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(57,355 posts)Warpy
(111,383 posts)when a slick corporate pitchman suckered people too lazy to do any arithmetic. Ordinary people's tax cut was maybe half a buck every couple of weeks. The bandits at the top made off with millions.
Will the suckers get suckered again? It's not 1980 and things are very different--it's low wages and not high taxes that are killing us. Whether or not there are enough suckers left to buy more corporate snake oil is anyone's guess.
marble falls
(57,355 posts)Warpy
(111,383 posts)We want to punch his lights out because we're listening to the garbage coming out of his mouth. The suckers just listen to the sound of his voice, just like he was on that show on the teevee that made all them pointy headed college boys sweat they'd git fired next.
Remember, they're not listening to what he says most of the time. They're just listening to him say it.
rock
(13,218 posts)You've got 2 cents.
liberal N proud
(60,347 posts)Oh wait, he has gone bankrupt twice.
ProfessorGAC
(65,248 posts)I would have guessed more.
Also, he started out with a chunk of change that most of us would have simply lived extremely comfortably on, for life.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)That doesn't make an iota of sense.