I mean, Bushenfreude? Makes no sense whatsoever. "Bushenfreude" would be FReepers enjoying watching Gross get laid off by WaPo due to Newsweak incompetence.
Yea, gee, that'd be a shame...
One always wonders where such statistics come from.
On marketing or solitication forms that require my occupation and income, I always check “clergy” or “unemployed” for occupation, and lowest income box available.
I NEVER get unwanted telemarketing calls....
They inherited?
Ah yes. Liberals love their own profits, just hate everyone else’s. Limo Libs are the worst.
So does Obama keep his hand up in the air when he does that? Do the rest of the Democratic party like Kennedy and Clinton's raise their hands?
It's about one word: Abortion.
Do the very rich pay taxes? Ask Warren Buffet who reportedly receives $100,000 in salary and is leaving his estate to the Gates Foundation. He, at the same time, calls for higher taxes on the rich. Isn’t that precious?
I mean, Bushenfreude? Makes no sense whatsoever. "Bushenfreude" would be FReepers enjoying watching Gross get laid off by WaPo due to Newsweak incompetence.
Yea, gee, that'd be a shame...
Why to the wealthy support liberal candidates?
Because they don’t want to help the poor they want the government to do it.
Most of W’s tax cuts didn’t work. And what good are they anyway if energy, food, and housing costs a lot more? Combine that with negative stock market returns over the last eight years, sub par earnings opportunities for most people, and they are more than willing to dump Republicans in exchange for slightly higher taxes.
I think part of it was a desire to feel cool; perhaps a bit of boredom as well.
Obama was all packaged up and advertised on TV like the latest new ‘gotta have it’ consumer product.
Also, I tend to think some of them just don’t have the brains to use forethought.
I got this email today from a business owner:
“Dear Fellow Business Owners,
As a Business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama, will be our next President, and that my Taxes and Fees, will go up in a BIG way.
To compensate for these increases, I figure, that the Customer, will have to see an increase in my prices to them of about 10%. I will also have to lay off 6 of my employees.
This really bothered me as I believe we are family here and didn’t know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did. I strolled thru the parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on my employees’ cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off since they knowingly approved of these changes in tax law and the resulting consequences affecting our business and their jobs.
I can’t think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know.
I’m sending this letter to all the Business owners that I know.”
I’m a small business owner, and I’ll probably have to do some cuts myself soon unfortuantely.
Irony of ironies. Obama did not stop saying middle class. But McCain got their vote.
This article is trash. The Schadenfreude was on the part of the very rich financial types whose lifestyles will not be affected by more taxes. They spent four years in college hearing themselves sneered at as the “dominanat culture” holding down the poor people of color, women, gays and transexuals. Having made their money they now want inner peace.
Another irony. US wealth hates itself.
Because really rich people have protected their money against tax increases and taxes in general, many can endorse Sen. Obama’s proposed increases with a smile, knowing that their accumulated wealth is beyond his reach. But would those fancy-dancing liberal millionaires be singing a different song if, instead of an income tax on actual working people, a “wealth tax” on accumulated fortunes were to be proposed? :)
The economy of just a short time ago (weeks), and at present, has people working in the corporate world that elsewhere would be unemployable, and they get paid well too. Say you are a middle manager in the “safety and health” organization, or maybe a manager on the “diversity council”, you are probably bringing down about 125k. Of course people that do these “jobs”, only do so because A) Lawsuit protection or B) They hired them, or were forced to hire them because of EEO rules and the company doesn’t want these individuals screwing up their product or general day to day business. So, if you can imagine the mindset of these people, you will see Obama voters. Of course they love other people that think like themselves so no stretch that two get together bashing Bush at Starbucks and next thing you know they are married and living in a McMansion. Combined income $250k, combined IQ, less than room temperature. And yes they are too dumb to realize that when 0bama taxes the hell out of corporations, and then said corporations need to tighten the corporate belt, the non-value added people (i.e. them) will have to go.
It's Bush fatigue. They just got tired.
People are like that. Sometimes, they just want to roll the dice, ignore the consequences, and let things sort themselves out afterwards.
Westport was always a little artsy anyway.
If Bush had been a Texan who moved to Connecticut, rather than the opposite, Fairfield county might have felt different, but then again, maybe not.
garbage in newsweek out.
I wonder how many such magazines will be around in four years.