The 1% are treated like Jews during the Holocaust (1 Viewer)

[cstu]

"There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these 'techno geeks' can pay."

These 'techno geeks' aren't the 1%.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Nos. 21 and 27 on the Forbes world's richest people list, owners of Google.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/XFXI.html

http://www.forbes.com/profile/sergey-brin/

I suspect they don't ride the bus.

 

[DrJ]

I will say this, this Perkins guy is just a guy who got his letter published. - I still don't understand why Leonhardt's op-ed piece in the NYT still gets a pass to this day.

Liberal media and dolts like Homer to lap it up.

 

[cstu]

"There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these 'techno geeks' can pay."

These 'techno geeks' aren't the 1%.

The protesters don't care:.

Just before Christmas, a window was smashed on a Google bus in Oakland, across the San Francisco Bay. Last week, protesters doorstepped a Google engineer who they claimed was involved in working with the government to develop eavesdropping techniques and “war robots” for the military. “Anthony Levandowski is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation,” they wrote on flyers left near his house. “He is also your neighbor.”

* * *​

“You are not innocent victims,” one flyer directed at tech workers said. “You live your comfortable lives surrounded by poverty, homelessness and death, seemingly oblivious to everything around you, lost in the big bucks and success.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/25/san-franciscos-guerrilla-protest-at-google-buses-swells-into-revolt/

Crazy SF people...I guess they somehow forgot about the 13.3% state tax Californians pay.

 

[Christo]

Those poor 1% s

Boo hoo

I advocate doing to them exactly what the nazis did to the jews

They have been doing the same to us only slower

And just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber....

Ok lets reward treason instead?

Oops, you did it again.

 

[Dr Oadi]

"There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these 'techno geeks' can pay."

These 'techno geeks' aren't the 1%.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Nos. 21 and 27 on the Forbes world's richest people list, owners of Google.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/XFXI.html

http://www.forbes.com/profile/sergey-brin/

I suspect they don't ride the bus.

Those techno geeks aren't getting paid twenty grand a year at google either.

 

[Slapdash]

I will say this, this Perkins guy is just a guy who got his letter published. - I still don't understand why Leonhardt's op-ed piece in the NYT still gets a pass to this day.

Maybe, just maybe, because Leonhardt isn't suggesting that a group of Americans is going to initiate the Holocaust on another group? Maybe he is talking about different policy reactions to the Great Depression instead? You can't really be this stupid.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Those poor 1% s

Boo hoo

I advocate doing to them exactly what the nazis did to the jews

They have been doing the same to us only slower

And just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber....

Ok lets reward treason instead?

Oops, you did it again.

Beat me to it

 

[DSP]

Those poor 1% s

Boo hoo

I advocate doing to them exactly what the nazis did to the jews

They have been doing the same to us only slower

And just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber....

Ok lets reward treason instead?

Oops, you did it again.

Beat me to it

Ok let them destroy the world then

 

[Long Ball Larry]

I will say this, this Perkins guy is just a guy who got his letter published. - I still don't understand why Leonhardt's op-ed piece in the NYT still gets a pass to this day.

Perkins was suggesting that being a millionaire in 2014 America and having a certain vocal minority call you names is akin to be rounded up, tortured and murdered based on one's religion/ethnicity in one of the most horrible acts of genocide in human history.

Leonhardt cited certain facts about the turnaround in the German economy that he tried to tie to other governmental economic and public works interventions.

I think that Leonhardt's analogy is probably misguided, but if you don't see why one would be more outrageous than the other, then I don't know what to tell you.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I will say this, this Perkins guy is just a guy who got his letter published. - I still don't understand why Leonhardt's op-ed piece in the NYT still gets a pass to this day.

Perkins was suggesting that being a millionaire in 2014 America and having a certain vocal minority call you names is akin to be rounded up, tortured and murdered based on one's religion/ethnicity in one of the most horrible acts of genocide in human history.

Leonhardt cited certain facts about the turnaround in the German economy that he tried to tie to other governmental economic and public works interventions.

I think that Leonhardt's analogy is probably misguided, but if you don't see why one would be more outrageous than the other, then I don't know what to tell you.

You may be right, just asking.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I will say this, this Perkins guy is just a guy who got his letter published. - I still don't understand why Leonhardt's op-ed piece in the NYT still gets a pass to this day.

Maybe, just maybe, because Leonhardt isn't suggesting that a group of Americans is going to initiate the Holocaust on another group? Maybe he is talking about different policy reactions to the Great Depression instead? You can't really be this stupid.

Honestly don't want to argue about it, just looking for views and distinctions.

