# This is why the 1% should be made into catfood
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 22, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781 "2011-11-22T19:05:28Z")
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/1 "2011-11-22T19:05:28Z")
This is why there is so much anger at the super rich who crashed the economy and were never held accountable:
[Ex-AIG Chairman Hank Greenberg Sues US Government for $25 Billion Over Bailout](http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/22/aig-greenberg-lawsuit-idUSN1E7AK20520111122)
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> A company run by former American International Group Inc Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg sued the U.S. government for $25 billion, calling the 2008 federal takeover of the insurer unconstitutional.
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> The lawsuit marks an unusual effort to force the government to pay shareholders, who have seen AIG’s stock price tumble 98 percent since the middle of 2007, when the insurer’s risky bets on mortgage debt through credit default swaps began to falter.
The terms of the bailout were approved by the board of directors of AIG, with Greenberg as chairman, in September of 2008. Without it, AIG would be bankrupt, and its stock would be worthless. Now, Greenberg is having buyers remorse, and is trying to hold up the Treasury for $25 billion for the aggrieved stockholders of AIG.
Well, fuck you Hank. You should be in prison, or better yet, in cans of Meow Mix.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/2 "2011-11-22T19:24:23Z")
Fuck that. My cat has standards.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/3 "2011-11-22T19:55:17Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> Fuck that. My cat has standards.
Yeah, the tin should be able to say “CONTAINS NO ASS.”
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/4 "2011-11-22T20:13:13Z")
So, there was this little old lady, sold homemade bagels on a street corner, dollar a piece. Respectable bagels, pretty fair. A young man went by her stand every day, on his way to rabbinical school, and he would walk by, place a dollar on the table, but not take a bagel. The little old bagel lady never said a word.
After about two years of this, one day the young rabbi walked by, same thing, left a dollar and walked on. Finally, she spoke.
“The bagels are a dollar and a quarter, now.”
Until today, this story defined _chutzpah_, so far as I was concerned. I will amend.
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### Author:  [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/5 "2011-11-22T20:38:15Z")
My cats would turn their noses up at his stench. At least mice are cute.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/6 "2011-11-22T21:36:52Z")
Well, I could see why this might justify turning this particular idiot into cat food, but why does this translate into the rest of the “1%”? Do you envision that this is some sort of across the board representation of 10’s of thousands of people? Seems a bit like saying ‘well, black people should all be turned into cat food because this one guy did something stupid!’…no?
-XT
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/7 "2011-11-22T21:44:33Z")
> [@xtisme](#):
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> Seems a bit like saying ‘well, black people should all be turned into cat food because this one guy did something stupid!’…no?
If you can’t see a distinction between someone who chooses to destroy the economy for their own personal gain, and someone born with black skin, well, I don’t think any debate is possible.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/8 "2011-11-22T21:45:21Z")
What I see is someone trying to judge an entire group by the actions of a few people (or in this case, one individual). And that sounds VERY familiar to me…
(If you wanted to debate the issue you’d have put this in GD in any case)
-XT
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### Author:  [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/9 "2011-11-22T21:45:37Z")
Weird. My Bengal, Princess, only eats Fancy Feast. Something about eating the poor or some such.
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/10 "2011-11-22T21:48:34Z")
> [@xtisme](#):
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> What I see is someone trying to judge an entire group by the actions of a few people (or in this case, one individual). And that sounds VERY familiar to me…
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> (If you wanted to debate the issue you’d have put this in GD in any case)
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> -XT
Yes, and that “entire group” is composed of the ultra-rich who profited while the economy crumbled around our ears and ruined people’s lives and livelihoods. They have more in common than a random physical trait.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/11 "2011-11-22T21:57:56Z")
And they are all equally guilty of doing bone headed stuff like trying to sue the government over the bailout, so are all folks who really need to be turned into ‘cat food’, right? I mean, all the doctors and lawyers and all the other folks who make over (IIRC) $500k/year. Warren Buffet for instance (though he doesn’t make that much of course, since he relies on investments to generate funds, not a salary), right? Soros? Yeah, they should all be painted with the same broad brush, obviously…
-XT
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/12 "2011-11-22T22:11:18Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> If you can’t see a distinction between someone who chooses to destroy the economy for their own personal gain, and someone born with black skin, well, I don’t think any debate is possible.
Please provide some evidence that all top income earners in the country “[chose] to destroy the economy for their own personal gain.”
> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Yes, and that “entire group” is composed of the ultra-rich who profited while the economy crumbled around our ears and ruined people’s lives and livelihoods. They have more in common than a random physical trait.
Please provide some evidence that all top income earners in the country “profited while the economy crumbled…”
kthx
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/13 "2011-11-22T22:23:23Z")
> [@xtisme](#):
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> Well, I could see why this might justify turning this particular idiot into cat food, but why does this translate into the rest of the “1%”?
I tend to agree with your point. Perhaps someone would care to make the same argument to the mainstream media, who have spent much of the past few weeks trying to pass off a few violent people as representative of the whole Occupy movement.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/14 "2011-11-22T22:25:49Z")
And I agree with you there…people trying to paint ANY group of people with the same broad brush are making the same mistake. There’s only two things I hate in this world…people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch!!
-XT
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/15 "2011-11-22T22:31:02Z")
> [@xtisme](#):
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> …and the Dutch!!
Well that goes without saying.
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### Author:  [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/16 "2011-11-22T23:03:24Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> If you can’t see a distinction between someone who chooses to destroy the economy for their own personal gain, and someone born with black skin, well, I don’t think any debate is possible.
You think every person in the “1%” has chosen to destroy the economy for their personal gain, and should be killed? Literally?
If so, go fuck yourself. Even if you’re kidding, go fuck yourself. I know several people who have founded successful companies and greatly _improved_ the economy by inventing technologies that have helped make your life better, you miserable little shit. The world would be a worse place if they weren’t in it, unquestionably. Don’t confuse people who have their wealth because of hard work, dedication and the creation of actual products with these unscrupulous financiers.
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### Author:  [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/17 "2011-11-22T23:06:20Z")
> [@xtisme](#):
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> Well, I could see why this might justify turning this particular idiot into cat food, but why does this translate into the rest of the “1%”? Do you envision that this is some sort of across the board representation of 10’s of thousands of people?
I agree.
My general feeling is the Occupy Movement missed the target with the whole 1% thing. Focusing their ire on Wall Street was good, but equating 1% to Wall Street has been and is off the mark.
For example, Steve Jobs, should not be ground into cat food. He is not responsible for the economic meltdown. Quite the opposite actually (well not JUST him, but you know).
Furthermore, plenty of 1%ers are willing to pay more in taxes and “pay their fair share.”
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/18 "2011-11-22T23:10:54Z")
Where is Judge Lynch when you really need him?
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/19 "2011-11-23T02:15:26Z")
Well, this thread has certainly opened my eyes. I guess its true what they say, about how liberals are just as intolerant. Maybe that’s why they keep saying it.
Who knows, maybe there is some tragic medical reason why the Koch Brothers rise in the night to feed on the blood of the living, I don’t know.
And then there’s the turnaround, like Bill Gates, who may very well have made a major contribution to the eradication of malaria. Bless his heart, he really does mean well!
Seems like he found the laughing light right after he got married. Behold, the healing power of nookie! Men are wise who are worshipful. But i obsess…
Who knows, really. Maybe I would find them perfectly decent people, if I knew any. Nah.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-the-1-should-be-made-into-catfood/603781/20 "2011-11-23T02:44:25Z")
And maybe they would let you weed their organic gardens…
Naw. :p. On the other hand, they might let you, um, feed the cat.
-XT
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