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World’s Wealthiest Woman Tells People to Stop Envying the Rich & Work Harder, Gov’t Officials Flip Out

Worlds Wealthiest Woman Tells People to Stop Envying the Wealthy & Work Harder, Govt Officials Flip Out

Photo: news.com.au/Patrick Hamilton

Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart on Thursday was heavily criticized by her government for saying people who want to be successful should stop being jealous of others, “spend less time drinking,” and work harder, AFP reports.

Assorted members of Australia’s government called her comments “insulting.”

Wait, “insulting”? What did multi-billionaire Rinehart say?

“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire,” she wrote in an article for an industry magazine.

“If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working,” she added.

“Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.”

Suggesting that those who work harder, tend to get ahead in life isn’t exactly an outlandish assertion.

Rinehart also criticized what she referred to as “socialist” policies that have hurt the poor and recommended Australian politicians to lower the nation’s minimum wage and taxes.

“The terrible millionaires and billionaires can often invest in other countries… maybe their teenagers don’t get the cars they wanted, or a better beach house or maybe the holiday to Europe is cut short, but otherwise life goes on,” she wrote.

“The millionaires and billionaires who choose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely,” she added.

Of course, just like we would expect in the U.S., government officials slammed Rinehart’s anti-tax, pro-growth remarks.

“These sorts of comments are an insult to the millions of Australian workers who go to work and slog it out to feed the kids and pay the bills,” said Treasurer Wayne Swan, adding that Rinehart is incorrect to think that Australians as “lazy workers who drink and socialise too much.”

But Swan’s attack shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. He’s made a bit of a name for himself by attacking Australia’s mining tycoons.

Worlds Wealthiest Woman Tells People to Stop Envying the Wealthy & Work Harder, Govt Officials Flip Out

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“Swan has repeatedly attacked Rinehart, coal magnate Clive Palmer and iron ore baron Andrew Forrest for running ‘self-interested’ campaigns against the centre-left Labor government’s taxes on mining profits and pollution,” AFP reports.

And Swan is not alone in his disdain for the mining tycoon.

Health Minister Tanya Plibersek said it was “pretty easy for Gina Rinehart to say that people on the minimum wage should get paid less.”

The left-leaning Greens party ridiculed Rinehart for having “accumulated wealth from her family.”

True, she does come a well-to-do family, but her successes in the mining industry along with her uncanny ability to create wealth for herself and her employees might indicate that she is capable of doing a little more than coasting on inherited wealth.

And don’t forget the unions! According to Australia’s mining union, Rinehart’s article was “bizarre” and showed that she held a “dangerous” agenda.

“At the same time as trying to import cheap foreign labour and avoid paying tax, Rinehart claims it’s millionaires and billionaires who are the greatest for social good,” said Australian mining union president Tony Maher.

“What planet is she living on? She should spend less time ranting and more time sharing,” he added.

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(H/T: myfoxdc.com). This story has been updated.

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  • heeltar
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:45pm

    I recently ran across the children’s bed time story “The Little Red Hen”. Might be some good reading for the liberal/progessive/socialist jerks. It would put it all into perspective.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:03pm

      Sounds like Australia is producing a crop of brain dead liberals just like in the USA that will vote themselves a raise from the politicians that promise them the most handouts. That would be voters somewhat like this guy:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTRqjpK6ScQ

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:08pm

      The Little Red Hen in Obamaville.
      Adapted by Chinishque
      Once upon a time there was a little red hen. She lived with a pig, a duck and a cat.

      They all lived in a pretty little house which the little red hen liked to keep clean and tidy. The little red hen worked hard at her jobs all day. The others never helped. Although they said they meant to, they were all far too lazy. The pig liked to grunt in the mud outside, the duck used to swim in the pond all day, and the cat enjoyed lying in the sun, purring.
      One day the little red hen was working in the garden when she found a grain of corn.
      “Who will plant this grain of corn?” she asked.
      “Not I,” grunted the pig from his muddy patch in the garden.
      “Not I,” quacked the duck from her pond.
      “Not I,” purred the cat from his place in the sun.
      So the little red hen went to look for a nice bit of earth, scratched it with her feet and planted the grain of corn.
      During the summer the grain of corn grew. First it grew into a tall green stalk, then it ripened in the sun until it had turned a lovely golden colour. The little red hen saw that the corn was ready for cutting.
      “Who will help me cut the corn?” asked the little red hen.
      “Not I,” grunted the pig from his muddy patch in the garden.
      “Not I,” quacked the duck from her pond.
      “Not I,” purred the cat from his place in the sun.
      “Very well then, I will cut it myself,” said the little red hen. Carefully she cut the stalk and took out all the grains of corn

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:10pm

      “Who will take the corn to the mill, so that it can be ground into flour?” asked the little red hen.
      “Not I,” grunted the pig from his muddy patch in the garden.
      “Not I,” quacked the duck from her pond.
      “Not I,” purred the cat from his place in the sun.

