My case in point: in 2012 the Koch brothers made 11 billion in profit yet still laid off over 25% of their workers in Green Bay, many middle aged. Now they need to find retraining, find a job, and still support their families. Most ended up losing their homes or at the very least downsizing. What CEO has every lost their home, needed to be retrained, or lost their life savings trying to make ends meet after a business went under or they got fired?
What I heard from Obama is that one man cannot make a successful business without good workers and good workers should be recognized for their contribution to the organization. Currently the climate is that only the CEO is of any importance and should take advantage of their workers any way they can.
Your first sentence: Youre a self-absorbed ass.
I marvel at your superior debate skills.
I do understand that EVERY business needs their customer but I am not sure that necessarily means that the business owners "had their help" in making their business successful. Obviously, it means the customers like the product and/or the business owner effectively marketed the product/service. I know many businesses that have excellent products but their management (owners) were not able to make it work even though the product certainly had customers. So, it really is the owner/manager's abilities that make a business succeed or fail. I see that time and time again.
And what about people who just invested and didn't actually do anything themselves at all? Or people who inherited their wealth? Or both? They did nothing to earn what they have, yet society and Fox News would have us believe they're the hardest workers among us who deserve every penny.
Clearly not.
The class warfare really is getting out of control. When you leftists try to make your "case", you come accross resentful of those who have wealth and it irritates those on the right because we see it as nothing but the "green monster" of envy attacking what made America great - capitalism. When you say things like "they do nothing with their money" and "they don't deserve it" - you do not encourage fruitful dialogue. Want progress on this issue? Change your tone and tactic. Come on, do you REALLY think the middle class could have any decent standard of living if all investors (who "do nothing" according to you) REALLY did nothing and stopped investing? Talk about a collapse of the financial system!