Remember Louis Winthorpe III and his smarmy rich friends in "Trading Places?"

[Brigid]

If any one of them were to go into politics, he'd be Mitt Romney: Arrogant, spoiled, phony, and utterly clueless about how real people live. Now why would anybody think that's the makings of a good president?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Yep.

Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy as the rich old guys.


Funny movie!!!

[Greybnk48]

2. I think of the two brothers in that movie whenever I see the

Koch brothers. LOL!

[Quantess]

4. Same here!

[Politicalboi]

3. "Turn the machines back on"

LOL! Yes Kock brothers indeed.

[krispos42]

5. They are the 1%. Probably the 0.1%

And I find it likely that those characters were utterly typical of the breed.


In fact, they'd be even worse now because, thanks to Reaganomics, the Dukes would a) be a lot richer, and b) have many many more like-minded peers.

[pinniped]

6. Margin call = $300,000,000.00 in cash

[Warren DeMontague]

7. I like when he ends up trying to stuff the big piece of salmon into his grungy santa suit

classic movie.