      So the little red hen took the corn to the mill herself, and asked the miller if he would be so kind as to grind it into flour.
      In time the miller sent a little bag of flour down to the house where the little red hen lived with the pig and the duck and the cat.
      “Who will help me to make the flour into bread?” asked the little red hen.
      “Not I,” grunted the pig from his muddy patch in the garden.
      “Not I,” quacked the duck from her pond.
      “Not I,” purred the cat from his place in the sun.
      “Very well,” said the little red hen. “I shall make the bread myself.” She went into her neat little kitchen. She mixed the flour into dough. She kneaded the dough and put it into the oven to bake.
      Soon there was a lovely smell of hot fresh bread. It filled all the corners of the house and wafted out into the garden. The pig came into the kitchen from his muddy patch in the garden, the duck came in from the pond and the cat left his place in the sun. When the little red hen opened the oven door the dough had risen up and had turned into the nicest, most delicious looking loaf of bread any of them had seen.
      “Who is going to eat this bread?” asked the little red hen.
      “I will,” grunted the pig.
      “I will,” qua

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:11pm

      “Oh no, you won’t,” said the little red hen. “I planted the seed, I cut the corn, I took it to the mill to be made into flour, and I made the bread, all by myself. I shall now eat the loaf all by myself.”
      The pig, the duck and the cat all stood and watched as the little red hen began to eat the loaf all by herself. The first bite was delicious but just then the Eagle swooped in from high above and looked at the scene of the little red hen eating her delicious bread with the cat, the pig and the duck watching her and they looked very hungry.
      “Who’s bread is this?” asked the Eagle.
      “It is mine.” said the little red hen.
      “The others are hungry.” said the Eagle. “Why aren’t you sharing this bounty with them?”
      “I asked them to help but none of them would.” said the little red hen as she prepared to take another bite. “I planted the seed, I cut the corn, I took it to the mill to be made into flour, and I made the bread all by myself.”
      “You didn’t make that bread yourself!” said the Eagle. “Is not the land owned by all and what about the sun and the rain? Did not the community build the road on which you walked to the mill? Is not the mill a co-op built with funding from the community? And what of the gas that came through the pipeline that heated your stove to bake the bread? Is it not pumped from the ground the community owns? No, little red hen, you did not make that bread on your own.”

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:11pm

      And with that statement the Eagle took the loaf of bread away from the little red hen and ripped it half and as he ate the first half he ripped the other into three equal parts and gave one to the pig who gobbled it up at once, one to the cat who purred as he ate it, and one to the duck who quacked in delight at the wonderful taste of the bread.
      “But what about me?” said the little red hen. “Where is my piece?” “what of my labor?”
      “You were greedy!” said the Eagle. “If you want your share then you will have to plant more seed, cut the corn, take it to mill, and bake it into bread, but the next time you will know that YOU did not make it and that it belongs to all. You will share it or again you will have none.”
      The Eagle then leaped into the air and flew high above circling and watching. The pig went back to wallow in his mud, the cat back to lay in the sunny spot, and the duck back to swimming in the pond. All of them chuckling at the little red hen who had thought that she had made the bread herself.
      “I will never make bread again or perform any kind of labor if others may reap but don’t have to work!” said the little red hen to herself. And true to her word she never cleaned the little house again and all the animals lived in filth. The very next winter all the animals starved to death for the lack of bread.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:27pm

      That was pretty impressive Chinishque. Did you come up with that or copy it? I only ask that I may use it in the future and credit the person who created it.

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    • BryanB
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:34pm

      What really gets me about this women, she thinks everyone wants to be her.

      Not everyone can be a Millionaire or a Billionaire. Who would do the work this women or her kind wouldn’t do ?

      There has to be people that will sweep and mop the floors, pick-up the garbage, be teachers and nurses and so-on. These are just a few of the jobs that you will never be a Millionaire doing, yet someone has to do those jobs.

      She is definitely one of those Billionaires thats living off an inheritance, and never did or made anything on her own………

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:50pm

      I grew up on the story, my mother made it clear there was no free lunch, we all shared work, and the rewards. I am gratefull I had depression parents who taught us the value of time , money, and work. We were not the gimmee, gimmee generation, but to many of us spoiled the kids-who have kept that tradition to well. Maybe these tough times will give younger parents a head’s up, sure has worked on my grow kids. ( I am not saying anything bad about you out there who are doing the right thiangs.)

