During the 2008 presidential
campaign, Chris Matthews reported on Joe Biden's net worth.
$150,000.00. At most.
On the "other side of
the aisle," Romney has so many Cadillacs he needs an "automobile
elevator" to store them on different levels of his personal parking
deck. http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/05/details_on_the_55k_car_lift_in_mitt_romneys_new_la_jolla_house.php
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William James (best-known for
"The Varieties of Religious Experience") described "The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive
worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That - with the squalid cash
interpretation put on the word "success" - is our national
disease." William James
Notably, not one internet
naysayer questioned Biden's net worth. Rather, they accused him of being a
financial failure.
Here is an example of that
weirdness. http://www.thousandaire.com/joe-bidens-net-worth-is-embarrassing/
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The United States is more
plutocracy than democracy.
Citizens United is accelerating
the displacement and ironically America's vestigial democracy turbocharges the
process.
Deep in the human psyche is
an abiding urge to surrender self-determination to authoritarian flag wavers
and patriotic drum thumpers.
Deep in the American psyche
is an urge to surrender everything to the people who already
have everything.
Yes, it is true that "job creators" are creating employment opportunities; just not in America.
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If released, Romney's tax
returns would reveal -- even to those in comprehensive denial -- that
plutocrats already run the show and that their self-arrogated favoritism is not
illegal, just sleazy.
The 2010 Oscar-winning
documentary, "Inside Job," provides the most concentrated dose of
"economic insight. It can be watched online - with Spanish sub-titles -
at https://vimeo.com/27292661
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