 masbury says: 10 to 13 luxury homes. How long will inherited fortunes rule the USA? How many of these homes were bought from the wife`s trust fund? So what. Why are you upset that someone is successful. The American dream is available to anyone. And when I die I hope to be able to have something to give my children. Why the hell should the government get it. They already taxed it once. 1. Because lavish, wasteful wealth in a hungry world is immoral. 2. Because inherited wealth is not the result of work. He is not rich because he is "successful" - he is rich because he divorced his first wife and married into inherited millions. 3. Because a person who's lived a lifetime of special privileges (he was likely a legacy admission to Annapolis, he graduated near the bottom of his class of nearly 900, he should have never been able to become a Navy pilot, but Daddy was an Admiral) knows nothing about life on the streets of America. Who gets to define lavish, Masbury? You? Those lavish expenditures create jobs. Many of those jobs go to lower income people. Some of the people who benefit from these jobs send the money home to realtives in poorer countries. This wealth that you so despise allows the US citizenry to send out $300 billion last year in charity. Some of taxes on all this wealth goes to foreign aid. Billions of it goes to Africa (thanks to President Bush who has sent a record amount of $$ to fight AIDS) Wealth is a very hard thing to hold on to. With wealth comes responsibility. John McCain gave a lot of years of his life to the service of his country. He hasn't sat back and counted his scheckles. ... |
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