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Fuckers.
But are the billionaires really happy?
YOU BET THEY ARE
Goddamned Snot nosed multi billionaires ruining the neighborhood. Oughta be laws....
Palo Alto, nuff said.
pods
Hanging is too good for them.
Force them to move to East Palo Alto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHgMsvpFm08
Meet the new trillionare, same as the old trillionare.
Not to think of the roughshod the average HundredThousandaires must be going through right now. Unimaginable!!!
Stuck up prick
Are all 1%-ers this whiney or just this guy?
This guy would be tossing salads in Prison within minutes with that kind of attitude.
Nah, prison for the rich is golf courses, weekend visits from family, kosher meals, and snitches are the good guys.
If you're Madoff you get to go to Camp Cupcake.
If you stole VHS tapes from a Kmart in 1995 like Leandro Andrade did, you'll be doing hard time, even to this day.
But the sheeple love democracy! Just like the 1%...
The beatings will continue until moral improves... Bitchez...
Take the Federal Reserve away from those Chosenite Palo Altoan's and then watch them complain...
I just spoke to that Arrillaga fellow last week. Despite his billions, he still goes into the office and does a lot of the work that he could so easily pawn off to an underling.
That's why we need to be fucking Zimbabwe...then we'll all be quadrillionaires. Hell, I am already, and those asshole US millionaires and billionaires around here can still run roughshod over someone like me. So it isn't always about the money (just the purchasing power...because a helluva lot of people can be bought.)
Syrup or jelly?
It's pronounced: "Shallow-Alto"
Chosenite-Alto...
...." ah prefers syrup"
And that's not even close to the rougshod the Menuaires are experiencing.
Drop them off naked and penniless in East PA
Not completely naked. Superglue a Benjamin to their private parts.
Great White Shark bait.
Imagine how the poor billionaire must feel have to deal with riff-raff like this, man.
I see none of you have been to East Palo Alto lately.
"The average listing price for east palo alto homes for sale on Trulia was $687,788 for the week ending Oct 15, which represents an increase of 12.7%, or $77,756, compared to the prior week and an increase of 20.3%, or $115,916, compared to the week ending Sep 24. Average price per square foot for east palo alto CA was $445, an increase of 26.1% compared to the same period last year. "
I used to live in EPA when I first started out. In a rent controlled building. As a white girl! It wasn't that bad then, and it's actually really pretty sweet there now.
" In 2006, East Palo Alto experienced a comparatively low 6 murders. There were 7 murders in 2007, and only 5 in 2008. So..... these guys probably wouldn't even get shot. Sorry.
"I see none of you have been to East Palo Alto lately."
Listen.
Exactly. When I was brought on to my last project they flew 8 new hire freshy's to the campus in Palo Alto for "ON-BOARDING" they put us all up in "CORPORATE" housing in East PA just down the street from IKEA.
Worst part, TSA fat man took my glass bottle of curry powder.
Minus the home value of Palo Alto (which, heaven forbid, years ago was not that great at all), how much of a millionaire are they? Also, the concept of "a millionaire" a la the 1950's (think of the movie How to Marry a Millionaire) this was much more akin to a 9-figure wealth. I think some people get tthe idea it's this inexhaustible amount, but it's definitely not. Shit, you can lose a million on your stock portfolios like *that* nowadays. Which is scarcely any consolation for the avg schlub making $15/hr (but I don't think many of them read ZH or have stocks).
1,000,000 today would equal 23,000,000 or so in 1950, cause it was just after the crash of the dollar.
As such, from google:
Government gold price has changed only four times from 1792 to the present. Starting at $19.75 per troy ounce, raised to $20.67 in 1834, and $35 in 1934. In 1972, the price was raised to $38 and then to $42.22 in 1973.
I myself, had a tragic fishing fishing accident during a hurricane off the coast of florida.
Should have brought a bigger boat.
Back in the day you could move a lot of crack in EPA.
I worked with a dude that had a 40's bungalow on three or four acres in Palo Alto a couple miles from Stanford. Dude was still programming in his seventies while his kids and grandkids were all "independently wealthy" (read 'no jobs') living in McMansions he had built on the land around his old bungalow.
That was the early 90's, so he's either in his late nineties or dead. His kids are all probably going bankrupt right about now.
Listen Toady.
I wouldn't want to see his property tax bill.
OH!
Poor little millionaires
~"Palo Alto, nuff said."~
Yes, a better, more "upscale" type of roughshod is ridden there.
[snicker]
Listen.
The real rough riders are in PA Hills, and Los Altos Hills. Look out!
