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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Post your taxes. Potomac at one time had houses selling for $50,000.  My dad was military.  I’m not sure why you need to get all snooty.  A lot of people have their net built in the increases in their house value, especially lower income folks - that’s their major investment.
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Oh, Patton Oswalt posted a quote just for you: "Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm." -- C. Wright Mills, 1951[/quote]

That's basically the entire White House and the GOP donor class: DJT, Jr, Ivanka, Jared, Mnunchin, The Koch Brothers, etc.

I've said it many times: everything happening in politics right now is a war being perpetrated at the hands of inherited wealth. They've managed to convince a large segment of America that a bunch of people with large inheritances are somehow fighting "the Establishment." It's the cruelest trick ever played on Americans.[/quote]
+1  Love that quote.[/quote]

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That quote reminds me of something I was thinking the other day... Rs love the whole "pull yourself up by your boot straps" mentality.  There is no clearer example of that than the Clintons. You can say whatever you want about their policies or their behavior (which I have criticized in the past), but those two people came from humble beginnings and used their intelligence and hard work to get where they are at.  For those who claim HRC rode on her husband's coat tails, I don't know how true that is because if you read about her past, and how she graduated magnum cum laude, and how her college classmates thought she would be the first female president, I think it shows how tough and intelligent she is. I'm thinking she was an asset for Bill  more than anything. He had the charisma, but I think she had the smarts.

Trump, OTH, is the anti-thesis of the R battle cry.

BTW, I used to be a R, and voted for both Bushes and highly criticized the  Clintons during that whole Lewanski scandal.  I remember when people used to call her Billary, but I never understood why they did that and was actually kind of offended by it. As a female, I think men just didn't like that a female could be so ballsy and intelligent.  Up until then, FLOTUS were pretty quiet and unassuming.

Sorry, totally off topic, I know.[/quote]

The Republicans love to throw around the Horatio Alger rags-to-riches myth. It's a myth because it would only be true if everyone were endowed with the same attributes (brains, skills, abilities) as Horatio Alger. But we all know some people have many more God-given talents and skills than others.

The Clintons are an example of the people who are genetically lucky. They are both very smart and, while neither was born rich, they had the benefit of good educations and families who supported their ambitions. But they are exceptional. They are the type of people who will excel no matter what.

Most people are not so lucky. The ones with little brains and skills but who have the luck to be born into a rich family (like the Trump children) will appear to "succeed" because the have the cushion of wealth to support them for their entire lives. The ones with few talents and skills but who are born poor have no support and thus no way out of poverty. They will not make it without help.

The Republicans want to leave the untalented and unlucky folk to die in the gutter.

The Democrats want to give a helping hand to these people, regardless of how "deserving" they are. (The rich Trump kids aren't "deserving" either, but they are lucky to be born rich so don't need a helping hand.)

Tell us more about folk dying in the gutter.   I love the hyperbole and blissful stupidity of your post.

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