Sharing The Wealth

[Diva]

Whenever we speak of someone rich someone always brings up the fact that they don't 'give' enough. Why do we expect them to pay more? What right do we have to tell them where their money is spent?

[Redallnite]

People that complain about the rich not giving enough are nothing but envious.....

[Scranton]

Do you give every spare bit of cash to charities?
No! you give any Quid/Dollar/Rouble you can! to get the whining fucks off your case. So do'nt pick on the rich because they're loaded! thats how they got that way....

[Amaurote]

I'm in favour of proportionate taxes, and I look a little askance on inherited wealth, as opposed to wealth accumulated by one's own endeavours, but I'd be the first to admit that the difference is fuzzy in the extreme: Howard Hughes inherited every cent he owned, but he was by all accounts a brilliant businessman and aviator. And probably a better man than Ford and Lord Northcliffe put together, personal idiosyncracies and anti-Communist paranoia aside.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/forensics/literary/images/U1864830%20Howard%20Hughes%20young.jpg

I'm more concerned with the perpetuation of private education, which I see as an unmitigated evil. I'd like to see it completely rooted out and destroyed in the 21st century, because I see absolutely no justification for unequal educational opportunities. Life today is based on the spurious proposition that we live in a meritocracy: if that's true, we should start on equal terms.

We don't. We should. Shut the schools down now.

[Diva]

I couldn't agree more, Am. I had to move and change schools. I lasted one semester. I sat down in my Literature class and the teacher handed out these old, torn apart books. Then she announced that there were pages missing and to just share with someone who has it. I transfered myself out and rode my bike the extra miles to a better school.

If we pooled the money and spread it equally, the children could all have a better education.

[Scranton]

When I was at school everyone wanted to be doing adult things not learning crap, then when I left and got a job I discovered that learning crap was quite nice, I think we start too early at education, and a lot of kids have difficulties in the learning process, this leads to resentment and predjudice towards these kids, I could just about read and write when I left, I'd never completed reading a book, knew fuck all about science, physics, no mathematical skills whatsoever, you can have all the piece's of paper you want with BA, MA, MD, Kissmy A. It means nothing when you're dead. If you really want to go out and do something! just go out and do it. At least you tried! At least you did that!

[Redallnite]

Scraton, granted in a hundred years from now no one will give a poop, having a degree makes the opportunities alot easier. I'm an accountant, but hell I quit chasing numbers years ago. I love to sell... I can do anything I want except maybe be a doctor. I can be a teacher if I want by just going to a refresher course or something like that, just to teach our children in Georgia. I think the kids just need more positive people around their everyday lives.

I know when i'm dead and gone at least I made my childrens' life a little easier, at what ever life has to dish out for them. I have not given them the option not to get a higher education. That is just a given in todays society.


*runs so fast that the shit misses* :eek:

[usantic]

Originally posted by Scranton
If you really want to go out and do something! just go out and do it. At least you tried! At least you did that! [/B]

Is this the same Scranton that was in the New Year's Resolution thread?

It is? Hmmmmmmmm :confused:

In my profession, I've seen excesses that would boggle the mind.
It seemed difficult to me at first to watch some one lay out $75,000.00 for an old chair, but if they have the money and want the chair let em have it! Now, if that person is uncharitable, shame should be heaped upon them to no end. Whose job would that fall to though? How can they be ridiculed into submitting to charities? The ruling families in the mid east should take heed and spread their wealth to their countrymen. I think they may get bitten in the ass if they don't.

[Amaurote]

Teacher Training College is actually fairly straightforward, Red: it takes about one year to complete a full-time PGCE over here, and it's the same in virtually every country around the world. I'm quite scared of the thought at the moment, because I'm almost certainly bound for an ITT course if my terminal failures continue this year...and I hate kids, to be perfectly honest...

[aussie]

hey dont knock teaching am have you seen some of these teenage girls?

[Amaurote]

Great idea, Aussie: I think I'll re-train as a girl's PE teacher. A funny wig, a pair of balloons and a ladyshave will see me safely through, all the way to HMP Wakefield (Maximum Security, Fake Girl's PE Teacher Wing).

[Diva]

Originally posted by Amaurote
Great idea, Aussie: I think I'll re-train as a girl's PE teacher. A funny wig, a pair of balloons and a ladyshave will see me safely through, all the way to HMP Wakefield (Maximum Security, Fake Girl's PE Teacher Wing).

By George, I think he's onto something!


http://www.nochicktrix.com/fun/oth/vb/am/pevacar.jpg

[Amaurote]

Then it's decided, comrades: I apply tomorrow!

[Diva]

You'll be the modern day madam butterfly! Just keep repeating these lines: "No, no... I'm here for you!"

[Amaurote]

Spectacular idea, Diva, but on the basis of that photograph I think I'm going to try "It's A Hard Knock Life For Us" from Annie...

[Jake]

Hah hah hah!!!! Woo, man! I just fell out of my chair. Amaurote, you have nothing to worry about in prison. Hell, you don't have anything to worry about in any dyke bar, either.

[ozblonde]

hmm that hair could use a bit of work nothing drastic mind a little trim and some shape. Once we get that fixed up I think I know just the man for you :cool:

[Redallnite]

Oz, girl cut away!!! I bet you could do wonders on that homely woman that has been around the block a few times....

Amaurote maybe some waxing would help a little??

[Amaurote]

I've paid close attention to the advice from my comrades on NoChickTrix, and thereafter paid a visit to Vidal Sassoon and a cosmetic surgeon. Money changed hands, because, as you can see - to steal a phrase from Jennifer "Cabbage Patch Doll" Aniston - I'm certainly worth it.

http://www.crookback.demon.co.uk/Assets/trann.jpg

[Jennafer]

Yeah, yeah.....We're not married yet. His money is his, my money is mine.......We usually end up with the same amount so it's cool.......:cool:

...so to speak. my pop always used to say, "The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them."

you can penalize the rich for being rich and tax them heavily, or you can assess them moderate taxes, but offer tax incentives for creating jobs, giving raises and bonuses, and for offering 401k's and retirement plans. make those greedy fucks invest in PEOPLE more than their own pocket linings.