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Do you really think so? - 12/31/2009 2:00:49 PM

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I didn't want to initiate a hijack to another thread in this forum, so I decided to create a new thread.

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...This is part of why you cannot just "soak the rich". They're smarter and better connected than the people trying to "soak" them. They leave...

Do you really think so?

First of all, just who is it that you think is trying to soak them? The little guys? Or maybe you are caught up in the left vs right paradigm, and believe that the Democrat politicians genuinely represent the little guys?

And if the "soaked rich" are so smart and well-connected, wouldn't they be able to avoid getting soaked in the first place?

What's your definition of rich? It's often subjective and relative to one's own status.

I'll put my pespective in simple terms, for basic illustration. It goes something like this:

The truly elite ruling-class have a million chips each. Poverty and lower middle-class have 0 and 1 chip each. The average joe middle-class has 2 to 3 chips each. Upper middle class has 4 or 5 chips each. What the average middle class typically considers as "wealthy" has 6 to 10 chips each.

The million chip players have almost all of the 0 to 10 chip players pitted against and focused upon each other. There's always exceptions, but generally speaking, the 4 through 10 chip players tend to feel something like "Hey, we played the game the way it was supposed to be played. We paid our dues. Everyone else had the same opportunity. Why should I subsidize those able-bodied who have not paid their dues? God bless America. Love it or leave it!"

The 0 through 3 chip players tend to feel disenfranchised, and no longer in a position to raise their lot in life to any notable degree. They're often riddled in debt, and often become wary from all the financial pressures in life. Many simply give up and perceive additional effort as pointless. Many are envious of the 4-10 chip players, and will blame them for their woes. These players become easy prey to leftist politicians who spoon-feed them with "I'm for the little guy" rhetoric.

It's the million-chip players' game that we are all playing, and it always has been.

But most of the small chip players don't want to rock the boat. They're more concerned about protecting and keeping the few chips they've accumulated. So they entrench themselves to the status-quo, and often even become self-appointed guardians of the status-quo. They can't see past the illusions that have been so carefully created to keep them in check. They endear themselves to one side of the left vs. right paradigm, and will fight each other in a non-sensical exercise in futility that will rarely ever address anything but symptoms, or various and convoluted band-aids to symptoms. In so doing, their energies and attentions are averted from the true source of their problems.

The million chip players are the source of our problems.

Small-chip players who don't understand this, and continue fighting each other, become part of the problem and not part of the solution.

This is my last post of 2009. I know my views fall on blind eyes and deaf ears for the most part, primarily because it conflicts with everything we've been taught to believe. Nevertheless, I hope it makes some sense to some of you, and truly connects with someone out there... for I'm 100% convinced that we are living in a woefully indoctrinated society that's going in the wrong direction.

May your upcoming new year be all that you wish it to be.