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In reply to the discussion: Home Depot Founder Worries Pope Francis Neither Loves Nor Understands Rich Americans - RawStory [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)3. Well, rest assured . . .
. . . no one can ever accuse a wealth-fattened piece of pigshit like Ken Langone of acting like anything but a true American Plutocratic McAsshole.
Ken Langone, funder of Home Depot and others, on weighty issues: "I am a fat cat, I'm not ashamed," he said last week in a telephone interview from a dressing room in his Upper East Side home. "If you mean by fat cat that I've succeeded, yeah, then I'm a fat cat. I stand guilty of being a fat cat."
Ditto his octogenarian HD running buddy, CNBC favorite and even more loathsome fascist asshole (if that's at all possible) Bernie Marcus:
Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, on #OWS: "Who gives a crap about some imbecile? Are you kidding me?"
Bernie Marcus, on fellow businessmen voting for Democrats and supporting EFCA: "If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to Norm Coleman and these other guys," Mr. Marcus said, apparently referring to Republican senators facing tough re-election fights, then those retailers "should be shot; should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs."
Bernie Marcus, head of Job Creators Alliance (snicker) on Democrats:"Basically, what they're doing to small business is very similar in this case to what Debbie did to Dallas." (Ironic coming from the founder of HOME DEPOT, one of the worst steamrollers of small businesses their ever was)
Bernie Marcus, generous donor to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, on the Employee Free Choice Act: "may be one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life," (from a conference call of a meeting on how to prevent retail workers from organizing . . . conducted the same year Home Depot laid off 7,000 people)
Bernie Marcus, on fellow businessmen voting for Democrats and supporting EFCA: "If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to Norm Coleman and these other guys," Mr. Marcus said, apparently referring to Republican senators facing tough re-election fights, then those retailers "should be shot; should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs."
Bernie Marcus, head of Job Creators Alliance (snicker) on Democrats:"Basically, what they're doing to small business is very similar in this case to what Debbie did to Dallas." (Ironic coming from the founder of HOME DEPOT, one of the worst steamrollers of small businesses their ever was)
Bernie Marcus, generous donor to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, on the Employee Free Choice Act: "may be one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life," (from a conference call of a meeting on how to prevent retail workers from organizing . . . conducted the same year Home Depot laid off 7,000 people)
Men of God, these two are. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu . . . .
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Home Depot Founder Worries Pope Francis Neither Loves Nor Understands Rich Americans - RawStory [View all]
WillyT
Dec 2013
OP
he's worried that the pope feels the rich are donors and some dick won't donate
roguevalley
Dec 2013
#8
So threats now, that is interesting. Pope is evidently a persuasive man in his mind. n/t
Jefferson23
Jan 2014
#11