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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 07:35 AM
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Paul B. Farrell: Pity the Super Rich, miserable lost souls


By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch


SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — “Don’t envy the super-rich, they are miserable,” writes the Wall Street Journal’s Robert Frank, author of “Richistan.”

Seriously, even if the American dream is dying for the vast majority of Americans, you should not envy the Super Rich. Why? Money makes them “miserable.” Yes, the heavy burdens of vast wealth that made them rich also made them poor in spirit — socially, psychologically, spiritually bankrupt.

No, this is not just some twisted new defense of trickle-down economics. Not some cockamamie argument that while the guys at the top of the economic pyramid may make vastly more than the average American we must pity them. Yes, we’re asked to believe that the vast wealth of the Super Rich is such a heavy burden to bear, their misery so profound, the rest of America should willingly indulge their greedy excesses.

Oh, puh-leeze. Pity the poor Super Rich? Don’t insult our intelligence. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pity-the-super-rich-miserable-lost-souls-2011-07-26?link=home_carousel



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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 10:10 AM
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1. I've got the solution; tax them at Eisenhower era rates. That will lift their "burden"
considerably.
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nxylas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-11 05:06 AM
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3. That must be why they're crying out to pay more taxes
Oh, wait....
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-11 07:19 AM
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5. they're miserable b/c some part of them realizes what scum they are
to hurt the poor so that those who have plenty can have more.

honestly, if they jumped, en masse, out of their penthouse windows... bubye.
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Downtown Hound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-26-11 11:32 PM
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2. I have no idea what the super rich are really like, but if they are miserable lost souls..
GOOD!
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-11 06:48 AM
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4. What's with all these articles about the rich lately?
This one, one close enough to it by Mike Medved to bring up a question of plagiarism, a story about $240,000 kid's playhouses, $500,000,000 yachts, sending The Golden Child to summer camp on the family Citation jet...

Are they just gloating or is this a secret cry to yanked out of their gated beds in the middle of the night to be fed to the Guillotine?
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