Where the real estate occupied by the car is worth more than the car.
Reminds me of the Saudi Prince crying about $80/BBL Crude. FFS
He also got pissy with Forbes magazine for not ranking him higher on their list of billionaires. The guy has a degree in business studies from a mediocre US University, and reputedly made a fortune by skimming off the top of other Saudis who wanted access to US financial markets in the '70s.
Edit: Let me paint you a picture...
You wake up one fateful morning in your private island in The Maldives. The local peasantry have been sailing for 6 hours to bring you your Forbes Magazine.
"Good", you think, "They've published the annual list of the world's wealthiest individuals."
Hands trembling with anticipation, you leaf excitedly through the pages until...
All of a sudden your world stops. A cold jolt of shock rushes through you.
"This cannot be. What is this? A counterfeit?!"
You snap your fingers and send a malnourished servant scurrying over with a solid gold smartphone. Within seconds the Senior Editor of Forbes is on the line.
"No. It's true sir," he replies, "our financial analysts found that you were only the twelfth wealthiest individual in the world."
You slam your finger repeatedly on the "cancel call" button as the icy shock is replaced with a seething rage. "Twelfth?!" you think, "but the analysts that -I- pay ranked me much higher!"
"This. Means. War."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/07/us-britain-saudi-billionaire-i...
Millionaires = Solidly middle class
Salt of the earth folks. When they get dressed, they have their servants put their pants on one leg at a time.
Wait...the servants or the millionaires?
Both, that's the point.
Their shit smells the same as well.
re; Alcoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6cirGEJkLs
Furthur evidence of the dollars demise.
Shit what's a million anymore. Chalky tells everyone he is giving 50 billion to towelie and noone blinks.
If the statists win, there will be.
laws for 'wealth control' that is
There will be only one: All your wealth are belong to us.
make your time
they set us up the bomb!
i dont think they are...i think there scared...
someone is culling their herd...putting them in jail,...well..ETC..
this whole game is WAY ABOVE OUR PAYGRADES, and above presidents and billionare level, too!
this is BIS level chess playing
Billionaires going to jail? Are you serious?
i think there are a few in russia and china who would say,
YEAH, SERIOUSLY!
and china, russia are members of the BIS, as is the u.s.
If I have Meellions in debt...
...does that make me a meellionaire?
Billionaires are very happy.......I am vacationing over here in Kauai, Hawaii, and the talk of the town is about that Fuck Face Zuckerberg buying up 700 acres in this paradise. I would too.
Google North Shore Kauai and click images and you will see why he bought.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/10/14/facebooks-zuckerberg-spends-...
ellison bought the entire island of lanai plus two local airlines. fuckerberg is a chump. lol
While Hawaii certainly isn't that large, 700 ac is hardly "massive." It's just a bit more than a square mile (640 ac).
BOL.
Good thing Fuckishima is spewing the other way, er wait - what?
hawaii gets less radiation than socal and even new york and probably europe because it is under the normal wind flow from fuckyoushima.
i dont think having a lot of money necessarily makes you happy. but not having enough can sure as shit make you sad....
but if you can afford to vacation in kauai, not sure you have whole lot to complain about
Except outrageous intrest rates on credit card debt upon return. And probably herpes.
For those of you with a strong back and less money but wanting to see the big island in HI I would suggest looking into WWOOF (world wide organic only farming). There are LOTS of farms all over the world you can go to and work which will room and board you for the work you do. Typically 35 hours/week. My son is on the north end of HI right now doing just that. Warning: Many farmers have their own rules, i.e. no alcohol, smoking, meat consumption on premise. Some are much more relaxed. DO YOUR HOMEWORK!
money doesn't buy happiness, but it sure the hell buys a better brand of misery.
Pretty miserable bunch on the whole, you would be surprised.
Plenty of other problems, just not money.
The bigger the front, the bigger the back. What ever happened to Two Short Planks anyway?
yeah, no shit!
Fuckers?? What do you mean...the secret is out. Get yourself some fucking assets...what are you , stupid? Listen to the Yellen I say. (In Yoda Voice)
What's an asset? Is that like my monthly mortgage payment or something?
/SARC
An asset is a sequence of (negative) cash flows. Forward!
I am pretty sure a majority of americans do not know what a deficit is. Or what that whole debt ceiling was about
"Deficit"?
Wha dat is?
Iz dat when a brotha caint hear u?
Assets! We dont need no stinking assets! We got EBT Cards!!!!
Fucking low life Grey Pouponers need to move up to Maille brand.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/maille-produce-the-worlds-most-exc...
