaper and the government says NO, we'll send you to jail for that. Capitalism at this time is making the rich, richer and the poor, poorer and no matter how you try to rationalize it, that is a fact. How about affordable health care? No that would help the poor and what's left of the middle class. People in other countries are not getting rich either. they are making more than they did but nowhere near as much as these companies would have to pay here. World economy, bull---profits,profits,profits. And don't give me the dropping out of school mentality, people in the nations they are outsourcing jobs to, on the whole, have less education than even the drop out in this country. So that doesn't hold water. They don't even get paid the equivalent of our minimun wage.

Answer 4

The statement that the poor has no money whatsoever is plainly incorrect. They do have some little money. The economy is growing so the pie gets bigger. The poor rightly should get more in a bigger pie, but the rich steals all their money. They pay the same low wages to the poor.

They steal from the poor. A most prominent example is the now deceased Ken Lay of Enron who stole a whopping $4 billion from his employees life savings. They refuse to pay their share of taxes, and find ways and means to evade taxes. The middle class has no way to avoid paying taxes.

Answer 5

That is a true statement you said. Since our country is capitalism, more businesses can effect our economy. Our economy is effected by job openings and thus (depending on the job/career) you are placed in a category of High,middle,or lower class. This results from our education (sometimes) and becoming business tycoons or winning the lottery can place you in the High class. The liberals do place a argument about lower class but they do nothing. It's how our country will be until they have a liberal leader to stand up and make noise.

Answer 6

I see your point and I like it.

The rich are not "keeping the poor down" with poverty wages. Anyone can grow up...get good grades...and even if they can't "afford" college can get grants and loans from the government to go to college. Then....they wouldn't be poor anymore. That is what I am doing. I am going back to school...taking a few classes at a time and doing the best that I can to better myself. I don't think that because someone is rich that they should pay my way. It is the poor (and Liberals) who are keeping the poor down by not doing anything to better their situation then cry that the rich are "keeping them down!"

P.S. Min. Wage and welfare weren't created to live on.

Answer 7

The poor are poor because they cannot save and invest, it's just not in them to do it. When they have extra money they buy stuff with it...hence, Wal-Mart. Give a poor person a million dollars and they'll be one of the people who are broke in ten years or less. They are in the habit of spending. Therefore, the rich, who own the business the poor shop at are profiting quite nicely. Remember, a fool and his money are soon parted.

Answer 8

Because they make the poor work for slave wages, producing goods to make the exploitative bosses rich, or whatever little money the poor have - a large portion of it is taken away in tax, then spent on weapons(lochead), or nation rebuilding supposedly(halliburton). or maybe it's when people live in poverty in the worlds richest country.

Answer 9

wow, in tryin gto sound smart you made your sefl look ignorant....who says the rich steal from the poor? "Rich" people have so much and they continue to buy and buy and buy and make more and more money where as a "poor" person doesnt have as many oppurtunites to make money...(cant afford education, transportation etc...)
I highly doubt that there will be a national middle class...you tell me how a millionaire with gold faucets, marble floors, a garage full of fancy cars that dont even get driven etc would be brought down to middle class....PLEASE!

Answer 10

buy taking advantage of cheap labor and profiting grossly off the backs of the poor working people. Support Unions let the big business people whom think the minimum wage is adequate try to live off it!