Posted on 01/31/2022 11:25:53 AM PST by grundle
The Washington Post recently published this article on billionaire Leon Cooperman.
The article states:
He… wrote letters to politicians such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) whenever they criticized billionaires in their speeches, because he couldn’t understand: What exactly had he done wrong? What rule had he broken? He’d been born to poor immigrant parents on the losing end of a capitalist economy. He’d attended public schools, taken on debt to become the first in his family to attend college, worked 80-hour weeks, made smart decisions, benefited from some good luck, amassed a fortune for himself and for his clients and paid hundreds of millions in taxes to the government. He had a wife of 57 years, two successful children, and three grandchildren who were helping him decide how to give most of his money away to a long list of charities. “My life is the story of the American Dream,” he’d said while accepting an award at one charity gala, and he’d always imagined himself as the rags-to-riches hero, only to now find himself cast as the greedy villain in a story of economic inequality run amok.
Warren, Sanders, and Ocasio-Cortez have all refused to answer Cooperman’s question.
What he has done wrong, in the eyes of the crazies, is succeed and not accept unearned guilt.
He defied their narrative, you can’t succeed or even suck your thumb without .gov assistance.
Envy runs deep in leftists.
What he did wrong was to not donate enough of his “ill gotten gains” to the Liberal cause and their own personal re-election campaigns.
Bingo! You win the thread.
You’ll get the same “answer” when you ask a lib to put a number on their tax term “fair share.”
@ post 5
One of the best post on FR right now..... period.
Isn’t it amazing that in 20 years we have gone from a party claiming to represent the “little guy” against the greedy billionaires to a party that is entirely owned by...... billionaires!
The DNC is the party of Oligarchs. The GOPe is the same.
MAGA populism is the opposition.
Being a billionaire is wrong, Leon. /s
Never ask a woman exactly what you did wrong.
You were successful 🤪
That’s what you did wrong
Or give their campaigns millions of $$$.
Their complaints and criticism of him would vanish like a fart in the wind if he gave each of their campaigns $1 million.
almost comparable to the founder of INTEL PC CHIPS. Immigrated DIRT POOR to the USA with his family, had to WORK at age 8 because he felt sorry for his dad working 3 jobs , while at the same time go to school and because he did not know ANY english, he had to spend time at the public library reading and learning English.
Envy
Sloth
Greed
Funny how the commie’s dictates are grounded so well with the deadly sins, ain’t it?
Almost as if the Bible has insight into the human condition or something.
I remember Obama & Joe (the Plumber) in the 2008 campaign with the classic LEFTIST mantra; “At some point you have made enough”! Which, in a straight-line translation means for a ‘higher authority’ (i.e. laws & guns) to CONFISCATE, for THEIR PURPOSE, whatever THEY DETERMINE to be the overage!
Then I remember Warren & Obama doing the tag-team “You didn’t build this!” schtick! This maliciously simplistic & COMMUNIST meme had that any & every entrepreneur started from the roads and infrastructure built by OTHER people (taxpayers & victims) that preceded the entrepreneur’s efforts. So, by this mile-stick, the entrepreneur OWES everyone else!
What merde they spew!
He needs his publicist to arrange for a 60 Minutes interview and show all that he has accomplished. Then CBS can bring on the anti-capitalist cabal and ask them to explain why he is evil.
If he’s white, that’s what he’s done wrong.
In my experience in that regard, the answer you usually get is: “Well, if you don’t know, I am not going to tell you!”
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