Thanks.

 

[Fennis]

[SIZE=10.5pt]I would be supportive of the 1% being forced to wear green dollar signs on their jackets when they go out in public.[/SIZE]

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

Those poor 1% s

Boo hoo

I advocate doing to them exactly what the nazis did to the jews

They have been doing the same to us only slower

And just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber....

I'm waiting to hear how the 1% tip.

 

[DSP]

Those poor 1% s

Boo hoo

I advocate doing to them exactly what the nazis did to the jews

They have been doing the same to us only slower

And just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber....

I'm waiting to hear how the 1% tip.

Terribly

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

Those poor 1% s

Boo hoo

I advocate doing to them exactly what the nazis did to the jews

They have been doing the same to us only slower

And just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber....

I'm waiting to hear how the 1% tip.

Terribly

Well, I'm sold.

To the showers!!

 

[Johnny Rock]

The term one percent is so stupid... It lumps anyone making over like 350-400k into the same group. In reality, it's a small fraction of this group taking in the lion's share.

At first they came for the 1%, and I said, Hey, it's not really the 1%, it's just the .1%! Take them!

 

[cstu]

[SIZE=10.5pt]I would be supportive of the 1% being forced to wear green dollar signs on their jackets when they go out in public.[/SIZE]

An early adopter.

 

[Sarnoff]

Pretty easy to stop being rich if you can't stand the horrible oppression.

It would have been easy for the Jews to just stop going to Temple if they wanted to avoid the SS.

 

[Slapdash]

[SIZE=10.5pt]I would be supportive of the 1% being forced to wear green dollar signs on their jackets when they go out in public.[/SIZE]

An early adopter.

They could all wear this: http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2007/costumes-villains/lesko.jpg

 

[flysack]

Just to be clear -

This guy just "got away" with saying that Jews are miserly scumbags who will trample on anyone to make a profit, including -

- stealing from the elderly (retirement funds)

- forcing taxpayers to pay their employees (Walmart telling their employees to go on welfare)

- pissing in the community well (West Virgina, various hydrofracking practices)

You almost have to admire this guy's sneaky antisemitism.

 

[jonessed]

"There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these 'techno geeks' can pay."

These 'techno geeks' aren't the 1%.

You would be surprised.

 

[timschochet]

Fracking may indeed be dangerous to the environment- the information we have so far is contradictory and inconclusive.

But to suggest that fracking benefits the "1%" at the expense of the public is disingenuous at best. It has provided thousands of new jobs.

 

[The General]

[SIZE=10.5pt]I would be supportive of the 1% being forced to wear green dollar signs on their jackets when they go out in public.[/SIZE]

An early adopter.

They could all wear this: http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2007/costumes-villains/lesko.jpg

Or get sweet tattoos

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

"There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these 'techno geeks' can pay."

These 'techno geeks' aren't the 1%.

The protesters don't care:.

Just before Christmas, a window was smashed on a Google bus in Oakland, across the San Francisco Bay. Last week, protesters doorstepped a Google engineer who they claimed was involved in working with the government to develop eavesdropping techniques and “war robots” for the military. “Anthony Levandowski is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation,” they wrote on flyers left near his house. “He is also your neighbor.”

* * *​

“You are not innocent victims,” one flyer directed at tech workers said. “You live your comfortable lives surrounded by poverty, homelessness and death, seemingly oblivious to everything around you, lost in the big bucks and success.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/25/san-franciscos-guerrilla-protest-at-google-buses-swells-into-revolt/

So, actual violence and intimidation here.

 

[flysack]

Fracking may indeed be dangerous to the environment- the information we have so far is contradictory and inconclusive.

But to suggest that fracking benefits the "1%" at the expense of the public is disingenuous at best. It has provided thousands of new jobs.

Tim, you're the worst of both worlds.

You're too stupid to bother debating and too serious to be a good fisherman.

And yet, I kind of like you, you crazy mofo of all holy xerography. So no offense. I ain't diving in your pool though.

 

[flysack]

"There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these 'techno geeks' can pay."

These 'techno geeks' aren't the 1%.

The protesters don't care:.

Just before Christmas, a window was smashed on a Google bus in Oakland, across the San Francisco Bay. Last week, protesters doorstepped a Google engineer who they claimed was involved in working with the government to develop eavesdropping techniques and “war robots” for the military. “Anthony Levandowski is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation,” they wrote on flyers left near his house. “He is also your neighbor.”

