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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))2/01/2010 10:41:49 am PST

re: #583 subsailor68

Well, it didn’t work out all that well for Robespierre, Marat, and the gang either. The class warfare thing - demonizing the rich - not such a good idea it seems.

;-)

re: #637 SanFranciscoZionist

Because the pre-Revolution French aristocracy earned their money, and the Third Estate should have done likewise!

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The American ideal is of people who earned their money from scratch and just want to leave it behind so their heirs can expand the company and employ even more people at well-paid jobs with beneifits.

The reality migh vary a bit, but we don’t want this ideal tqampered with