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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe top 1% are taking too much money out of the economy
and I say taking because they are definately not earning it. I know plenty of people who earn their money. People who work like dogs doing hard, tedious labor. People who get paid crap. If our economy has to contract then those greedy a-holes at the top need to do the shrinking.
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The top 1% are taking too much money out of the economy (Original Post)
Klukie
Feb 2012
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NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)1. Not taking. They already got it. Piles of it
We need to retrieve some of that wealth.
Don
but it continues...I wish we could have a national discussion about the value of labor!!! No man is worth what some of these folks make.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)2. THAT is the problem and has been for about 15 years.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)4. It has been stolen
through financial shell games and time the people demand it be returned.