Posted on 08/08/2011 12:51:06 PM PDT by bthockey
As an actor, I absolutely love Matt Damon. The Bourne Ultimatum is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I can watch it again and again without getting tired of it. He is one of my favorite actors. However, his political ideas are some of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard.
Matt Damon has a crazy idea that he, and his fellow millionaires and billionaires, need to be taxed more so that his money can be used to help the world. He doesn't believe that he should have that money but that his money should be spread around and not given to him, but those who are worse off than him. In the interview below, he explains that it is "criminal" that the wealthy aren't paying more in taxes. Also in this interview, Matt Damon has the brilliant idea of taxing the rich more "per million dollars." It's interesting to watch.
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Close, but I don't think that's it. It's not that successful actors feel guilty, but rather that they feel inadequate. They are known as dynamic and heroic figures from the roles they play, but, in real life, they've done little if anything to match their public image. This leads them to over compensate by taking what they perceive (and would like you to perceive) as heroic positions on social issues, or in the case of women, an obsession for adopting children from unfortunate circumstances.
Hubby thinks that there should be an Asset Tax, so that all those loud-mouthed lib millionaires, who shelter their INCOME, so are not taxed on it, can truly pay their fair share.
Yes, but I can’t imagine it is any more left wing than Ludlam himself.
I had to laugh. It's the city's one and only public high school.
After his parents divorced, Damon and his brother moved with their mother back to Cambridge, where they lived in a six-family communal house. Damon grew up near Ben Affleck, a close friend since childhood and collaborator on several films, and historian and author Howard Zinn, whose biographical film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio version of A People's History of the United States Damon later narrated. -- Wikipedia
He is what he is, and he's been that way all his life.
Yeah, he’s a typical socialist too. Wanting to do everything to help others with OTHER people’s money.
By the way, he never finished getting his degree from “Hahvahd.”
You wrote: “I was being generic pointing to the area.”
I wasn’t trying to be a smahty pants with you. It’s just when I hear those two socialist boobs say that they’re from Boston, I cringe. They are from the People’s Socialist Republic of Cambridge.
I’m from Charlestown... “The Town”... now that’s Boston!
Okay, no wurries - but didn’t he say he was a Southie? I’ve read several books by this PI guy LaHane (sp?) who writes detective stories in and about Boston.
Both Damon and Affleck are from Cambridge.
Yes Lehane some good books. I believe he used to write “the crime beat” for one of the Boston newspapers.
K - thanks for all that info. Appreciated.
Gene Simmons said it best. Money doesn’t make you happy, but when you’re rich you don’t have to worry about money anymore and that makes you happier. He’s right. I’m happier than the guy who’s popping antacids because he can’t figure out how he’s going to pay the utility bill and still buy groceries. Somewhere there is a guy close by who’s happier than I am, because he knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that his nest egg could last him ten retirements and mine isn’t so rosey that I don’t worry about it. Money might not make you happy, but enough money to be free of financial worry sure goes a long way.
Right. And, it is the love of money that is the culprit - not money itself. If there is no love in a home with money there is no real happiness. The right mind set is key.
I have it on good authority that a little known original copy of Richard III did have it as “My kingdom for a wurst”.
I think that was the old German version of Richard III. The newer version had weiner - I promise.
"A weiner. A weiner. My kingdom for a weiner". I kinda like the "wurst" version better. The single syllable word works well. Tastes better, too... :)
Gee, I don't know. I get a bad vibe with "wurst" and it reminds me of the beginning of a famous novel, specifically the second sentence of the novel.
Not making a connect with the novel you refer to, but I’ve never had a bad vibe from a wurst myself. For me, a wurst is the best of times...
The single syllable word works well. Tastes better, too... :)
Do you put kraut on your wursts?
Absolutely! Kraut, horseradish & onion. Hmmmmm, I wonder if this combo convinced Shakespeare to change his famous line from "wurst" to "horse"... :)
Or, just maybe, the king was calling for horseradish and the author used poetic license and changed it to simply “horse” - now we are getting somewhere. Anyway, the whole combo of kraut, horseradish and onion seems like an indigestion induced nightmare - but that's just me. Of course, we suck the fat out of crawfish heads and eat fried alligator so who am I to judge:)
And I didn't even touch on the accompanying baked beans and German potato salad. In moderation. Always in moderation. Infrequently, as well. But again, that makes it something to look forward to. And, I kinda like that note about horseradish>horse. Makes a lot of sense. Have we out-figured Shakespeare? :)
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