A couple of weeks ago, we had dinner in Marin with the host couple and two other couples. These are people, who worked with me and pretended to be conservative until they retired.
After the first glass of wine and micro brew were served, it became open game from them re bashing Republicans, Bush and Rush. Finally, my wife told them no more politics and Bush/Rush bashing or we were going home.
They like most other rats are really split personalities.
They were proudly pushing Zer0, condemning evil capitalistic greed (of course only rich Republicans are greedy), and then complaining, moaning and crying about losing over 50% of the value of their IRA’s and 401k’s.
The last bit shows their greed. These 3 couples are basically retired and yet their IRA’s and 401ks were heavily invested in stocks and mutual funds betting on the high returns with little if any diversifing re their investments.
One of the women picked on the fact that we weren’t whining and moaning and asked my wife, why.
My wife said that I anticipated this failure after Pelosi and Reid took over and made appropriate moves. Of course that brought out the anti Bush/Greedy Republican spews from them.
I told them, I wasn’t going to discuss it anymore. If they were interested in what I did re our investments to send me an email the next Monday.
The Marin couple never sent one. The other two did. I sent them back another email stating that I was not going to waste my time explaining what I had done and unless they sent me an email saying they were really concerned about Zer0, Nancy, Harry and Barney the prancing queen.
I got no replies back from them.
Oh, you will. One day you're going to spot them pushing grocery carts full of junk down the street, and that's when you'll hear it.