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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Economic illiteracy on parade
	Date:	10/13/2011 7:54:43 AM

The fundamental problem with this piece is that it demonstrates that the author(s) is/are an economic dimwit. They make the same mistake that so many libtards make in assuming that wealth is a zero sum game. By that I mean they believe that if person A has $x, person B is deprived of those dollars. Of course if that were true, then they will have to be able to explain how GDP grows, how inflation exists, etc. The fact is that the existence of other wealthy people and their wealth does absolutely nothing to prevent others from doing likewise. Happens every day. In fact our overall standard of living today is much higher than in the past and the so-called poor have more goods and services than the lower middle class of a generation ago.

Herman Cain is exactly right, these are a bunch of parasitic losers who rather than working hard and taking risks would rather live like pigs while demanding that society give them someone else's hard earned treasure. From what I have seen, most of them are there to score drugs and hook up because they have nothing else of value to do or to offer society. They are pathetic and if Dems think this is their tea party it will go a long way to further alienating independents.

They have the right to protest peacefully and say what they want and I am glad to give them the chance to prove once again it is better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt as the authors of this op-ed did.

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Economic illiteracy on parade - MartiniMan - 10/13/2011 7:54:43 AM

Share The Wealth - wix - 10/13/2011 11:07:45 AM

It is a question of "value" - Summer Lover - 10/13/2011 11:58:05 AM

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