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Plutocratic Populism Pays [VDH]
National Review ^ | 10/28/2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/28/2014 4:22:21 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

What’s with rich liberals who blast other people for being rich?

In early October, Barack Obama went to a $32,000-a-head fundraiser at the 20-acre estate of the aptly named billionaire Richie Richman. The day before he charmed his paying audience of liberal 1 percenters, Obama had sent out an e-mail alleging that Republicans were “in the pocket of billionaires.” Does that mean that Republicans who accept cash from billionaire supporters are always in their pockets, but that when the president does likewise, he never is? And if so, on what grounds is he exempt from his own accusations?

In mid-October, Hillary Clinton gave a short lecture at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas bewailing the crushing costs of a university education. “Higher education,” Clinton thundered, “shouldn’t be a privilege for those able to afford it.”

One reason tuition and student indebtedness have soared — UNLV’s tuition is set to go up by 17 percent next year — is that universities pay exorbitant fees to multimillionaire speakers like Hillary Clinton. College foundations sprout up to raise money for perks that might not pass transparent university budgeting. Clinton — or her own foundation — reportedly charged a university foundation $225,000 for a talk lasting less than an hour. For that sum, she could have paid the tuition of over 320 cash-strapped UNLV students. Is there a Clinton Tuition Fund, to which Hillary contributes a portion of her honoraria to exempt herself from the ramifications of her own accusations?

Multibillionaire Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg wants amnesty for undocumented workers. In fact, he flew down to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s estate to blast his own country’s immigration policies. But Zuckerberg also pays millions to separate himself from hoi polloi.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary; hypocrite; oligarchy; plutocrats; vdh; victordavishanson
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. ... President Ronald "Maximus" Reagan
1 posted on 10/28/2014 4:22:22 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
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2 posted on 10/28/2014 4:23:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross
What’s with rich liberals who blast other people for being rich?

“It is always safe to denounce the rich. Everyone will help you, the rich first.”
- Ellsworth Toohey, The Fountainhead

3 posted on 10/28/2014 4:26:54 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Yea, verily, it has ever been thus; from Matthew 7:3-5 ...

"3 Why do you see the splinter in your brother's eye but not notice the log in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, `Let me take the splinter out of your eye,' when you have the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite! First, take the log out of your own eye; then you will see clearly, so that you can remove the splinter from your brother's eye!"

4 posted on 10/28/2014 4:59:43 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Wealthy Liberals demonizing the wealth of others is a real joke. But, it's typical of the Liberal smear technique to exxagerate their self-serving, divisive, unwholesome class divide in America.

AS IF there's someone with a gun to your head to keep you from getting out of bed in the morning ....and keeping you from working like crazy to get ahead. AS IF routinely taking life-and-death risks with your family's future and fortune is strictly elitist.

Will there ever be just one Liberal who comprehends wealth and how it works?

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” Albert Camus

5 posted on 10/28/2014 5:15:35 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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