Old? Jon Hodgman on insanely wealthy people

[OriginalGeek]

This guy is one of my favorite Daily Show contributors. You may also know him as a PC (as opposed to a Mac).


“Leon Cooperman the Omega Advisors Inc. chairman and former CEO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)’s money-management unit…. [wrote that] Capitalists “are not the scourge that they are too often made out to be….’
“[Now] Cooperman, 68, said in an interview that he can’t walk through the dining room of St. Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida, without being thanked for speaking up. At least four people expressed their gratitude on Dec. 5 while he was eating an egg-white omelet, he said.”
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Max Abelson wrote a story today for Bloomberg about the hurt feelings of many bankers and CEOs who feel they are for some weird reason being cast as the villains in “A Christmas Carol” the bleak economy.
Allow me to tell you a story.
At one point on my book tour, I was approached in the airport by a former banker.
He told me he was a life long Democrat and a huge fan of The Daily Show, but he also felt that Jon and the show had it all wrong.
(Because he was a multi millionaire, he has the right to just start critizing anyone in the airport he wants.)
He said that the bankers were not the bad guys in the subprime mortgage scandal and near financial collapse that they had everything to do with. They were just doing what the government allowed them to do.*
And so: he felt it was unfair and hurtful to make the bankers out to be the bad guys.
I was very happy to finally have the chance to say this to someone’s face:
I told him that as a freelance person, I had no idea how much money I would make this year. I never do.
But during the previous few years, due to hard work and exceedingly strange circumstance, I had made more money than I had ever conceived of making in my life. I had also paid a huge bucket of local, state, and city taxes, and that was JUST FINE WITH ME...
the rest at: http://areasofmyexpertise.com/post/14528736899/leon-cooperman-the-omega-advisors-inc-chairman

[DirkGently]

1. Cool site.

[OriginalGeek]

2. It was hilarious the other night

when he made a joke that his father was Professor Honeydew of the muppets. Ever since the first time I saw him on TDS I thought he should play Professor Honeydew if they ever made a Muppet movie using real people for the muppets.

[DirkGently]

3. Saw that. There is an eerie resemblance.