This is how I feel. Just shut up and enjoy your spoils from the glorius sub prime market. Seems like all the people who wanted to live a more grand existence by getting funky loans helped this hypocrite achieve great wealth.
Indeed.
It is an especially offensive condescension that comes from those hypocrites who, laying their head down on a hill of hundred-dollar bills, preach to us about how unimportant money is, how we should be happy with what we have, not strive for material gain, that we need to find an inner, spiritual peace and balance. It is especially egregious when they use that wealth to alleviate their own sense of hyper-materialism by backing and imposing upon the “little people” legislation that strips them of their material possessions even as we struggle to maintain our jobs, our homes, and give up any dream of retiring and face the grim possibility of working until we drop dead in order to maintain this “too extravagant existence” of ours.
While I’m not a fan of the French Revolution and view it as diametrically opposed to the American Revolution in that it ushered in France’s age of socialism, we are witnessing in this phase of U.S. history a near repetition of France’s history with the flagrant collusion of the governing aristocracy/oligarchy to make the richest even richer and more powerful and doing so at the expense of the middle class.
While I loathe that aspect of French history that was marked by the guillotine, I can understand how people can be pushed into that decrepit level of blood-lust.
This guy made his wealth on the misery or millions. If he had made it by inventing a new and revolutionary product, manufacturing, providing something that contributes to the great good, I would agree with you. But the way this guy made his money you are way to forgiving and very much wrong.
I guess the term: “Embarrassment of Riches” has fallen out of favor.
Camel, meet eye of needle.
I don’t have any problem with his wealth either. It’s his hypocrisy that I don’t like.