Posted on 01/29/2015 12:15:18 PM PST by Mount Athos
Rich people are preparing to flee in case of social unrest, at least according to the head of one group founded and partly funded by George Soros.
Robert Johnson, the head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), argued that many wealthy people feared an uprising because of “growing inequality.”
Liberal billionaire George Soros had given $50 million to The Institute for New Economic Thinking, and used that group in 2011 to host a conference that focused on “new multilateral system” of economics. According to an INET press release from 2012, Soros “agreed to augment his foundation support of INET” with an additional $50 million.
In 2011, INET hosted the second Bretton Woods conference. More than two-thirds of the speakers at that conference had direct ties to Soros. Soros has said that "the main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat." Before he was head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Johnson was the Managing Director of Soros Fund Management.
According to the Mirror (UK) and the International Business Times, Johnson told attendees at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that “hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway.” Neither news outlet reported any names of these skittish millionaires. The World Economic Forum website hasn’t posted video of this exchange, so it may not have been during one of the scheduled sessions.
The Mirror added that Johnson had said “the economic situation could soon become intolerable as even in the richest countries inequality was increasing” and “I think the rich are worried and they should be worried.”
The 2011 Bretton Woods conference brought together "more than 200 academic, business and government policy thought leaders' to repeat the famed 1944 Bretton Woods gathering that helped create the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Before he convened the second Bretton Woods, Soros said he wanted a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America wasn’t so dominant.
The Soros had been planning this conference for years. On Nov. 4, 2009, Soros wrote an op-ed calling for "a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order." He added that his goal was to bring about "a new Bretton Woods conference, like the one that established the post-WWII international financial architecture." Only a week before that op-ed was published, Soros helped found INET – the very group that hosted the second Bretton Woods conference less than two years later.
How come only the daughter was unlucky enough to get her father’s looks? :)
Let’s all go to our nearby airports and let the air out of their Learjets’ tires! That’ll show those rich b@$t@rd$! < /sarc >
Had a regular bar customer years ago planning to relocate there. When I asked why, he said "No extradition treaty".
Joe, you out there?
Target list?
The Lear Jet Leftists expect to form the core of the global Green Inner Party. They will continue to enjoy the finest foods and most advanced gadgets the world has to offer — while deciding your fate for you.
If you work very hard and show them your unwavering loyalty, you may be permitted to join the global Green Outer Party. Once in, you will be allowed occasional servings of meat - and air conditioning on a rationed basis.
The rest of us will eat insect and swelter – ‘for the good of the planet’.
It’s not just the wealthy who see a stampede of thieves, thieves boiling out of the Urban Feral kraals in the Big Sh*ty ghettos, “Bronze Peoples” screaming La Raza!, and worst of all, thieves in office and/or uniform - screaming “I is here to hep.”
Once the paychecks and/or EBT cards fail, all of the parasitic class will go full savage.
It is not just the wealthy who want to flee. Alas, once America fails, the world goes savage soon after. Outside America, the idea of the citizen being secure in person and property never became a part of law and culture. Once it is lost here, savagery and darkness descend on the rest of the world.
As the historian, Paul Johnson said, “If teh AMerican experiment in self government fails, that which comes after will be unspeakably worst.”
Unspeakable squats in the White Mosque as I type.
And, my travel agent says there are still off planet tickets available.
Therefore, Americans might consider wrapping themselves in the Second Amendment. B.L.O.A.T. and stock up on supplies.
Got it in one! They rely on other people.
Private Islands like Larry Ellison has.
UGH you notice that too. I thought wow the only daughter has her father looks lol. George Soros in drag LOL
They aren’t going to all fit, unless they want to live like peasant refugees.
Robert Johnson, the head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), argued that many wealthy people feared an uprising because of "growing inequality."Nothing is stopping them from handing out their wealth. Bring it on. I'm home most days. Lying SOS.
The new place they flee to won’t be in chaos, too? And they’re thinking they’ll blend in with their new neighbors? Not a chance.
PM me then, I’ll drive, and bring a change of dark clothes in case we need to do it as a night op...
I don’t see an issue with this. Any US citizen will still have to pay income tax on worldwide income and have to pay tax on all monies that leave the US should they renounce their US citizenship.
The good and bad of life is kids are almost never the equal of an extreme father... ( “Dixi et salvavi animam meam” - gravitate back to the meam ) - In this case it’s good news...
I hope you are right...
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