Get 'Em Outta Here

[Guest]

They don’t pay taxes. They circumvent our laws. They get free stuff from the government. They are America’s billionaires, and many would like to see them gone.

According to a new survey by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, the American people hold the nation’s billionaires in lower esteem than ever before, and a majority would like to see new laws enacted to deport them.

“They come here, take thousands of our jobs, and export them overseas,” one respondent said, in an opinion echoed by many others in the survey.

“They are part of a shadow economy that sucks billions of dollars out of the United States every year and puts it in Switzerland and the Caymans,” another said.

Images of hedge-fund managers arriving via helicopter in the Hamptons this summer have only reinforced the impression that authorities have turned a blind eye to their movements.

“Many of these people should be in prison, and the government is looking the other way,” one respondent said.

Stirring even more controversy is the billionaires’ practice of having babies in the United States and using the nation’s porous estate-tax laws to pass down untold wealth to the next generation.

“They should leave and take their children with them,” one respondent said.

[Guest]

That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. It's not even realistic. If not for the rich, we wouldn't the decent lifestyle we enjoy. How about inserting a link to the article if you are going to quote from it.

[Guest]

I'm really tired of telling you this: You need to supply a link!

Sentiment Building to Deport Nation (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/sentiment-building-to-deport-nations-billionaires)

What are doing is in danger of violating copyright laws. Andy Borowitz wrote this for the New Yorker magazine, and you took it without crediting either of them.

You flat out cannot do that. It is stealing. It violates one of the terms for using this forum.

It puts the forum in danger of being sued and shut down. :swear:

[Guest]

I'm really tired of telling you this: You need to supply a link!

Sentiment Building to Deport Nation (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/sentiment-building-to-deport-nations-billionaires)

What are doing is in danger of violating copyright laws. Andy Borowitz wrote this for the New Yorker magazine, and you took it without crediting either of them.

You flat out cannot do that. It is stealing. It violates one of the terms for using this forum.

It puts the forum in danger of being sued and shut down. :swear:


If I had a link to it, I certainly would have done so. However, a friend emailed it to me, I thought it was good satire, so I copied it here. For all I know, my friend or one of her friends could have written it.

[Guest]

I'm really tired of telling you this: You need to supply a link!

Sentiment Building to Deport Nation (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/sentiment-building-to-deport-nations-billionaires)

What are doing is in danger of violating copyright laws. Andy Borowitz wrote this for the New Yorker magazine, and you took it without crediting either of them.

You flat out cannot do that. It is stealing. It violates one of the terms for using this forum.

It puts the forum in danger of being sued and shut down. :swear:


Happens all the time on here.

Don't you know it is just the law.

And as the poster said, it was inconvenient, so just do it.

This logic prevails in this country. I know it's a law, but I, me, do not agree thus it does not apply.

People just make stuff up or ignore stuff.

To some, they have this right. But do not call them liars or cheats, not them

[Guest]

If I had a link to it, I certainly would have done so. However, a friend emailed it to me, I thought it was good satire, so I copied it here. For all I know, my friend or one of her friends could have written it.

That's no darn excuse. I found it in seconds. Copy a few sentences and google is with quotes. You'll get an exact hit, just as I did.

You just cannot do this. Read the sticky at the top, Link It.

[Guest]

Happens all the time on here.

Don't you know it is just the law.

And as the poster said, it was inconvenient, so just do it.

This logic prevails in this country. I know it's a law, but I, me, do not agree thus it does not apply.

People just make stuff up or ignore stuff.

To some, they have this right. But do not call them liars or cheats, not them

Damn. As you can tell, copyright violations make me crazy. People don't understand the work that goes into creating a written piece. Cheats and thieves.

[Guest]

They don’t pay taxes. They circumvent our laws. They get free stuff from the government. They are America’s billionaires, and many would like to see them gone.

According to a new survey by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, the American people hold the nation’s billionaires in lower esteem than ever before, and a majority would like to see new laws enacted to deport them.

“They come here, take thousands of our jobs, and export them overseas,” one respondent said, in an opinion echoed by many others in the survey.

“They are part of a shadow economy that sucks billions of dollars out of the United States every year and puts it in Switzerland and the Caymans,” another said.

Images of hedge-fund managers arriving via helicopter in the Hamptons this summer have only reinforced the impression that authorities have turned a blind eye to their movements.

“Many of these people should be in prison, and the government is looking the other way,” one respondent said.

Stirring even more controversy is the billionaires’ practice of having babies in the United States and using the nation’s porous estate-tax laws to pass down untold wealth to the next generation.

“They should leave and take their children with them,” one respondent said.

I think this guy has been smokin' the weed! Have you ever been employed by someone who was broke or poor? You can't fix stupid.