* * *​

“You are not innocent victims,” one flyer directed at tech workers said. “You live your comfortable lives surrounded by poverty, homelessness and death, seemingly oblivious to everything around you, lost in the big bucks and success.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/25/san-franciscos-guerrilla-protest-at-google-buses-swells-into-revolt/

So, actual violence and intimidation here.

Meh. Americans even protest wimpy. Let me know when they start wearing medieval armor and build catapults like the Ukrainians. Those people know how to party.

 

[timschochet]

Fracking may indeed be dangerous to the environment- the information we have so far is contradictory and inconclusive.

But to suggest that fracking benefits the "1%" at the expense of the public is disingenuous at best. It has provided thousands of new jobs.

Tim, you're the worst of both worlds.

You're too stupid to bother debating and too serious to be a good fisherman.

And yet, I kind of like you, you crazy mofo of all holy xerography. So no offense. I ain't diving in your pool though.

Why I like you too flysack. Wasn't fishing though; just don't see fracking as an apt example of the 1% taking advantage. There are other examples that fit better.

 

[Ursa M]

Maybe the whiny letter writer should have raised the French, Russian and Cambodian revolutions, among others. Any of those, with their deliberate executions of the rich for being rich and intellectuals for being intellectuals would have been bad, but at least better than the tired old twaddle about the Nazis.

 

[Run It Up]

Man, the richest just can't catch a break.

 

[fatguyinalittlecoat]

Pretty easy to stop being rich if you can't stand the horrible oppression.

It would have been easy for the Jews to just stop going to Temple if they wanted to avoid the SS.

Huh?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I will say this, this Perkins guy is just a guy who got his letter published. - I still don't understand why Leonhardt's op-ed piece in the NYT still gets a pass to this day.

Liberal media and dolts like Homer to lap it up.

Or because its a good example of public spending helping to turn an economy around.

Not all Nazi comparisons are idiotic, just most of them. Kind how not all people that go by Dr J are idiotic, just the one that posts here.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Pretty easy to stop being rich if you can't stand the horrible oppression.

It would have been easy for the Jews to just stop going to Temple if they wanted to avoid the SS.

Are you f'ing riitarded? Serious question, does someone have to help you get dressed in the morning?

 

[Rove!]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/news/economy/middle-class-economy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

At around $15.8 trillion a year, the United States produces more in annual economic output than ever before, but it's not the worker that's benefiting. Instead, corporate profits now account for their largest slice of that pie on record, whereas the slice for workers has been steadily declining.

The recovery has been good to families earning more than $394,000 a year, but the other 99% of Americans have barely felt it. The richest 1% of American families have captured 95% of the income gains in the recovery period spanning 2009 to 2012, according to economists at the forefront of income inequality research, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. Meanwhile, income for the median American family has barely budged in recent years

I'd be interested in seeing this calculation.

the workforce participation rate is continually declining, so are these people included in their average?

recovery?

 

[Rove!]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/news/economy/middle-class-economy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

At around $15.8 trillion a year, the United States produces more in annual economic output than ever before, but it's not the worker that's benefiting. Instead, corporate profits now account for their largest slice of that pie on record, whereas the slice for workers has been steadily declining.

The recovery has been good to families earning more than $394,000 a year, but the other 99% of Americans have barely felt it. The richest 1% of American families have captured 95% of the income gains in the recovery period spanning 2009 to 2012, according to economists at the forefront of income inequality research, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. Meanwhile, income for the median American family has barely budged in recent years

In most cases, the 1%er did not do anything wrong that is allowing him to become wealthier. They are in the right spot at the right time. It is so easy to make their wealth grow. The stock market boomed in the last few years. They can borrow money at 0% interest to buy real estate which is almost always a great investment.That being said, the comparison to the Jewish slaughter is absolutely wrong.

The treatment is a universe apart, but demagogues will divide the populace and blame the people's troubles on some bogeyman...usually a group of people and both major parties do it masterfully,,,sometimes with a wink and a nod. They know that stirring up #### is what helps them to maintain their power.

 

[Ursa M]

Isn't there a codicil to Godwin's Law that the one who makes the first Nazi comparison has automatically lost the argument?

 

[Ignoramus]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/news/economy/middle-class-economy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

At around $15.8 trillion a year, the United States produces more in annual economic output than ever before, but it's not the worker that's benefiting. Instead, corporate profits now account for their largest slice of that pie on record, whereas the slice for workers has been steadily declining.

