as long is they got it lellgay. Oddly, lellgay is the wrong standard. A socialist congress could pass a profit limits bill and a socialist POTUS could sign it in 2012! (It would destroy the American economy, but it would be comical to see the folks who crowed so loudly when term limits' for pols were all the rage a few years ago. Be careful what you ask the government to limit! It will never really be themselves in the end.)The more accurate standard is fair. The true occupiers believe that when profit is the result the rest of us should have the right to adjust post hoc the terms of legitimate, fair, transactions. And if I got the short end of the deal, then clearly the deal wasn't fair. (run, pounce, spring, vault, spin, twist, flip, twist again mental gymnastics stick the landing. And I thought the next Olympics where in 2012!) If you got rich selling us $0.99 burgers than clearly you charged too much. Rebate now to everyone, even if they didn't buy your burgers or we'll live in your parks, disrespect social order in your community, defy police attempts to enforce laws and disrupt your business at will. That is your penalty for accumulating wealth at our expense. You got a bailout, tricked people into buying homes they couldn't afford, stopped loaning money and made a profit! Therefore, I'm rewriting the terms of my student loan There is a lot more on the table than tax rates for the rich and redistribution of wealth. If a generation grows up being taught that a deal is a deal, unless it works out better for the other guy, then you can change the terms it's game over. That new standard won't just apply between the 1% and the 99%. It'll be neighbor vs neighbor. I know we made a deal in our marriage ceremony, but that's not really working out for me
by Makaveli 02:02:10 PM 2012.08.30 |