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:51pm

      @Lord Frostwind…yeah its mine. It just came to me after the whole “You didnt build that” comment by our Dear Leader.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 11:29pm

      Animal Farm and 1984 SHOULD be read by ALL Liberals!!!

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    • I_KNEW_Youd_Say_That
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:42am

      I KNEW They’d Say That!

      But I thought it was about the U.S.A.! Things are starting to get rough. Straighten it out or I must twist me lip and shout:

      “I AM THE LAW! Drop your communism! This Progressivism is under arrest! This is your final warning!”

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    • downhillmike
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:45am

      THanks for the Little Red Hen version that demonstrates what this country has turned in to under this President. By the way, for those ripping on Rhinehart – read the story. She said that those who are jealous or are complaining about not having money should work harder. Not everyone wants to be millionairs, but those that complain need to evaluate themselves and work for what you want. She may or may not have inherited money, but she’s still employing lots of people and helping the economy. That’s not good enough for socialist/communists who want to be like the Eagle and take from the rich to give to the lazy poor, but note that the communist Eagle took half of the loaf for himself!

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    • v15
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:00am

      I swear she looks like Boss Hogg wearing a wig from “The Dukes of Hazard”

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    • MikaelScot
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 4:31am

      LOL Finally someone else who sees it! I get ridiculed for that. I‘ve been saying for three years that this administration could be prevented by required reading of The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Red Hen, and Stone Soup. Followed up by history lessons presented by Schoolhouse Rock. (Starting with this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OyU4O80i4)

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 8:05am

      I think we all know why the government is outraged…If everyone took her advice THEY WOULD NOT NEED THE GOVERNMENT and Most Government agencies would go the way of the dinosaurs.

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    • Trance
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 9:06am

      BryanB
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:34pm

      What really gets me about this women, she thinks everyone wants to be her.

      Not everyone can be a Millionaire or a Billionaire. Who would do the work this women or her kind wouldn’t do ?

      There has to be people that will sweep and mop the floors, pick-up the garbage, be teachers and nurses and so-on. These are just a few of the jobs that you will never be a Millionaire doing, yet someone has to do those jobs.

      She is definitely one of those Billionaires thats living off an inheritance, and never did or made anything on her own………
      ———

      I would say that you, and everyone who believes as you, will never become a millionaire. I grew up relatively poor, my wife is an immigrated from China. We met at work when we were 23 years old, both working as janitors. We both worked hard, and each got a promotion. We scrimped and saved for years, and bought our first house. When we sold it, we lost $19,000 on the sale. Our company had an ESOP program that took 20% of our pay for 7 years. After the 7 years they went bankrupt and took $150,000 of stock. My wife got cancer and had to quite work. I lost my job, then started a business that failed.

      I always put 15% of my pay into my 401K. We invested our money, not always wisely, but we slugged on. I have now been married for 20 years. I am now worth a little less than $1 million. BTW, we still drive the first car we bought together, a 1994 Toyota Corolla.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 9:07am

      @Chinishque
      I’m already at the end like the chicken is.People like sicboy and some of the others on here are one of the reasons why.
      Note great story and truthful.I think most working people are where the chicken is at the end of story.

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    • Trance
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 9:07am

      I know for a fact that any of those people working as janitors can become a millionaire.

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    • Todd Decker
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 9:25am

      @Chinishque — Is it OK to republish your awesome story with credit to you?

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    • Loi
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 9:33am

      Chinishque and Heeltar Thank you for that awesome story!!!!!!

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    • Jezreel
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 9:53am

      I lived in Australia as a child in the 60′s. I remember my parents talking and saying that in Australia, you are critizied and put down for working hard to be something. It is a jealousy. At that time in Australia where I lived in the Hendra Brisbane area, there was a lot of anti American sentiment, yet, if it was not for the U.S.A helping them in World War 2 keeping Japan from invading, they would be eating rice. I was happy to get back to the U.S. in 1968 and have never gone back for a visit.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 10:10am

      Alright thats it!!!!

      Raid the treasury and make everyone a millionaire today. Wait 30 days and the millionaires will be a bit richer and the poor, just as poor with a lot of junk sitting around that they bought from the rich. She is right! Thou shall not covet. Theres a darn good reason God made that one of the commandments.

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    • wmcritter
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 10:36am

      Thidwick, the Big Hearted Moose is another awesome children’s story that aptly illustrates exactly what happens when you give people a free ride. My dream is to stand up in front of Congress and read it to them, and then ask “If a child can understand this, why can’t you?”.

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    • forthepeople
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:08am

      I love what that book symbolizes and to hear other mature people refereeing to it is refreshing . I personally have bought that book at least 7 times in my life and given it to employees , business partners and family members so they can reflect its meaning . Funny thing , most that start to read it rarely finish it already recognizing where the tale / fable is going ? Sadly it rarely changes there behavior .

