Civilization collapses as makers Go Galt! Yacht Parade cancelled!
Like many successful job creators, I own a couple of yachts, including one I dock at Newport Beach, Connecticut. The harbour needs work though:
The city's five-year plan for the harbor calls for $29 million in long-overdue maintenance. Its silt-filled channels haven't been fully dredged since the Great Depression. Ancient, leaky sea walls protecting neighborhoods need to be repaired or replaced. "We have the makings of a perfect storm like they did on the East Coast" during Superstorm Sandy, said Chris Miller, the city's harbor resources manager. "The sea walls are nearing the end of their useful life."Easy problem to solve: just make a payroll tax on the lazier classes, or borrow the money. But what did the class warriors do? They've increased the fees: Newport's dock fee, which has stood at $100 a year for the last two decades, will now be based on a dock's size. The city says rents will increase to about $250 for a small slip to $3,200 annually for a large dock shared by two homeowners.What a rip off! At this rate, I might as well just get a private dock, since it would only cost ten or twenty thousand dollars more. I should do it just to spite these statist goons. And I would, if it didn't cost more. They should be begging me to honor their docks with my presence, not expecting me to pay for them, at the extortionate rate of 10% the private-sector price. So, the yacht-owners of Newport Beach are GOING GALT! We are going to show the world what happens when you don't have millionaires and billionaires around: We will "...boycott the boat parade and festival of lights by a group calling itself "Stop the Dock Tax."I'm not just stopping at having an unlit yacht, I'm also going to take my Sunday drives without shining, no, with out even WASHING (the outside that is) of my sports cars. Every Sunday I bring smiles to people, as they gaze upon my cars, and my young import "secretary" Katya (or Kathia, she seems to change how she pronounces it all the time). How, I ask, how will you in the lazier classes be able to smile when you can't see my shiny cars and import secretaries? (You'll still be able to see her, but she'll be wearing more clothes.) See how the collapse of civilization is coming, as we Go Galt? Now you'll have to live without yacht parades. Next others will also drive unshined luxury cars, and our secretaries and autobiographers will dress unsexily. Next, just to drive home how much you need us, our powerpoint presentations will be in black and white! And you know how we deliver smiles to people by having fancy ornate gates in our gated communities? Next it will be plain old razor wire. See, now we're straight into Mad Max territory! See how much you need billionaires? |
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This is typical liberal get-more-give-more nonsense.
Whatever happened to good old conservative values like get-more-give-bare-minimum? How is anybody supposed to make a profit in this economy? |
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Mr. Thurmond, on behalf of poor people let me apologize to you for our greediness. Rest be assured I will be campaigning hard for the City of San Diego to purchase full service docks for billionaire yacht owners and a new stadium for our loser football team. We all benefit from the miracle of trickle-down economics so it's only fair we return it many-fold over in tax breaks and debt forgiveness. After all, a few billion dollars of incentives to a billionaire, when spread over millions of poor people, is only a few thousand bucks each.
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It turns out that rich Christian capitalists are not the only ones going "Galt". The rich Limousine Liberals – the ones always admonishing the rest of us to pay "our fair share" of the taxes are "Galting" their "responsibility" as well – like the Democrat Senator John Kerry from the socialist workers paradise of Taxachusetts.
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If Obama has his way, all those involved in the trickle down yachting industry – from manufacturing, selling, and maintaining yachts, will be out of a job soon. They might be able to find work at the IRS making sure that the rest of us can't go "Galt" escaping ObamaCare. Quote:
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Another key part of civilization collapses: now you'll miss out on the pleasure of looking at our mansions, as we abandon them. He might even stop working - how will civilization survive without advertisers?
