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.
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What a prick!
I trust the intellect and the morals more of a guy in Iraq than any PHD anywhere.......
people are going to be very very unhappy if Trump succeeds....maybe he sounds good on a few things, but he is also an elitist he hangs around with other rat elitist...
You speak the truth. Back in the day, real investors and builders put their own money at risk to make things, hire people, and produce.
Small business still do that, but they have gone down by the hundreds of thousands in the last few years.
The big corporations all have ties to foreign manufacturing, and big money via the Central Banks. Hence, the manipulation of stocks.
We don't have many real "investors" anymore either. We have money gamblers and Central Bank Teat Suckers. When the interest rate is raised by the Fed, look for the cockroaches to find a dark hiding place.
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