Do rich people create jobs?

Could someone PLEASE tell this to that lunatic loud-mouth Rick Santelli over at CNBC?!

Finally, a true capitalist decides it's time to tell it like it is. Thank you Mr. Hanauer!

Ok all you lasse-faire, free-market, Ayn Rand, economic hacks - just try to explain to me why this is wrong, and I'll show you emperical evidence why this is 100% accurate.

I dare you. And don't simply call me a "Socialist" or "wealth redistributing Commie" or what ever the insult du jour is that you label people who don't agree with you. Give me logical progression from conceptual ideology to actual measurable outcomes with examples and we can discuss. But please save your childish, narcissistic insults. I promise I love this country just as much as you do. I also promise that I believe that hard work is the only true way to success, wealth and happiness, so don't call me "lazy" or imply that I "just want a handout" because I'm not and I don't.

In the words of the late, great Rodney Dangerfield...."Well​.....we're waiting...."

Once again, there's no point in debating the question if it's the wrong question. Innovators and practically creative people do create new products and/or new ways of making existing products better or cheaper. These people create the products that drive consumers, without which there is relatively little to drive further consumption. These people are sometimes rich, sometimes not, so it's the wrong question.

And even if consumers drive the economy--which I won't argue with--consumers who have no job are likely to be extremely frugal. So their argument is like pointing to a spot on a circle and saying "that's where the circle begins!".

Mr. Hanauer is correct and anyone with basic economics training will know this.  As long as we continue the way we are, only the rich will get richer while the country will loose democracy and poverty will spread among the majority of the population.

We must change the way government works, because now the rich control the government and they have no reason to make changes.  Both major political parties cater to the rich and neither one care what happens to anyone else. 

Constitutional amendments' that allow only public funding of campaigns with no outside financing and term limits on federal and state elected officials, including judges will help give more control to the average person. If we do as our forefathers wanted to do in the first place and elect House members to 3  year terms, then we can have elections each year where one third of the House and one sixth of the Senate is elected each year.  Also we need to allow publicly proposed laws on major issues with public votes each year so that the people can express their opinion rather than just those who can afford large donations to political parties and individual law makers.

"Raising taxes on businesses will just drive them overseas"

The small local business will move overseas? What percentage of business will move overseas? I thought that small business were the job creators according to conservatives. These individuals will go overseas? Raising the taxes of a CEO will drive business overseas?

Yes, life is about the pursuit of small bright shiney trinkets in this God fearing nation.