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• Robert Schuller leaves Crystal Cathedral board

  Sun Mar 11, 2012
  • I found it funny when Jim Bakker held a press conference accusing a well known mega-church minister engaging in a hostile takeover of his ministry. He went on to say that those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

• Robert Schuller leaves Crystal Cathedral board

  Sun Mar 11, 2012
  • So often these mega-churches become like family businesses.

• Robert Schuller leaves Crystal Cathedral board

  Sun Mar 11, 2012
  • What happened to taking your own advice---"tough times don't last but tough people do? I guess that advice is only good when followed by the offering plate. I will never forget when he charged the good folk of Flint, Michigan $ 10,000 for this empty advice when the town was desperate.

• Private equity trembles over 'vulture' label as Romney rises

  Wed Jan 11, 2012
  • Call this for what it is "crony capitalism." One venture capitalist padding the pockets of other venture capitalists using their elite connections to extract assets and leverage capital on the backs of workers---when the house of cards falls they take their profits and walk away---no accountability …

• Private equity trembles over 'vulture' label as Romney rises

  Wed Jan 11, 2012
  • "The shady part of private equity is in the case of Romney and Bain where they stripped a Kansas City steel mill, dropped the pension on the government, and skated off with millions while others lost their jobs and retirements."

• That's rich: Only the wealthy would benefit from Cain's 9-9-9 plan

  Tue Oct 18, 2011
  • Barry Cooper "Yet, the premise is that the "rich" will also spend more than they are currently spending. They will buy more yachts, expand their businesses, and overall increase the amount of CAPITAL in circulation. That is what we need to grow the economy".

• That's rich: Only the wealthy would benefit from Cain's 9-9-9 plan

  Tue Oct 18, 2011
  • I, for one have closed the book on casting another vote for a Republican candidate. Reagan started this path we are now on that is starting to resemble medieval period economics where you have government by the rich, for the rich, and of the rich.

• GOP calls Obama's tax plan 'class warfare'

  Sun Sep 18, 2011
  • Globalization created major winners and major losers. The major winners were the politicians and entreprenurial class. The losers are the middle class and the poor.

• GOP calls Obama's tax plan 'class warfare'

  Sun Sep 18, 2011
  • Essentially, the Republican plan is to return society to an era like the one our ancestors fled in Europe in order to have freedom and opportunity regardless of birthright.

• Wealthy Europeans back Warren Buffett's call for higher taxes on the rich

  Tue Aug 30, 2011
  • Remember the quote from the late hotel magnate Leona Helmsley when confronted with tax fraud, "only little people pay taxes." I think that about sums it all up. The IRS code is the best bud for the uber wealthy. Start with taxing the inheritance of those who were born into wealth.