link: Silicon Valley billionaire compares treatment of America's rich to Nazi persecution of Jews
I don't completely agree, but he has a point when it comes to the hatred lib s against those who they fear...
Jan. 24, 2014 4:49 p.m. ET
Regarding your editorial "Censors on Campus" (Jan. 18): Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich."
From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these "techno geeks" can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a "snob" despite the millions she has spent on our city's homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.
This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent "progressive" radicalism unthinkable now?
Last edited by Wild Cobra; 01-27-2014 at 02:40 PM.
I wonder what a boutons's "Concentration camp for the Rich" would look like though.
LOL...
Who knows.
I hope people keep in perspective, he is speaking of the start of the Jewish hatred, before they were being mass murdered.
you right-wing ers are laughable for thinking this financial predator has anything like a justifiable, credible premise, and playing the Nazi card as central to his bull .
It isn't a stretch. Earlier German socialism was little different than what progressives/liberals advocate for the USA.
It isn't a stretch.
Nothing could physically stretch that far.
tbh, this is the kind of crazy talk that alienate moderate voters from the GOP.
OK, will you laugh if I completely agree?
As that reaction would be more believable, I would nod solemnly in acknowledgement of your declaration.
It was funny that you gave it even enough merit to leave the door open for some sliver of agreement.
If you say so.
between the federal reserve, military spending, farm subsidies, and the 15% cap gains tax, America's treatment of the rich is about the opposite of persecution. It's wealth redistribution towards the top.
Paranoia of the Plutocrats
Rising inequality has obvious economic costs: stagnant wages despite rising productivity, rising debt that makes us more vulnerable to financial crisis. It also has big social and human costs. There is, for example, strong evidence that high inequality leads to worse health and higher mortality.
But there’s more. Extreme inequality, it turns out, creates a class of people who are alarmingly detached from reality — and simultaneously gives these people great power.
The example many are buzzing about right now is the billionaire investor Tom Perkins, a founding member of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In a letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Perkins lamented public criticism of the “one percent” — and compared such criticism to Nazi attacks on the Jews, suggesting that we are on the road to another Kristallnacht.
You may say that this is just one crazy guy and wonder why The Journal would publish such a thing. But Mr. Perkins isn’t that much of an outlier. He isn’t even the first finance an to compare advocates of progressive taxation to Nazis. Back in 2010 Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman and chief executive of the Blackstone Group, declared that proposals to eliminate tax loopholes for hedge fund and private-equity managers were “like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.”
And there are a number of other plutocrats who manage to keep Hitler out of their remarks but who nonetheless hold, and loudly express, political and economic views that combine paranoia and megalomania in equal measure.
I know that sounds strong. But look at all the speeches and opinion pieces by Wall Streeters accusing President Obama — who has never done anything more than say the obvious, that some bankers behaved badly — of demonizing and persecuting the rich.
And look at how many of those making these accusations also made the ludicrously self-centered claim that their hurt feelings (as opposed to things like household debt and premature fiscal austerity) were the main thing holding the economy back.
Now, just to be clear, the very rich, and those on Wall Street in particular, are in fact doing worse under Mr. Obama than they would have if Mitt Romney had won in 2012. Between the partial rollback of the Bush tax cuts and the tax hike that partly pays for health reform, tax rates on the 1 percent have gone more or less back to pre-Reagan levels. Also, financial reformers have won some surprising victories over the past year, and this is bad news for wheeler-dealers whose wealth comes largely from exploiting weak regulation. So you can make the case that the 1 percent have lost some important policy battles.
But every group finds itself facing criticism, and ends up on the losing side of policy disputes, somewhere along the way; that’s democracy. The question is what happens next. Normal people take it in stride; even if they’re angry and bitter over political setbacks, they don’t cry persecution, compare their critics to Nazis and insist that the world revolves around their hurt feelings. But the rich are different from you and me.
And yes, that’s partly because they have more money, and the power that goes with it. They can and all too often do surround themselves with courtiers who tell them what they want to hear and never, ever, tell them they’re being foolish. They’re accustomed to being treated with deference, not just by the people they hire but by politicians who want their campaign contributions. And so they are shocked to discover that money can’t buy everything, can’t insulate them from all adversity.
I also suspect that today’s Masters of the Universe are insecure about the nature of their success. We’re not talking captains of industry here, men who make stuff. We are, instead, talking about wheeler-dealers, men who push money around and get rich by skimming some off the top as it sloshes by. They may boast that they are job creators, the people who make the economy work, but are they really adding value? Many of us doubt it — and so, I suspect, do some of the wealthy themselves, a form of self-doubt that causes them to lash out even more furiously at their critics.
Anyway, we’ve been here before. It’s impossible to read screeds like those of Mr. Perkins or Mr. Schwarzman without thinking of F.D.R.’s famous 1936 Madison Square Garden speech, in which he spoke of the hatred he faced from the forces of “organized money,” and declared, “I welcome their hatred.”
President Obama has not, unfortunately, done nearly as much as F.D.R. to earn the hatred of the undeserving rich. But he has done more than many progressives give him credit for — and like F.D.R., both he and progressives in general should welcome that hatred, because it’s a sign that they’re doing something right.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/27...lutocrats.html
Seems legit.
billionaire martyr party!
5 Reasons (Some Of) The 1 Percent Is So Upset At President Obama
Perkins stood by his comments in an email to Bloomberg News on Monday. ”In the Nazi area it was racial demonization, now it is class demonization,” he wrote.
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Taxes On The Richest Back At Pre-Reagan Levels
Taxing The Rich To Help Working People Afford Insurance
He Adopted The Critiques Of Occupy Wall Street And Fight For Fifteen
Some Success At Reforming Wall Street And Lending
The Super Rich Expect To Be Worshiped
http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-reason...esident-obama/
why do rich/company clowns need tax cuts anyway? most of them have them diverted to tax havens and other incentives
you want to trade in this country, you should abide to the laws and like everyone else....
Don't ask me. We gave tax breaks to a company that has $147 billion cash on hand. At this point Austin should be charging companies admission. Supply and demand.
They don't need the tax cuts at all, they get them because over the past 30 years we've destroyed education and dumbed down the workforce while we've let our infrastructure fall apart to the point where corporations can create bidding wars for incentive to make capital expenditures in an area since the people/infrastructure/etc. of the area itself offers no incentive. It's why Louisiana/Alabama/Texas constantly bend over for companies considering those states as a place to open up a factory/warehouse/etc., a state full of uneducated people needs all of the unskilled labor jobs it can get.
Go home Perkins, you're drunk.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/14/inve...-perkins-vote/
Billionaire Sam Zell: Leave The One Percent Alone, We Just 'Work Harder' (VIDEO)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
Seems to a conspiracy now among these wealthy, whiny, powerful, privileged assholes to fight back against "persecution".
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