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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:36 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:40 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:34 am
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Iconised Ghost Nope i reckon if they have the smarts and the skills to get it, then they should keep it.
scream What skills and brains? they get paid to have fun and kiss on TV! that's not smart. Acting = fun. Athletes = fun. "Music Artists" = fun. teachers = benefit to society. acting/athlete/artists paycheck = 10000000000000000000000 benefit to society paycheck = .00000000000000000000001 That is the most unfair thing ever. If I was billionaire I would give away my money by the billions and only keep...mmmm about 3 million to myself and family. If I was a billionaire I would be able to afford rebuilding third world countries! which is exactly what I would do. and then maybe africa. fund scholarship programs. It's my dream to become a billionaire so I can do just that. If anything, all these celebrities should go back to school to learn a thing or too about what really matters in today's world. like global warming and its effects, poverty, heck the US's own recession even. Oh! They need to learn that it's their own overly luxurious life styles that are destroying the Earth. Oh there are so many things I want to say. celebrities disgust me evil well not all of them. personally I don't ever want to rich and famous cuz it screws up your life in case you haven't noticed. Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lynn Spears, Daniel Radcliffe anyone? I like Woopi though! xd Only self-repecting actor I ever saw. I watch her on the View and she's my fave biggrin I kinda respect Tyra Banks, Beyonce, and oh whats her name, the "conservative" actor who has a no nude contract whee can't remember... dark skin dark hair I think...
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:17 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:41 pm
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i think you will find that especially athletes and music artists work exceptionally hard, even if they enjoy their job. And tax is a percentage of your earnings, so if you are a teacher you are going to pay the same percentage in tax as someone earning a lot more, but less actual dollars. So if a teacher was earning about $50,000 a year, they would be paying $17,500 around about in tax (or they would be over here). If someone was earning $10000000000000000000000 like you think actors and athletes and artists do, they would be paying $3,500,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 Which is a fair amount to contribute to society i think
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:12 am
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The big numbers were exaggerations to make a point. But anyway. I still believe that the rich have a responsibility to the rest of the world. They got lucky and made it big. It's time to give back to society for real other than the sound of the voices or the images of their bodies. Sure they may pay the same proportionally speaking but in fact they are paying nothing compared to their pay checks. Sorry to bring up religion but I don't know how else to explain my view. We have this thing called The Day of Judgement in which you will be asked what you did in your life. You will be questioned about EVERYTHING, how you spent your time money and efforts etc. Now, the more you were given during your lifetime the more questions your gonna be asked. Those who are given more have more of a responsibility to give back. Why is it that those who have recieved less end up giving more back to society than those who were given more. If you wre born beautiful you are gonna be asked What did you do with your beauty? Flaunting it and using it as a weapon would be the wrong thing. covering up would have been the good thing. You were given a good home, a complete family, 2 eyes, 2 ears, a voice, 2 legs, good health. How did you use it? Soiling you eyes and ears and voice with thing you shouldn't see, hear, or speak would be the bad thing. Using your voice to make inspirational speaches would have been the good thing. Using you eyes, legs, and hands to pick up trash while you walk would have been the good thing. You were given good health. Polluting your body with alcohol and drugs would have been the bad thing. Staying in shape and treating yourself right would have been the good thing. The point is you will be asked about EVERYTHING. the more you have now, the more questions you will be asked later. Money makes the world go round, and celebrities and other rich people have tons of money. They have the power to make change for the better but they don't. at least not as much as they should. What good is it for a billionaire to donate 1 million to charities. it means nothing. if you're a billionaire, 1 million is nothing. The rich have more of a responsibility to this world than any other people (your smarts? did you waste it or did you do something meaningful with your life). It stumps me why they don't do more. Doesn't anyone agree with me that the rich should do more than just pose for the camera and laugh on TV? Doesn't anyone agree that limits in paycheck should be pushed onto them? SO much good could be done with that money, but it's wasted in the pockets of brainless and careless actors and athletes. I find it all so sad.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:59 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:49 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:22 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:20 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:53 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:05 pm
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oHNo3 I think it'd be nice if the rich did that on their own, but I think I doubt it'd be something the government would do to them. Officials would be too worried about what would happen come time for elections. It seems natural for us to be upset about it cause we're on the other end of the stick watching them get richer while we and others constantly struggle, but that's life, I guess. I see where you're coming from cause in a way, it bugs me how our country is always trying to assist other countries when our own citizens need help themselves. We have homeless people, we have starving children, we have natural disasters that displace ppl from there homes.. Why can't we fix what's wrong here first before trying to help another country fix what's wrong there. I mean, I know it doesn't sound nice, but I've always been told you need to be strong for yourself before you can be strong for someone else. It just doesn't make sense to me, but I guess it's all in the game of politics.
But we should give some of them credit.. not all of them horde. There are lots of them that donate to charitable causes. It just doesn't feel that way because there are so many people out there that need help popping up every day.
i agree, you need to fix problems at home first, before you go around trying to fix everyone elses. its why i would never donate money to something like the 40 hour famine, i would rather donate to our own salvation army or other charities in my own country
Some celebrities do donate some of their money- didnt angelina jolie and brad pitt donate something like $1.3 million from their baby photos?
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:55 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:24 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:26 am
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