Where's a home improvement toy nut supposed to shop this Christmas??
First, we have Lowes pulling their ads from a TV show that depicts American Muslims in a "Clint Huxtable" sort of fashion, and the resultant progressive outrage.
Then we have Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus characterizing the 99% thusly:
If successful businesspeople don't go public to share their stories and talk about their troubles, "they deserve what they're going to get," said Marcus, 82, a founding member of Job Creators Alliance, a Dallas-based nonprofit that develops talking points and op-ed pieces aimed at "shaping the national agenda," according to the group's website. He said he isn't worried that speaking out might make him a target of protesters.
"Who gives a crap about some imbecile?" Marcus said. "Are you kidding me?"
Dear Mr. Marcus:
You really need to take a hard look at Home Depot's demographics. If you think that the 1% patronize your home improvement chain store, you should seriously reconsider your thought process.
Think really hard.
Meanwhile, all you 99%ers should read this article from the Seattle Times. It's quite revealing, but at the end of the day, probably doesn't tell you anything you didn't already know in your heart. Want another pithy quote to pique your interest? Try this one:
Tom Golisano, 70, billionaire founder of payroll processor Paychex and a former New York gubernatorial candidate, said this month that there are examples of excess but that it's "ridiculous" to blame everyone who is rich.
"If I hear a politician use the term 'paying your fair share' one more time, I'm going to vomit," he said.
It's amazing to me these asshats just can't see what's coming at them through the rose colored glass of the bubbles they live in.
I am literally gobsmacked by the hubris displayed in this article. Where am I supposed to shop now? Ace Hardware? My local mom-and-pop hardware store (which I loved) went out of business several years ago.
Update, 3:25 EST: On request from one of my favorite Kossacks, Occams Hatchet:
[A] Nov. 28 open letter to President Obama [was written by] hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman, the Omega Advisors chairman and former CEO of Goldman Sachs's money-management unit. Capitalists "are not the scourge that they are too often made out to be" and the wealthy aren't "a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot," Cooperman wrote. They make products that "fill store shelves at Christmas" and provide health care to millions.
Cooperman, 68, said he can't walk through the St. Andrews Country Club dining room in Boca Raton, Fla., without being thanked for speaking up. At least four people expressed gratitude Dec. 5 while he was eating an egg-white omelet, he said.
Like I said, I'm gobsmacked.