{"id":34402,"date":"2013-03-04T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T20:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34402"},"modified":"2013-03-04T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T20:11:25","slug":"class-warfare-wealth-inequality-and-the-stupidest-video-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34402","title":{"rendered":"Class warfare, wealth inequality, and the stupidest video of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since apparently I am being accused of buying into the &#8220;class warfare&#8221; concept, I figured I better put my bona fides on display.  So, to clear the air:  I have zero problems with exhorbitant salaries and 1 percent getting rich as hell, IN THE PRIVATE MARKETPLACE.<\/p>\n<p>So watch this little bit of idiocy:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QPKKQnijnsM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the President might say, Let me be clear, this is the dumbest video since Gigli.<\/p>\n<p>Most people are morons, and I really don&#8217;t care what their vision of &#8220;what ought to be&#8221; is.  What I care about is what these numbnuts propose to do about it.<\/p>\n<p>You know what graph I&#8217;d like to see?  What percent of people actually EMPLOY other folks directly.  How many of those rich folks are actually helping OTHER people also get rich.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/03\/04\/us-billionaires-list-factbox-idUSBRE9230EJ20130304\">You want some inconvenient facts?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of the billionaires are self-made, 961, while 184 inherited their wealth and 281 inherited part of it and are increasing it.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest billionaires, on average, are in the Americas, with an average age of 67, with those in the United States slightly younger at 65.<\/p>\n<p>The United States had the most billionaires with 442, followed by Asia-Pacific with 386, Europe with 366, Middle East and Africa with 103 and the Americas, excluding the United States, with 129.<\/p>\n<p>The number of women billionaires rose to 138 from 104. The United States has 50 female billionaires, followed by 35 in Europe and 22 in Asia-Pacific.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, so you mean THEY EARNED IT?<\/p>\n<p>Good for them.<\/p>\n<p>You want fairness?  Move somewhere else.  My checking account is lower than my cholesterol.  But sticking it to the man isn&#8217;t going to make me feel better about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since apparently I am being accused of buying into the &#8220;class warfare&#8221; concept, I figured I &hellip; <a title=\"Class warfare, wealth inequality, and the stupidest video of all time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34402\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Class warfare, wealth inequality, and the stupidest video of all time<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}