Open up a Scottrade account, save, research and invest? Oh, wait, to research a stock you have to first research the economy, which would mean at some point you'd have to confront the fact that the class warfare rhetoric just bears no resemblance to reality - - - - -hmmmmm, to admit you're wrong and make yourself better off, or to avoid having to admit you're wrong.........
That choice is what separates the Liberals from the rest of us....
2007-07-09 04:48:12 · 11 answers · asked by truthisback 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
"Most Americans can't afford it due to Bush's moronic economic policies" - sorry, the data show you're WRONG!
This is EXACTLY WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT - YOU WOULD RATHER BE WRONG THAN BE BETTER OFF!!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229294/posts
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/downsize/21cox.html
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1988/05/art1full.pdf
http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/el97-07.html#winners
http://www.dallasfed.org/fed/annual/1999p/ar95.html
http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/25/pf/record_millionaires/index.htm?cnn=yes
http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/28/news/economy/millionaire_survey/index.htm?cnn=yes
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/28/news/economy/millionaires/?cnn=yes
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Labor/bg1773.cfm
2007-07-09 04:56:09 · update #1
Mike if you did your research you'd realize that your "what if" scenario represents an ever smaller proportion of the population.
2007-07-09 05:04:46 · update #2
Ah remix, no, if that were true it wouldn't show up in the Census Bureau - the Census Bureau data is everyone's "little world" all added up.
2007-07-09 05:05:33 · update #3
But fairness is subjective - who is to decide what is fair? The few or the many? I say the many - the consumers! Not the few - the government.
2007-07-09 05:22:38 · update #4
But Cracka you DON'T care - I've demonstrated that other people ARE better off - - in fact that's directly related to why I'm better off - - - - that everyone else's situation has improved enough for them to buy more widgets and invest in the capital markets is precisely WHY my stock in ACME Widget Company goes up!!!!
The difference between me and Liberals like you is that you can't see the bigger picture.
2007-07-09 06:40:14 · update #5
Nicely stated. Had an acquaintance complain the other day about not having enough money and how his company doesn't pay enough etc.... Then I observed how the family had the all the new video consoles and about 40 games apiece for each one. Thousands of dollars spent on games but his company doesn't pay him enough? Please give me a break.
2007-07-09 04:53:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Because liberals don't like capitalism. They believe in economic fairness and equality of outcome.
Unless you are the poorest of the poor, you can buy into the market. An author named David Bach has a book out called Automatic Millionaire. In it, he describes setting up an automated investment plan, simply by cutting out some luxury in your life. He calls it the "Latte Factor." Stop getting your latte every day, or eating out for lunch or whatever, and take the savings and invest it regularly and automatically.
You are right though. It is much better being an owner of the economy.
2007-07-09 12:14:04 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmmm, ask yourself this, you are single parent, with two kids, two jobs and yet still doesn't have the money to save for a better life because everything costs much more and you make the same amount of money. Wait, but If that person just researches the economy and opens a Scottrade account everything will be better. You have no concept of the real world and it just wrong that people don't want people that actually need it to get government assistance because they look at the poor as being lazy.
2007-07-09 11:54:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I have and know many educated LIBERALs that invest in the capitalistic system. It does however, bother us that a person invest in a stock and then expects to profit. No matter at who,s expense. When I look at the Wall Street Journal or Barron's and read about the fraud and corruption in the board room, I wonder if we have true capitalism or just an other form of third world economics.
2007-07-09 11:57:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am invested and have been for over 20 yrs.....it will fund my retirement....making a profit by investing is the american way...that being said when I do invest I research the compnaies record on several fronts, profits, how they treat their employees, try to stay away from companies that ship jobs overseas, companies that use extremely underpaid and overworked foriegn workers.
2007-07-09 12:05:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have no concept of reality outside of your own little world.
2007-07-09 12:00:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You must be a typical conservative. You think that doing work and research will bring profits.
2007-07-09 11:53:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Most Americans can't afford it thanks to Bush's moronic economic policies. Every President since Nixon has seen wages go down in relation to inflation. Except one: Bill Clinton. Bush turned that around again. Now, the richest 1 percent are soaring, while the bottom 99 percent are barely treading water. From a melted iceberg, thanks to Bush's environmental policies. But then, he now looks like the one who's hit an iceberg (like the Titanic did).
2007-07-09 11:51:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 7⤋
What seperates liberals from you is that we actually care about people besides ourselves. You might want to try it sometime.
2007-07-09 11:52:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
Liberals invest too Chumba-Wumba...:)
2007-07-09 11:51:25 · answer #10 · answered by spookytooth 3 · 2⤊ 6⤋