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Originally Posted by will76
The entitlement mentality is why the country (and probably the world) is going to shit. That and the fact that politicians pander to these types of people.
That and the anti capitalism vibe. The "jealous" hate for companies that profit "too" much or make too much money in the broke dick public's opinion. The "fuck the rich" mentality, lets make the rich pay un-proportionality more in taxes then everyone else because they already have a lot of money so make them pay for it. The rewarding of laziness and failure. The dumming down of America and our education system that is ranked 30th in the world.
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That would depend on how we define "anti capitalism" and "jealous hate".
For every idiot who took out an interest only ARM to buy a McMansion on a burger flipping salary, there's another in deep shit due
solely to job loss.
Job loss resulting from the national economy getting deep sixed by the housing meltdown.
When people like that watch those very same Wall Street shysters and "too big to fail" bank executives - that ruined the economy - then pay themselves bonuses in the tens and sometimes hundreds of millions... well, who can blame them for feeling just a tad of "jealous hate".
Moreover, now that they're jobless, soon to be evicted and sans credit for a whopping seven years, many of them aren't exactly fanboys of unregulated capitalism anymore.
I don't know about you, but I'm not quite so inclined to begrudge those poor slobs their anger
