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Related: About this forumFox’s Tucker Carlson: Poor people get ‘consumed with envy’ of the 1 percent
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/02/foxs-tucker-carlson-poor-people-get-consumed-with-envy-of-the-1-percent/Foxs Tucker Carlson: Poor people get consumed with envy of the 1 percent
By David Edwards
Sunday, February 2, 2014 9:54 EST
The host of ABCs reality show Shark Tank over the weekend told the poor people of the world that they should be thanking capitalism for making their situation better.
After Oxfam found that the worlds 85 richest people had a as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people, Kevin OLeary had applauded the report as fantastic news.
This is a great thing because it inspires everybody, and gets them the motivation to look up to the 1 per cent and say, I want to become one of those people. Im going to fight hard and get up to the top, he said on a Canadian news program.
On Sunday, OLeary insisted to Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he did not think that income disparity was a good thing, but defended his comments.
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Fox’s Tucker Carlson: Poor people get ‘consumed with envy’ of the 1 percent (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Feb 2014
OP
I've been calling this douchebag "Tucker the Fucker" for a long time.. n/t
unhappycamper
Feb 2014
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Turbineguy
(38,287 posts)1. Fox viewers
eat this shit up. It's just one more imaginary sin the poor are guilty of.
CurtEastPoint
(19,141 posts)2. Says heirboy to Swanson fortune. Tucker = Fucker.
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)3. I've been calling this douchebag "Tucker the Fucker" for a long time.. n/t
ScootersPixiePie
(20 posts)4. love DU
I learn so much on these boards. I didn't know this Swanson "fun fact" about the bow-tied boob.
Good morning friends
EarthyMama
notemason
(572 posts)5. “Envy”
is all the 1% left for the poor.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)6. Seems to me they envy each other
a lot more than we 99% envy their greedy and corrupted lifestyles. I'd rather be poor (good thing, since I am).