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In reply to the discussion: One Perfect Tweet Shows Just How Ridiculous Everything Is [View all]angrychair
(10,139 posts)15. all due respect
A room full of millionaires is not going to fix the problem...they are the problem. There is little difference in that room of millionaires and the one that Rmoney made his 47% comment in a couple of years ago. Don't quote me how this person or that person gives or does this thing or that. A lot of people do. I would suspect that while neither of us can give charity "X" $50,000 we still give a representative amount in money and/or time in relationship to our means. Doesn't make us special.
In short, a millionaire, who got a swag bag last night worth more than I'll make in a year, trying to talk about income inequality is hard to take serious.
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really? and the same ole telling us the reason why the male gets so much more money?
seabeyond
Feb 2015
#5
people are flipping out? because women want same pay as their counter male playing a role?
seabeyond
Feb 2015
#4
The people freaking out are fake news, i.e., so called Christians aka GOP party and their
Iliyah
Feb 2015
#6
When Patricia said that, I knew the gop squawking heads would be popping like geysers.
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2015
#8
Like another McCarthyist celebrity round-up, that could be coming again.
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2015
#32
Not to mention, Arquette didn't claim the the "room full of millionaires"
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2015
#18
So anything said by a wealthy person can be dismissed? That makes no sense.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2015
#17
By that reasoning, white people should not have spoken out or participated in the Civil Rights
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2015
#30
she didn't ask you to feel sorry for her. She was initiating a discussion on pay equity
magical thyme
Feb 2015
#33
one of the differences would be that the hollywood room full of millionaires actually DID something,
niyad
Feb 2015
#34
So what is the appropriate salary amount where it would be okay to demand equality?
cui bono
Feb 2015
#23