10 Examples Of How The Elite Are Mocking The Poor!!!

reply to post by chiefsmom


The people in those photos are just office workers who are sucking up to the boss to keep from being fired and eventually homeless themselves. Looking at the party pictures brought back some horrible memories! Just thinking about working in a coporate enviornment again makes me want to barf.

As a wise poster said earlier in this thread, there's always someone richer and you and there's always someone poorer than you. In my experience, the only thing that matters is internal happiness and not depending on "things" or other people for that happiness.
-cwm

I will pray.

First for the poor, who need prayers the most.

Then for the rich, the stiff-necked whose hearts are hardened with arrogance and greed.

Then for myself, for giving in to so much anger about this article.

The British were not laughing so hard after the real patriots showed them in 1776. Just remember the US military people are the 99%. Making fun of poor people on haloween is tasteless and classless, I am sure. I'm not one to wish death but it would be funny if those drunk girls hit an icy patch of road after the night of drinking at the halowwen party. There is always the straw that breaks the camels back. This may not be it, but things are getting to the point where something certainly could happen. Stop fighting amongst yourslves: Black vs white, muslim vs other, UNITE!! They want you to keep fighting so that they can steal all the money and mock you. If I ran into one of these people I would really say something to these &^&&^ to their face in front of all their coworkers at the party.

reply to post by CherubBaby

I am not trying to create dissention. I can't speak for everyone but I have lived on both sides of this coin. Both sides.. I believe that people can treat one onother with respect.. I don't know how much further "The Wedge" can be driven in . But it goes no where if people understand what it can do and stop doing it

There will always be a population within the elite crowd that will think themselves superior over the "common man." There will always be a population among "common man" who resent those with money simply because they are envious. These are negative and undesirable behaviors to society, but they are certainly not new to the human species.

Who are you trying to reach with this thread? The elite? Do you think this thread will get them to "understand what it can do so they can stop doing it?" Your thread title is "10 Examples of how the elite are mocking the poor." That alone sounds like you're making a blanket claim about the entire elite community.

If it is the "poor" you are trying to reach by posting this, how is this going to do anything but create animosity between the two economic groups.

And your timing is impeccable....in the midst of the OWS protests, which hve managed to be distorted and manipulated to appear as though they are protests by the poor against the rich.

the difference in the french revolution was, that the royals were born into power and money. in the usa, people from all over the world, common men/women, have come here, and worked hard to succeed. now, because they have managed to accumulate money of large quantities, the rest of us are wondering where we dropped the ball, and how they managed it but we cannot.

that's the real mystery in all this, and i'm not convinced the problem is entirely the result of the haves vs. the have nots. there's something else at play, if i'm not mistaken.

What about working really hard and making little money?

The more time goes by, the less do I truly care if an EMP, natural or otherwise, takes out civilization as we know it.

Yeah, how stupid can people who think the poor brought it upon themeselves, be? In the past, you could actually work hard, SAVE money, and BUY a house.

Nowadays, inflation has skyrocketed, fuel, food prices have skyrocketed and the pay scale is basically the same as a few decades ago.

There's going to be a war.

reply to post by luxordelphi


If the middle and lower classes lose their buying power, then the whole scheme falls apart.

Not only the corporate elite, but our political elite as well. I don't know if everyone else is sick and tired of having to bail out our elected officials because of their over spending. They keep turning to the average worker and raise our taxes. Whether it's our property taxes, school taxes, income taxes, city and county taxes, inheritance taxes, etc... the first place they look is raising taxes on the average family who are just trying to make ends meet.

We're being taxed to death, yet our elected officials turn a blind eye to the rich, corporations and our enormous military budget. We are burdened with taxes everywhere we turn. It's not us peons that over spent, it's our elected officials! I don't know about everyone else, but I'm mad as hell about us being the scape goat when it comes to paying off the deficit.

These politicians have been doing this for years without any kind of checks and balances. They've been robbing from programs that benefit the public to pay for their selfish spending. They talk a good story about being concerned about us, yet in the end, we're all bending over and taking it where the sun don't shine!

Mitsubishi > Bank Of America?

Intriguing.

Originally posted by WeRpeons
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm mad as hell about us being the scape goat when it comes to paying off the deficit.

that's not the only way you're being scape-goated. if you're white, you're a scapegoat. if you're muslim, you're a scapegoat. if you're jewish, you're a scapegoat. if you're christian, you're a scapegoat. if you're poor, you're a scapegoat. if you're rich, you're a scapegoat. if you're middle class, you're a scapegoat. if you're american, you're a scapegoat. etc ad nauseum, etc. everyone is blaming everyone else, and it's hard finding any clearly defined reason for all the finger pointing, that actually makes complete, unadulterated, sense. there's always an agenda to back up the rationale for stereotyping millions of people and most of the time, it's being fueled by survival of the fittest scenarios.

my current theory is, that this problem is not entirely driven by human beings. that there's other, invisible hands at work in all this and that they are driving wedges between races, religions and political ideologies, beyond what the media is capable of doing, with the sole intent and purpose of slaughter. big heaping piles of dead bodies. for no other reason than the desire to kill, maim, torture and seek vengence for things long since passed, and things not even relevant to our time. some think of this as mass mind control. i do believe that's pretty close to the unfolding scenario. just look around. read what people are saying.

Honestly i really don't think the elite give a rats ass about who's poor and who isn't. They don't want money, they want control.

reply to post by technical difficulties

Mocking the poor is in no way equivalent to mocking the rich.