Legendary advertising guru Jerry Della Femina is the latest Hamptons fat cat to unload his East End spread at the precipice of the dreaded fiscal cliff. The flamboyant Madison Avenue guru has sold his 8,500-square-foot estate — the host of many legendary bashes — for $25 million, and blames his flight squarely on President Obama’s fiscal policies.Exactly: don't give your money to some mooching construction worker to repair infrastructure. This should be a land of rugged individualists, who pull ourselves up by own own bootstraps. The truly self-reliant don't need government jobs, we inherit our money. |
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Military: It's expensive but we need to be safe from terrorists. Trim a little, if possible. Education: I've been to school already, I don't need that. Abolish. Transportation: I've got a car, I don't need that. Abolish. Health: I'm doing alright and mamma's on medicare. Abolish. Administration of Justice: OK, we can keep that but CUT by 50%. Veterans: Didn't we pay them already under Military? Abolish. Housing assistance: I've got a house already - duh! Abolish. International affairs: I don't even want to know what that is - abolish. National resources and environment: OK, we need to preserve the oil. General science blah blah: Abolish. The rest is just annoying little stuff - who cares? That's already about a trillion saved in my budget plan without getting into the petty stuff. Job done. |
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Every summer when I'm roughing it at the cottage I always bring smiles to my neighbours, as I "share the wealth" the capitalist way. When I'm at my cottage I'm always letting people enjoy the sound of my children's $23,200 Yamaha FX Cruiser SHO jet-skis, and of course my ~$300,000 Goldmund Epilogue Signature Audio System, which the neighbours get to enjoy almost 24/7. And of course they get free visits from my $600,000 purebred Tibetan Mastiff, who can kill any bears that come near and as a bonus even fertilizes their lawns for them.
http://nbnl.globalwhelming.com/wp-co...ff-400x266.jpg The ungrateful losers hardly ever thank me though. I don't let the small dogs leave the house, but everyone around gets to hear them yapping day and night, free of charge. They don't thank me for that, either. When I accidentally send golf balls onto their property I don't even leave tracks when I come to pick them up, thanks to my investing in a $58,000 hovercraft-golf-cart: http://static4.bornrichimages.com/cd...t_r620x349.jpg And to keep bugs away I have a fire constantly making smoke, which I generously donate to everyone downwind. Do they even know how much money I have to have to spend, and how many favors you have to call in, to get African Blackwood smuggled from Tanzania? It's $25,000 for a pickup-truck load, but do you ever heard them thanking me? (Yeah I know the smoke smells like I'm burning tires but that's why it keeps the bugs away so well.) This disgusting ingratitude is going to eventually destroy America, you're going to see us turning from a mighty power into a 3rd-world cesspit like what happened to Great Britain. I don't usually trust wikipeda, but the page on the fall of the Country House sums it up well. In the beginning, British mansions were so lavish they literally put oriental despots to shame: Trentham Hall...was so lavish that the Shah of Persia in 1873 remarked to the future King Edward VII, of their host "too grand for a subject, you'll have to have his head off when you come to the throne."http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...%281880%29.JPG But then: ...The destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain...has been described as a cultural tragedy...often demoralised and impoverished owners... the demolition of the ancestral seat, strongly entwined with the family's history and identity...This is just too depressing, I can't go on. |
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And they didn't mow their lawns. Most didn't even PLANT their lawns. No matter how many b-1 bombers roaring overhead as a show of force, no matter how many midnight raids we did, they just couldn't get it into their thick skulls that bad lawn maintenance is a serious crime where everyone is the victim. |
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I knew politicians are having a tough time, but I had no idea:
Republican Lawmaker: ‘I’m stuck here making $172,000’ Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) lamented in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that his staff can get rich as lobbyists while he is "stuck here making $172,000,"...Gingrey said that staff may not make a lot of money on Capitol Hill, “but in a few years they can just go to K Street and make $500,000 a year. Meanwhile I’m stuck here making $172,000.” During the meeting, Republicans discussed a proposal to exempt lawmakers and their staff from a new law requiring them to participate in federal health-care exchanges. Gingrey and other lawmakers expressed concern about the financial toll the new law would take on them on their staffs... Lawmakers haven’t had a pay raise since 2009 :o (And after all they've done for us!) |
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Still wondering why so many are Going Galt? Just look at the persecution faced by former JC Penny CEO Ron Johnson.
