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I have a modest proposal. Anyone who puts forth a "modest proposal" without being as witty as Swift should be shot, butchered, and used in a tasty gumbo, with the rest of the carcass put in the freezer. Oops. I'll be in hiding, over that way.

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The people of Greece are waiting to "honor" Lloyd Blankfein with a special ceremony to thank him for selling them all those CDS's that created all those jobs.

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How tasty do we think Mr. Binswanger might be?

Because even though I'm vegetarian, I simply cannot read dreck like that without thinking <em>mangez les riches!</em>

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This has to be trolling, right? Because his whole fucking premise is completely undercut by the fact that many of the really rich got their money by inheriting it (e.g., Waltons, Kochs, Bradleys, Donnie the Alien Hairpiece).

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What I want to know is how people like this get started ... I mean on the "professional douchebag" track. He definitely has tenure. Somewhere. It seems like they make a lot of money for this shit, but I could be wrong.

I could definitely get on board if the pay was good enough. I mean, seriously? What do I have to do? Be born into a douchebag family? Go to an exclusively douchebag college? Do I just need to "know a few" douchebags?

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Wait a second - this dude is a complete loser. If the Atlantic doesn't pay their columnists, Forbes fucking sure as hell doesn't. Fuck, I bet Forbes quit paying anyone in the 1970's. Just another randroid basement dweller looking for "exposure." It's not just the worst sort of Randroid, it's the only kind. He even responds to commenters as if he were in .. a newsgroup. And we all know blathering on endlessly in newsgroups played as large a role in the Libertaritard foundation myths as "Atlas Shrugged" itself.

So, this dude is actually getting not paid to do the same stupid shit he was doing for free on "alt.dumbfuckery.libertarians.die.die.die" in the 1990's.

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funny how he didn't mention Goldman Sachs guessing wrong on Solyndra and taking a bath

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The rich are getting tastier by the day.

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