Iata trei comentarii interesante la un articol despre “marile demonstratii” care au avut loc in Grecia si alte tari cu ocazia zilei de 1 Mai. Cat de diferita este gandirea oamenilor!

May 01, 2010 11:22pm EDT
The people want their free ride.
They will oppose any govt reform that changes any entitlement program.
1jack

May 02, 2010 12:46am EDT
Most people don’t want a free ride, but they do want a fair system and a decent quality of life as payment for their work and loyal citizenship. Watching Larry King’s show tonight, the documentary film maker, Michael Moore, pointed out that the top 1% in the USA now holds 95% of the wealth, if I heard him correctly. Typically, down through the last several hundred years, the Pareto principle has been held that the top 20% has held 80% of the wealth in the Western world. They who control a country’s purse, control everything else, including the politicians. Today, the separation between the rich and the middle class in the USA is truly extreme and growing worse. Greed and outright corruption is rampant on Wall St. and our government is doing next to nothing as the middle class is pillaged through further bank bailouts, loss of jobs, stagnant pay and ever-increasing taxation.
billybob1

May 02, 2010 3:02am EDT
@billybob1

That is a specious argument and Michael Moore also promoted Cuba’s disasterous healthcare system as a “model” to be emulated.
On the subject of wealth, the comment you paraphrased Moore on, is just a straw man talking point. Of course the top of some category hold the most of whatever material is in question. It’s like complaining about famers by saying “the top 1% of corn growers hold 95% of the land”. DUH!!! They are not exclusive.

As wealth is generated through the free market the top producers will widen the gap, but that doesn’t mean the bottom 99% are now poorer and doesn’t mean the wealth gained by the rich came from the less wealthy. In fact the middle and poor class are more wealthy now than they have ever been.

Wall Street has problems, but that is another straw man to deflect from Team Obama ramming through the healthcare takeover against the will of the people. Of all the wealth that Wall Street has generated, very little came from the middle class. Remember the middle class just started getting into investing in the last decade or two.

Greed is systemic in humans, not capitalism or Wall St. Neither of those is to blame. What some propose is a more socialistic approach which puts control in the hands of the government. That’s ridiculous because all you’ve done is switch the wealth from one group of elites who actually produce and employ people, to another group of elites who do neither. The greed will still exist but now you have no counter-weight.

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