Chris Rock: "If poor people knew how rich the rich people are, there would be riots in the streets"

[CoffeeCat]

39. We subscribe to the WSJ…

…so I get to see the lavish lifestyle in full technicolor--every morning at breakfast.

Oh joy!

I do not begrudge people who are rich. I know plenty of millionaires and very successful people. However, the WSJ is really over the top. Even the ads are extravagant. Today's WSJ features a large ad for diamond earrings--only 30,000 a pair. Many ads like that--for ultra-expensive shoes, suits, jewelry, lavish trips, NYC apartments that go for $100 million, etc.

The opinion pages is a literary playground for the neocons and CEOs who believe that the EPS is destroying their lives by decreasing their profit margins by .5 percent.

My favorite is Friday's "Mansion" section. An eight-to-ten page homage to uber-extravagant homes and the people who live in them. One edition focused on homes that were so tailored to the homeowners tastes that selling these multi-million-dollar properties was practically futile. A family commissioned an artist to paint all family members--including dogs and cats--on a wall in their indoor swimming pool room (and they wonder why it won't sell?). People had indoor basketball courts, tennis courts and Olympic-sized swimming pools. One man built his 50 million dollar home to resemble a European castle. But now he wants to move. Hmmm.

It's all very interesting.

So much Obama bashing, and groaning when it comes to paying taxes or funding healthcare for lower-income folks.

It really is something.