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    • FREEDOMoverFEAR
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:24am

      Way to go Trance at least I know there’s one man blogging here. Keep driving that corolla until the wheels fall off.

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    • FREEDOMoverFEAR
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:33am

      Ahhh BryanB are you jealous because you’re ugly, stupid, poor, and have no marketable skills. BTW this woman inherited a little less than a billion dollars and Forbes says she’s on track to being the richest person in the world. Pretty impressive.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:51am

      The “Ant and the Grasshopper” is another good story about working hard and saving, while other people lay around or play, then come looking for hand-outs when tough times come along.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:01pm

      The last sentence of the article, “she should spend less time ranting and more time sharing.”

      The big CLUE right there. People sit on their hands waiting for someone who works hard to share their wealth with those who sit and wait. Get off your arses and go to work. Only losers think this way.

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    • Xyskalla
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:04pm

      Chinishque, that was brilliant.

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:50pm

      @BryanB: I suspect from your comments you are one of those people sitting on your butt envying those who don’t. How do you know she inherited her wealth? Are you psychic? There is such a thing a s hard work and success, but all you libaturds don’t comprehend the meaning of work. You just want to keep shouting :”Gimmedat!”

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    • mattmo79
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 3:20pm

      Government employees and elected officials have forgotten their place. They work for “We The People” not the other way around. Free thinking people threaten their power base!

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    • Quickledo
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 4:30pm

      One of the childhood stories that impacted me the most, growing up, was “The Little Red Hen”. My mother would read this to me at least once a week.

      This is an updated version.

      The Little Red Hen Redux (2012)

      Once upon a time, a lamb, a cat, a pig, and a little red hen lived on an old farm on a flowery hill surrounded by fields of golden wheat. One day, the Little Red Hen found some grains of wheat scattered in the barnyard. “Look what I’ve found!” she said to the other animals. “Who will help me plant these grains of wheat?”

      “Not I!” said the lamb. “You’re taking jobs away from migrant workers who badly need them.”

      “Not I!” said the cat. “You’re betraying feminist principles by engaging in menial labor.”

      “Not I!” said the pig. “That wheat can’t be organic.”

      “Then I’ll do it myself,” said the Little Red Hen. And so she did. She knew that seeds need water to grow tall and strong. “Who will help me water these seeds?” asked the Little Red Hen.

      “Not I!” said the lamb. “You can’t use the pond water because the endangered snifflefish lives there.”

      “Not I!” said the cat. “The water usage is restricted due to the drought.”

      “Not I!” said the pig. “Your property rights do not extend to the water rights.”

      “Then I’ll do it myself,” said the Little Red Hen. And so she did. The Little Red Hen watered the soil and waited patiently for the wheat to grow. When the wheat was tal

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    • Anamah
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 7:58pm

      Bravo Gina!!! You are simply great…

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:18pm

      To anyone

      Yeah send it far and wide…glad you liked it. take a look at my poem under the Interactive Painting story. Sorry it is long…I am a recovering University Prof!

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    • Chinishque
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:20pm

      @Cemerius Yeah animal farm and 1984…I use those in the classes I teach but the liberal faculty keep trying to get me fired.

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    • FCS
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 1:35am

      You’ve got Australia about right, a European-style socialist democracy…but there’s hope, there are sane conservatives too. Sadly, even the conservatives suffer from Obama-love because they are so dumbed-down by the pathetically left-biased news media, both Television and Print…they really just don’t know any better. Republicans and Romney/Ryan are depicted as ultra-extremist conservatives and not a kind word is said about them. On the other hand, Obama and the Democratic Party are depicted in glowing and positive terms…sane, measured, smart, articulate, mistreated by right-wing Republicans – victims. To show you how bad it is, just the other day a guy who identifies himself as a conservative Australian voter told me that he believed Obama was the greatest US President ever. I was left speechless.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:24am

      Late to this because of work and children.

      This is Gina’s story…

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6glk58zXg5Q

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    • boyd9
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 11:23am

      They all read it, the problem is they are INCAPABLE of understand these stories. They have been taught what to think, not how to think and these stories just do not fit with the fantasy land they have been taught to believe in.

