Palm Beach rich people have "cracker ball" to mock the poor. aren't they cute?

http://www.page2live.com/2010/04/05/palm-beach-society-honors-white-trash/


sculptor susie phipps cochran is a sculptor only because she happens to be the spawn (great-granddaughter) of andrew carnegie's partner henry phipps -- whose heirs' continuing millions & billions were founded on the murder & bleeding of the working class.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html

course, she doesn't have to support herself on her art; she's also an "investor," using the funds originating in working class blood 100 years ago.

her daughter = "professional wind surfer".

wow, soooooo enlightened & superior to ordinary working stiffs.




phipps & her peeps = "white trash" that lives on the blood of others while patting itself on the back for being soooo classy.

your rulers & owners. the "investors" who took down the entire economy to support their dilletante lives.

themed fundraiser? I didn't think they were merely just making fun

& mutual scam societies & write said "philanthropy" off on their taxes.

the base rate was high but they could write off damned near every penny they spent.

I would be surprised if the net tax was much more than it is now.

Now, the big difference is how we treat short term (Investments held less then Five Years) and long Term (Investments held more then five years). Prior to Reagan, long term capital gain was subject a a 50% disregard, i.e. if you made a Million Dollars from an investment you held for 5 years, you only paid taxes on 1/2 of it or 1/2 Million Dollars. i.e, you paid 90% taxes on HALF of what you earned (Net effect was a 45 % tax rate). The top rate wad aimed at people who earned they money from Investments and the Stock market NOT people who worked for wages or Salary. Given that fact, the 50 % disregard encouraged long term investments i.e. you could take home twice as much IF the profit was from something you held five years as oppose to what you earned THIS YEAR.

The High Tax rate had several positive effectives, things like manipulating the Stock Market did not happened, the main reason being any such manipulation was short term gain and taxed as 90% NOT 45 %. Thus people avoided such gains prior to Reagan for they made more money investing and holding on to the investment NOT selling and buying stocks and bonds.

Reagan Changed this reduced both long term and short term capital gains to the same low 32% rate. The rationale was inflation but the real effect was to make long term investments (Buildings, factories etc) having the same return as someone who bet a stock would go up or down (Under the old rule, the former if held five years taxed at 1/2 the rate of the later).

When I was in Collage in the Late 1970s early 1980s, my finance books were all saying that a good financial leader was someone who was looking not just five years down the road but 20-30 years down the road. Today we have returned to what it was BEFORE the above high tax rate, long term is anything held for one year or longer (And no one thinks in terms of more then one year) and short term is emphasized and it is everything that shows a profit within one year.

Just pointing out the problem is the main deduction encouraged long term thinking, but that was abolished in 1982 under Reagan, and we are reaping what was sowed under Reagan when he eliminated long term capital gains.

inherited wealth generates stupidity

They definitely have more time on their hands to spend with an accountant, looking for the most minute tax exemptions.

the state. Has nothing to do with 'white trash' or being poor.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker
Florida Cracker refers to original colonial era American pioneer settlers of the state of Florida, and their descendants.

The term is used as a proud or jocular self-description. Since the huge influx of new residents into Florida from the northern parts of the United States, and Latin America, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, "Florida Cracker" is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their family has lived there for many generations. It is considered a source of pride to be descended from "frontier people who did not just live but flourished in a time before air conditioning, mosquito repellent, and screens."<3>

& another sports a fake pregnancy.


yeah, because "cracker" means "pioneer," & pioneers were always pregnant & engaged in bar fights.

:eyes:

Damn, I missed out. :party:

eating scraps of food with their bare hands, etc.. all in 'good fun'. -And- look what happened to them.

witness marie antoinette & her little playhouse peasant village.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hameau_de_la_reine

Here, it was said, the Queen and her attendants would dress as shepherdesses and milkmaids. Particularly docile, hand-picked cows would be cleaned. These cows would be milked by the ladies, with porcelain milk churns painted to imitate wood specially made by the royal porcelain manufactory at Sèvres. These churns and pails featured the Queen's monogram. The simple and rustic ambiance at the hameau has been evoked in paintings by Fragonard; however, inside the farmhouse, the rooms were far from simple, featuring the luxury and comfort to which Marie Antoinette and her ladies were accustomed.

