Ken Langone, Top Christie Donor And Home Depot Co-Founder, Makes Hitler Comparison

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

Ken Langone, Top Christie Donor And Home Depot Co-Founder, Makes Hitler Comparison
The Huffington Post | by Paige Lavender
Posted: 03/18/2014 9:10 am EDT Updated: 03/18/2014 9:59 am EDT

Ken Langone, a GOP megadonor and the co-founder of Home Depot, made a questionable Adolf Hitler comparison while looking at political trends ahead of 2016.

In an interview with Politico published Tuesday, Langone warned of populist rhetoric against the wealthy, recalling "what Hitler was saying in Germany":

In two-dozen interviews, the denizens of Wall Street and wealthy precincts around the nation said they are still plenty worried about the shift in tone toward top earners and the popularity of class-based appeals. On the right, the rise of populists including Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz still makes wealthy donors eyeing 2016 uncomfortable. But wealthy Republicans — who were having a collective meltdown just two months ago — also say they see signs that the political zeitgeist may be shifting back their way and hope the trend continues.

“I hope it’s not working,” Ken Langone, the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot and major GOP donor, said of populist political appeals. “Because if you go back to 1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany. You don’t survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on envy or jealousy.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/18/ken-langone-hitler_n_4984965.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[blackspade]

1. What a tool

[octoberlib]

2. Oh, puh-leeze.

Wealthy people seem to be the ones intent on inciting a class war with their inflammatory comments. Sociopathic whiners, all of them.

[KamaAina]

3. The Rug Doctor and Carnival Cruz are populists?

In what universe?

Wait! I think I hear something. Yup, it's Battling Bob LaFollette spinning in his grave.

[WinstonSmith4740]

4. If I'm not mistaken...

This is the same jerk-off who royally screwed his ex-wife by purjuring himself (along with Romney's help) during his divorce proceedings. They claimed the value of the stock was very, very low, and then a month or so after the divorce was final, and they were selling their stock, suddenly it was worth 10 times more than they had said.

These people will never be happy until they turn this country into Brazil...people are either very rich, or very poor...there's no middle class. What the top 5% need to realize about the top 1% is that after they've mananged to destroy the middle class, they'll be next on the list. The 1% is never going to do their own dirty work.

And, oh. BTW. Only Hitler was Hitler.

[MisterP]

5. he's talking about Pope Francis, isn't he? ISN'T HE

[Trust Buster]

6. Being Rich Does Not Equal Being Smart

More excellent evidence that wealth is more tied to privilege and connections than it is to intellect. I find myself amused at the discomfort that the 1% has shown over modest amounts of criticism. They ship our jobs overseas, use the glut of labor that they created in the U.S. to stagnate wages. They stash their wealth overseas and make untold millions on Wall Street while destroying our economy. Yet, they're not smart enough to figure out that the mere social condemnation that they're receiving only represents the proverbial "canary in the coal mine".

As the long term effects of their greed starts really turning the screws on the average American, the blowback towards them will get much worse. How can such brilliant financial maestros be so utterly clueless ?........LOL

[Fantastic Anarchist]

7. A clue ...

... is something this asshole doesn't have.

[NastyRiffraff]

8. So now I get it

Criticizing the 1% is Naziism. Ooookaaay. Carry on.

[ck4829]

9. White Truffle strikes for the oppressed rich man again. But I don't think the rhetoric matches

Hitler didn't push envy or jealousy, he and the Nazis pushed a 'stabbed in the back' psychotic outlook that blamed Jews, liberals, communists, multiculturalists, etc. for Germany losing World War I and the way the Weimar Republic was ran, said they basically sapped the willpower of Germany's people to win.

Now, saying people are out and about sapping the collective willpower of the population and demoralizing them, that is rhetoric that is seen, but I don't see it being said by critics of the rich.

[steve2470]

10. um, Langone, you idiot, Hitler LOVED the wealthy industrialists

They bankrolled his campaigns and his rise to power. You fool. Hitler was the iconic fascist.

[okaawhatever]

11. And one of the 1st things Hitler did was go after the wealthy, not wait that was the labor unions nt