5 Signs America’s Super-Rich Are Going Off the Deep End
http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-signs-americas-super-rich-are-going-deep-end
1. The rich are mouthing off in epic rants.
They’re going on talk shows, writing editorials, bitching and moaning, and taking every opportunity to tell us just how fed up they are.
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2. The Ivy League apologists are out ‘splainin’ in full force.
Harvard’s Greg Mankiw is America’s most shameless defender of the 1 percent (just in case you didn’t know that about him, he wrote a paper titled, “ Defending the One Percent”). You can rely upon the chairman and professor of economics at Harvard and former Mitt Romney advisor to pontificate about why the megarich are smarter and more creative than you and not deserving of your ire. Mankiw just published an op-ed in the New York Times describing the risks our brave gazillionaire “superheroes” take to promote the public good.
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3. A new field of psychology is emerging to treat the uberwealthy.
Being loaded is a load to bear, evidently. A recent article in Mother Jones outlines new trends in psychotherapy emerging to deal with this overwhelming burden.
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4. They’re barricading themselves in.
It is a perennial problem for the super-rich that once you’ve got the loot, you’ve got to guard it. In a February 15 New York Times blog, economists Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev report that America now has as many private security guards as high school teachers.
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These people deem it more cost effective if I dropped dead, so forgive me if I have the same feelings towards them. Not pro assassination, I just wouldn't piss on em if they were on fire.
I hope it is nightmares of angry 99%ers coming to get them that keep them awake at night.
Same reason I sing "Piggies" by the Beatles (along with "roll the union on" by Seeger) at the top of my lungs while I commute to work through the obscenely rich section of town. 
in the theater. Yet whatever scared them is still scaring them, I am guessing. Not much of a solution.
Or the guillotine of the Sans-Culotte in France, who made up the bulk of the forces on the Left in the French Revolution. At first it was ok, beheading the tyrants and all. But in the end their leaders and thousands of them were also beheaded, and the wealthy took over.
Oops. Not much of a solution there, either.
It's an interesting problem. You are thinking about the piggies. They are also thinking about themselves (believe me when I tell you that you are invisible in their world - they would NEVER think about us) .
Who does that leave to think about you?
(This guy, was thinking about you, and them...maybe if the French hadn't ignored him back in 1550.... People think this is a NEW problem?)
Please don't fool yourself. The wealthy aren't afraid of us at all, and most everyone, deep inside, know that. All these little rabble rousers running around talking about guillotines and crap are mostly just ignorant of history. While it might be possible to depose them at the point of a gun, there is a reason that Rockefeller is quoted as saying "The time to make money is when there is blood running in the streets".
The wealthy see revolution as a buying opportunity. That's why they laugh and throw McDonald's applications down on protestors. They aren't afraid of you, of us, at all. They know we are too dull to be of any real threat, and nearly any solution that those now in servitude come up with is going to be done inside the limits they have set, and the most violent can be easily controlled with their military and police, the NSA, the government.
If you really want to change things, you will also need a union that worked toward giving you control like the Industrial Unions. Make business come to you, on your terms. It's a lot harder, and you will probably get killed before it gets better. It's easy to walk out of the field, much harder to leave the apparent safety of the Master's house. Regardless, until one commits to that, they will never end their servitude.
They don't teach this stuff much of anywhere public, but if you get a chance (probably in a nearby university library) you may want to read
Them and Us:The Struggles of a Rank-and-File Union - by James J. Matles & James Higgins
or
The Autobiography of Mother Jones by Jones (Mother Jones), Mary Harris
These are their songs, http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/iww.html
I like The Preacher and the Slave ("Pie in the Sky"
and perhaps this: http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2012/05/its-21st-century-but-house-negro-is.html#.UwUfsmfyOsQ
The study of these will give you a whole different idea about Unions, who is your friend and who isn't, about slavery and servitude.
Heck, it might change your tune.
that whether you like what you hear or not, or choose to learn from it or not, you will still be treated better here than
by any of the people you threaten with a .44 in your little ditty
of beauty. Well done, Flobee1.
they may soon employ professional tasters. 
All soft and tender. No calluses either!
FEED ME THE 1%!!!!!
That was my first thought, but most here know my intellectual proclivities. 
I was an exec admin for many years & it was sickening the salaries & stock options they would grant themselves. Some of them serve on each other's Boards. Some Board members were original investors of the founders & they wanted their payoff. One company I worked at, Board members got paid $5-7k a a meeting for 4-5 meetings a year, all expenses paid for by the company, of course. Some of these guys sat on multiple boards. What a fucking scam. It's a sordid affair & then they all pat themselves on the back & say what great business people & investors they are. I worked with only one CEO who had any integrity at all.
on edit: $35k a year to attend 5 meetings. 
And it's not like these companies were doing really great. Only a few were.
