Exhibit A on why this country is failing. Your comment, along with a few others, show that rather than go get some yourself you would rather punish those who did. Very sad. Most people I have met who comment like this typically work 9-5 and expect sick days, holidays, vacations and weekends off yet wonder why they have so little. It takes hard work and most people don't want to be bothered.
Absolutely Noyz. There money you have the harder you worked and the more valuable of a human you are. People expecting sick days, holidays, vacation, and god forbid, weekends off? All kidding aside your are seriously delusional if you believe what you just said. There is no way everybody can be filthy rich. Being filthy rich does not make you better than anybody else. Often filthy rich people started life that way or were in a far more favorable position to get there. Being filthy rich does not in anyway mean you worked, longer or harder than any one else. The productivity in the US has climbed greatly in the last 30 years but income for the people who made this possible (and that isn't the filthy rich) has declined over that same period. We are being ripped off. All you need to remember, Noyz, is we regular folks would have no problem getting along without the filthy rich, but they couldn't survive without us.
Thank H1B fraud, illegal laborers being extorted, and other means to stomp down on wages to artificially boost profits so the lazy shareholders can dig at the trough. MANY people, from janitors, to doctors that work 10~12 hour shifts, are all suffering, so I suggest you go out into the real world and get to know people. Your generalizations are all too easy (and almost fun) to blow out of the water, and we've told you time and time and time again.
Judging from his oracle business model, Lanai will only be available to the wealthy as customers. Oracle is very expensive which explains his wealth and ability to buy a hawaiian island. Surely there is room to tax the obscenely wealthy when they can buy islands while the rest of us struggle to make ends meet.
Let's face it--it's one of the only ways to keep foreign buyers (like China) from snapping up all the real estate in the country. And since he's a liberal, maybe he will try to maintain part of it as wild and natural. This could be a good thing, especially compared to what Murdock might have planned for it.
You sound like all the other "sky is falling" individuals when the Japanese were buying up land in this country...that's what happens in a capitalistic society, everyone's money is the same color. But, suffice it to say, a Japanese investment group purchased Pebble Beach, yes THE Pebble Beach, at the height of a real estate boom, and BOOM, a few years later sold it at a loss...so markets do, what markets do, to either you, me or the Chinese. Worry not about ancestry and more about quality; shall we?
he is spending more for the island than romney's entire wealth! 500 to 600 million, such wealth i cannot even imagine. but life is fair in that he too must die just like the poor.
I dont see anything sinister in this other than the RICH are just obscenly RICH and can literally OWN the Earth.And the rest of us will just live on it.A lot of our problems could be lessened if the grotesquely wealthy would chip in to help.But a majority of them won't.They acquire their wealth thruogh the labor of middle class and poor,with goverment help.Just how much does a man need?Millions just want to own or keep a home,not an island or a nation{Bashar Assad}
Putting casinos on Lanai is a preposterous idea that will ruin not just that island but all the rest. That said, the idea that one person can own an entire Hawaiian Island is even more preposterous -- and for a mere $600 million? This country is stumbling around in the the dark.
I would really like to see them put casinos on Lanai. That way, they would improve the infrastructure and economy of the island, including more and better jobs for the residents and keep a lot of the gaming money here in Hawaii rather than sending it all to Las Vegas. Most importantly, it won't be on every street corner which should help allay the fears that residents will gamble away the house. Tourists complain that there is no gambling in Hawaii, this way, the cruise ships could maybe make a stop at Lanai also and help the Hawaii cruise ship business as well.
Can't you allow at least a few wild places? Local's WILL sell their houses and go join another island, but what Lanai is now ceases to be. Happens a lot. It's why old people are bitter.
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Wrong.
1. Digging holes is hard work. Writing applications is hard work. Looking at the stock market and putting your money on your best guess is not work.
2. When did God decide that one person's work is worth more than anyone else's?
Here's more that might help explain why people have so little:
http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2009/3/10/the-american-dream-died-in-february-1973.html
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/01/vicious-cycle-stagnant-wages
Thank H1B fraud, illegal laborers being extorted, and other means to stomp down on wages to artificially boost profits so the lazy shareholders can dig at the trough. MANY people, from janitors, to doctors that work 10~12 hour shifts, are all suffering, so I suggest you go out into the real world and get to know people. Your generalizations are all too easy (and almost fun) to blow out of the water, and we've told you time and time and time again.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.