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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Human Snorenado on April 20, 2009, 04:55:26 PM

Title: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 20, 2009, 04:55:26 PM
Indeed, "the wail of the 1%". (http://nymag.com/news/businessfinance/56151/)

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“I’m not giving to charity this year!” one hedge-fund analyst shouts into the phone, when I ask about Obama’s planned tax increases. “When people ask me for money, I tell them, ‘If you want me to give you money, send a letter to my senator asking for my taxes to be lowered.’ I feel so much less generous right now. If I have to adopt twenty poor families, I want a thank-you note and an update on their lives. At least Sally Struthers gives you an update.”

Oh my.
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Eric P on April 20, 2009, 04:56:50 PM
i wish i were rich enough to have these concerns
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Tauntaun on April 20, 2009, 05:01:04 PM
wow, what a douche.  smh
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 20, 2009, 05:03:27 PM
How will he survive with only ONE powerboat?
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on April 20, 2009, 05:11:12 PM
We'll we cant all be Joe Biden when it comes to giving to charity.

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife gave an average of $369 a year to charity during the past decade, his tax records show.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign today released 10 years' worth of tax returns for Biden, a senator from Delaware, and his wife Jill, a community college instructor. The Bidens reported earning $319,853 last year, including $71,000 in royalties for his memoir, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics.
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Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 20, 2009, 05:19:02 PM
well, that was a non sequitur

then again, libertarianism is pretty much the definition of a political non sequitur
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on April 20, 2009, 05:19:57 PM
I'm just suggesting that maybe hedge fund fat cats are taking a cue from our VP.
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 20, 2009, 05:23:47 PM
Quote from: FlameOfCallandor on April 20, 2009, 05:19:57 PM
I'm just suggesting that maybe hedge fund fat cats are taking a cue from our VP.

How, by earning 300k?
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 20, 2009, 05:38:35 PM
the fact that these companies would have failed without billions of dollars in taxpayer injections seems completely lost on everyone in this article
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Bloodwake on April 20, 2009, 05:42:41 PM
There ya go. Fuck charities when people need it the most. I'm more concerned about my taxes. I can't buy the Lamborghini I was looking at this year because of the taxes.

Cry me a mother fucking river.
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on April 20, 2009, 06:09:13 PM
the more things change, the more they stay the same. (http://www.amazon.com/reader/0609804618?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=sib_books_pg&qid=1240261316&query=Evil%20Bloated%20Plutocrats#reader)*




*Must be signed in with an Amazon account.
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Don Flamenco on April 20, 2009, 06:12:39 PM
The world is a mean sonuvabitch
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Kara on April 20, 2009, 08:17:54 PM
Quote from: Willco on April 20, 2009, 05:03:27 PM
How will he survive with only ONE powerboat?

hey man do you know how much insurance on a ferrari is?
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 20, 2009, 08:27:46 PM
I'm prepared to give back 90% of my $1 Million bonus. Can I get that million dollars now, plz?
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 20, 2009, 08:32:07 PM
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No one complains when Julia Roberts pulls down $25 million per movie or A-Rod has a $300 million guarantee.

This just in: No one complains about A-Rod making a lot of money when he fails to produce. The complaining you may have thought you heard were just illusions, it's all in your head. Woooo!
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Kestastrophe on April 20, 2009, 08:36:34 PM
according to their logic, that extra money that is left over from charitable contributions should lead to more trickle down :smug
Title: Re: 2G2D watch: These idiots still haven't gotten it yet...
Post by: Dickie Dee on April 20, 2009, 08:37:47 PM
Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on April 20, 2009, 05:38:35 PM
the fact that these companies would have failed without billions of dollars in taxpayer injections seems completely lost on everyone in this article

I think performance and compensation have been so divorced from each other for so long, they really are incapable of understanding it.