Forum Post: To: Wealthy people Re: Keep your money
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 11, 2011, 7:54 p.m. EST by April
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Open letter to all wealthy individuals and corporations.
Dear Wealthy Citizens and Corporations, This is to notify you that, as far as I am concerned, you can keep your money. I have gotten the impression lately that you are extraordinarily worried about other people taking your money somehow.
Please, by all means, KEEP YOUR MONEY. More to the point, keep your money out of our government. It is extremely unfair to the rest of us that you continue to buy your representation in government. Because, sadly, some of our elected officials, are not paying enough attention to the wants and needs of the other 99% of your fellow citizens.
Yours truly, your fellow citizen, April
True, limit money in politics, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management Group of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
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seems reasonable to me
I don't feel that keeping their money is best thing for this economy. They should be pressured to pay fair salaries and create more jobs with their fortunes instead of hording them.
Don't get me wrong I'm behind what your saying... but we have one of the most uneven distributions of wealth in the world and part of that is because the super uber wealthy have been hording all their wealth, not paying their fair share in taxes, and not creating more jobs.
On one hand, you're right... the economy won't bounce back until wages go up and the middle class starts growing again rather than shrinking, and can spend again...
But on the other hand, you can't necessarily legislate that. The best you can do is is point it out over and over until everyone gets it.
stray, see my reply below. And let me know what you think. April
I believe we should fight for our fair and equal representation in our government above all else. There are many problems in our country, economy being just one of them. We can best solve these problems when our government is listening to the voices of all people. Not just the 1%
I don't think you should necessarily shy away from the distribution of wealth, but it's an issue of tightening up the message. It isn't something that should necessarily be politicized. As far as the political message, yeah, that is as far as it should go.
Capitalism isn't bad necessarily, and there really isn't any reason someone shouldn't be able to have more money than someone else. But... at the bottom of the scale you have need, further up you have accomplishment, and then at some point it becomes sport. Toying with other people's lives should really never be a game.
I certainly agree with that.
nice post.
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I understand. I guess I was just trying to make the point that it's not always about them and their money. There are much bigger issues than whether or not they might get a little tax increase or something!