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Scott6113

(56 posts) Thu Jun 19, 2014, 08:37 AM Jun 2014

Lifestyles of the 1% [View all]

As a private pilot, I get to see something of the lives of the 1%, since they don't do airlines. I'm renting a hangar for my 4 cylinder, 4-seat, 40 year-old airplane from a private company. The company mainly runs nursing homes and a hospital. The sons inherited it. They keep a jet and a pilot, and jet on the weekends to St. Croix. That's where your health insurance dollars go. And still you find taxes an outrage? The sons have 10x the wage of the President each, and .0000001% of the responsiblity. You're angry at the wrong people. The right people are able to keep private, which keeps you in the dark.

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Lifestyles of the 1% [View all] Scott6113 Jun 2014 OP

Yep, and tens of millions of americans will RACE to the polls in Nov to make sure these filth randys1 Jun 2014 #1

Yup, nothing sadder than seeing mid class and poor JaneyVee Jun 2014 #2

It's tragic ... Fantastic Anarchist Jun 2014 #4

Buh-buh-buh-buh-but the Kardashians!! lastlib Jun 2014 #8

More like rogerashton Jun 2014 #3

Meanwhile direct patient care staff make under $10.oo/hr. This includes CNAs, dietary and laundry. Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #5

just getting ready to pick up my wife awoke_in_2003 Jun 2014 #6

One facility in this area has been on a wage freeze for the past five years. Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #9

If it were going to the doctors Scott6113 Jun 2014 #23

An old racing buddy of mine is a pilot tech3149 Jun 2014 #7

And the richest 400 Americans MUCH more than that. They dont need no stinkin island ErikJ Jun 2014 #12

. libodem Jun 2014 #13

is that real ? i think those who actually earned their money, no matter how much JI7 Jun 2014 #21

Appears to be an architectural rendering, not real JHB Jun 2014 #22

That's exactly what we need more of--outing of the lifestyles of the so-called "job creators." tclambert Jun 2014 #10

Sadly, a lot of them think: "That's gonna be me someday!" Arugula Latte Jun 2014 #19

Huge K & R! davidthegnome Jun 2014 #11

K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2014 #14

The median income is around 20-40k and someone making 100k calls themselves "middle class",... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #15

It's called AFFLUENZA n/t aggiesal Jun 2014 #16

I work with a former Lear jet pilot Skittles Jun 2014 #17

Even worse DonCoquixote Jun 2014 #18

IF raven mad Jun 2014 #20