breaking: wealthy 1%ers who never worked a day in their lives give birth

[scheming daemons]

To a child who will be spoiled to the point of being as insufferable as they are and never have to work for anything either.

The royals in England are everything we hated about Romney... Wealthy because they were born into it and thus don't have the slightest comprehension or appreciation for how hard the 99% have to work just to survive.

I hope against hope that this baby beats the odds and ends up not being a typical rich prick who was born on third base but thinks he hit a triple.

But seriously, folks... Everything we hated about the Romneys is embodied by the British royal family. Why are we celebrating them?

380,000 babies were born on the planet today. 370,000 of them likely will have to scratch and claw for everything they get in life. They are no less important.

[cantbeserious]

1. Yes - Too True - "The richest 300 people on earth have as much wealth as the poorest 3 billion"

[Travis_0004]

8. I have nothing wrong with disliking the rich, but what have YOU done to help poor people globally.

43% of the population of the Earth earns less than 2.50 a day (2005 stats). I would be every damn person on this forum earns more than that. In fact, earning 4,000 a year puts you in the top 20% globally.

I do think the top 1% should do more. I'm not disagreeing with any of that. But I bet there are a lot of people on DU (me included), who bitch about the 1%, yet they are in the top 10% (which requires an income of 8,000 a year), and they do nothing.

[bvar22]

20. Nobody at DU "does nothing".

*Providing Information and Raising Awareness is the first step.

*Popularizing a cause, generating a consensus, and providing motivation is the NEXT Step.

ALL of that happens Every Single Day on DU.

Most of us have carried that information, awareness, enthusiasm, and motivation to those we meet in Real Life,
EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Some of us have carried it even farther to political activism inside Political Parties,
LTTE popularizing causes, submissions to other blogs and Websites,
and even running for Political Offices.

Having been here for many years, and met a number of other Democratic Underground Activists
working for causes in the street and wearing out Shoe Leather during Elections,
I've always viewed the inevitable posts such as yours with a
"WTF are they talking about" mystery,
and view it as pure projection for their own inability to get "something" done.


I guess you had better Speak for Yourself
instead of making baseless accusations about other members of DU.

Even you negative post accusing your imaginary lazy, ineffective DUers "did something" today,
and it is not very admirable.

[HiPointDem]

42. I have big issues with those figures. $2.5/d = ~ $900/year, & median global income is supposedly

just a little above that.

In the US you couldn't even buy a years' worth of groceries with that, let alone anything else.

Is half the population of the world starving to death in the streets? No, they aren't.

I don't know how those numbers are derived, but they don't mean what you think they do.

I suspect the reason they've become so publicized lately is so they can be used just as you are using them, to say "Hey, look, you're at the top of the global food chain if you make more than $1000/year! What are you complaining about???)

But the fact is, survival income in the US is way higher than that, especially if you have dependents to support. $34K supposedly puts someone in the 'global elite,' but it will barely support a family of 4 at a very modest level here, and certainly no one making $34K is any kind of 'elite'. The only way they would feel elite is if they took their $34K and went & lived in the slums of africa for a year. which few americans do, especially ones making $34K.

those numbers are bullshit & i'd like to see the methods used to arrive at them.

[PowerToThePeople]

28. I love those videos

I subscribed to therules.org updates.

After reading this board I am noticing a lot of people still wishing to change this country and world for the better. All this despite the downward spiral we have been continuing down during this Democratic (Republican light or not-so-light) Presidency. I can feel my strength returning. I hope to be a part of the good fight again....

[markiv]

2. i think their lives would be boring as hell

how many crushingly boring ceremonies do you think P charles has had to attend, because his mommy said so?


one can only imagine a transcript of p charles thoughts on this day



"look royal, look royal, dont want a scolding from mummy that we pissed this important duke off, wow that girl is cute, wish she werent a commoner....gota glance at the watch without anyone seeing me...maybe there's a clock somewhere...where's big ben when we need him....haha i made a funny...ah, there's one...only a quarter to 2? how dreadfull, i had hoped this was at least 1/2 over. 75 minutes to go...on thousand one, one thousand two....oh, a watched pot never boils...i am lucky to be a royal, i just wish i werent one today, those kids in the park looked like they were having such a good time"



44 years later "look royal look royal, dont want a scolding from mummy"



"good lord, where's the cop and the construction worker?"

the luckiest rich people are the one's nobody's ever heard of - that go anywhere they want as a total strangers to everyone but the people they choose to be known to

[treestar]

46. Your last paragraph

totally true. The royals are the most restricted, and have the most noblesse oblige duties. It's the un-famous rich who have the best time.

