Let's Go Shopping
So you say to yourself, "I want me some of that. I’d like to place the following order, please."
* One Maybach Landaulet for $1 million to drive around in.(Actually to be driven around in.)
* One $100 million yacht for when I want to get seasick.
* One Gulfstream G550 private jet for $40 million.
* One private island for $24.5 million (castle included) for when I want to escape the masses.
* One $8 million estate for when I have to go ashore and mingle with the masses (but not too close.)
* One $5 million watch so I can have one.
* Total: $178.5 million.
My change after paying with a billion-dollar bill is a meager $821.5 million left over. I might be hard up for cash after my spending spree, but I can still stay in a $20,000 room every night for 112 and 1/2 years.
So, as you see, $1 billion is more than enough to really live it up. People today are amassing multiples of billions, paying very little in taxes and using it in ways that harm the rest of us.
The Maybach thing section of this article was fun. I didn't know what one was so I'll excerpt that part too.
This is a Maybach. Most people don’t even know there is something called a Maybach. The one in the picture, the Landaulet model, costs $1 million. (Rush Limbaugh, who has 5 homes in Palm Beach, drives a cheaper Maybach 57 S -- but makes up for it by owning 6 of them.)
Your $1 billion will only buy you a thousand Maybach Landaulets.
Last week, Limbaugh Maybached his way down to his studio to call Wisconsin teachers protesting the threat to their collective bargaining rights "parasites" and "A Bunch Of People Who Feel Entitled To Be Freeloaders"
For a sense of perspective, here's what all that parasitic freeloading amounts to. Depending on how recent your data is and where it comes from, and how it is defined, Wisconsin teacher salaries appear to start somewhere between $25,000 and $32,000 and average somewhere around $50,000. Which is to say an "average" Wisconsin teacher might be able to afford about 1/20th of a Maybach Landaulet.
Update: See also last night's Daily Show segment.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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The sight of so many bloated right wing media hacks spitting hatred at working people specifically at teachers even is just beyond sickening.
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