It's beyond disgusting at this point. I remember when that area was merely affluent rather than Robber Baron Rich.
Also: Colorado governor's race rocked by new ad
http://tinyurl.com/mn3u5ng
Thanks for the Heads Up.
I'll be sure not to watch it again, and again, and again.
Fucking campaign ads
And the millionaires piss on us thousandaires, and us thousandaires
spit on the hundredaires, and the hundredaires...you get the picture,
it's a dog-eat-dog world so get over it.
yeah, but it isn't "fair"...
wahhhhh
Complaining about and mocking the wealthy is a waste of everyone's time here.
Your job is to study how these people got wealthy using the exact same 24 hours in a day that you have. They simply did different things. Gaining wealth is not accomplished by a magic spell, it's a skill. And a learnable one. Any one of you can do this. Don't waste your time being envious of the wealth of others. Spend your time wisely planning and preparing to put yourself in the position of top wealth. You'll have more control over your life, more chances to do the things you want and you'll be much happier.
Van Halen, up to a point you have a point. Some get unbelievably wealthy through hard work and providing a better service/product than the competition (kudos to them, they deserve the fruits of their labour). Most get it through corruption, insider trading and other illegal and immoral acts. I would rather be poor than learn their skills or emulate them.
Amen brother
Brainwashed. You are a brain drain.
Gaining wealth is not accomplished by a magic spell..
perhaps, but the owner's use them anyway.
just in case.
Heavens.
We need mediation sessions to settle the disputes for control between billionaires and the less fortunate millionaires.
But first let's clear those homeless tents.
my neighbor's half-sister makes $71 hourly on the laptop . She has been fired from work for 9 months but last month her paycheck was $17975 just working on the laptop for a few hours. look at this site... www.job-reports.com
Very un wealthy dude like, wealthy dude.
More swill:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-20/zombie-ideas-that-keep-...
Downvote for linking an article that pretends global warming is real.
No Words...
well maybe a few four letter ones!
Must be Onion edition.
This is why I make my own soap, beer, grow veggies and drink water I filter myself. I am trying to not participate in Corprate BS world as much as posible.
And for that you are probably richer than many of these "rich" people.
Yeah wait till 93 million pissed off motherfuckers run roughshod over his ass...
The leather seats in my lear jet are all cracked, it's embarrassing... I TRIED using saddle soap, don't you think I tried??? I'm sorry, it's just so upsetting....
You poor, poor man. I am sure Sally Struthers will be along shortly to film an informercial begging for help upon your behalf.
Is she still alive?
https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=sally+struthers&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35
Well, looking at those pix, I think she needs a commercial of her own...
Yes, for just 97 cents a day you can save a Struthers blah, blah, blah...
Don't be angry. Juan clearly didn't know how to use saddle soap - next time have your personal assistant tell Jaime to do it.
precisely why the gulf stream is kept in a hanger.
I would rather own a Cessna jet than a gulfstream.
Talk about overrated and overpriced.
My lear flies itself whilst I bang bitches and snort coke in the back room.
Cause that's how I roll.
Sorry, I had to take a stab at a quote from The Jerk, the scene leading up to cat juggling... Can there be a God in Heaven that would allow this?!? If I recall correctly, I would have gotten the money to replace the leather in my jet.
I knew where you were coming from. At least you can keep your thermos and sing the thermos song.
I bought new seats in my lear and just wrote off the depreciation.
Sounds like a personal problem.
Just wait, we will all be trillionaires soon enough.
The coyote does not lose sleep over the opinions of rabbits.
Thanks for that comments...copied and will use.
That's a great idea. I should start a "best of ZH" site and quote the best posts from these articles.
Brought to you by the Fed's Zimbabwe economic plan.
I know that neighborhood. Drive through it often. There was a time... Long about the mid 1980's, where you could actually purchase an 'old' house on decent sized lot, for around $300 - 400k... Of course, back then that was a lot of $money...
MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS!
Billionaires pickin on poor ol millionaires? Outrageous! Who is there to protect the little guy??
Will Sheldon Adelson and George Soros still be alive for the next presidential primaries?
I heard Rick Perry, notwithstanding fucking ebola and shoddy hospital protocols, was last seen kissing the Wailing Wall [ruins of an old Roman fortress, btw] near some photographers, looking somber.
And a trip to the Holocaust museum...
He'll be very, very easy to control, eh?
He put on fake glasses and gave up the boots. Maybe the world could forgive him that - but at this point, he's trying too hard.
Wonder if Old Rick got to partake in some Kosher Corn Dogs over there?
