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First, they came for the bailed-out bankers' bonuses, and I did not speak out, because I wasn't a banker.
Then they came for the hedge fund managers' tax loophole, and I did not speak out, because I wasn't a hedge fund manager.
Then they came for novelist Danielle Steel's hedges, and finally I did speak out, because I know her, and I'm a knighta literal knight of the Kingdom of Norwayso I thought I'd get on my high horse and charge forth in her defense.
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Others have. Buyout-king (and actual-billionaire) Steven Schwarzman has said that Obama's plan to tax the income of venture capitalists, hedge fund and private equity mangers like everybody else's, and not as capital gains, is like Hitler invading Poland. And hedge funder (another actual billionaire) Leon Cooperman has pointed out that you know who else came to power amidst an economic crisis. And no, he wasn't talking about Ronald Reagan.
Great read
I snorted and chortled multiple times reading this.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)own fear of things changing for them---the greater the degree of MSM Fear Based BS---the more fear and the more I ignore.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)Only that Hitler was bad; they think President Obama is bad, ergo Hitler=Obama.
If they had stayed awake in history class instead of daydreaming about going for their MBA, and jerking off to Atlas Shrugged, they would know that Hitler allied himself to corporations, instead of opposing them. Government allied to corporate power and advocating strident militarism is all that fascism is. Sound familiar?
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)They give money to new "hot" tech companies to keep them afloat until they can take it to ipo, pump it, dump it, and let the 401ks of the working stiffs eat it.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)considered "lesser" they they are.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)The 1% are above the law including Goodwin's law