We don't care about money, we're not that kind of people...

[4est_4est_Gump]

Chelsea Clinton, from her $10.5 million perch on Gramercy Park, declares that she finds it impossible to care about money. Bill and Hillary Clinton, shuttling between their multimillion-dollar homes — Chappaqua, Washington, the $200,000-a-month rental in the Hamptons — denounce the wicked rich and protest that they are not “truly well off.” A professor of poverty and left-wing activist at the University of North Carolina School of Law is paid $200,000 per annum to teach a single class; anti-inequality crusader Elizabeth Warren was paid $350,000 per annum to teach a single class and thinks deeply about the plight of the little guy in her $1.7 million Cambridge mansion. The city of Bell, Calif., was nearly bankrupted by the very generous salaries its political class secured for themselves: nearly $800,000 per annum for the chief executive of the modest Los Angeles suburb, on his way to collecting a $1 million annual pension. (Several Bell leaders were later charged with misappropriating millions of dollars’ worth of public money for their own benefit.) Philadelphia was paying the feckless chief executive of its violent and defective government schools some $350,000 a year before the mayor got around to firing her, but not before the city wrote her a check for nearly $1 million to make her go away — and then she filed for unemployment benefits. A Philadelphia police lieutenant on an $87,000 annual salary takes home nearly $200,000 after nearly a hundred grand in “overtime” kicks in. The head of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal enterprise, was paid nearly $6 million in 2013; the agency’s chief financial officer and chief lawyer were paid $2.1 and $1.9 million, respectively, that same year. The school superintendent in Lubbock, Texas, is paid nearly a quarter-million dollars a year.

Politics pays.

...

It is baffling that my progressive friends lament the influence of so-called big money on government while at the same time proposing to expand the very scope and scale of that government that makes influencing it such a good investment. Where government means constables, soldiers, judges, and precious little else, it is not much worth capturing. Where government means somebody whose permission must be sought before you can even begin to earn a living, when it determines the prices of products, the terms of competition, and the interest rates on your competitors’ financing, then it is worth capturing. That much is obvious. Progressives refuse to see the inherent corruption in the new ruling class — and, make no mistake, we now have a ruling class — because it is largely made up of them, their colleagues, and people who are socially and culturally like them and their colleagues. Getting a couple hundred grand a year to teach one class doesn’t look so crazy if you think you might be the guy who gets the check next time around. You can be an anti-elite crusader on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised from your million-dollar mansion, even if you never find yourself so much as downwind from a poor person, without fearing charges of hypocrisy: Ask Senator Warren. Of course Chelsea Clinton does not have the sense or the good taste to be embarrassed when talking about her blasé attitude toward money: Money is invisible to her for the same reason that water is invisible to a fish — she’d notice it if it weren’t there, and flap like a desperate landed mackerel until she’d secured her next big payday.

Kevin D. Williamson, NRO

 

[RobDownSouth]

^^^^AJ has teh wealth envy this morning.

 

[Adre]

Underneath his Austrian exterior he hates Capitalism and those who have enjoyed its benefits.

 

[Busybody]

hey yo, In Jun

your threads attract NIGGERS

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

hey yo, In Jun

your threads attract NIGGERS

Ignorance is what it seems to attract.

Conflating a hatred of Capitalism with calling out Socialists for being hypocrites while ripping off the little people is a bit beyond the pale[face]. Elizabeth Warren is always going to be the first to decry how expensive education is and to call for more funding to make it more affordable...

These people show who they are with their replies. They hate us more than they love the truth (to steal a little line from Golda).

 

[Busybody]

witness how McCain was treated for homes he (didn't) own

or

how Romney was treated with the wealth he EARNED


yeah, we know

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

witness how McCain was treated for homes he (didn't) own

or

how Romney was treated with the wealth he EARNED


yeah, we know

Well they did that on the backs of the little people...



... the Democrats are just ripping off government. Government has a wallet that never runs dry.

When the government gets powerful enough to fight over, the people will fight over it, and to the victors go the spoils, thus setting up the next fight (Until they reach the point when the internecine struggling has left them too weak, to divided, and too economically poor to oppose the ruling Oligarchy).
A_J, the Stupid

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Our political bureaucracies are grasping and vicious, and some of the larger of them are dominated by people who are, if we’re being frank, not especially bright. No society can long thrive by making its creators and innovators subservient to its pimps and thieves. But agencies with the power to tax or the power to pay themselves out of taxes have the power to command, and, human nature being what it is, it is not surprising that their executives use that power to extort for themselves extraordinary levels of compensation (occasionally through criminal means, as in the Bell case), even as they bore us all to death talking about the sacrifices they have endured on behalf of their careers in “public service.” Political power outlasts political office: Hillary Clinton is no longer secretary of state or a senator or in any of the other positions she has held as a form of tribute paid to her husband; but she very well may be a future president. She has been paid an enormous advance on a book that almost certainly will not justify that expenditure, and collects speech honoraria that are, if not quite up at her husband’s stratospheric levels, nonetheless substantial. What is she being paid for? It is hard to see how economic value, strictly understood, explains that. No doubt part of the value is celebrity: When the American Bankruptcy Institute advertises the speakers at its annual conference as your obedient correspondent and Jay Leno, one of those names is putting many more butts in chairs than the other. But celebrity probably does not explain it all, either. Political power is worth investing in, and worth renting when it is needed.

