"Pity the 1%! Billionaires Bemoan Criticism by ‘Imbeciles’"

[Starry Messenger]

http://www.unions.org/home/union-blog/2011/12/21/pity-the-1-billionaires-bemoan-criticism-by-%E2%80%98imbeciles%E2%80%99/

It’s tough these days being a member of the top 1 percent, what with all the complaints about the widening income gap and tax breaks for billionaires, not to mention the demands of the 99 percent for a little accountability. “It feels lonely…,” said John A. Allison IV, former CEO of BB&T, one of the nation’s top 10 banks, to Bloomberg News.

Or, as billionaire Tom Golisano, founder of Paychex Inc., so delicately put it, according to Bloomberg:

“If I hear a politician use the term ‘paying your fair share’ one more time, I’m going to vomit,” said Golisano, who turned 70 last month, celebrating the birthday with girlfriend Monica Seles, the former tennis star who won nine Grand Slam singles titles.

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Among the alliance’s {JCA, or Job Creators Alliance, so-called--Starry} founding members is Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, who still seems to need a little work on his messaging. Asked by Bloomberg reporter Max Abelson whether he he was concerned about becoming the target of protesters, Marcus replied:

Who gives a crap about some imbecile? Are you kidding me?

[phasma ex machina]

1. Yeah, well, if I hear the term "welfare queen" applied to anyone in the 99% one more time

I'M going to vomit.

[provis99]

2. now where did I put my guillotine...

[Starry Messenger]

3. Here's a nice model:

[roguevalley]

4. he should be happy its only criticism. The 'imbeciles' have about ten guns each and it won't

be hard to find his house. its the big one on the hill. dumb asses. Boycott.

[OhioChick]

5. They're all a bunch of greedy fucks n/t

[hfojvt]

6. Hey Golisano

I think it is time you started paying your fair share.


I love the smell of vomit in the morning.

It smells like victory.

[HangOnKids]

7. Gee Tom Couldn't You Find A GF Closer To Your Age?

Monica Seles is 38 years old fer fuck sake! What a creepy old man Tom is. Maybe he likes the way she grunts when she smacks balls. (On the court folks!)

[Huey P. Long]

8. occupy

[Huey P. Long]

9. Mother Jones article-

Bankers, Billionaires Try to Form Movement Against OWS
—By Asawin Suebsaeng| Wed Dec. 21, 2011 9:47 AM


Whaddaya know? It seems the rich now want to eat the folks who want to eat the rich. Wrap your head around this Bloomberg report:

Jamie Dimon, the highest-paid chief executive officer among the heads of the six biggest U.S. banks, turned a question at an investors' conference in New York this month into an occasion to defend wealth.

"Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it," the JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) CEO told an audience member who asked about hostility toward bankers. "Sometimes there's a bad apple, yet we denigrate the whole."

Dimon, 55, whose 2010 compensation was $23 million, joined billionaires including hedge-fund manager John Paulson and Home Depot Inc. (HD) co-founder Bernard Marcus in using speeches, open letters and television appearances to defend themselves and the richest 1 percent of the population targeted by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.

full=
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/bankers-billionaires-try-form-movement-against-occupy-wall-street

[Starry Messenger]

11. My heart just breaks for him.

[Huey P. Long]

12. Update/more-

Bankers, Billionaires Try to Form Movement Against OWS
—By Asawin Suebsaeng| Wed Dec. 21, 2011 9:47 AM


Whaddaya know? It seems the rich now want to eat the folks who want to eat the rich. Wrap your head around this Bloomberg report:

Jamie Dimon, the highest-paid chief executive officer among the heads of the six biggest U.S. banks, turned a question at an investors' conference in New York this month into an occasion to defend wealth.

"Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it," the JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) CEO told an audience member who asked about hostility toward bankers. "Sometimes there's a bad apple, yet we denigrate the whole."

Dimon, 55, whose 2010 compensation was $23 million, joined billionaires including hedge-fund manager John Paulson and Home Depot Inc. (HD) co-founder Bernard Marcus in using speeches, open letters and television appearances to defend themselves and the richest 1 percent of the population targeted by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.

full=
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/bankers-billionaires-try-form-movement-against-occupy-wall-street


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Dear Jamie Dimon,

I hope this note finds you well.

I am writing to profess my utter disbelief at how little you seem to understand the current mood of the nation. In a story at Bloomberg today, you and a handful of fellow banker and billionaire "job creators" were quoted as believing that the horrific sentiment directed toward you from virtually all corners of America had something to do with how much money you had. I'd like to take a moment to disabuse you of this foolishness.

America is different than almost every other place on earth in that its citizenry reveres the wealthy and we are raised to believe that we can all one day join the ranks of the rich. The lack of a caste system or visible rungs of society's ladder is what separates our empire from so many fallen empires throughout history. In a nation bereft of royalty by virtue of its republican birth, the American people have done what any other resourceful people would do - we've created our own royalty and our royalty is the 1%. Not only do we not "hate the rich" as you and other em-bubbled plutocrats have postulated, in point of fact, we love them. We worship our rich to the point of obsession. The highest-rated television shows uniformly feature the unimaginably fabulous families of celebrities not to mention the housewives (real or otherwise) of the rich. We don't care what color they are or what religion they practice or where in the country they live or what channel their show is on - if they're rich, we are watching.

--

What we hate are the people who we view as having found their success as a consequence of the damage their activities have done to our country. What we hate are those who take and give nothing back in the form of innovation, convenience, entertainment or scientific progress. We hate those who've exploited political relationships and stupidity to rake in even more of the nation's wealth while simultaneously driving the potential for success further away from the grasp of everyone else.

--

America hates unjustified privilege, it hates an unfair playing field and crony capitalism without the threat of bankruptcy, it hates privatized gains and socialized losses, it hates rule changes that benefit the few at the expense of the many and it hates people who have been bailed out and don't display even the slightest bit of remorse or humbleness in the presence of so much suffering in the aftermath.



full-
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2011/12/20/dear-jamie-dimon/

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. Monica Seles......jesus

A 70 year old boyfriend, huh?