Then there’s the Mckassey debacle. HORRIFIC and GLOBALLY shameful to us all!

i KNEW this was going to be a rough year with the Bu&h/Cheney crime family, but it’s started out harder, faster and worse than i imagined. And STILL ONE PERSON stands in the way of shutting them down and beginning the recovery of my country, and that’s PELOSI, who is just as “spitting nails” as she is useless with ANY of this.
God help us, and i think i’ll watch movies all day. try not to eat cherry bon bons on the couch, i DID manage a shower.
*sigh*

What percentage of the combined ‘wealth’ of the bottom 40% of the American people does the ‘wealth’ of Bill Gates, alone, equal?

Would anyone care to guess?

These guys see america as the wild west.. the place where you make it big by “no rules”… but making it is their measure.

Never understood why wealthy don’t just kick back and spend it all, but they seem to like getting as much as they can.

Has anyone studied in a serious fashion why the wealthy keep at it when they can’t spend it? And their heirs can’t even spend it? What’s the deal?

No linky but this is a manifestation of genetic mental illness, running in families, a pathology of excessive greed coupled with lack of restraint and perspective, paralleling pathologies of sociopath and psycopath dysfunction. These people would be and are winners in rat-race competition for economic resources which is the foundation of their extreme wealth. Couple this with social-darwinism as justification, with limitless economic resource, no institution is or can be safe from their predatory natures.
Once kings used such behavior to assemble an aristocracy that protected the interests of the king, no king would allow any in the aristocracy to have any more than an insubstantial portion of power in relation to the power of the king.
When the American economy was developing, no heed was given and the economic plutocracy that developed were able to either completely monopolize an economic process (Rockefeller and Standard Oil) or limit those acting within an economic process to a mere handful of entities (Look at the five grain companies who control about 90% of US annual agricultural output, at least one is privately owned and no annual accounting is given) controlling an economic market.
Nothing in history has prepared any government to handle such a situation, no king that allowed a substantial accumulation of power survived without a battle to the death with those accumulating such power. The prognosis for the future is bleak with conflict, those wielding such economic power will not relinquish their hold without the use of force greater than theirs.