Pity the Poor Billionaires: Ultra-Rich Whine About Having Their Massive Campaign.....

[signalmankenneth]

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/155699

 

[Rune]

“Is there a group of people you can think of who have thinner skin than America’s multimillionaires and billionaires?’ Paul Waldman asks. “Wall Street titans have been whining for a couple of years now about the horror of people in politics criticizing ineffective banking regulations and the favorable tax treatment so many wealthy people receive… America’s barons feel assaulted, victimized, wounded in ways that not even a bracing ride to your Hamptons estate in your new Porsche 911 can salve. And now that the presidential campaign is in full swing, their tender feelings are being hurt left and right.”

 

[Althea]

The irony, is that these uber wealthy would rather collectively spend billions in campaign contributions....in an effort to elect someone who will further lower their taxes....than put that money to use in a stalled economy.