Kevin D. Williamson

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The more government impedes upon the market with good intention and positive interference, the more expensive that market becomes and the maxim that you get what you pay for becomes outed as an out-and-out lie.
A_J, the Stupid

The more government seeks to do in our behalf, the less we are able to do on our own behalf because we finance government with our labor; government does not support us because it cannot supply any labor, it can only appropriate it.
A_J, the Stupid

The more distant and powerful your government, the more likely it is to be dominated and controlled by just a very small group of people.
A_J, the Stupid

When Government gets so powerful that its purchase price is cost effective, even imperative, to business, then business will purchase government indulgences.
A_J, the Stupid

The more government does on your behalf, the less you can do on your own behalf.
A_J, the Stupid

 

[RobDownSouth]

There is no problem in America so great that cannot be cured by either a tax cut for the Rich or a stern lecture to the Poor.
A_J, the Stupid

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Throb, you need to start a thread of your own because cowslinger and adre are dying to talk to someone about how brilliant the three of you are...



... you could have probably one of the greatest threads of all time solving all of the world's problems, if, of course, you can find some other interested intellectuals who do not have you on ignore for the word to even get out. I'll bet your discussions about how to fuck other people's children will be the highlight of the social season...

 

[cowslinger64]

Throb, you need to start a thread of your own because cowslinger and adre are dying to talk to someone about how brilliant the three of you are...



... you could have probably one of the greatest threads of all time solving all of the world's problems, if, of course, you can find some other interested intellectuals who do not have you on ignore for the word to even get out. I'll bet your discussions about how to fuck other people's children will be the highlight of the social season...

It's not hard to be more brilliant than you.....the bar is set extremely low.

I'd rather poke fun at you and point out your stupidity on your threads.. it's more fun.

 

[Adre]

Throb, you need to start a thread of your own because cowslinger and adre are dying to talk to someone about how brilliant the three of you are...



... you could have probably one of the greatest threads of all time solving all of the world's problems, if, of course, you can find some other interested intellectuals who do not have you on ignore for the word to even get out. I'll bet your discussions about how to fuck other people's children will be the highlight of the social season...

Aw, look who's feeling lonely. Don't worry, Vette and his lapdog should be along soon to keep you company. Maybe the smartest guy in the world himself will show up. In the meantime, keep them C&Ps coming.

 

[Ishmael]

Throb, you need to start a thread of your own because cowslinger and adre are dying to talk to someone about how brilliant the three of you are...



... you could have probably one of the greatest threads of all time solving all of the world's problems, if, of course, you can find some other interested intellectuals who do not have you on ignore for the word to even get out. I'll bet your discussions about how to fuck other people's children will be the highlight of the social season...

He IS inordinately obsessed with other peoples children, isn't he?

Ishmael

 

[RobDownSouth]

Aw, look who's feeling lonely. Don't worry, Vette and his lapdog should be along soon to keep you company. Maybe the smartest guy in the world himself will show up. In the meantime, keep them C&Ps coming.

You called it....one minute later the "bro cavalry" comes ridin' in....

 

[IrezumiKiss]

AJ, what happened to Wat? Is he okay? Do y'all keep in touch outside of Lit, like through landlines or other social networking media such as Facebook or Grindr?

He was like your ace boon coon, your main jawn. Mornings jus' ain't the same without the Lit GB Tag-Team Snark Boyz in effect, ey!

 

[miles]

The Clintons are the Country's King and Queen of Phonies. No wonder liberals idolize them.

 

[RobDownSouth]

AJ, what happened to Wat? Is he okay? Do y'all keep in touch outside of Lit, like through landlines or other social networking media such as Facebook or Grindr?

He was like your ace boon coon, your main jawn. Mornings jus' ain't the same without the Lit GB Tag-Team Snark Boyz in effect, ey!

I heard that AJ terminated their friendship when he found out Wat liked girls.


#cooties

 

[cowslinger64]

The Clintons are the Country's King and Queen of Phonies. No wonder liberals idolize them.

And people like the last Bush, Cruz, Bachmann, Mcconnell, Limbaugh, Hannity etc etc etc are selfish, moronic assholes.

No wonder why you idolize them.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I heard that AJ terminated their friendship when he found out Wat liked girls.


#cooties

Har!

Notice how all the formerly ubiquitous bromance pairs here have kinda faded out?

Vette & Koala...now AJ & Wat.

It's like seeing a "closed" sign up on a faithful corner diner in a low-key neighborhood that's been operating for over 50 years, about to be demolished and re-zoned for a luxury hipster hi-rise apartment that'll only be filled to 1/3 occupancy due to high rents and inequitable salaries from prospective tenants!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Throb, you need to start a thread of your own because cowslinger and adre are dying to talk to someone about how brilliant the three of you are...



... you could have probably one of the greatest threads of all time solving all of the world's problems, if, of course, you can find some other interested intellectuals who do not have you on ignore for the word to even get out. I'll bet your discussions about how to fuck other people's children will be the highlight of the social season...

There's no need for me to start threads, when I can just hijack one of yours.

You know you love the attention.

Without me, there is no you.

 

[Busybody]

stfu, cowshit

 

[Busybody]

that someone who got a no show huge 6 figure job out of College, who is married to a multi millionaire, who has millionaire parents, who herself made a million PLUS doing nothing

can say such absurdities who disqualify her forever for anything

as CuntClinton Jr, she will be GOD IN WAITING

USA the ABSURD

 

[Que]

You know who ARE the "kind of people" who "care about money?"

The "kind of people" who have had to actually work for it to earn it!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

You know who ARE the "kind of people" who "care about money?"

The "kind of people" who have had to actually work for it to earn it!

Y'mean those immigrant fruit-pickers toiling and sweating underneath the brutal rays of the sun for a few measley sawbucks a week so those more fortunate (and less stinkier) than they can have their strawberry parfaits, Qué?