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merrily

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2. True, but I love how Bill Maher disassociates himself by using the term "super rich."

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Mon Sep 7, 2015, 07:22 AM

Sep 2015

Being rich enough to make a campaign donation of $1 million, as Maher made to Obama in 2014, just doesn't cut it anymore?

As as aside, more and more, I come to think of the New Deal and the Great Society as attempts to ensure that Americans did not revolt. From Ancient Rome to the present, wise tyrants, benovolent or not, have provided bread and circus to stave off revolts. George III, the Kings of France and Tsar Nicholas failed to learn that lesson.

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The Thing about a Piñata is that you have to beat it with a stick [View all] Ichingcarpenter Sep 2015 OP

But the super-rich Pinatas own the police. Cyrano Sep 2015 #1

No need to come into the socialist group TBF Sep 2015 #4

You lost me on "Don't come into ..." Cyrano Sep 2015 #6

This kind of statement TBF Sep 2015 #8

True, but I love how Bill Maher disassociates himself by using the term "super rich." merrily Sep 2015 #2

"the New Deal and the Great Society as attempts to ensure that Americans did not revolt" TBF Sep 2015 #5

If I were post what I am thinking, you probably would not see me again. merrily Sep 2015 #7

Love it! K&R nt TBF Sep 2015 #3