Super-rich and super-angry: The rich have made out like bandits, but they're still not satisfied

[Hannah Bell]

ANGER IS on the rise in America. People are looking at the policies coming out of Washington, they're fed up--they're mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore.

Only the outrage you're most likely to hear about in the mainstream media isn't coming from the people you'd expect: the millions of people facing unemployment, for example, or the victims of racist scapegoating. Amazingly, it turns out that Wall Street and the richest 1 percent of the U.S. population are just furious.

They're sick and tired of the U.S. government "whackin' them with a stick," as Anthony Scaramucci, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund manager, whined to President Barack Obama at a recent CNBC town hall.

Then there's Stephen Schwarzman, whose $4.1 billion fortune makes him the 69th richest person in the United States, according to Forbes magazine. Schwarzman compared Obama's move to close a tax loophole--one that allows Wall Street investors like Schwarzman to pay only 15 percent in taxes on private equity income, about the same rate as someone making $38,200--to Hitler's invasion of Poland....

http://socialistworker.org/2010/09/30/super-rich-and-super-angry

whiners.

[laughingliberal]

1. Now see? Biden should have saved his, "Quit whining," comment for them. nt

[bluerum]

2. When the government is done whacking'em, send 'em over here so I can have a crack.

[Starry Messenger]

3. Here's the world's tiniest violin...

Maybe they should found SPCRP--Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Rich People. :eyes:

[Overseas]

4. K&R!! /nt

[Drale]

5. They are looking for happiness

through acquisition of wealth, and you will never be happy if you think money is the answer.

[leftstreet]

6. That guy is only the 69th richest person in the US. What a loser

K&R

[Mimosa]

7. A worthwhile article, Hannah. Thanks. n/t

[Odin2005]

8. Call the WAAAAHmbulance!!!

[theothersnippywshrub]

9. If a U.S. billionaire can't exploit working Americans, why bother with remaining a U.S. citizen? n/t

[TBF]

10. Of course they're not happy. Capitalists must never rest

in their quest to make and hoard as much money as possible.

[Warpy]

11. Fuck 'em. Give them something legitimate to shriek about

like a 99% income tax on incomes over a million bucks a year.

Make it confiscatory until we've stolen back every dime they stole from us. At last reckoning, that was a bout ten trillion bucks.

Then, if they still want an Empire, let them foot the bill all by themselves.