Let this sink in for a moment.

[Initech]

Betsy DeVos owns a $40 million yacht. Repeat that: Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, owns a $40 fucking million yacht. And here's the really infuriating thing - it's one of ten!!!!

Meanwhile, American children are living homeless and malnourished while their parents work paycheck to paycheck and teachers have to shell out their own money for fucking school supplies.

MAGA?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Disgusting!! Thanks for posting.

[dalton99a]

2. Not just one. TEN.

She also owns 12 private jets and 4 helicopters

[Doremus]

6. omfg

Our plutocracy is alive and well.

I cannot begin to fathom the mindset of one who thinks they deserve 10 and 12 of any $$$millions$$$ luxury item. The evil is unthinkable.

Eat the rich indeed.

[smirkymonkey]

17. That is obscene!

Off with their heads!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Almost every single child in her care would feel rich to have 12 TOY jets, 10 TOY yachts, & 4

The children in public schools and in detention and in her adoption mills can barely DREAM of 12 TOY jets.

[magicarpet]

3. One of ten vessels owned by DeVos.

A $40-million yacht owned by Betsy DeVos' family — one of 10 — is set adrift, causing thousands in damage

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-devos-yacht-damages-20180726-story.html

[lindysalsagal]

4. and she's a total idiot.

[badhair77]

5. My head is exploding.

She should not be anywhere near a cabinet position.

[oberliner]

7. Wilbur Ross has something to aspire to

[Blue Owl]

8. More Schoolhouse Rock, less Yacht Rock

n/t

[safeinOhio]

9. Amway is not my way.

That is all.

[keithbvadu2]

15. I got snookered into Amway... Never again.

The first lesson learned was that they were not ethical.

[Capperdan]

10. Betsy's Boats

I was hoping someone here would bring that out. 40 Million bucks for a boat. It came untied from it's mooring, they're already blaming some miscreant. Big deal, $10,000 worth of damage, Big deal. This is sick. Dump that whole gang of fuckers in a giant whirlpool to Hell.

[Liberal In Texas]

11. So, the the Devos' have a navy. Some people just have too much money.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Tax the rich. Income & Wealth Inequality really bad & growing. Must be fixed. . . . nt

[rurallib]

29. amen, bro

[ancianita]

22. Yep. And try locating them.

[Caliman73]

12. There have always been wealthy people in politics. The wealth is not the bad thing.

FDR and Elanor were pretty wealthy, as were the Kennedy's. The problem with DeVos isn't her wealth so to speak. The problem with DeVos is that she is the Education Secretary, in charge of setting the Federal Agenda on Public Education, and she has spent her public life trying to destroy public education.

Would you be upset if she owned a 40 million dollar yacht but was working to bring parity to public education, to support teacher's Unions, and other progressive reforms?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Her family's wealth is a prime example of the inequality ruining this nation.

The rich get richer, but do they have to get richer so much faster than everyone else? Middle class wages are decaying in real terms. Trump tax giveaway has made it much worse.

It's wildly out of balance and is what leads to revolutions.

It will get fixed one way or another. It is unsustainable.

[marieo1]

27. inequality

This inequality if not just ruining our nation - it's worldwide. The filthy rich do not care at all for the have-nots. That is exactly why all of them voted for DJT. I know from my own experience, when you are starting with nothing, it's hard to make it turn into something. You have to be very ambitious and most importantly, you have to get the breaks. When you're wealthy, you can make the breaks, but not when you're poor.

[Caliman73]

38. No doubt. It is the asset and income inequality that is the major problem.

That is systemic as those loopholes have been written into the code by those same rich people. The wealth, greed, which is bolstered by the weird and wrong interpretation of Christianity of people like DeVos, is the problem.

She is incompetent but self assured. A very dangerous combination.

[Scurrilous]

13. It's nice to sit atop the pyramid.

[leftofcool]

14. Wealth is not the problem. It's what you do with it.

I have no problem with her owning yachts. Her problem is that instead of doing good with them like racing to make money for charity, she shows them off and races for money for herself.

[Mister Ed]

37. And how you got it.

You either produce it, or you misappropriate it from those who did.

If her family built and marketed a better mousetrap, as the saying goes, then they produced the wealth they now enjoy, and God bless 'em.

But I don't think that's their story. I don't think that's their story at all.

[ancianita]

16. The DeVoses own TEN yachts. They lease the other nine out.

[ut oh]

20. It is really

MAGA (for rich conservative white people)

They just keep leaving out the part in parenthesis

[Initech]

26. Ding ding ding!

[elmac]

23. This is normal when you live under capitalism

The top 1% holds more wealth than the bottom 90%. As far as DeVos, they own most of W MI and they keep it fascist.

[Gore1FL]

24. I don't begrudge her wealth so much, or care how she spends it.

What bothers me is that she does so much to block others from attaining a simple comfort level of wealth, much less affording the opportunities for others to attain her wealth.

We stopped taxing the rich in the 1980s. The long-term consequences have been devastating. Every time the GOP gets power they exacerbate the problem.

[Roland99]

25. But but but. Bernie bought a $575k house. The horror!!

[George II]

28. Cash.

[Roland99]

32. Oh myyyy

[George II]

34. This wasn't a Sanders thread, but you decided to make it one and bring that into it, so........

[Roland99]

36. Only as a sarcastic retort to conservatives railing against him

While showy wealth like this is ignored by them

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

30. Ergo the GD smirk all the time re public education.

Really disturbing.

[cate94]

31. Wtf? N/t

[Midnight Writer]

33. And her brother owns an army of international mercenaries. WWJD?

[kairos12]

35. Thurston Howell the Third's wife Love is in charge of the education system in the US

[Caliman73]

39. Lovie was a nice person with a good heart. DeVos is not. She is a horrible person.

She has made a career out of trying to destroy public education.