Meanwhile, a lot of good Americans have to decide whether it's going to be food or gas this week...

As much as you love to hate them their money is what also leads to people doing those highlights and flying and fixing those planes.

Though it may may make you feel warm and fuzzy inside knowing the rich are having only the slightest of tough times it certainly doesn't help the poor.


/poor

Farkshower1972: Meanwhile, a lot of good Americans have to decide whether it's going to be food or gas this week...

What the hell does being "good" have to do with being successful?

I can see the rich being affected, but the truly uber rich have more money than God. When they have to cut back on lighting cigars with $100 bills and instead light them with $20's, let me know.

Say what you will about trickle down economics. One thing always holds true. Shiat slides downhill.

Snowflake Tubbybottom: As much as you love to hate them their money is what also leads to people doing those highlights and flying and fixing those planes.

Though it may may make you feel warm and fuzzy inside knowing the rich are having only the slightest of tough times it certainly doesn't help the poor.


/poor

If you think that the people doing the actual work are reaping the benefits of the rich peoples' money, you're missing a step in your analysis.

/Trickle down economics seems to pool at a certain level quite far above that of the worker.

TFA: One of her clients recently confessed that his net worth had decreased to $8 million from more than $20 million, and he thinks that his wife will leave him. He has hidden their fall in fortune by taking on debt to pay for her extravagant clothes and vacations.

BWAHAHA. What a loser, words can't describe how pathetic this is.

If I thought my wife would leave me because I'm not worth more than $8 million, I'd kick the biatch to the curb without a second thought.

"If they have to give up things that are invisible, they're O.K. as long as they don't have give up things visible to the outside world."

They try to move their $165 sessions with personal trainers to a time slot that they know is already taken. They agree to tour multimillion-dollar apartments and then say the spaces don't match their specifications.

Other wealthy clients are cutting luxuries that they think their friends and relatives won't notice, according to Mr. Del Gatto of Circa.

There you have it, most of the excess is purely showing off. I can't imagine being so concerned about what other people think that I'd spend myself into financial ruin.

Touring apartments you can't afford, just to look richer than you are? Sad.

Remember the main character in Caddyshack, who was trying to get a college scholarship through working at the country club?

Yeah, well picture they're closing the golf course now and selling the land because nobody can afford to keep the place going. That kid will have to settle for Wal-Mart and CoCo school.

Hooray for wiping out the luxury market!

Dear rich dummies,

give me your money. You are too stupid to spend it wisely.

Signed, America.

But if you raise their taxes by $100,000, U.S. economy will collapse! Armchair economists, panic!

Snowflake Tubbybottom: As much as you love to hate them their money is what also leads to people doing those highlights and flying and fixing those planes.

This. My mom is a hairstylist and she would get awesome tips from crazy rich people all the time. Now shes lucky if she gets anything more than $10 tip in 1 day. Seriously.

Remember, that a lot of new gas tanks are plastic.........
And dumpsters can produce fresh food at the right time of day....

It's funny- no matter how much money you make,
if you're a total douchebag
you'll always find a way
to spend it

without helping anybody else.


/make me rich
//i'll show ya how it's done

this is how you know the New York Times is the newspaper for the affluent liberals. They've done several stories in the past few months on the uber-rich. When the economy is good, they bemoan the difference between the super-rich and the "merely rich".

And they wonder why their circulation is dropping.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: Dear rich dummies,

give me your money. You are too stupid to spend it wisely.

Signed, America.


Dear Poor people

Go earn your own damn money.

Signed

Someone better off than you


I heard Lars Ulrich (UberRich) had to wait an extra week to buy the solid gold tiles to finish his new hot tub

Wah. Farking. Wah.

Dancin_In_Anson: Snowflake Tubbybottom: As much as you love to hate them their money is what also leads to people doing those highlights and flying and fixing those planes.

That kind of rational thinking is not allowed here.

Well, it isn't rational, so it's ok.

If all the uber rich died tomorrow, and their money was spread among the peasants, America would hum along quite nicely.

I could not care less about the rich having to cut back on luxuries, but it sucks ass that the middle and lower class people providing those luxuries are probably gonna lose their jobs.

Farkshower1972: Meanwhile, a lot of good Americans have to decide whether it's going to be food or gas this week...

i get 15c a gallon off gas with my safeway card, so i get both. yay me!

/still poor, but at least safeway's only 15 blocks away

pnjunction

Are you ready to conduct, Maestro?

The_Sponge: Snowflake Tubbybottom: As much as you love to hate them their money is what also leads to people doing those highlights and flying and fixing those planes.


This.

Remember the luxury tax on yachts? The wealthy stopped buying them, and middle class people who built boats were laid-off.

Urban legend FTW!

Due to their relative lack of exercise,
rich people are nicely-marbled.

Two meals a day I eat oyster crackers!

KeatingFive: If all the uber rich died tomorrow, and their money was spread among the peasants, America would hum along quite nicely.

In the short term.

Yeah, unfortunately, I kind of work in a luxury industry (wine), and I've definitely noticed a difference since this time last year. However, if you've gone from 20 mil to 8 mil, what the hell have you been spending on?

B-b-but the tax code punishes the wealthy for being successful.

UberDave: pnjunction: If I thought my wife would leave me because I'm not worth more than $8 million, I'd kick the biatch to the curb without a second thought.


Then you would be worth no more that $4 million....

but the ex will burn through her 1/2 faster than she can look up a new stylist and he will be saving a shiat load of casha month by not buying her anything and living more normally.

PC LOAD LETTER: The severe impact of the rich on the economy was disproven in the 80s.

So what

6% of the population (the RICH) control 85% of the money in the country

Can someone point out exactly where "the economy" is bad? I'm not seeing it.

Unless your standard of living is dependent on cashing out equity from a house, things are going fairly well.

I say Buffy, care for some more puppy sandwiches.

No thanks, Biff. Due to the recession we can't afford to eat puppies. We can only get minorities.

How awful!

I really don't care if someone has a whole lot of money and spends it on a whatever stuff, but anyone hiding the fact that he's down to his last $8 million from is wife so that she won't leave him has FAILED AT LIFE.

My shoes are made of paper!

ramathorn83: B-b-but the tax code punishes the wealthy for being successful.

Well it punishes the middle class for being successful, once you become truly rich either loopholes or sheer amount of wealth makes it a moot point.Baron MuchHumpin': So what

6% of the population (the RICH) control 85% of the money in the country

$100k/year makes you rich?