Qtec
10-03-2011, 01:19 AM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Apparently Rich Lowry makes more than a quarter of a million dollars every year. And like so many of his poor, working class neighbors, he's just barely scraping by. Via Harold Pollack here's Lowry on a recent blogginheads:
<span style="color: #990000">He [Buffett] should give all his wealth away. . . . come move to Westchester County. Move to McLean, Virginia. Move to the suburbs of San Francisco with his wife. Adopt a couple of young kids, so he has a young family again. Make arrangements so that he only makes $250,000 every year. And then let's see how he likes being lumped in with millionaires and billionaires, as the President does.
And see how he feels about seeing his taxes increased, when he actually has to worry about expenses!</span> </div></div>
Reality.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O1mEXb44THs/ToXh2TEZT8I/AAAAAAAACWM/gX7hSHYSDog/s1600/2005_income_distribution.gif
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Indeed, he's such a putz that Richie Rich doesn't even know he's rich. In fact,he thinks he just regular middle class guy trying to make expenses. And having trouble doing it! Indeed, he is the very embodiment of the average American. Well except for the fact that he has a whole lot more money.
This is the primary Village conceit, my friends. Recall:
This is the permanent DC ruling class who have managed to convince themselves that they are simple, puritanical, bourgeois burghers and farmers, even though they are actually celebrity millionaires influencing the most powerful government on earth.
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>It's about their phoniness, their pretense of speaking for "average Americans" when it's clear they haven't the vaguest clue even about the average Americans who work in their local Starbucks or drive their cabs. </span></div></div>
Like to see how this guy makes out on $350 a week UE.
Q....... link (http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/richie-rich-and-buffet-rule.html)
<span style="color: #990000">He [Buffett] should give all his wealth away. . . . come move to Westchester County. Move to McLean, Virginia. Move to the suburbs of San Francisco with his wife. Adopt a couple of young kids, so he has a young family again. Make arrangements so that he only makes $250,000 every year. And then let's see how he likes being lumped in with millionaires and billionaires, as the President does.
And see how he feels about seeing his taxes increased, when he actually has to worry about expenses!</span> </div></div>
Reality.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O1mEXb44THs/ToXh2TEZT8I/AAAAAAAACWM/gX7hSHYSDog/s1600/2005_income_distribution.gif
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Indeed, he's such a putz that Richie Rich doesn't even know he's rich. In fact,he thinks he just regular middle class guy trying to make expenses. And having trouble doing it! Indeed, he is the very embodiment of the average American. Well except for the fact that he has a whole lot more money.
This is the primary Village conceit, my friends. Recall:
This is the permanent DC ruling class who have managed to convince themselves that they are simple, puritanical, bourgeois burghers and farmers, even though they are actually celebrity millionaires influencing the most powerful government on earth.
<span style='font-size: 14pt'>It's about their phoniness, their pretense of speaking for "average Americans" when it's clear they haven't the vaguest clue even about the average Americans who work in their local Starbucks or drive their cabs. </span></div></div>
Like to see how this guy makes out on $350 a week UE.
Q....... link (http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/richie-rich-and-buffet-rule.html)