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    • PutMoreOnMyPlate
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:33am

      Corruption lies deeper than selfish desires~
      …
      “All right then,” said the little red hen. “I planted the seed, I cut the corn, I took it to the mill to be made into flour, and I made the bread, all by myself. I shall now share the loaf-.”
      Just then the Eagle swooped in from high above and looked at the scene of the little red hen with her delicious bread with the cat, the pig and the duck watching her and they looked very hungry.
      “Who’s bread is this?” asked the Eagle.
      “It is ours.” said the little red hen.
      “There are others that are hungry around the world.” said the Eagle. “Why aren’t you sharing this bounty with them?”
      “I can only feed so many with one loaf of bread” said the little red hen, “surely I made it is mine to share with who I can…”
      “You didn’t make that bread yourself!” said the Eagle. “Is not the land owned by all and what about the sun and the rain? Did not the community build the road on which you walked to the mill? Is not the mill a co-op built with funding from the community? And what of the gas that came through the pipeline that heated your stove to bake the bread? Is it not pumped from the ground the community owns? No, little red hen, you did not make that bread on your own and you can’t eat what you make off of your own farm.”

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    • PutMoreOnMyPlate
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:34am

      And with that statement the Eagle took the loaf of bread away from the little red hen and took to the air and flew high above circling and watching. The pig went back to wallow in his mud, the cat back to lay in the sunny spot, and the duck back to swimming in the pond. All of them bewildered at the little red hen who was then carried away by a team of police for endangering the life of others by serving food without a permit.

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  • AllLost
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:41pm

    I accept bellow standard means of living so I don’t have to work. Thank goodness the government gives me money and healthcare. How dare those who work to earn their money use loopholes in the tax code to avoid paying their fair share to me.

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    • AintLIBSjuzGreat
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 7:53am

      BryanB unlike you I looked her up .stop talking from your lowhole.get yourself fact based ,then kil yourself. thank you!

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    • Recceman90
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 8:04am

      What is sad, Most Obama supporters think that same way you posted….however they aren’t brave enough to admit it!

      Did you get you’re “Free” cell phone yet? I put in a few hours of OT this week and paid another 45% in taxes!

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    • TAXEVERYONE
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 10:19am

      BryanB, your envy and ignorance is showing.

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    • BryanB
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:51am

      @TAXEVERYONE

      @AintLIBSjuzGreat

      @Trance

      @rangerp

      @marine249

      So many User Names, but all the same person…………

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:47pm

      Work! Without work, there is no gain.

      2 Thessalonians 3:10 In fact, also, when we were with ​YOU, we used to give ​YOU​ this order: “If anyone does not want to work, neither let him eat.”11For we hear certain ones are walking disorderly among ​YOU, not working at all but meddling with what does not concern them.12To such persons we give the order and exhortation in [the] Lord Jesus Christ that by working with quietness they should eat food they themselves earn.

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    • PutMoreOnMyPlate
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:50am

      Apparently everyone that comments on here is eligible for welfare, just by commenting on here :) Be sure to bring in printed copies of your comments to the welfare office and they will process them for you as I’m pretty sure they count as keeping a blog, journal, etc… /sarc for those that take everything on here so seriously.

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  • fcbs46
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:40pm

    You got to love a working woman that tells it like it should be.

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    • boyd9
      Posted on September 1, 2012 at 11:20am

      BryanB

      There are a lot of us who are the same people you like to poke fun at. The problem for you and Obama though is that we really don’t give a crap. We have learned how to think, we have learned how to work and we have learned that we do NOT want to live on a monthly allowance that the government says it can provide, AFTER it feeds the bureaucrats of course.

      We are intelligent enough to understand that when Obama promises free stuff IT IS A LIE. Europe is absolute proof that it is a lie. If Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, etc were highly successful and prosperous countries we would not be able to say for certain that Obama is lying to you, but these countries are on the verge of financial collapse. The promises these governments made to the people in order to buy their votes have been proven to be lies. Obama is telling you the same lies yet you seem to lack the intelligence to understand that. I feel sorry for you. Hopefully there is enough intelligent life left in this country to get rid of Obama and everyone else who is willing to lie to us to obtain power over us. STOP BELIEVING THE LIE. Look around the world we live in, deal with reality. Socialism, Marxism, Progressiveism, are all just different words for the same lie.

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  • JAF
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:38pm

    Share? She is sharing! That’s what comes from creating jobs and hiring people to fill them. That’s what comes with the ripple effect those jobs create,and create and create.

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:01pm

      Agree .. but the takers in the world don’t want to work .. they want all handed to them.

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    • IntheDirt
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:35pm

      I thought of the same thing. I work hard, I have several employees, sure they don‘t make as much as I do but they don’t take the risk either. If others want me to share come do some of the work with me. It’s fun. By the way she is right, I don’t Drink, Smoke or Socialize.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:41pm

      JAF, you are so right.

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  • Mickeyd
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:36pm

    To paraphrase what I heard Joyce Meyer say about this topic: Stop complaining and and start being willing to do what those people did to get what they have.

