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Paul Krugman: "The Angry Rich"

Sep 22, 2010 09:00

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erunamiryene September 22 2010, 16:42:42 UTC

God, between shit like this, the hedge fund guy giving Obama shit, and fucking Ben Stein whining, I'm about into a "fuck the rich!" mindset. JFC.

xforge September 22 2010, 21:36:43 UTC

Hi, welcome. There's comfy seats over there and the Mrs. is making tea and biscuits.

erunamiryene September 22 2010, 21:38:05 UTC

Kick ass. I have cupcakes to donate to the refreshment table. :D

iolarah September 22 2010, 17:00:59 UTC

"anti-colonialist"
You say that like it's a bad thing, Forbes.

Also, BAWWWW at the people struggling on 400K. It's called "living within your means". Try it. It won't kill you.

nyychick23513 September 22 2010, 19:09:06 UTC

Those last to grafs.

SO. MUCH. THIS.

Yeah, I'm feeling very "fuch rich people" lately. If they extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy I may seriously explode from rage.

nyychick23513 September 22 2010, 19:09:49 UTC

LOL *FUCK damn I need to renew my paid account so I can edit. :(

normaltrouble September 22 2010, 19:54:54 UTC

I propose a new reality show, wherein 12 demographically diverse people who earn from let's say, 12,000-75,000 a year ( last year, pre-taxes) are given 500,000$ and they are "judged" on how long they can make this money last, or what great investments they can make etc.

They will be given great advisers, financial seminars, temptations, challenges, and it will last a year.

Somehow I think the single dad used to 40,000$ a year, or the little old lady used to a fixed income of $1,372 a month, the single father will not consider probably being able to buy a fixer upper house, or the little old lady actually having money for her meds, and to visit her grandbabies, "living hand to mouth"...

I don't know how the judgment would come out...maybe the person with the most money still in the bank wins? Or a panel of financial experts etc judge how they did?

But $400,000-500,000$ is not "making do", or living on the edge...

fiadhaisteach September 22 2010, 20:14:46 UTC

Winner equals person/family with highest net worth at the end of the time frame.

I tend to greatly dislike reality shows, but I'd sign up for that.

lavenderfrost September 23 2010, 00:41:42 UTC

BAAAAAAAAAAWWWW I HAVE TO PAY HIGH TAXES ON RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE PROPERTY THAT I CHOSE TO BUY AND CAN GET RID OF IF I WANT TO OMG SOSHULIZM NOBAMA BAAAAAWWWWWWWWW!!!

Paul Krugman's awesome.