LARRY DAVID: Thanks for the Tax Cut! (satire)

[yurbud]

Thanks for the Tax Cut!



By LARRY DAVID
Published: December 20, 2010

THERE is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much. I’m the last person in the world I’d want to be beside, but I am beside myself! This is a life changer, I tell you. A life changer!

To begin with, I was planning a trip to Cabo with my kids for Christmas vacation. We were going to fly coach, but now with the money I’m saving in taxes, I’m going to splurge and bump myself up to first class. First class! Somebody told me they serve warm nuts up there, and call you “mister.” I might not get off the plane!

I’m also going to call the hotel and get another room so I don’t have to sleep on a cot in the kids’ room. Don’t get me wrong — I love a good cot. The problem is they tend to take up a lot of room, and it’s getting a little tougher in my advancing years to fold it up and drag it to the closet. I mean, I’d do it if I had to, but guess what? I don’t! Not with this windfall coming my way. Now I get to have my own room with a king-sized bed. And who knows, maybe I’ll even get some fancy bottled water from the minibar. This is shaping up to be the best vacation I’ve had in years.

***

Life was good, and now it’s even better. Thank you, Republicans. And a special thank you to President Obama and the Democrats. I didn’t know you cared.

Larry David appears in the HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/opinion/21david.html?_r=2">the REST of the story

[rfranklin]

1. Not amusing, coming from a billionaire...

from Wikipedia--

Syndication of Seinfeld earned David an estimated US$250 million in 1998 alone. This amount has been steadily decreasing each year, but payments will continue until the full $1.7 billion from the original deal has been paid. In 2008 David made $55 million from Seinfeld syndication, DVD sales, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.<22><23> He was nominated for an Emmy award 19 times for Seinfeld, winning twice—once for best comedy and once for writing

[The Blue Flower]

2. Is your sarcasmometer broken?

nt

[RelativelyJones]

4. Christ, I'd say so.

[tridim]

3. Everything that comes from Larry David is amusing

I suggest you get a sense of humor.

"When you have money, the only way you can get any sympathy at all is to say you have cancer. You could lose a limb, no one would care. Only when they know you’re going to die do you get anyone feeling sorry for you. And even then, some people don’t. “Serves him right, rich prick.” That’s what I am now, a “rich prick.” Prick always follows the word rich. If you’re rich, you’re a prick. Just the way schmuck always follows the word poor. So I went from a poor schmuck to a rich prick without hardly any transition. Of course, I was a poor schmuck longer than I’ve been a rich prick, and frankly, I’m not that much happier as a prick than a schmuck. I never thought I’d become a prick. Neither did my friends. They said, “He’ll never be a prick!” And then, boom, I’m a prick. Now I have all new friends. All pricks. Schmucks call me from time to time. I say, “I can’t talk to you. I’m a prick.”"

[EmeraldCityGrl]

5. Shame you're unable to appreciate Larry Davids's

biting and brilliant sense of humor.

[DrDan]

6. I see in indication that his wealth was earned illegally or unethically

so why hold it against him.

I thought he made his point very clearly - and in an amusing way.

[yurbud]

7. it's satire. Larry David is a lefty's lefty.

[Still a Democrat]

8. I was hoping to see this for the fifth time

Thanks for coming through.

[yurbud]

9. this was up to five and someone unrec'd it! they gave Larry David a rec cut.

[hay rick]

10. Rec.

Back to 5. For now.

[kysrsoze]

11. Larry David is Awesome! Well... for a rich prick.

I'm such a huge fan. That article was priceless.

[avaistheone1]

12. Big Larry David fan here.

He is very cool.

Three cheers for Larry. Larry is definitely a stand up guy to write this piece for the NYT.



:kick:

k&r

[alp227]

13. I'll trust this to be humor a la Colbert, given it's from the genius behind Seinfeld

Unlike those other whiners like serious "poor rich" whiners like Todd Henderson and Gregory Mankiw.

[CLANG]

14. I posted this already and only got 2 recs!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x577327

One Edit: Somebody call a WHAAAAMMMMMBULANCE!!

[yurbud]

15. you gotta sell it--it's LARRY FUCKING DAVID...from SEINFELD!

like that.

[locopolitico]

16. I love the ending

"Thank you, Republicans. And a special thank you to President Obama and the Democrats. I didn’t know you cared."