Do you think you'll make it into the top 1%?

Discussion in 'Opinion POLLS' started by sunnyside, Oct 11, 2011.

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will you make it at peak of investments and career

  1. I bet I'll pull it off

    22 vote(s)
    21.0%
  2. I think I've got a chance

    18 vote(s)
    17.1%
  3. Not unless I get some windfall

    36 vote(s)
    34.3%
  4. I wouldn't even want to. 99% Pride!

    29 vote(s)
    27.6%
  1. violadude

    violadude New Member

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    Good for you, not everyone is able to pay for PI these days. Stop thinking about only yourself.

    And about doctors getting paid, we've already been through this. They would just be a public sector job and get paid the same way other public sector jobs get paid.
     
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    sunnyside Well-Known Member

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    That's a different question though. I think someone could be happy with where they are if their situation was any of the four selections there.
     
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    lot of people think they have a chance under the Obama administration, I voted "I wouldn't even want to. 99% Pride!"

    life changes when your that rich and I am not so sure it's for the better, not to mention all the people you have to step on to get there


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    Taxpayer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The folks who cannot pay for insurance, so vote that their neighbors pick up their tab... they're not thinking about themselves? But it's wrong for those who get saddled with the bill against their will to resent it?
     
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    Reading through these posts, I cannot help be feel a little discouraged at the greed that seems to be an innate facet of human nature; that goes without saying, unfortunately. I personally would like to live comfortably and with security, of course, but modestly as well since any excess of money would be better used to aid others as opposed to sitting in my bank account. I strongly feel that in our current economic status we cannot afford such a thoughtless voracity for money...
     
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    It's folks with incomes over (about) $250,000 per year. In 2004, there were about 1,700,000 households at that level. Just think about it, top 1% just means 1 out of 100 -- if you know hundreds of people, odds are some of your friends are in the 1%. It ain't that exclusive a club.​
     
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    mertex New Member Past Donor

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    Besides, those that cannot afford it, will get subsidized, much better than letting those of us that are responsible pay the entire total (and higher, if they use ER) for them. I don't understand, Reps tout that they believe everyone should be responsible for themselves, but, in this instance they don't believe that buying health insurance is being responsible for one's self.
     
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    I wasn't, try again.

    I could post the proposition that most of the immoral people are at the bottom, either criminals or willing to live off of other peoples labor when they could provide for themselves. What is moral about either of those propositions?
     

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