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noodlenoggin wrote:Hm, my higher education hasn't provided me a ticket to the land of milk and honey. I still have to work my arse off -- and I can still barely support my family. My neighbors are a prison guard, a truck mechanic and an equipment-rental-store dude...and I can afford the same housing they can...or they can afford the same housing I can, however you want to look at it.

Who the hell puts honey in their milk anyway?


Thats just strange.

MrShake wrote:Re-Read that without the loosing attitude and rethink some of it.

To think that the "Master Class" are idiots is a falacy, while you might not like their current life style, most of the wealthiest of the US worked VERY hard to get there.

Could you name some of the wealthiest of America that worked very hard to get there ? I'm drawing a blank.

MrGompers wrote:Could you name some of the wealthiest of America that worked very hard to get there ? I'm drawing a blank.

Oprah?

Nonono, Roscow...you put the milk in your honey. Totally different.

MrGompers wrote:

MrShake wrote:Re-Read that without the loosing attitude and rethink some of it.

To think that the "Master Class" are idiots is a falacy, while you might not like their current life style, most of the wealthiest of the US worked VERY hard to get there.

Could you name some of the wealthiest of America that worked very hard to get there ? I'm drawing a blank.

Well...

Bill Gates (like him or not, he worked hard)
Ed Rust
Ross Perot
Donald Trump
Ivan Seidenberg (CEO of verizon, started as a line tech)
Steve Jobs
Michael Dell

I would challange you to find a truly wealthy person that didn't WORK to get where they are. And when I say wealthy.. I mean INDEPENDATLY wealthy, not the playboy/playgirl children of the truly wealthy.

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Bill Gates actually came from a wealthy family and had oppertunities available to him most people didn't have: "Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His family was wealthy; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate Bank and The United Way, and his maternal grandfather, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president. Gates has one older sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby."

Gates excelled in elementary school, particularly in mathematics and the sciences. Bill Gates went to Lakeside School, Seattle's most exclusive preparatory school where tuition in 1967 was $5,000 (Harvard tuition that year was $1,760). He was known as "Blinker" on account of a chronic facial twitch, which caused one of his eyes to "flash like a Navy signal lamp". Lakeside rented time on a DEC PDP-10, which Gates was able to use to pursue an interest in computers, a rare opportunity at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

And Donald Trump actually got his oppertunity from his father who had become wealthy from real estate.

Michael Dell can eat sh*t for making their PC's go the way of Packard Bell.

None of that has any bearing on how hard they worked to get where they are today. You just don't run a multi-billion dollar company without having had to work. Hell, starting a SMALL buisness is a ton of work.

MrShake wrote:None of that has any bearing on how hard they worked to get where they are today. You just don't run a multi-billion dollar company without having had to work. Hell, starting a SMALL buisness is a ton of work.

x2, a lawyer and banker's salary is nothing compared to what Bill Gates has managed to achieve. The guy probably has hundreds of lawyers just sitting around on his payroll waiting for him to give them a project.

whatever happened to the idea of equal distribution of all the wealth in the nation?? i was really counting on that.

Right, what about that guy who founded Nike, then? I remember reading about how he started out with a waffle iron and some running shoes, selling them out of the back of his station wagon.