Notes on the "Plutocrats"

1) I'm still not entirely certain who these individuals are. I mean, are they simply the CEOs of every major corporation, even those that treat their employees well; Starbuck's, Costco, Home Depot, UPS, Fed-Ex, etc.? Or are we talking more here in terms of the top 1%; all folks making over 300-something Gs a year (people, by the way, most of whom probably went to school for 6 to 8 years, worked extremely long hours to get to where they are, and accumulated a shitload of debt)? Certainly, an operationalizing of one's terms isn't too much to ask of people.............2) And, again, the leftist idiots continue to speak of these economic categories as if they were static. THEY ARE NOT! Close to half of the people in the top 1% in 1996 were out of it by 2005 and their income actually went DOWN.............3) And who in the hell do you think is replacing these folks in the top 1%? People from outer space (as opposed to folks from the bottom 99%)? HELLO!............4) And I really want the folks to look at the age demographics for the top quintiles in wealth and income. By far the largest category is 45 to 54, MEANING that these are things which grow gradually over time and for the most part aren't awarded to people unfairly.............5) And if you really and truly wanted to narrow the income and wealth gaps, one of the best ways to accomplish that would be for the government to ease up on its stifling and bafflingly moronic regulation of small businesses, and to especially make it a lot more easy and affordable to start a business ($500,000 to just start a cab company in NYC, for example). Just those two things alone would help out immensely, I think.............6) John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Walter Annenberg - these men (none of whom looked to the federal government for assistance - a la, Edward Collins, those bozos from the Union Pacific, etc.) provided the U.S. with much needed goods and services, created hundreds of thousands of jobs, increased the standard of living for literally everyone in America (often bringing the cost of things way down), and when they retired they engaged in some of the most generous philanthropic acts in all of human history. If this is what constitutes a plutocrat, count me in...and screw the wasteful politicians (i.e., spenders of other peoples' cash) who constantly try and demonize them.............7) And note to the moron (yeah, that stupid lady schmuck from MA); BIG BUSINESS LOVES REGULATION. They love it because it solidifies their place in the market by disproportionately harming the little fellow (who can't afford the high-priced lawyers and who therefore pay much more for compliance). I mean, I know that you love to intervene and all but, come on!!