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    • Sicboy
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:52pm

      What you didn’t hear her say is. I inherited it. SCREW YOU.

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    • designbyinspiration
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:29pm

      And sicboy, is she carrying the load and building on that fortune? Or is she squandering it and ruining the hopes and opportunities of all those she employs? Think before judging. She could TRULY say ‘screw you’, close everything down and hold her fortune close so none other may ‘share’ by effort.

      Entitlement society at its ‘best’ knocking her for success. They are the culture of failure.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 9:03am

      @sicboy
      Yes maybe she did inherit.This wasn’t her choice.She could have turned it down, but why should she its her family.Provided its truly her family and she didn’t commit fiduary fraud to obtain it.She has used the money wisely I’d say.You seem bitter at inheritence someone leave you out of a will?Got caught at your crime perhaps?

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    • michael48
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:18am

      sicboy..typical dem-wit“war on women”…if envy were money , you’d be rich, then you could hate yourself…but as it is …enjoy serfdom , it suits you well, comrade…

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:22pm

      @SICMIND
      Just because she inherited it, does not mean she has to share one red cent, of the money her ancestors labored and sweat for, with anyone else.
      I think YOU make too much money. YOU need to give some of YOUR money to those who don’t work as hard as YOU do.
      Most rich people (mainly conservatives) contribute a LOT to charity to help out those less fortunate. Even middle-class conservatives have given more than the VP of the USA. What have YOU given to charity lately?

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    • Xyskalla
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:40pm

      Sicboy, what are you saying? Are you suggesting that the government should take everything when someone dies, leaving the children with nothing? Are you saying that it’s immoral for children to inherit what their parents worked so hard to leave them? Did your parents leave you with nothing but the clothes on your back? Are you going to leave your children with nothing? Just what exactly are you trying to imply?

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  • dennisS
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:36pm

    John Gault to Gina: ” Come on in, we’re waiting for you “

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    • georgesgirl
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 9:23am

      Thats the first thing I thought. She is getting ready to leave all this cr*p and when she pulls up stakes and everyone she employs loses their job, they will say she is greedy. What sicboy doesn’t understand is how many people would have taken the inheiritance(sp) and just squandered it. She didn’t. She sees this as a family business, regardless of the size or money involved she sees this as hers to build and nurture. I am sure she gets satisfaction knowing she is providing jobs to people willing to work. I just don’t understand the sicboys of the world or where they got their worldview.

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  • TriforcePlayer
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:33pm

    God bless her

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  • oldduffer
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:31pm

    You mean (GASP) that we have to work for it? What happened to fair distribution of money by the wealthy? We‘ll just get it from Obamas’ private stash. He calls it “taxpayer”.

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:30pm

    She shoud’ve bought those members of the government, then sold them into slavery. Oh, no wait. Then she would’ve become a liberal. Sorry.

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    • Belwraith
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:13pm

      She probably is a liberal…in Australia the liberal party is the equivalent of the republican party here, they believe in liberty and many want Australia to become a republic (they are still under the Queen of England)….the party that’s like the democrats is, oddly enough, the Labour party. In Australia, you can quit you job and 2 months later collect unemployment until you choose to find yourself another job. I know plenty who collect from the government and the attitude is “you’re entitled” even though they choose to not work, send their kids off to school and play video games all day. All on the Aussie tax payers backs…and they don‘t see that what they’re doing is wrong. They just flat out don’t want to work.

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  • ChristmanWalking
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:29pm

    If I wasn’t married I would fly to AU and kiss her! Great points!

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  • Wolfgang the Gray
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:25pm

    Gina Rinehart – Good on ya, mate! That’s the way to stand up for hard work! If more people got off their arse instead of sucking on the dole, there would be more prosperity in Australia.

    If you get tired of all those taxes and socialist leeches, you’re welcome to move to the US in Jan 2013 when we get rid of stupid git in the White House.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:25pm

    its not as much working hard as thinking deep.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:31pm

      Sit home, think deep, starve

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:34pm

      Think deep, set a plan to work from, do it step by step and invest along with saving and living within your means…the classic American dream, it can be done.

      I was shown a calculation done by one of my friends when both of us were 20; his father was an investment counselor and explained to us (also confirmed by my grandparents own example of investing the same way) that if a person can invest 100.00 a month minimum in their working life until 65, they will average around 2.4-3.4 million dollars in retirement funds; often they will have higher amounts due to even larger amounts of investing as debt is eliminated and more funds can be set to that purpose.

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    • crawdad
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:05am

      $300/month at 8% over 40 years will get you near a million. Still not too shabby for investing only $144,000 of your own money.