[KittyWampus]

3. I do believe Middleton has worked several days in her life, is now doing charity work>

her husband has been in the military which involves work, he's done charity work, her brother-in-law did several "tours" of work in the military.

[scheming daemons]

6. not once in their lives has either lied awake at night wondering

Where the rent or mortgage payment was going to come from.

Working to live is not something they ever had to do.

[KittyWampus]

10. I'm more concerned w/whether someone has compassion for others...

not whether they've had to experience life on a shoestring budget.

[BuddhaGirl]

35. ^^^^^ this!

[defacto7]

52. BuddhaGirl... I totally apologize.

I sent an alert by a stupid mistake and I'm sure it won't go through but I need to be more careful. My apologies to the jury as well. It was an uncalled for mistake.

[pitbullgirl1965]

49. ^^^^^This!

At least the Royals have a sense of duty to their country, unlike Romney w/Bain.
I like the Royals, so I maybe biased.

[Cha]

60. Oh my, you sure struck a sour chord with

mr maindog.. and he struck out.

I totally agree with you, KW.. Mahalo

It is what it is.. people come from all different walks of life. Some are rich and born to it and others not so much. The important thing is what they do with their lives.

Edit: I should say what we do with our lives.

[niyad]

15. perhaps before you make such statements, you might look at a few facts:

. . . .



In November 2006, Middleton accepted a position as an accessory buyer with the clothing chain Jigsaw.[28] She also worked part-time until January 2011 as a catalogue photographer, webpage designer, and marketing officer for her parents' firm, Party Pieces.

. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine,_Duchess_of_Cambridge

now, perhaps this does not fit YOUR definition, but catherine, was not born into the 1%, and, clearly, spent a number of years working at real jobs.

william is currently serving with the RAF search and rescue. again, not what you would probably consider a real job, but, amazingly enough, most people seem to think so.

[we can do it]

16. So now someone can choose their birth family?

William has chosen to help others when he did not have to. He did not choose his parents. sheesh

[onenote]

57. I never have spent a night worrying about that either

And I suspect I'm not the only DUer, nor am I the only Democrat that hasn't had that worry. And I also suspect that there are plenty of RW assholes that have lived hand to mouth at times. Your circumstances don't necessarily define you.

[pipi_k]

62. And I will bet

that not once in the life of most here has anyone lain awake at night listening to the pitiful cries of their starving child just before it died, covered in sores and flies.

I don't know about you, but I think I would rather lay awake at night worrying about bills than feeling helpless because I couldn't save my child.


So, if the suggestion is that the Royals get off their asses and come live like us "peasants" so they know what it's like, I would contend that we "peasants" do the same. Bring one's kid to a Third World country and watch it starve to death so we know what it's like.

A little perspective never hurt anyone, right?

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

11. Yes, and I was just reading about Middleton's parents...

And how they are somewhat wealthy now, after their party supply business took off when their daughter became well known, yet they were working class people for many years. They both worked as stewards before Kate's father became an air traffic controller, and Kate's mother was actually raised in public housing when she was a child.

[duffyduff]

21. They are true commoners, not aristocrats like Diana was.

More power to Prince William that he married somebody from a relatively modest background.

[BuddhaGirl]

37. Does EVERY job require heavy lifting??

[Cha]

61. Exactly, BuddhaGirl.. there's all kinds of "heavy lifting'..

it doesn't have to be literally physical.

[vaberella]

43. She was groomed by her working class (money-hungry) mother to be the wife of a 1%-er. n/t

[kelly1mm]

4. Isn't William in the royal navy? I believe a rescue helocopter pilot? That's work to me.

Maybe you meant they did not HAVE to work - on that I agree.

[malaise]

5. _1,000

Rec

[JeffHead]

7. I think celebrating the birth of a lifetime leach of taxpayer money is just stupid.

I'm glad my tax dollars aren't paying for that shit. We've got better things to pay for like wars and corporate welfare.

[TheDebbieDee]

19. Lol !

[leftstreet]

9. He could be destined to one day name an orchid

or a rose, or some other flora or fauna

You're cruel

[kestrel91316]

13. William is a military rescue helicopter pilot. He puts his life on the line

on the job, and I bet he doesn't bother to collect a paycheck, either.

