Romney Donors Talk Like Living Stereotypes of the 1 Percent

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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/07/romney-donors-sound-living-stereotypes-1-percent/54310/




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The $25,000-a-seat fundraiser at the massive estate (40 rooms on 57 acres) owned by Revlon chairman Ron Perelman, caused a traffic jam of high class luxury cars along Montauk Highway — the list of vehicles assembled included Bentleys, BMWs, Range Rovers, Mercedez Benzes, an Aston Martin, a Rolls Royce, a Ferrari, and at least one Porsche that had to be scolded for trying to bypass security. The long wait to get inside gave those outside a chance to survey the crowd for their political opinions and the pull quotes shouted from the passenger windows were as priceless as their fancy wheels:

“Is there a V.I.P. entrance? We are V.I.P.” (There was no VIP line.)
“Tell them who’s on your yacht this weekend! Tell him!” (It was a Miramax executive.)
"He is a socialist." ("He" is the president, obviously.)
"It's not helping the economy to pit the people who are the engine of the economy against the people who rely on that engine." (Matthew Yglesias asks if maybe the engine needs a tune up?)
But the choicest quote was gathered by Maeve Reston of the L.A. Times, who found one unnamed woman to explain how the little people just don't understand "why Obama is hurting them."

"I don't think the common person is getting it ... My college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote -- they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."

[HughBeaumont]

1. To quote NWA: "Here's what they think about you".

And America just picks their nose and doesn't care.

This quote was posted on Facebook and some kool-aid slurper said "When I'm rich someday, I'm going to own a house just like that . . . yargle blargle socialist blargle work harder blarg yarg herp derp capitalism blarGH!" Stupid shit. This is why things ain't-a gonna change . . . too many people are mad that they're not them and want to be them instead of being content to make a better living.

[SoutherDem]

2. Yes, "When I'm rich someday"

I see a lot of people making $10 / hour somehow feel they will be rich one day. They feel that is how the rich people got that way. Ok, a few may have, but the majority, the vast majority were born with a platinum spoon in their mouths. They don't understand that the policies in place now insure they will not be rich. But, what bothers me isn't the delusion but the fact that they are saying if they were rich they would screw the poor people too. The human race is so deprived I fear for its survival.

[HughBeaumont]

3. You want to know why an interview with the founder of Spanx makes the news?

Could it be that for every Spanx, there are about 10,000 others who have tried and failed?? It's news because the fact that rags-to-riches successes are few and far between.

This is what the Horatio Alger injectors don't seem to understand: The whole "ownership society" ruse did nothing but perpetuate the myth amongst the hoi polloi that they, too, would be part of the "Big Club" someday. I think one of the reasons they want to be part of the "Big Club" is so they can continue their selfish and bullying ways among the "lessers" that will be trying to apply for a job with this hypothetical company.

It's all about thinking they're better than others. There's lots of truth to the old Jay Gould quote "I can get half of the working class to kill the other half."

[malaise]

5. +1,000

Unbelievable

[WI_DEM]

4. boycott Revlon!