It's like an occasional Potemkin Village, same attitude, and will likely yield the same results. Laugh now, assholes.

k&r

complaints from the NAACP!"

And there it is... there is no Anti-Defamation League for poor and homeless folk!!

Who wants to start one?

Neither do their names. Yet the commentary is overwhelmingly anti-Semitic.

Correction: There's a Bernstein in the bunch. Well, that explains it.

Some major white-supremacy going on there, at least from one particularly sick poster, who named himself BigBlakBootie....
I've seen that in comments before, white supremacists using an insulting "I'm Black" screen name.

really screwed up people out there.

Way to miss the point, teabaggers.

It would have been one thing if the people having the party were black, so I don't understand why they're bringing up the parties that mock black people. In this case, its about classism, not racism. So their reserve racist claims are stupid. Anyway, these type of parties disgust me greatly. It always seems to be idiots with money and their brats having parties like this. Maybe one day these sacks of shit will know how it feels to be mocked. Hell they might find themselves in a similar situation.

Edit: Is that a black baby doll that woman on the far left is holding? Someone mentioned it in the comments because I didn't notice it at first. That shows even more how dumb the "reserve racism" comments are. Does facts and common sense matter anymore?

Cletus thinks they are cute...

"Hey Enus get over here, I see some hot tail."

seems like....

:shrug:

no. :eyes:

in the local paper for it), I'd say we do a similar thing here, me included: redneck bashing, from a "smart" vs "stupid" point of view.

For a worker to ape the behavior of the ruling class is as stupid as it gets.

I said we here, me included, mock "rednecks" and stupidity a lot...

I don't see where you're coming from.

Your 'we' is a bit too inclusive. I do not mock my friends and neighbors, not for their poverty, lack of education or misguided politics. I may not agree with them but I can expect a helping hand if I'm in a spot, on the side of the road for instance. The rich will drive by laughing.

Which side are you on?

just look at any "moran" thread....many DU members take great delight in mocking the stupid. I do it too. (I already said twice, I am guilty of it. This is my 3rd admission. How many more times do you want to attack me for saying something I didn't say?)

But good for you that you live by higher standards; I hope I can be as good someday.

this sort of thing is all too prevalent among liberals. Ain't 'higher standards' or 'good', just class consciousness.

Look, I'm not trying to bust your chops, when I moved south 28 years ago from a big city I had some of that arrogance with me but life and getting my politics straight cleared that up. The thing that I've learned is that 'those people' are my people, warts and all, that this sort of thing, like race and religion, are devices used to divide and weaken the working class, to the delight of the ruling class. We cannot afford this sort of divisive behavior, we are at war, class war.

then neglect to apologize.

If you're going to be scrupulous about good progressive ethics, you should try applying them in your dealings with fellow progressives.

Buddhism teaches that the greatness of the Buddha lay in his behavior as a human being. Meaning that human beings can only show their greatness that is inherent within by their behavior as human beings.

Just something to think about.

Your exaggerated touchiness speaks volumes.

In times like these civility is greatly over-rated and indeed an impediment to understanding.

in terms of self-reflection.

At this point, since there's obviously no hope for mutuality here, all I can suggest is we go have a nice peanut butter and jelly sandwich.



Enjoy

24/7...if ya know what I mean...lol

:)

dressed the EXACT same way, but added a few 'uhmercan' flags and hung some tea bags off their hat, it would make the greatest page. Their satire would be roundly applauded, their creativity and ability to 'capture the teabaggers movement' would be praised. What's the difference?

:shrug:

I don't know if my post was clear, but that's exactly what I was getting at.

But this kind of thing is no surprise to me. I used to do sound and lights for "society" parties. They'll spend 2 million dollars on a party to raise 50 grand for charity and pat themselves on the back for all the great they are doing.

:eyes:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8089598

???

:rofl:

I dare not post pictures of the "douchebag" party I went to last year, i'm sure somebody would call it a hate crime.