>>>>Because its absolutely proper to go around blaming wealthy people for problems and unthinkable to consider our selves as individuals whose individual choices might be part of the problem.
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>>>>"Don't blame me, I'm only in the worlds 1%, not the 0,1% like the 'real' rich people."
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>>>The numbers are somewhat irrelevant - and it's not the matter of being rich or poor, it's of why is someone rich and someone is poor.
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>>>Remember the line "we have legalized robbery", from IIRC Dire Straits? It never stopped. This is the nth wave of robber barons. And you can't call them robbers, because they bought legislation which made them legal.
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>>>What did Jefferson say, how frequently should the system be rebuilt from scratch?
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>>I happen to be reading an article in The New Yorker about the Constitution so happen to know this. Jefferson said the Constitution should be redone every 19 years. Obviously this did not come to fruition; we have the world's oldest constitution that is still in use.
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>It's in use? I've heard lots of people say it's not, unless as a doormat.

During the Bush years there was a great New Yorker cover drawing of David Addington (legal advisor to the Bush White House, "Cheney's Cheney") feeding the Constitution through a shredder while Cheney looks on in delight.

Despite whatever shortcomings our constitution may have, those who bash it should try living in a country that doesn't have one. No guaranteed right to free speech, no free press, no freedom of assembly, no right to a trial by one's peers, on and on and on.