That is a fact that is forgotten, to mock a man who has nothing and struggles to even provide food for his family from week to week. Or has to choose between keeping a roof over his family's head an go with out food. Whole towns have suffered these same dissensions due to losing there only source of work due to cheaper labour abroad. I could provide a long list of heart wrenching things and true life scenarios that shows the 1% do not and will not know what it is like for the 99%. Now compare the dissensions the 1% need to concern them selves with in there lives. You will see that This quote is so relevant..... Mocking the poor is in no way equivalent to mocking the rich. If the 1% are hurt by the mocking, and i cant see how they have every thing ?,then it is simply because they have a guilty conscience or are simply trying to play a victim card this will not work

reply to post by indisputable


i dont understand why people haven't replaced the corporations that have deserted the country for cheaper labor, with new companies that sell the same type of products but build them entirely at home with american workers.

reply to post by chiefsmom


I think it's fair to say from these Halloween pictures that we're seeing "gallows humor." These girls are too young to be the attorneys, the real idiots from that Baum firm that the NY Attorney General went after, and are more likely the staff, legal aids, and paralegals. What I'm saying is, they are not rich and could easily be the people they mock when they lose their job at that firm. I think they know that, and are immature, so the result is this bad taste party. No elites here. Just stupidity by those who could be on the other side very easily.

Edit: I'm not going to help by posting pictures of private individuals.

Originally posted by carewemust
reply to post by chiefsmom

 

The people in those photos are just office workers who are sucking up to the boss to keep from being fired and eventually homeless themselves. Looking at the party pictures brought back some horrible memories! Just thinking about working in a coporate enviornment again makes me want to barf.

As a wise poster said earlier in this thread, there's always someone richer and you and there's always someone poorer than you. In my experience, the only thing that matters is internal happiness and not depending on "things" or other people for that happiness.
-cwm

I'm with you 100 percent. There's no amount of money that would put me through the humiliation of working in corporate America again. I broke out of the cycle and make a good living now, and will never go back there. Never ever... knock on wood.

Originally posted by FissionSurplus
As she stared out of the window at the unwashed, angry masses, she patted her carefully coiffed hair and straightened her expensive silk skirts. She wrinkled her powdered nose and sniffed.

"What a bunch of ignorant, unwashed cretins! Don't they realize that we are superior and they owe us their adulation and worship? Ugh! I grow weary of their constant complaining. I can smell them from up here!"

Such were the thoughts of Marie Antoinette....before her head ended up in a basket.

Source please. She never did say let them eat cake BTW. She was actually sympathetic when it came to the common man. She actually apologized for accidentally stepping on the executioner's foot, "Monsieur, I ask your pardon. I did not do it on purpose." were her last words. She was in a forced marriage to someone who's people hated him already (granted, for excellent reason) and therefor his 13 yr old Austrian wife was lumped into this hate.
What about that peasant village she had built in Versailles? We tend to forget about this because the revolution really was important for the people (that is to say the revolution against Louie XVI was important anyway) I do not disagree with the french revolution, I disagree with people who to this day hate Marie Antoinette, based on what your history teacher(who mind you also said columbus was the first to say the earth was not flat LINK ) said. It's like automatically hating the wife of any given politician, worse actually since modern politicians wives choose to marry the men they do, when she simply never had a choice. source
We may be in need or revolution (which could help as much as it could make it worse) but don't slam Marie. You may not like Obama, but would you drag his daughters into it?

There's no amount of money that would put me through the humiliation of working in corporate America again.

reply to post by Jason88


there's always a level of slavery inherent in working for others, no matter what country you're in. to suggest corporate america is the problem is disengenious, since corporate anything is always going to be less satisfying to the individual, than fulfilling self-employment. but we aren't heading for fulfiling self-employment. we're heading for state run work centers that give you even less control over your time and certainly not fulfilling work or profitable. you work and you might get some toilet paper if you're willing to wait in line for 3 hours.

Originally posted by undo

There's no amount of money that would put me through the humiliation of working in corporate America again.

reply to post by Jason88

 

there's always a level of slavery inherent in working for others, no matter what country you're in. to suggest corporate america is the problem is disengenious, since corporate anything is always going to be less satisfying to the individual, than fulfilling self-employment. but we aren't heading for fulfiling self-employment. we're heading for state run work centers that give you even less control over your time and certainly not fulfilling work or profitable. you work and you might get some toilet paper if you're willing to wait in line for 3 hours.

Honestly, I don't see that scenario playing out. Whispers in the wind point to something that gained temporary popularity in 2007, and that's "onshoring." Mark my words, if OWS is persistent and really takes hold, you'll see corporate America falling over itself for the goodwill of the American public. Onshoring means bringing jobs back to the US. If that really happens and isn't just positive public relations exercises, then OWS will have accomplished something.

Again as for this thread, at least the first part, needs more context before throwing these dumb girls under the bus as elite - they surly are not. Their master may be though.

reply to post by Jason88


i was thinking that at first, it might be helpful to the overall economy, to limit good paying jobs to one per household, with the default being the head of household (the husband or unmarried woman wage earner) unless the head is incapable of working, and then scaling up the pay rate to soften the blow of losing the extra income. the companies would pay less in the long run, more jobs would come available, and the cost of hiring american workers, would lessen. but the key phrase there is "good paying jobs". limiting one income per household where the income is from a job at mcdonalds or delivering newspapers, would not be reasonable

the more households with one good wage earner, the less the state has to support the entire family with tax money. the more money into the economy, the more will open their own businesses, etc. it has a win-win effect, but only as long as all these other agendas are not working against it in the opposite direction.

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Wow. NO #? Is that how it really happened or how you imagine it happened? I mean, I know you can't know her exact thoughts, but, is that how fooked the gap was between rich and poor at that time? "Let them eat cake", ... right? Jeez! C'mon, man ... I'm lazy ... don't wanna research for #. Give it up.