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Augiedog

(2,548 posts)
Mon Apr 7, 2014, 06:14 PM Apr 2014

To much money for nuth'n

If money equals freedom of speech or at least speech in the constitutional sense, shouldn't then all Americans have exactly the same amount of money. I don't want to see the CEOs and 1%ers be left out of the opportunity to be real Americans.So to level the constitutional playing field cash redistribution obviously is in order, otherwise the very framework of democracy will be in peril and we don't want the golden goose that laid all eggs the oligarchs have hidden off shore to go un hatched. After all John Locke said in his Two Treatises that you must not have so much that you waste it and allow spoilage to to starve those in need. I don't want income redistribution, just cash on hand or in an off shore account, you 1%ers can continue your income gathering as ferociously as you have! we won't redistribute that. We could save the Constitution with my plan.

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Warpy

(111,305 posts)
1. Exactly, it makes a great argument for massive wealth redistribution back downward.
Mon Apr 7, 2014, 06:23 PM
Apr 2014

Well, it would if the plutocracy gave a fiddler's fart about democracy. They don't. It scares them.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
2. you just got your 'freedom of speech' free, although you do have the 'right' to pay a media group
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 09:24 AM
Apr 2014

a billion dollars and spread your post everywhere.

Free is better and look with a good headline like yours, you show up in google search just like a person who paid a media group millions.

"To much money for nuth'n"

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