From: harryo@cbnewse.cb.att.com (harold.r.holm)
Subject: Re: Summary Thu 8/20/92
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:54:40 GMT
Summary: Romancing the Poor
Keywords: Unofficial Rush Limbaugh Rebuttal

In article <1992Aug27.185253.6300@sdc.com>, norm@sdc.com (Norm Nithman) writes:
> >
> >o       Rush says that many people seem to think that the rich
> >are evil hedonists who have cheated or inherited their wealth.
> >This is simply not true with the rich, nor is it true that Rush
> >is just wasting his time in Houston. He, along with many others,
> >are working hard while in Houston, just like the rich work hard
> >to get their wealth in the first place.
> >
> Not to disparage the many rich and well-off people who have worked hard
> for their money, but most of the super rich have made their money the old 
> fashioned way - they inherited it!  An examination of the pinko rag Forbes
> 400 list shows that most on that list have indeed inherited their lucre.
> 
So are they supposed to have circumvented this for some reason?  If you inherit
wealth, they you inherit it.  If you don't, you don't.  There is no point in
disparaging someone in this position.  They're born into the family they're
born into.  What, they're supposed to have some control over that?  Where do
you think the wealth came from to begin with?  If their forebearers placed
it into a trust for inheritance, so what??  What do you think trusts are for?
In part, to keep the doggone government from getting its mitts on it, that's
what. To criticize someone just because they have inherited anything is 
based solely on envy.  Just more of the "economic justice" claptrap, "what's
yours is mine or his for the taking, 'cause you have it and he or I don't".
Ever occur to you that people who have this money might be investing it or
starting new business ventures with it, or even supporting charitable causes
with it?  Trouble is, some people see the only worthy charitable causes 
around as government social bureaucracies.  Hence the cry to make the rich
pay "their fair share" so as to lavish even bigger government wealth-transfer
by way of the IRS on social engineering boondoggles.  My only problem with
inherited wealth are people like Ted Kennedy, and his uppity nephew, Joseph
III, who have their wealth on one hand, then use vehicles like the Democratic
Party to go around and claim how they so strongly identify with the "poor 
and oppressed" of the world.  How doggone easy for *them* to say. 

> Rush saying this is consistent with his deification of the rich, but he should
> remeber that Our Saviour said that it is easier for a rich man to pass through
> the eye of an needle than to enter the kindom of heaven.
> 
So telling about how Christianity romanticizes being poor.  No wonder so 
many clerics stride alongside left-wing 'activists'. 

                                                      H.R. Holm
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