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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:50 PM
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Q. What kind of jobs will the rich create if the rest of us can't afford to buy anything?
A. None. The middle class doing well and being able to purchase goods, use new services, etc. is what creates new jobs.

The rich won't "create jobs" when the vast majority of us are barely holding on financially.

It's a dumbass notion and I don't know why the Democrats can't ridicule it in a more spectacular fashion.



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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:54 PM
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1. The corporations don't care. They do most of their business overseas.
Have you ever gone on vacation to countries like Haiti or Jamaica?

Ever notice how most of the jobs seem to involve either servicing or selling things to tourists?

That's what America is going to become.

You'd better buy a house near a cruise ship terminal, tourist attraction, or airport.

And learn how to carve trinkets out of wood.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:54 PM
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2. Investment jobs. If they can make a lot of money, they can always get
international investors to put $$ in their funds.

They dot WANT a middle class! They want another Golden Age where there were only rich and poor!
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whathehell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:58 PM
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5. "They don't want a middle class"...No, they want a two-tier banana republic society. n/t
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:55 PM
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3. Any jobs that are created are service & product jobs that cater
specifically to the very rich. Art galleries, boutique organic produce, yacht builders, auction houses, butlers, pilates studios, life coaches & so on.

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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 04:58 PM
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4. Drug dealers and whores !
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markpkessinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 05:07 PM
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6. Perhaps they'll hire you as a gardener . . .
. . . minimum wage, no benefits, but by God be grateful they gave you a job!
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w0nderer Donating Member (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 06:04 PM
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7. i'd call it upper working class but what ever
not many if any civilizations in history has ever blossomed when the 'middle class' 'middle and upper end working class' has done poorly

with exceptions of slave based economies
which..considering the work being done IS an economy in which working class isn't doing too well

working, upper working and middle class creates jobs, even the 'inventor' of 'trickle down' has admitted it's nonworking male bovine fertilizer


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