Any time you hear someone say "The Media Leans Left" . . . .
. . . tell them to turn to Squawk Box on CNBC.
Right now, you have all three Home Depot bigwigs/founders: Arthur Blank, Ken Langone and Bernie Marcus. While Blank isn't as bad as the rest of them, Ken and Bernie are complete right-wing very powerful asshats and are being allowed an unfettered, unquestioned, uninterrupted 2 hour forum to talk about the greatness of deregulation, how public education's gone to pot, how we should embrace austerity ("we" meaning "not them" ) and how billionaires like them are so shackled . . . Gee, if only they had a Republican in the White House to make things all better for them!!
See, this is what pisses me off SO much about guys like this: they control damned near everything . . . all three branches of government, the private sector, entertainment, retail, media, etc. They sit on piles of cash in their companies, they pocket uncollected billions upon billions with their cushy tax rates vs their cost of living, yet they continue to play this "victim" bullshit. They insult people like me, they insult the OWS participants, they insult labor by insisting that "our anger is misdirected" "We don't know how the real world works" . . . GET the hell out of here with that SHIT.
I'm not sitting here and listening to a bunch of uncaring wealthmongers that think they can purchase their own president so he'll give them free economic reign (as if that's pretty much not happening now) and that will solve everything. Never mind that plan hasn't worked in 30 years, let's just keep on trying it. You just have to be patient; I mean, it's so easy to do when you haven't got any bills that were due yesterday, right??
Keep suppressing your labor's wages, watch demand drop even further and insist that it's taxes and regulation that's the problem. Keep on saying that we need charter schools because public education in this country's the problem, not you. Keep on believing that if you give Supply Side just another decade, eventually things will get better for the people. Keep on playing the victim role like a bunch of whining diapers.
You know who's buying into these arguments, guys? IDIOTS. And here's your huge problem . . . eventually, even your moderately functioning idiot is going to wake up and smell what you've been shoveling to us for decades: the stenchy rotted waste of Arthur Laffer, Milton Friedman, Martin Feldstein, the Chicago School and all other labor-hating educators and theorists is nothing but a bunch of BUNK.
"The Media leans left". THE MEDIA LEANS LEFT!! (Choirs sing) What a bunch of garbage. When they start talking about universal health care, call me. When they start talking maximum wage, call me. When they start putting actual progressives and let them speak without interruption or mocking derision, call me. When they start promoting candidates who will solve this country's problems rather than those the owners already paid for to continue "Business as Usual", call me.
Ken Langone. Bernie Marcus. Joe Kernen. Becky Quick . . . ALL either a bunch of regressive and useless bastards or lapdog enablers. Thanks for thinking about me, I'm alive and doing fine.
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A person could really lose money by listening to these guys and taking their predictions seriously. (And I'm often on the other end of those trades 
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