The recovery has been good to families earning more than $394,000 a year, but the other 99% of Americans have barely felt it. The richest 1% of American families have captured 95% of the income gains in the recovery period spanning 2009 to 2012, according to economists at the forefront of income inequality research, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. Meanwhile, income for the median American family has barely budged in recent years

In most cases, the 1%er did not do anything wrong that is allowing him to become wealthier. They are in the right spot at the right time. It is so easy to make their wealth grow. The stock market boomed in the last few years. They can borrow money at 0% interest to buy real estate which is almost always a great investment.That being said, the comparison to the Jewish slaughter is absolutely wrong.

The treatment is a universe apart, but demagogues will divide the populace and blame the people's troubles on some bogeyman...usually a group of people and both major parties do it masterfully,,,sometimes with a wink and a nod. They know that stirring up #### is what helps them to maintain their power.

Yeah, things would be a lot more comfortable for everyone if we were to just lie back and accept it and not challenge the status quo.

 

[fatness]

His point isn't that far off. The rich are hated just for being rich. Class warfare is no different that any other ideological warfare, and has the same root.

Yeah, those 1% lampshades are pretty tacky.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Interesting, I just read yesterday how more than half of the members of Congress are millionaires and how I would like to shove them all into an oven.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Hitler built concentration camps specially--made for venture capitalists and hedge fund managers. They were much more luxurious than regular concentration camps, featuring swimming pools, five-star dining, and concierge service.

And cocaine. Mountains of cocaine.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

First, they came for the hedge fund managers ...

 

[Politician Spock]

First, they came for the hedge fund managers ...

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

[SIZE=10.5pt]I would be supportive of the 1% being forced to wear green dollar signs on their jackets when they go out in public.[/SIZE]

An early adopter.

They could all wear this: http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2007/costumes-villains/lesko.jpg

Or get sweet tattoos

Don't think you can beat the classics

 

[Politician Spock]

I belive the world is going to give a big :finger: to Wall Street and the Fed in 2014.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Well what could possibly go wrong.

 

[rascal]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/24/news/economy/middle-class-economy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

At around $15.8 trillion a year, the United States produces more in annual economic output than ever before, but it's not the worker that's benefiting. Instead, corporate profits now account for their largest slice of that pie on record, whereas the slice for workers has been steadily declining.

The recovery has been good to families earning more than $394,000 a year, but the other 99% of Americans have barely felt it. The richest 1% of American families have captured 95% of the income gains in the recovery period spanning 2009 to 2012, according to economists at the forefront of income inequality research, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. Meanwhile, income for the median American family has barely budged in recent years

Goebbels alias?

Seriously?

 

[Dr Oadi]

I belive the world is going to give a big :finger: to Wall Street and the Fed in 2014.

Well the fed will just quadruple their interest rates. How you like those apples?

 

[Politician Spock]

I belive the world is going to give a big :finger: to Wall Street and the Fed in 2014.

Well the fed will just quadruple their interest rates. How you like those apples?

By "finger" I mean the Fed will no longer be the issuers of the world's reserve currency. I see the IMF is getting a little to cozy with the BRICS, and I think they may come to a compromise of which the dollar is just one of 8 national currencies that make up a basket of currencies countries will use to conduct international trade.

 

[bigbottom]

Fracking may indeed be dangerous to the environment- the information we have so far is contradictory and inconclusive.

But to suggest that fracking benefits the "1%" at the expense of the public is disingenuous at best. It has provided thousands of new jobs.

Tim, you're the worst of both worlds.

You're too stupid to bother debating and too serious to be a good fisherman.

And yet, I kind of like you, you crazy mofo of all holy xerography. So no offense. I ain't diving in your pool though.

Lots of good middle class jobs in the fracking industry. Environmental issues aside, I don't see how this can be denied.

 

[BigSteelThrill]

Fracking may indeed be dangerous to the environment- the information we have so far is contradictory and inconclusive.

But to suggest that fracking benefits the "1%" at the expense of the public is disingenuous at best. It has provided thousands of new jobs.

Tim, you're the worst of both worlds.

You're too stupid to bother debating and too serious to be a good fisherman.

And yet, I kind of like you, you crazy mofo of all holy xerography. So no offense. I ain't diving in your pool though.

Lots of good middle class jobs in the fracking industry. Environmental issues aside, I don't see how this can be denied.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

I belive the world is going to give a big :finger: to Wall Street and the Fed in 2014.

Well the fed will just quadruple their interest rates. How you like those apples?

By "finger" I mean the Fed will no longer be the issuers of the world's reserve currency. I see the IMF is getting a little to cozy with the BRICS, and I think they may come to a compromise of which the dollar is just one of 8 national currencies that make up a basket of currencies countries will use to conduct international trade.

Why would countries sitting on mountains of dollars do anything sudden to devalue their asset?