Posted on 09/08/2015 5:58:15 PM PDT by Nachum
Not to be outdone by his partner Charlie Munger (who offended many with his comments that "gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939,"), Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett - having already taken on Europe, comparing Greece to a "dog peeing on the carpet" of Europe, suggesting Germany stop "rewarding behavior you want to get rid of" - takes aim at the military. Speaking on Bloomberg TV, the octagenerian oracle of offense just unfriended every American veteran...
"You want everybody educated to their potential. You want people to reach their potential. That still won't work for some people in a highly developed market system.
I mean if this were a sports-based system, you could give me a PhD in football, and I could practice eight hours a day, and I might be able to carry the water from, not onto the field, but from the locker room to the bench. There's just some people don't fit well into a highly skilled market-based economy.
They're perfectly decent citizens. We'll send them off to Afghanistan, but they are not going to command a big price."
* * * So just the words of a funny old man who is losing his marbles, or an elitist "crony" oligarch who knows there are no consequences for his words or actions?
On the bright side, at least he did not mention illegal immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Good old Warren.
Back in school, we used to call him Sally.
He’s living proof that senile people can still move their lips.
Gonna buy me a long white robe
Yes Lord to help me home
I’m gonna buy me a long white robe
Yes Lord to get me home
And when I get my heavenly gown
And I lay my burden down
I’m gonna get me a long white robe
To get me home
I’m gonna buy me two golden slippers
Yes Lord to walk me home
I’m gonna buy me two golden slippers
Yes Lord to walk me home
And when I get my slippers of gold
Then the Lord will have my soul
I’m gonna get me two golden slippers
To get me home
Gordon Lightfoot — “Rich Man’s Spiritual”
SoS only pays $186 grand, but you can cash in some huge chits after retirement.
Beat me to it. Buffett is just another condescending elitist ass.
That doesn’t sound like he used to sound. And, there was a time when he used every occasion to get a plug in for Coca Cola.
Note to Warren Buffet: You do know that the U.S. Military is HIGHLY SELECTIVE of who they recruit now, correct? There are NO DUMMIES in our Military. They truly are America's best and brightest.
He’s the kind of feminine hygiene product one uses on a summer evening, and the bag it comes with.
I don’t see that he “offended every American veteran”. He was just stating some harsh truths that playing sports and qualifying to serve in the military is not necessarily going to help one do well in a “highly-skilled market economy”.
Eff Buffett. He knows nothing about the character and intellect of GRUNTS. I do and it encompasses the entire Bell Curve. Nothing like having a squad leader with a 55 GT score and balls made of brass.
Active Duty ping.
155 GT score. Shropshire a a PFC from Brooklyn was the 55. Just joking, he wasn’t that dumb but he was the best shot I ever saw in person. Eyes like a hawk and not a nerve in his body.
Shut up Buffy and pay your taxes.
“Unfortunately, thats a classic solution for an imbalanced society: start a war designed to kill off most of your unwanted population.
Be very concerned when someone very influential suggests it openly.
...and remember, China has a young male surplus they need to, um, address.”
That is a chilling thought.
coming from money and being a silver spoon brat makes it a lot easier to get that education so you can make an "effort to be smart". Obviously it didn't work for Kerry
So says the paper mover...
Perfected stated. Long ago I grew tired of this fake folksy blood-sucking vicious old leech.
Planned Parenthood and sending young men off to missionless wars...thus his rotting soul is revealed.
Buffet trying to out Soros, Soros.
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