Sep. 1st, 2012

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"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working."

-- Gina Rinehart, the richest woman on the planet, who inherited her family's iron-ore prospecting fortune of $30.1 billion.
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"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working."

-- Gina Rinehart, the richest woman on the planet, who inherited her family's iron-ore prospecting fortune of $30.1 billion.
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Surveying the flood damage produced by Hurricane Isaac, newly minted Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Friday told Gov. Bobby Jindal that he had come to Louisiana to learn -- and then asked where all the water came from.

-- News/LJ

It's amazing how much more he is looking like Dubya all the time, and I used to think that at least Mitt was a smart guy, not a genius, but smart, smarter than Dubya at least, but, no, I think I was mistaken.
monk222: (Christmas)
Surveying the flood damage produced by Hurricane Isaac, newly minted Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Friday told Gov. Bobby Jindal that he had come to Louisiana to learn -- and then asked where all the water came from.

-- News/LJ

It's amazing how much more he is looking like Dubya all the time, and I used to think that at least Mitt was a smart guy, not a genius, but smart, smarter than Dubya at least, but, no, I think I was mistaken.
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The big, if-not-quite-articulated, message in Tampa was that in a free economy, everybody will get what they deserve. There is no need to worry about the vast, growing gap between the richest and the rest, or the shrinking middle class, or the fact that America currently has one of the worst rates of social mobility in the developed world.

Untrammeled, the business sector will create plenty of jobs, and the hard-working big-dreamers will jump in, amass wealth and achieve success. You cut taxes, reduce regulation and let the magic happen. It’s that or what Paul Ryan called “a dull adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.”


-- Gail Collins at The New York Times
monk222: (Noir Detective)
The big, if-not-quite-articulated, message in Tampa was that in a free economy, everybody will get what they deserve. There is no need to worry about the vast, growing gap between the richest and the rest, or the shrinking middle class, or the fact that America currently has one of the worst rates of social mobility in the developed world.

Untrammeled, the business sector will create plenty of jobs, and the hard-working big-dreamers will jump in, amass wealth and achieve success. You cut taxes, reduce regulation and let the magic happen. It’s that or what Paul Ryan called “a dull adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.”


-- Gail Collins at The New York Times

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