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    • Dom321
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:01pm

      @Indiv Again, you display great LUMINOSITY. Sucks to be you… probably waiting for the next check from Dear Leader. Other people’s money does run out, you know. Then, what will you do…. You haven’t thought about that, have you? You will starve *****.

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  • phrogdriver
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:21pm

    I’m not sure what all the fuss is about. Sounds like something a mother would say to her child. And the response sounds like what you would expect from the children.

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    • fcbs46
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:37pm

      Amen

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:02pm

      Exactly .. time to elect Grown ups to government ….

      R & R 2012!

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:20pm

    Sounds like social justice has a bigger hold down under than here in the USA. Good to hear from a successful plain-speaking capitalist. Set ‘em straight, lady!

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  • DOra Glasberg
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:19pm

    She didn’t build that- her father did.

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:40pm

      Those darn kids left the basement door open again and once again crazy Aunt Dora is out.

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    • DOra Glasberg
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:47pm

      I actually read the articles

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    • grayling646
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:03pm

      Yeah, Dora. Tell’em you. I’m with you. I’m gonna give my estate to the government. To hell with the wife and kids. Ain’t that right, Dora?

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:33pm

      Even those who inherit the work of their predecessors have to work hard to maintain or strengthen the kingdom. Far too often great things are left to incompetent children who run it into the ground. From what limited knowledge I gathered from the article, she has increased what her father left her. Believing that every child of an industrialist is a spoiled brat is an all too common stereotype.

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    • Wango
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 10:05am

      DORA . . . Keep it going, honey. You’re driving the non-readers crazy. You‘r eright She didn’t build that. Reminds of the drivel we‘ve heard over the last three days about Mitt and Ann’s “tough years.” Well, let’s hear from Ann:

      “’They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income. . . . We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. The stock came from Mitt’s father.”

      Nobody know . . . da trouble I seen.

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    • THE_SUPPLANTER
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:17pm

      This conversation brings to mind the stark contrast between Dagny Taggart & James Taggart in Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged.” Gina here is a builder/producer. Yes, just like our heroine Dagny, she was an heiress to fortunes. However, also like our heroine, Gina does not simply rest on a decaying fortune, but actually builds. You will note that her wealth has GROWN. Which means, like her father she has learned how to work to become a producer, she has been building something with what she has been given.

      You will note that in 1992 when she first inherited her money, she was NOT a billionaire. But now she is, having doubled and tripled her wealth in some years. I guarantee there were plenty of jobs created (or saved) as a result of her business decisions and investments. What a selfish woman: investing in new projects, increasing production (for industries that use her ores), making so much money in one year! I say good for her! The more she makes, the more likely it is that those mines will not close, putting so many wage workers out of work. Now she just has to watch out for the jealous government seeking to shut her down for her production.

      http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Australian-tycoon-worlds-richest-woman-Report/articleshow/13408381.cms
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18196826 (she made Aus $20bn in a year… looks like she “inherited” all that wealth, right? Nope.

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    • SistaTriscuit
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:25pm

      So what if her father built the company? She inherited the company from her father and has continued to grow it and create enough wealth to put herself on track to be the wealthiest person in the world. What is the point of working hard to create something if we can’t pass it on to our children???

      You gotta love the liberal mindset – nothing but envy and greed. Gimme, gimme, gimme!

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    • Dom321
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:26pm

      Dora and Wango. May your children never inherit (whatever piece of feces you leave them, because neither of you are worth anything, other than what Dear Leader lets you have). And may they remember you as such pieces of feces that could not provide for them.

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    • usedCZARsalesman
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:36pm

      DORA/WANGO…envy is a REALLY ugly color on you guys

      If you bothered to do MORE than read the article, like research how much she inherited and then look at what she is worth now, then you would see she took a 1 billion dollar sum and turned it into 30 BILLION…will YOU be able to make a 3000% profit off whatever is left you? Idiots…

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    • Wango
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:37pm

      DUM321 . . . Now, now, now, don’t go all conservative on me and start wishing the worst on strangers.

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    • falling
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:56pm

      She inherited 75 million dollars…and then turned it into multi-billions. She didn’t do that by enjoying the good life…she works and she works hard. And in the process she has created jobs for thousands, who might otherwise have no job. In the US, there are plenty of lottery winners who have won more and turned it into nothing in less than 10 years. Inherited wealth is no guarantee of increased wealth. Plus, she didn’t not inherit everything in cash…much of the value of her inheritance was in land, equipment, etc. so yes, she DID build that!

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    • Wango
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 3:11pm

      I don’t begrudge this lady her wealth or success. Nor do I imbue her with some bootstrap fiction. She inherited $75 million. Great. And she got even richer. Fine. But that doesn’t make her Abe Lincoln. Same with Romney. They never knew financial struggle, ever. Don’t act like they did. I don’t hate or envy rich people. I am one. And yet when I turned 12 my single mom had $136 in the bank. But she managed to raise four kids. Later she had cancer, Alzheimers and a stroke. Ann Romney‘s tale of woe doesn’t impress me.

