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Midnight Writer

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1. It's odd. The uber-rich could buy a lot of public goodwill right now, at very little relative cost.

Reply to zonkers (Original post)

Wed Apr 22, 2020, 08:46 PM

Apr 2020

Instead, by clinging to their short sighted selfish ways, they are fueling a backlash from what will be an increasingly desperate population of newly impoverished.

If not for the simple humanity of helping others in need, have they read no history?

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One percenters. Time to cough it up ($). We can do it the easy way or the hard way. nt [View all] zonkers Apr 2020 OP

It's odd. The uber-rich could buy a lot of public goodwill right now, at very little relative cost. Midnight Writer Apr 2020 #1

They should brush up Sugarcoated Apr 2020 #2

Yeah, what he said... Wounded Bear Apr 2020 #3