Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  mellowmint writes:
in response to PainfulTruth:  Most of those who are attacking
the wealthy have failed to grasp one of the basic tenants on
which our nation was founded. Our economy is NOT a zero sum
equation. If someone get rich, it doesn't mean that someone else
must get poorer, and to believe it does is a fallacy.  And there
is another word for "wealth redistribution": stealing. That's
what it is when someone forcibly takes something that doesn't
belong to them. This is just as true for a nation as it is for
an individual. The sad truth is that most of those railing
against the "rich" and screaming for their "fair share" of the
pie are either too lazy or too ignorant (or both) to make it on
their own, so they steal.  Check out the newest report from the
Congressional Budget office. the top 1% has made out something
like 240% better over the period 1979-2007, where as the rest of
us has gained about 16%, so, as a proportion of the growth of
GDP, the 99% has lost