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Originally Posted by Minte
With that mindset,the best you can hope for is an asteroid collision.
My business nearly doubled during the recession,and it wasn't small before. Made enough to allow me to acquire another company. I know I am not that smart or that lucky. Why do you think we did well when 9.1% of the rest didn't?
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That's not a mindset.... it's the reality of the problem.
It appears that you think you're part of the 1%, tax wise that may be true... protest wise, you're not. You're a business man, you make money, pay taxes, and don't go around screwing the country over by the hundreds of billions in fraud markets and sucking trillions of our tax dollars away to pay for your screw ups.
You're part of the 99% because "you pay for them too." Everyone that pays any taxes, at all, pays for them... that's why we are the 99% and they are the 1% - unless you got a bailout?
Yes, some idiots in the crowd think every dollar profit a corporation makes is evil, but that's not who or what the mass majority are targeting.
Corporate greed at the multi-billion and trillion dollar level has taken over our local to fed government. We could all list endless examples of this corruption, but one major one is: Congress passes its own law to make it legal for them to know insider trading information and profit from that knowledge, which would land every other citizen in jail.
They vote on the laws/bills that would help or screw them, thus profit or fall based on the votes they make. They don't give a shit about us, they care about what makes them the most money! That's a huge problem, they are not in this for the money/business, profit, etc... but it's just one of many examples.
I doubt any of us on gfy are so rich and so powerful that we have any type of influence over those that make the bills/laws for our country, so much so that if you screw up - "everyone else" will pay you for it. And I'm also sure that you do not believe that all these regulations, new patent laws, corporate leverage, and so on - actually help you make more money.
They have billions to spend on lobbying congress, states, etc... you spend maybe something but the majority nothing - all we have is a voice, you should be out speaking yours!
You are the 99%, you're just the successful part of the 99%.