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In reply to the discussion: I just went after an old friend of mine. [View all]Lorien
(31,935 posts)are extremely fearful and angry, and miserable about their own situations. Yesterday a former coworker posted to an article about Jon Stewart lobbying congress to help 9/11 responders cover their medical care:
"Jon Stewart is worth $80 Million Dollars, and yet he demands that the struggling American taxpayer finance a charity that he should bankroll himself. He can pick my pockets when he lives in a one bedroom apartment like i do and drives a 20 year old car."
When I told her that the program would need to be funded to the tune of $2.7 Billion dollars, so even *if* Stewart dropped his other charities and abandoned his family to give all he had to cover their medical bills, he wouldn't be able to do it. But Trump could cover it! Crickets, of course. Right Wingers won't be "happy" until everyone is as miserable as they are, though for whatever reason they give a pass to the uber wealthy (except for George Soros, of course, who is the almighty bugaboo controlling the entire Left, in their deranged worldview). The Waltons, Kochs, Murdoch, Hedge fund managers, Trump...they see all of them as noble "job creators" even though the facts don't back up their beliefs, and they see people like Stewart and Michael more as the wealthy elite, when their net worth is a drop in the bucket compared to that of the billionaires who pull the strings in D.C.