There are millions of people working multiple part-time jobs and living in rented trailers who will hear some billionaire's sob story about how the evil Demoncrats are coming for his money, and those impoverished souls will side with the billionaire. After all, asking him to pay 2% of his net worth above $500 million is exactly like the government confiscating your trailer AND your tattoos. And you wouldn't want that, now, would you?
Won’t Someone Please Think Of The Billionaires doesn’t have much of a ring to it, but I expect to see something like it on a bumper sticker or T-shirt in 2020.
In Which Yet Another Crack-Brain'd Billionaire Wants To Turn The USA Into A Private "Hunting The Poors" Preserve, Sentiments Be Damn'd, Part The Way Too Numerous To Mention
Cooperman likes to think of himself as a measured, even-handed guy who just happens to have gotten rich by making lots of money producing not a damn thing. (Fun with math: Cooperman is worth $3.4 billion. You, too, could be worth that if you started making a million dollars a month in 1736.) To show how bipartisan and unbiased he is he peppers his "letters" with phrases like "class warfare," "soak-the-rich," and "bloated entitlement programs."
Or, "Your villification of the rich is misguided, ignoring, among other things, the sources of their wealth" -- yeah, innovations like credit default swaps, insider trading, rigged Abacus deals, or, say, Daddy's real estate fortune.
Regarding Warren, he told Politico that all he wants to do is "elevate the dialogue" because "this is the fucking American dream she is shitting on." At least he didn't bring up Steve Jobs, the perennial poster-boy for billionaires, who could at least be said to have actually produced something.
Only Champagne Socialists Indulging in the Politics of Envy criticise Billionaires who Care, I know. But after a glass or three of Prosecco, I just can't seem to help myself.
I wish someone (I'll volunteer if I can bring along a few friends) would hold down Cooperman and read to him Chapter Four of Dean Baker's "Rigged," on waste in the financial sector (*cough* hedge funds *cough*) complete with charts and graphs and footnotes showing how good it would be for the economy to eliminate that waste - $460-636 billion estimated in 2015, no doubt even more now. These guys don't produce anything except fees for enabling transactions that could be carried out more efficiently without their skimming. Far more than Obama ever did, Warren has their number and they know it. I hope his tears reflect his inner conviction that the day is coming when he and his fat cat buddies get regulated down to size.
It is sad that this rings true. I feel like those characters in John Carpenter's They Live who put on the glasses and see the aliens for what they are.
There are millions of people working multiple part-time jobs and living in rented trailers who will hear some billionaire's sob story about how the evil Demoncrats are coming for his money, and those impoverished souls will side with the billionaire. After all, asking him to pay 2% of his net worth above $500 million is exactly like the government confiscating your trailer AND your tattoos. And you wouldn't want that, now, would you?
Won’t Someone Please Think Of The Billionaires doesn’t have much of a ring to it, but I expect to see something like it on a bumper sticker or T-shirt in 2020.
Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, this guy.
The mind boggles.
In Which Yet Another Crack-Brain'd Billionaire Wants To Turn The USA Into A Private "Hunting The Poors" Preserve, Sentiments Be Damn'd, Part The Way Too Numerous To Mention
Billions aren't enough. They really do want us to kiss their ass.
It's only class warfare when the peasants fight back.
Cooperman likes to think of himself as a measured, even-handed guy who just happens to have gotten rich by making lots of money producing not a damn thing. (Fun with math: Cooperman is worth $3.4 billion. You, too, could be worth that if you started making a million dollars a month in 1736.) To show how bipartisan and unbiased he is he peppers his "letters" with phrases like "class warfare," "soak-the-rich," and "bloated entitlement programs."
Or, "Your villification of the rich is misguided, ignoring, among other things, the sources of their wealth" -- yeah, innovations like credit default swaps, insider trading, rigged Abacus deals, or, say, Daddy's real estate fortune.
Regarding Warren, he told Politico that all he wants to do is "elevate the dialogue" because "this is the fucking American dream she is shitting on." At least he didn't bring up Steve Jobs, the perennial poster-boy for billionaires, who could at least be said to have actually produced something.
No one should be a billionaire.
Only Champagne Socialists Indulging in the Politics of Envy criticise Billionaires who Care, I know. But after a glass or three of Prosecco, I just can't seem to help myself.
I wish someone (I'll volunteer if I can bring along a few friends) would hold down Cooperman and read to him Chapter Four of Dean Baker's "Rigged," on waste in the financial sector (*cough* hedge funds *cough*) complete with charts and graphs and footnotes showing how good it would be for the economy to eliminate that waste - $460-636 billion estimated in 2015, no doubt even more now. These guys don't produce anything except fees for enabling transactions that could be carried out more efficiently without their skimming. Far more than Obama ever did, Warren has their number and they know it. I hope his tears reflect his inner conviction that the day is coming when he and his fat cat buddies get regulated down to size.
It is sad that this rings true. I feel like those characters in John Carpenter's They Live who put on the glasses and see the aliens for what they are.