Police in Berlin, Germany have arrested the 27 year old man who has been setting fire to luxury cars over the last three months. The arsonist, who says he did it simply because he’s out of a job and people who buy fancy cars “deserve it”, set fire to a total of 67 vehicles and caused a further 35 to burn simply because they were near his targets.
More than 500 police participated in the search for this little bastard.
Hardly surprising.
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
What’s with all the hate for rich people lately? Get a job.
Try the link above. It explains things.
I could also ask of the past 38 years, what’s with all the hate for the poor and middle class lately?
You mean those who get to have welfare babies and live off the taxpayers without getting a job?
I know we’d all like to think that the welfare system is in place to help struggling hard working people pull themselves up and stand straight, but it is being abused so badly, it’s dragging down this nation.
Politicians are fucking us over from every side, so whatever party you align yourself with, they are screwing us.
The governments job should be to collect modest taxes to provide roads and basic services. Now, the government acts as a safety net for people who are too lazy to go to work. “The government should do something”. Fuck that. Get to work.
So the poor and middle class are all out there living off the taxpayers, are they?
How about you back that up with some data? No? I didn’t think so.
The expense of welfare is about 1% of the federal budget and an average of 2% for state budgets. [McLaughlin, M. E. (1997). Toward real welfare reform: Decoding race and myths. In A. Carten & J. Dempson (Eds.), Removing risk from children: Shifting the paradigm (pp. 83-111). Silver Spring, MD: Beckman House cited in Making Welfare to Work Really Work, American Psychological Association. http://apa.org/pi/women/programs/poverty/welfare-to-work.aspx# ]
Fraud within the system is a much smaller part of that budget. Where I live in Canada, fraud is estimated to be a maximum of 3% of the welfare budget. Should these figures hold for the U.S., that would make fraud 0.0003% of the federal budget and 0.0006% percent of the state budgets. Waste is a bad thing; however, in the whole picture of overspending, welfare fraud ranks very low on the radar. There are whales to fry compared to this guppy. Rich whales to be precise.
The economy works on the circulation of money. There are truckloads of wealth stagnating with the rich while the rest of the economy suffers. Moving trillions around on speculation does zilch to help with either jobs or moving the average wage back towards its modest peak in 1973. Tax to at least Nixonian levels and that wealth can start to flow into the economy again.
As for your explanation, well, for it to follow, then huge swaths of the population worldwide must have suddenly become lazy in 2008. That the financial markets toppled at the exact same time must have just been a coincidence.