Posted on 01/24/2015 10:31:12 PM PST by grundle
Jeff Greene is a billionaire who made most of his fortune shorting subprime mortgages ahead of the last recession. Greene took a private jet to this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, along with his wife, children and two nannies, and then told Bloomberg that "America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence. We need to reinvent our whole system of life."
Green owns a $195-million palace in Beverly Hills with 23 bathrooms and a rotating dance floor, two other Los Angeles mansions, a mansion in Palm Beach, a mansion in the Hamptons, and a 145-foot party yacht called Summerwind that once severely damaged a protected coral reef off Belize. Here's a look:
Mansion #1:
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Wow! Thanks!
I’ve just got to keep myself better informed on this street lingo. What a revolting implication that has!
Terrible. Just terrible.
(...muttering ... tsk!, tsk!...)
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This looks like two jazzed-up shipping containers - - - that could see-saw, if you will.
Not that that’s a bad thing - - -
Hypocrisy-On-Parade BUMP
Ooooooh, to be a servant there,would be almost as grand as working for the ROYALS!
Al Gore is also a hypocrite of the same ilk.
A perfect exhibit of the Left’s hypocrisy. That said, I have no problem with his prosperity.
Al Gore is no doubt a joke among those with whom he desires to associate.
The problem is that he’s gotten prosperous through a bunch of phony baloney that has needlessly increased costs for the rest of the world.
Being the lifelong capitalist that I am, I’m curious about the legal specifics of the “phony baloney.” And I know you’re not the envious type.
I noticed that too
A vineyard in Beverly Hills seems odd
I mean, selling the world on the idea that it must be headed to a hot carbon dioxide asphyxiation, or something along those lines. Bad science at best if not deliberate falsehood.
Agreed. But figured AGW was more about twisted Marxist ideology than personal gain.
It’s an Oy Vey thing
He was always a lib....from birth likely
He did not get rich and then turn liberal.
He was always that 70-90% of his demographic that loves progressivism
But not from a rich family....self made
Ugly guy like me
He’s got a Chinese wife
They are both known to be coarse gauche folks who are slow to pay bills
I don’t care if he spends money on big showy homes but he’s let his mouth overload his ass and even his homies are on him
The money may have numbed him further to the foolishness of it all.
Well commies do love their wealthy overlords.
And it is so silly. They urge a dry ideological austerity on the rest of humanity and live like princes themselves. Communism doesn’t even succeed in being communal. It is just an imitation facade of that.
>> Communism doesn’t even succeed in being communal. It is just an imitation facade of that.
Exactly. It’s quite bizarre — the majority that desires to be governed by the wealthy few.
Indeed.
It is an especially offensive condescension that comes from those hypocrites who, laying their head down on a hill of hundred-dollar bills, preach to us about how unimportant money is, how we should be happy with what we have, not strive for material gain, that we need to find an inner, spiritual peace and balance. It is especially egregious when they use that wealth to alleviate their own sense of hyper-materialism by backing and imposing upon the “little people” legislation that strips them of their material possessions even as we struggle to maintain our jobs, our homes, and give up any dream of retiring and face the grim possibility of working until we drop dead in order to maintain this “too extravagant existence” of ours.
While I’m not a fan of the French Revolution and view it as diametrically opposed to the American Revolution in that it ushered in France’s age of socialism, we are witnessing in this phase of U.S. history a near repetition of France’s history with the flagrant collusion of the governing aristocracy/oligarchy to make the richest even richer and more powerful and doing so at the expense of the middle class.
While I loathe that aspect of French history that was marked by the guillotine, I can understand how people can be pushed into that decrepit level of blood-lust.
And a truly bad "Potemkin Village" style facade, at that. Beyond absolutely ludicrous...
the infowarrior
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