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    • usedCZARsalesman
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 5:06pm

      you a freaking joke WANGO…just not a very funny one

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    • Wango
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 5:31pm

      USEDCARSLIMEMAN . . . You smell Texan. Know how I know? Cuz I smell a punka$$ b!tch.

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    • Dom321
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 5:54pm

      @WANGO
      Quite brilliant of you distorting my handle. I am most affected!!! That is what you pieces of feces( that rhymed) do well .

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    • FREEDOMoverFEAR
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 7:03pm

      Gina Rinehart inherited a little under a billion dollars in 1992 and has since turned it into over 35 billion dollars. Pretty impressive to increase your wealth six fold in 20 years. BTW she’s extremely anti socialist and started the climate change sceptic group ANDEV, (”Australians for Northern Development & Economic Vision”)

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  • fcbs46
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:17pm

    lazy workers who drink and socialise [sic] too much.”

    My nephew works in AU and he works there because when he interviewed for a job he was told that they wanted him because he would work (unlike the locals) he has been there now almost 10 years and he has told many that even if you don’t know a job if you will work you will make money. He surpassed all of the AU’S that he works with and he claims that it is just due to the fact that he works hard at what he does. Real facts

    The same was true of a cabinetmaker who went to Hawaii. His biggest problem was to get guys to work and he paid half again as much as anyone in the islands. He left due to the frustration.

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  • Cemoto78
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:13pm

    From the comments made by the politicians in Australia, they haven’t learned a thing from this failed American experiment called Obama.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:18pm

      American and Obama are two words that mix like water and oil.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:24pm

      Well, maybe Gina Rinehart should just shut down her all of her mining interests, go buy a desert island and retire to it and leave the liberal as*wipe politicians in Australia without access to a large part of their natural resources and no tax money from Ms Rinehart.

      The world is crumbling to pieces because we have stupid politicians and their lazy constituents that have been brainwashed into thinking they are entitled to money from people who earned it. We are absolutely surrounded by monstrous fools these days.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:12pm

    She‘s got ’Smart Power’.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:11pm

    Way to go lady tell it like it is,sounds like there’s hogs in Australian government as well,they just infect governments all over the world.

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    • Belwraith
      Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:17pm

      Yes, it’s pretty much the same as it is here in America….the Prime Minister there is doing to Australia what Obama is doing to America….and the Occupy Movement is on the side of the Labour Party there (against the Liberal party….the liberal party is liberal in the original sense there….for liberty, less government intrusion etc…they’re on the right side of the spectrum)

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  • Hiswill
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:11pm

    Why all the wealth envy now? Did I have my head in the sand up until a few years ago when all this came to the forefront? I don’t remember any of this while I was growing up. If I wanted something as a teen, I’d take more babysitting jobs and save up for it. I don’t remember ever begrudging anyone else their wealth.

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    • grayling646
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:14pm

      Cut grass, washed cars, hauled hay, drove a school bus (when student’s could drive them). I was providing a good deal of my own support by 16.

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  • lessoneleg
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:11pm

    We need more people like this running the Australian Government than those limp wristed wish washy liberals.
    The inner city metrosexuals have taken over the Australian Government and flooded the population with spend crazy leftist bunk. Australia is or was a country built not from liberalism but from super industrialist enterprising Commoners who couldn’t get anywhere in the Blood Line Monarchy of the UK. Australia was built for Australians from sweat and hard work through enterprise.
    Today’s left leaning progressive liberals are freaking insulting.

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    • Bobaz
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:22pm

      I’ve always admired Australians for their hard work, their diligence and their toughness.

      It’s sad to hear that the same parasitic liberals that have destroyed the U.S. are now trying to destroy Australia.

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  • DarkJello
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:10pm

    Typical socialist philosophy.

    Weird, considering the “problem” happens to be a woman.

    So is Australia now waging a war on women?? Doh!! I said “weird” and that is racist! ;)

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:08pm

    Lower the taxes. Don’t need to work harder.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:06pm

    What a great woman, too bad the Libs will put an apple in her mouth and BBQ her. That is if they ever get off their butts and have their revolution.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:00pm

      Once some of them get just stoned enough and get hungry enough, then it’s off to the BBQ pit with her.

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  • nobull14
    Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:05pm

    Right on Lady !!!!!!! It seems they are progressive Butt Wipes all over the world.

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  • grayling646
    Posted on August 31, 2012 at 4:23am

    I think Octomom is looking for a main squeeze.

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