Crybabies of the 1 Percent: The Rich Complain While Getting Away With Everything

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/culture/crybabies-1-percent-rich-complain-while-getting-away-everything




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All this brings to mind the recent controversy over Tom Perkins’ remarks, comparing animosity toward the rich to the kind of hatred that eventually culminated in the genocidal persecution of the Jews by the Nazis. Perkins’ absurd exaggeration elicited a storm of condemnation, and rightly so.

Perkins’ remarks (which have been echoed by various other 1 percenters) point to the real affluenza, rather than the fake syndrome conjured up by an expert witness to help get a rich kid off the hook for four homicides. The real affluenza is the failure of the rich to appreciate that their special privileges – such as the privilege of operating under what is, from a practical perspective, a substantially different justice system than everyone else – must come at a price.

That price is paid in the form of the growing contempt of their fellow citizens, a contempt that grows in proportion to the ever-increasing gap in America between the children of privilege and everyone else.

[Laelth]

1. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[hobbit709]

2. There's two numbers these clowns need to think about. 1789 and 1917.

the first one got them shortened and the second one got them shot.
If they want to act like modern day Bourbons and Romanovs then they need to remember what happened to them.

[jwirr]

6. They have rewritten history and don't even know what these dates refer to. When you are that rich

you think you do not have to learn about history. One idea they should learn though is "History repeats itself."

[marmar]

3. k/r

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. DU Rec

[Gothmog]

5. The 1% are hurting their case

They need to shut up

[Nye Bevan]

7. Well, to be fair, in the USA there are 3.14 million people in the 1%.

And we really don't hear anything from the vast majority of this number.