Police are trying to clear out the massive anti-austerity demonstration that engulfed Spain’s federal district this evening.
via Business Insider.
Follow the link for photos. This is us in a few years. There’s no other way.
Kill the Machine
Police are trying to clear out the massive anti-austerity demonstration that engulfed Spain’s federal district this evening.
via Business Insider.
Follow the link for photos. This is us in a few years. There’s no other way.
The net worth of the richest Americans grew by 13 percent in the past year to $1.7 trillion, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday, and a familiar cast of characters once again populated the top of the magazine’s annual list of the U.S. uber-elite, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison and the Koch brothers.
The average net worth of the 400 wealthiest Americans rose to a record $4.2 billion, the magazine said.
via Chicago Tribune.
I love stories like this. The Left will go on and on about how its unfair that these people earn this money; it’s terrible that anyone should be allowed to have this much money, and what-have-you.
So let’s just take. Let’s just take all of it. Let’s take these thieving bastards money and redistribute it so everyone benefits.
$1.7 T / 314,409,835 people = $5,406.96 per person.
That would be a one time payment by the way. No one would ever get another nickel from these people ever again. Hardly seems worth it to me.
Maybe we should use it to pay off our national debt. After all every citizen owes the government over $51,000. Surely we’d all be better off if we just paid down the debt.
$16T – 1.7T = $14,300,000,000,000
After that we all now owe about $46,000 to the government, each. … Huh?! Still seems like we all owe a lot of money.
And this is the folly — we can Eat the Rich — but it would never be enough to save us from what we’ve already done to ourselves.
Inflation and austerity are coming. Plan for it.
In a scene that looks more like Gaza than Spain, striking coal miners armed with homemade rockets and slingshots clashed with police Friday, leaving seven people injured– two of them seriously– the Interior Ministry said.
The strike is the latest and the most violent of many in Spain in reaction to harsh austerity measures aimed at digging the debt-burdened country out of its financial crisis.
via TheBlaze.com.
Where’s the MSM on this?
And what do you think it will be like when it’s our turn? When we have to make the tough decisions and begin cutting programs? Will there be violence?