Quote Originally Posted by SmokinDVM View Post
You need to reread the entire thread, but let me paraphrase.

gg said that rich people were rich because they had some innate ability to make money, and I said that that was a pile of bs. Most rich people are rich because they had the advantage of social status and wealth without really having to work for it.

Take a rich mans money and social connections away, and at the same time take someone from the opposite socioeconomic position and do the same. The ex-rich guy will be totally lost. And the other guy...just another day in paradise.

Oh poor, poor barry...

Ok - Let us paraphrase what was said in this thread...

  • You said my grandfather's observations on redistribution of wealth (take it away from the rich - give it to the poor - yada yada) were "ignorant".
  • Heftysmokes corrected me - my grandfather's theory should be properly attributed to J. Paul Getty.
  • So - by default I suppose - you called Mr. Getty "ignorant".


...there's something about J. Paul Getty I just can't put my finger on... Hmmm... "self made"?

The latest "theory" on the table was that Bush is only "wealthy" because of his family's "wealth". He would not have been wealthy otherwise because he was too "dumb" to be wealthy because he couldn't go to college without his parents money?