Haters gonna hate. If the UK wants their royal family, let them have them and STOP BEING A PATERNALISTIC FREAK THINKING YOU KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR ANOTHER COUNTRY. They aren't hurting you.

[SomethingFishy]

14. +1 I don't give much of a shit about the "Royal Family"

but the kid does not just sit on his ass...

[niyad]

18. you are correct. his parents did not sit on their butts, nor do his brothers.

[Demo_Chris]

48. How did "paternalistic" slip in there? nt

[WinkyDink]

17. You are very mistaken about William. Perhaps you could Google?

[bvar22]

22. Even during the days of our WAR declaring independence from the Royalty of England,

there were those who stood by the old Royalty (Tories & Royalsts),
and called the American Revolutionaries "traitors" and "cowards",
and believed that all of them "broke the law" and should have been made to answer for their crimes.

There are Pre-Magna Carta Royalists here who STILL:

*Pledge unquestioning support and loyalty to a "Person" instead of Democratic Principles.

*Believe that our Head of State should have the unquestioned power to secretly kill anyone, anywhere, at any time without Due Process, oversight, or accountability to The People

*Have no use, understanding, or respect for Habeas Corpus


...so they are still with us.

[Wednesdays]

24. Why do you hate America?

Oh, wait...

[Whisp]

25. I can't be bothered spending the time

thinking about them to hate them.

They bore me so much!

pssst, don't tell my mom-in-law, she loves Royal stuff and I just usually nod or pretend interest.

[quakerboy]

39. This

This. I wonder why anyone cares much about them, except insofar as an individual among that family does something noteworthy.

Then again, I wonder why anyone watches or cares about the various entertainment award shows in the US. Or why anyone has collectable elvis plates, or baseballs signed by the Yankees. Or, really much of why people seem to do most of the things they do.

[Bluenorthwest]

26. Kate was raised by people who work for a living. Additionally I wish to very specifically

disagree with you that the British 'royal family' is anything like the Romneys. They are far better people, sorry if you don't like it but that's just the way it is. An example from recent events would be Queen Elizabeth signing for marriage equality which Mitt's family and church spent millions opposing here and around the world. She's not embodying that bigotry now is she? Should she not be credited for that just smeared with the money and job she was born to?
We are not amused with folks who think bigots are just like tolerant people.....

[vaberella]

44. The point is she is worthless to the nation. They are figure heads and faces.

They are not significant and yet you are giving them larger significance than they have. Good Lord.

[Shrike47]

27. You seem overwhelmed with anger and envy.

1). They do work.

2). Lots of upper middle class Americans never have to worry about the mortgage payment, etc. Sorry, but there it is.

[GlashFordan]

29. So what? Does it affect you in any way?

Are you a peasant on a farm in Cambridge? Did she key your car? Did William ever call you a bad name?

Or are you just mad that several generations ago someone was smart/ruthless/cunning or aggressive enough to build a royal dynasty lasting several generations?

[PowerToThePeople]

31. -1000. n/t

[GlashFordan]

33. That's it? Nt

[PowerToThePeople]

36. I remember flash gordan

He came across as Right wing, male chauvinist, tough guy to me. A "True" American hero. NOT.

[GlashFordan]

38. Every male

Depicted on the silver screen was depicted that way...

[Nye Bevan]

30. So being in the military doesn't count as "work"? (nt)

[Recursion]

32. Err... he was in the royal navy; she worked until they got married (nt)

[ZRT2209]

40. Princes Harry and William serve in the military, at least, and are not slouches

[treestar]

45. They were born into it, so in way, it's not their fault

Whereas Rmoney ruthlessly built up his empire.

[pitbullgirl1965]

53. Perfect response. ^^^

And didn't Princess Elizabeth volunteer during WWII? And rather then flee to safety, stayed in London? William and Harry are in the Military is that not a real job anymore? They didn't have to work, and yet they are serving their country.
They may not want for anything material, but they are trapped by their position too. I would not to have my life so predetermined as the royal family is. And why be so mean? The poor kid can't help who his/her parents are.

[treestar]

55. Yes. And those who fall in love with them make major sacrifices

Marrying an Rmoney or better yet, an unknown rich person has to be easier - far less attention. And that would probably be an option for anyone able to meet the royals and marry them. This kid will have paparazzi in his life from day one.