He did lots of hard work laying off 43,000 employees, and under his leadership JC Penny only lost 73.33% of it's value. (you can't win 'em all). Yet all he gets to show for it is "a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average wage and benefits of a U.S. department store worker...Comparing his earnings to the $29,688 average compensation for a department store worker is the equivalent of stacking the length of a loaf of bread -- give or take a few slices -- against the height of the Empire State Building." And it gets worse: now the democrats want to invade the privacy of corporations by making them disclose how much they pay their employees. Which means they would have to figure out how much they pay them, which costs too much for the poor corporations to afford: “We don’t believe the information would be material to investors,” said Tim Bartl, president of the group’s advocacy arm, the Center on Executive Compensation. Accounting for country-to-country differences in wages and benefits at global companies would be costly..." Of course we can't expect corporations to pay for extravagances like figuring out how much they pay their employees. Look at how they're just scraping by: "...the company awarded six top executives $190 million for the fiscal year that ended in January 2012" Other CEOs are suffering too: "Abercrombie CEO Michael Jeffries got $48.1 million....1,640 times the average clothing-store worker’s $29,310 in pay and benefits. Jeffries’ stock-appreciation rights -- valued at $43.2 million in the proxy -- had no realizable value as of April 25 because the share price fell." Now, just because the share price fell doesn't mean he's a failure who doesn't deserve 1,640 times what his workers make. After all, bad luck happens to us all (except the poor, who are lazy). The article also mentions that the CEO to average-worker pay ratio was "20-to-1 in the 1950s" - which just proves that liberals are luddittes who hate progress. |
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I'd like to help him, but as a billionaire who hasn't made his billions yet, all my assets are tied up in the fact that they don't exist yet. |
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Among all the forms of persecution that billionaires must suffer, like Christ on the Cross, one of the most cruel is having to listen to the constant sobbing and bellyaching of the 47 percent of Americans who are parasites.
Bud Konheim, CEO of a luxury company that sells $800 sequined dresses and $250 clutches, tells the 47 percenters to quit whining: "We've got a country that the poverty level is wealth in 99 percent of the rest of the world," he said. "So we're talking about woe is me, woe is us, woe is this." He added that "the guy that's making, oh my God, he's making $35,000 a year, why don't we try that out in India or some countries we can't even name. China, anyplace, the guy is wealthy."That's right: there are 739,200,000 people in Europe whose eyes bulge out at the sight of a cellphone. They don't even care if it works, they've just never seen something so shiny. All this "we are the 99%" is nothing but updated negrofascism, in which blacks envy whites who, for example, get to sit at the front of the bus. Yet in 99 percent of the world, they don't even HAVE buses! If you hate America so much, why don't you go back to Africa, Rosa Parks? |
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This is an OUTRAGE! Obama's goonsquad of 47 percenters have been PROFITING off of Obama's Wall-Street bailouts. The mooching classes are EXPLOITING the hard-working bankers!
CNN Money: U.S. taxpayers have recouped all of the $187 billion they gave mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in one of the most expensive bailouts of the financial crisis. [...] Through 2012, they were each paying the U.S. Treasury a dividend. Starting in 2013, the government started essentially collecting all of each firm's profits. [...] Taxpayers also made a $22.7 billion profit on the bailout of insurer AIG. The TARP bailout fund also received about $22 billion more than it gave to the nation's banks... GO GALT, NOBLE JOB CREATORS! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS! |
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Typical of the drive-by MSM lackeys for Obama, CNN only tells part of the story.
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/...-bailouts.html Jesus chased the money changers from the temple because the joos were converting Greek and Roman currency into Hebrew currency. Quote:
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People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.” “[Water rationing] angers me because people aren’t looking at the overall picture...What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?”Just look at this poor, down-trodden soul: http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHfQq34WsAA6z-0.jpg It reminds me of this pic of the soul survivor of the British campaign in Afghanistan, though it looks like even the Victorian-era afghans were free to water their lawns, judging by the relatively lush curbside in the background: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...24_634x441.jpg “I call it the war on suburbia,” said Brett Barbre, who lives in the Orange County community of Yorba City, another exceptionally wealthy Zip code. |
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Disgusting.
The MAKERS in society should have the benefit of unlimited and subsidized resources based on consumption and cost models established in the 1950s-- WHICH, by the way, was a time when America was at its Greatest. We can only hope that candidates with positive pro-growth messages-- like Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again By Banning Hispanic Rapists and Dirty, Dangerous Muslims from Our Great Country-- and While You're at It, Get Those Black Lives Matter Activists OUT of My Damn Rally" theme-- can win the day and beat Ugly Hillary. |
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