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'People need to have less things in life', says U.S. billionaire after flying into Davos...
Daily Mail ^ | January 22, 2015 | SIMON TOMLINSON

Posted on 01/22/2015 12:48:08 PM PST by maggief

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To: GraceG

That would have worked centuries ago, but now, they are simply repositories of things that other people want, and will get, during the great cleansing.


61 posted on 01/22/2015 2:35:14 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

He is scum all right, but not because he shorted the mortgage market, which deserved to be shorted. He’s scum because he is a hypocrite.


62 posted on 01/22/2015 2:40:16 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: maggief

People need to have less things in life...? If you feel that way then give me all your things so you won’t feel so guilty Gilligan!


63 posted on 01/22/2015 2:43:54 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: maggief

You first, pal.


64 posted on 01/22/2015 2:47:49 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: maggief

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - Good Charlotte

Always see it on TV
Or read it in the magazines
Celebrities want sympathy
All they do is piss and moan
Inside the Rolling Stone
Talkin’ about how hard life can be

I’d like to see them spend a week
Livin’ life out on the street
I don’t think they would survive
If they could spend a day or two
Walkin’ in someone else’s shoes
I think they’d stumble and they’d fall
They would fall (fall)

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They’re always complainin’
Always complainin’
If money is such a problem
Well, they got mansions
Think we should rob them

Well, did you know when you were famous you could kill your wife
And there’s no such thing as 25 to life
As long as you’ve got the cash to pay for Cochran
And did you know if you were caught and you were smokin’ crack
McDonald’s wouldn’t even wanna take you back
You could always just run for mayor of D.C.

I’d like to see them spend a week
Livin’ life out on the street
I don’t think they would survive
If they could spend a day or two
Walking in someone else’s shoes
I think they’d stumble and they’d fall
They would fall

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They’re always complainin’
Always complainin’
If money is such a problem
Well, they got mansions
Think we should rob them (rob them)

They would fall

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They’re always complainin’
Always complainin’
If money is such a problem
You got so many problems
Think I could solve them

Lifestyles of the rich and famous
We’ll take your clothes, cash, cars and homes, just stop complainin’

Lifestyles of the rich and famous
Lifestyles of the rich and famous
Lifestyles of the rich and famous


65 posted on 01/22/2015 2:49:48 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: maggief
I hate it when they edit peoples statements, they left out the first word in his quote, common.
66 posted on 01/22/2015 2:55:18 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: maggief
Don't ya just luv it when elitist snob billionaires lecture you about how "you" need to live with less?
67 posted on 01/22/2015 2:56:05 PM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. unless if goDon't wait. Do it today.)
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To: maggief

So when is his appointment to an Obama cabinet position? He certainly has the requisite hypocrisy and arrogance.


68 posted on 01/22/2015 3:19:00 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: gaijin

From a 2007 NYT article about their wedding:

When Mr. Greene first arrived in California, he criticized such extravagant displays. “We mock the things we are to be,” he said, quoting a line favored by Mel Brooks. But he makes no apologies for the lavish wedding. He was proud to share his joy and good fortune with friends and relatives.

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So, see, it’s okay for him and his friends and his relatives, but we peons should make due with less.


69 posted on 01/22/2015 3:39:25 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: maggief

Yikes. Yet more proof money cannot buy taste or class. That house is gaudy-awful.


70 posted on 01/22/2015 3:41:51 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: gaijin

I liked seeing pix of the place.

However ... the interiors remind me of a soulless big city hotel.

Meh.


71 posted on 01/22/2015 6:59:27 PM PST by Cloverfarm (Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord ...)
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To: TexasRepublic
I think I’d be okay with Obama taxing that guy’s wealth to the max.

Don't even joke like that - it opens gaps for others to call us hypocrites about our "love of the Constitution" and "hatred of an overbearing government" - it's almost like condoning the use of the IRS as a weapon while saying it should be dissolved.

72 posted on 01/23/2015 3:09:30 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: maggief

btt


73 posted on 01/23/2015 3:21:24 AM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: maggief

Rest assured, Mr.Greene, that there are individuals worth considerably more than you who have a thorough distaste for loudmouth nouveau riche presuming to speak for them. Careful, lest you find yourself among that number making do with less.


74 posted on 01/23/2015 3:22:10 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yep. And he proudly calls himself a “ progressive”

Trash.


75 posted on 01/23/2015 7:25:56 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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