Kathleen Parker: What Wilbur Ross tells us about the very rich
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me, he inadvertently foreshadowed the government shutdown of 2018-19.
Fitzgerald was alluding to the wealthy class, which he had earlier portrayed in The Great Gatsby, the great American novel. Old money is also different from newly made fortunes, as Jay Gatsby himself discovered during his futile attempts to buy acceptance.
But Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recent comment about furloughed government employees that he didnt really quite understand why unpaid workers were visiting food banks confirmed Fitzgeralds point. The very wealthy are different; and they think differently.
Ross furthered his disassociation from reality, saying that the obligations that they [federal employees] would undertake say, borrowing from a bank or a credit union are, in effect, federally guaranteed, so the 30 days of pay that some people will be out is no real reason why they shouldnt be able to get a loan against it.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/parker-what-wilbur-ross-tells-us-about-the-very-rich/
I don't care how wealthy Ross is. He's supposedly a financial guy. He should know that banks will not lend one money if they don't have a current source of income.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Wilbur Ross is just another example of their total ignorance or concern for anyone who has to work for their living. After spending decades dealing with the Ross's of this Country,one develops a dual thought process of dealing with the Wealthy Ignorant Class and true reality. Just keeps ones sanity.
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(12,265 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,878 posts)for a reason. How else are you going to maintain the deserving aristocracy?
underpants
(183,043 posts)This was a really good part
Nevertheless, Trump, whose philanthropic pursuits end where the casino parking lot begins, felt compelled to rich-splain the commerce secretary
I read her pieces in the local paper years ago. I always finished with the same thought, "AND?.." she never actually got to a point.
In this one she veers all around but overall, for her, it was pretty good. I had not heard the aspect of passenger drones which is a good one.