Fantastic quotes from the 1950s! I feel like watching "Leave it to Beaver" now! Ah, the good old days.
Yes, this is true. All business owners are pieces of **** who should be dragged out in the street and beaten to death, and then their employees should urinate on their corpses and burn their business down. Great idea giddyup!
And without the successful business owners, a lot of people wouldn't have the jobs that provide for their families. Cut it anyway you like it but the business owner takes a risk every time he cuts a paycheck to each of his employees-- not to mention all the other expenses he bears.
The top 1% aren't the greatest employers. Small business owners are. I'm happy when people are successful. I also understand that our nation as well does the best when the middle class is successful. Lately the greatest success has been at the top and not the middle class. Meanwhile the top has been given breaks while those in the middle and at the bottom are being asked to make the sacrifices.
I'm not just talking about the top 1%. I did pull up some stats to get across the idea that the top earners were, in fact, carrying the tax burden for this country. I think the stats I cited cut off discussion with the top 5%, a group that I bet includes a large number of small employers-- at least those succeeding. We agree that a robust middle class is our heartfelt desire.
Here is Thomas Sowell's take on all the talk about the Top 1%: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Qi8clPrg7kc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Also, some background on Dr. Sowell.. he grew up in the poor working class and is a high school dropout. He worked at low-paying jobs during a time when there were no minimum wage laws. However he was able to work his way up to a transfer student at Harvard University to study economics. (Interestingly, he has stated that he never knew he was truly poor until he went to study at the university and was told how poor he was.) If there is anyone who can relate to poor blacks in America, it would be him, not Barack Obama. Dr. Sowell is a self-admitted former Marxist, however after a short stint working for a government agency and observing that they truly did not care about helping the common man, he abandoned his former left-wing ideology. He worked closely with Milton Friedman, and now has spoken against government programs such as affirmative action and welfare, arguing that these social programs have actually done more harm than the good that is intended and originally promised. Citing his own success, he's said that he feels "fortunate" to have NOT been raised and NOT done his studies during the Civil Rights Movement, saying not being involved is what's allowed him to work his way up without distractions. More people should know about Thomas Sowell, however it too bad that he tries his best to keep himself out of the political spotlight. More about Dr. Sowell and his ideas: <iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-FD57ycST84" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
No. He entered Harvard in 1955. Affirmative action started around 1970. His academic career started in 1962, two years before the Civil Rights Act was legislated in 1964.
So, what you are saying is that even though there was no formal consideration of race on the books, it could have played a role in his admission into Harvard? As someone was saying earlier in a thread about Barack Obama at Harvard Law, we will never ever know whether race was a one of many factors, a deciding factor, or a preliminary factor, or not a factor. Even if race did play a factor in Sowell's initial admission into Harvard, I don't really care, would it matter to you?
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To 25, I say how much banks charge for management fees, or advisory fees. Banks only leach off the greatness of others. To 1, I say unless the trade-off is pareto-optimum, in which case it is a solution.
So, what you're saying is, he's one of the GOOD ones. The ones that came after....not so much. THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING
I know for a fact, when so-called negroes showed up on campus in the 50's (by accident, since affirmative action didn't exist), Harvard alums reacted like this: <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pJWSIqv8NOc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
