The 1% = Full Panic Mode
PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS = Union Leader or Gandhi said this: “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.” WE WIN!
2011: WORKING Class addressed income inequality and was beat-down across America by Homeland PARA-MILITARY ACROSS American = Ignored OCCUPY.
Last few months = truly amazing when The 1% enters “fight you” mode using the crudest terms possible to attack the movement for equity — they want to burn it.
The billionaire class attack a higher minimum wage + attacks the safety net + compared that to Nazis. = Ken Langone, Home Depot = its like “1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany. You don’t survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on envy or jealousy.”
SAME CLUB = Tom Perkins said the growing populist movement reminded him of Kristallnacht, the especially odious attack on Jews that was carried out by the Nazis in 1938.
Langone, a Catholic, seems spooked by the arrival of populist anti-poverty crusading Pope Francis. = successful Catholics might stop writing large checks if Francis’ attacks on the “culture of prosperity” continue.
FACT: Totalitarian movements of Hitler and Nazis = Pro-capitalism and Pro-large corporations = Silly comments by Langone and Perkins are born of panic FACED with a conversation about wealth and inequality.
Langone born in 1935 when the world was deciding between dictatorship and democracy. And the American way of life won largely because of the progressivism of FDR’s New Deal. = Better working conditions and safety net plus a working child like Langone could to college and then to Wall Street.
1980 = Langone worked his Wall Street voodoo to create Home Depot = Time when average American CEO made 42 times as much as his average employee
Reagan = Kicked off the upward flood of money = Slashing TOP tax rates for RICH and raising payroll taxes on working class + Attacked unions = Langone was a Prime executioner for Reagan union busting.
Scandal = Langone arranged for his good friend to receive a whopping $31 Million/Year salary running the NY Stock Exchange. SAME WITH NARDELLI.
Langone’s ideals = Industry norm = Average CEO made 380 times his typical worker = CLASS WARFARE AGAINST THE PEOPLE. = Distress and Guilt that you now hear in the voices of Langone or Perkins. = VICTIMS finally fighting back.
Terrified 1% Langone’s co-founder Bernie Marcus = if it was easier for workers to form a union “civilization disappears” and any CEOs who didn’t give copious money to keep Republicans in the Senate “should be shot.”
CEO pay grab = Billionaires use their vast wealth to corrupt the democratic process to make sure that only pro-Wall Street politicians are elected = GOP or 1% friendly Democrats like NY’s Cuomo.
Langone in 2012 brought together 50 of the 1% to pledge millions to Christie.
Langone is terrified of a decent MIN WAGE = Langone made a fortune from a thriving middle 8888class = Now wants desperately to hold workers down. Already, the lack of decent pay is crushing retailers like Sears and J.C. Penney NEXT = HOME DEPOT.
HIS BILLIONAIRES CLUB = Attack, and DON’T WANT TO SHARE = BURN THEM
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Billionaire Joesph Lau Found Guilty of Bribery In Gambling Mecca = NO PRISON
Lau = $Billionaire (#158 on Forbes with $8.4 Billion) sentenced to 5+ Years = Chairman of real estate developer Chinese Estates Holdings of Hong Kong = Found guilty by a Macau court of corruption and money laundering of $2.6 million, to former Macau public works chief Ao Man-long in a money-for-land deal, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. = His business partner Steven Lo was also found guilty and received the same jail term.
LOOPHOLE = Hong Kong has NO extradition treaty with Macau
But Ao who took the BRIBE was jailed for 29 years in May 2012.

