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Entitlements - what's so bad about them?

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ringo
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Message 11 of 138 (723708)
04-06-2014 2:26 PM 		Reply to: Message 6 by Phat
04-05-2014 5:44 PM

Re: Limited Entitlements OK
Phat writes:
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Besides...unemployment is a form of insurance. There should be limits, I think.
Maybe "unemployment insurance" should be separated from welfare. Unemployment insurance, which you pay into, would enable you to keep paying your mortgage, etc. if you lost your job. Welfare, which you don't pay into (directly), would give you enough to live on.
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Message 28 of 138 (723747)
04-07-2014 11:41 AM 		Reply to: Message 24 by Diomedes
04-07-2014 9:40 AM

Re: CEO entitlements?
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The individuals that scream the most about a 'free market' are the ones actually using their influence and higher status to adjust parameters to their favor.
And the dupes - the ordinary folks who call themselves "capitalists" but don't have any capital.
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04-09-2014 11:49 AM 		Reply to: Message 47 by Coyote
04-09-2014 12:31 AM

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Many who are criticizing me were raised in cities and expect others to take care of them.
Allow me to rephrase that: Many of us were raised in societies where we expect to take care of each other.
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04-15-2014 12:32 PM 		Reply to: Message 101 by marc9000
04-14-2014 8:08 PM

Re: Good Capitalism Vs Bad Capitalism
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The United States, before, and up to about 1960.
If Eisenhower was President today, I expect he'd get about the same criticism as Obama does.
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Message 113 of 138 (724355)
04-16-2014 11:59 AM 		Reply to: Message 111 by Straggler
04-16-2014 7:43 AM

Re: Good Capitalism Vs Bad Capitalism
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You keep talking about redistribution of wealth but in recent decades wealth has become ever more concentrated at the top.
Apparently it's okay to redistribute the wealth by piracy but not by democracy.
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