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struggle4progress

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Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:26 AM Jul 2012

Wealthy Americans endorse Jon Kyl's jab on Obama, the middle class

7/24/2012 3:05 PM Matt Rock - Dozens of America's wealthiest citizens are standing up today in support of Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), who recently stated that President Obama's support of the middle class rather than the wealthy isn't “what we do here in America,” and stating that there's no such thing as “middle class values.”

“I'm sick of being treated like a third-class citizen, simply because I'm a billionaire,” said Pierce Bank of America IX, heir to the Bank of America fortune. “I was born this way. I was born into my wealth, and some people think that just because I own seventeen homes, a rare Ferrari collection, three private jets, nine yachts, and my own private zoo filled with exotic, endangered animals that I sometimes have prepared into meals by my dozen five-star chefs, that I'm somehow less of a person than they are. It simply isn't fair! What's stopping these people from eating penguins? Certainly not me!” ...

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