I've had a thought too that perhaps the couple just want a family - they're having this child as a married couple who want a family, like so many millions of others. They have the share that kid with the kingdom in a way other parents don't have to.

[Dreamer Tatum]

47. Breaking: thread didn't go the way you thought; whimpering at 11 nt

[woolldog]

50. .....

[TimeToGo]

51. Breaking?

I grow more and more convinced that almost no one knows what the designation "breaking" is supposed to mean.

[Zoeisright]

54. You think being a rescue helicopter pilot is sitting around on your ass?

Christ - learn something before you shoot off your trap.

[erpowers]

56. Prince William Has a Job

Yes, Prince Williams was born into wealth, but he has a job. Prince William is an Air Force Rescue Pilot. I am not sure about Princess Catherine, but I think she also had a job. In addition, many people would say Prince William is at least slightly aware of the concerns of the 99%. He spent a night sleeping with the homeless in London. He also does other charity work.

It has been said that due to his mom, Princess Diana, Prince William and his brother Prince Harry lived fairly normal lives. She supposedly made them stand in line when they were at restaurants. She also supposedly took them to places where they could see how poor people lived. Some have said she wanted the kids to have compassion for people with less.

Finally, I do not think the American media should have made such a big deal about this child's birth. However, many people would say Prince William is nothing like Mitt Romney. Unlike Romney, Prince William and Prince Harry have been exposed to people who have less than them.

[lynne]

58. Geeze - Catty much?

- He's in the military and she was born middle-class. Believe he's a rescue pilot, pretty sure that's considered "working" and a rather noble profession, at that.

That bitterness will eat you up if you don't watch out, ya' know.

[RedCappedBandit]

59. Yep, I don't get it. Why do we admire the oligarchs so?

The royals are just more uber-wealthy elite.

[Nye Bevan]

63. Several DUers have debunked the subject line. Perhaps an edit would be in order? (nt)

[nadinbrzezinski]

64. I hate to even defend them

But the Prince is a rescue pilot with the Royal Air Force. Unlike little boots who tried to defend the US against Vietnam on the Mexican Border...Andrew is credited with more than one dangerous rescue in very inclement weather.

So I would not quite say, never worked a day in their lives. I wish any of our uber wealthy had any of that noblesse oblige that the Royal Family actually has.

That said...a kid was born...whatever. Ten fingers, ten toes, healthy baby. (And from the speculation I did learn some interesting trivia, not of the royal family, but of what increases chances of having girls...that was interesting, if not entirely useless, and in this case wrong, trivia)

But in their case...they actually do serve their people...compare and contrast with oh...I don't know...Paris Hilton.

[TheMadMonk]

65. A thread full of attitudes which exactly explain the sorry state of America today.

Everybody absolutely convinced that someone else is getting something unearned at their expense.

YOU ARE YOUR OWN WORST FUCKING ENEMIES AND DO ABOUT 90% of the Walton's, the Koch Bros, work before their morning coffee is poured, keeping your fellows in their proper place at the bottom of the crab bucket.


I don't have a great deal of time for the the Royals, but they do work damned hard, and give up much that you and I take for granted in exchange for their "lifestyle of luxury."

The vast majority of their lives are spent entirely on public display and the efforts to invade the few moments of privacy they do have are phenomenal in their rudeness. The more private the moment, the deeper the ghouls want to pry.

Every moment of their public lives, every utterance is scheduled, right down to the ten seconds and six words allocated to taking the flowers from the token child greeter at every public appearance, and every moment of privacy and intimacy has to be lived as if in full view of the world, because at any moment it might well be, right out to the limits of modern optics and atmospheric distortion.

The drunken antics of the "lesser" royals and their children, were/are no different to what millions of nobodies get up to in tens of thousands of clubbing districts around the world on a nightly basis.

ALL OF THE DIFFERENCE LIES IN OUR PERCEPTIONS.

Welfare queen, or ceremonial figurehead of a decaying empire, both are united by a common theme: A public which dictates how their lives should be lived; A public which, judges, criticises and harshly punishes (to the limits it is able) the slightest perceived fault or failure.

And because of those perceptions, and our behaviour toward them, each has practically zero chance of ever escaping their assigned stations at the nadir and and zenith of society respectively.