Gina Rinehart: Proof that being a greedly, selfish thoughtless billionaire is not unique to America
The story:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/drink-less-more-billionaire-tells-152654355.html
'Drink Less, Work More', Billionaire Tells Non-Rich
By Robert Frank | CNBC – Thu, Aug 30, 2012 11:26 AM EDT..
Gina Rinehart seems to court controversy - from her family lawsuits to her battles with Australian media.
Now, the Australian mining heiress, worth $19 billion and earlier this year thought to be the world's richest woman, has sparked another controversy in her latest column in Australian Resources and Investment magazine. (Yes, I am a registered reader online.) Rinehart rails against class warfare and says the non-rich should stop attacking the rich and go to work.
"There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire," she writes. "If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working."
The comments were part of a treatise on what she sees as Australia's decline due to high taxes, high wages and over-regulation. Rinehart said taxes should fall, red tape should be cut, environmental rules relaxed and the minimum wage should be lowered. (It's currently AUS $15.06 an hour or $606 a week, about the same in U.S. dollars).
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Okay, first things first.
"Heiress"? You mean this idiot never had to work a day in her life? That she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth thanks not to what she did, but into what family she was born?
Are you freakin' serious? A woman who would never have to work a day in her life and yet enjoy billions of dollars taking poor people to task because she thinks they don't work hard enough?
Secondly, this woman who has never had to work a day in her life is out there advocating for those with the very lowest of incomes to be paid less? So work more, get paid less? How exactly is that supposed to work, Gina?
WHAT A BITCH.
(I tend to shy away from that term, but in this case, it is truly deserving. Possibly a few other terms as well.....)
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