He looked like it wasn't the first time he swallowed a sword. He looked more comfortable than that old lady who lived in the shoe when she tried it.
pods
I was thinking of a new business, maybe a sausage/hot dog cart at the wall. People must get hungry after all that wailing. No?
Besides who doesn't like a good ol' pork kielbasa?
What do you think?
Granny said...
"Son if you are going to be broke, be rested and broke."
"Don't be tired and broke."
This poor millionaire needs to get acquainted with the pear of anguish. stat.
So much hate for our job creators.
Gave U a T/U because I know you forgot to put <sarc on> at the end. Right?
"So much hate for our job creators."
I thought ZH was blocked in the People's Republic of China...
millionaires are just a bunch of cry babys. they are jealous because they can't run with the 007 antagonist crowd. the billion club is cabal for globalist patsies. the ladder has been pulled up and the poor millionaires are realizing they are chattle and in the same boat as the welfare recipients....................whaaaa
Not only that, the non-club millionaires have the most assets left to steal.
Bitch. Bitch. Bitch.
buying up islands, getting ready for world war E
Allow me...
What the fuck is a "billionaire" in the face of a drowning $17 trillion derivative laden bleeding in-the-red economy?...
These are the pricks that will be heading for New Zealand like James Cameron when the .gov comes looking for them and the fillings in their mouths when income tax-infinity along with the next round of QE continues it's devastation!
Looking forward to seeing those safety deposit raids taking place on these guys as they will be some of the first that will get it when campaign "donations" to the whore(s) on Capitol Hill will never be enough after 2014!!!
I got an idea, let's make all the billionaires black and they won't even be able to walk through the neighborhood, nevermind live in it.
shit man, whitey will have that money back in their pockets in 2 years and the blacks will be poor again ceptin they will want a bigger welfare check. Once they tasted the cool refreshing water of whitedom they ain't goin back to Destroit
Palo Alto probably has one of the highest concentration of #QE4EVA #WINNING!
Versailles had a high concentration of rich fucks as well.
What goes around comes around. What goes up will inevitably come down
Droll, but naive. You don't know much about gravity, which at 63 miles above the earth begins to lose its pull and by several thousand miles, all of it.
I'm afraid that sayings like that are myths. like the eternal ones of, "Sunrise and Sunset". Neither of those is true either.
It is axiomatic that at certain heights the Law of Gravity becomes like the Department of Justice (yet another myth) only applying to mortals at lower levels of strata.
"You don't know much about gravity, which at 63 miles above the earth begins to lose its pull and by several thousand miles, all of it."
Not.
Question: if gravity loses all its pull, what keeps the Moon in its orbit?
Off topic but I had to get in on this. ...Ever hear about the Electric Universe Theory Wait? There is more to the creation of our worlds than simple gravity.
Mirrors, amigo, it's all done with mirrors.
I would trade all the pithy scathing insulting rich-bashing outrage by all the members and lurkers on this blog to BE one of either of them, billionaire, preferred of course. And I promise I woud neither complain about billionaires weight nor would i be condescending to the families of the serfs at my feet.
I would be especially kind to their young legal nubile virgin daughters.
word
uuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmm.........."legal"??????????
kind enough to stay off the lamp post?
If he thinks that's bad, he should try being a hundredaire like myself...
Ewwww!
Speaking of being hoipeloi ..... what a prick.
Life is tough all over.
Yes, that's the way that it is.
That is a "bizzaro world" post, right?
For those non-1%'ers that don't understand math.... .1% is not 1 percent. 1% is one percent. .1% is one tenth of one percent. In financial terms it means really fucking rich.
The guy probably has a tiny pecker. That's probably the real reason why he is so insecure and angry.
Hi Tylers
Just logged onto my computer to report my first case of being unable to read ZH on my telephone because 100% of the screen was covered by ads that wouldn't go away.
Okay, perhaps it was 99%. I think the right-most line, one pixel wide, was the article but the rest was covered by ads. I thought it couldn't get worse when 5/6ths of the screen was covered.
You need to look into this, not just for me but for anyone else who may stumble upon this site. They may just assume they've hit a spam channel.
That's what you should expect from a cellphone. I hae a black rotary dial phone from 1953. Works fine.
Cell phones are over-priced.
I have a cell phone so I can get work. I can't imagine people waiting for me to get home just so they can ring me and offer me a job. They'll just ring someone else. Yes I have spent my own time and money trying to build unique skills to make me more valuable. So has everyone else. If I thought I could have an income without a cell phone, I would do it.
Given that I have a cell phone, I like having a camera and music on my telephone. Weight limits stop me from carrying a normal camera everywhere (the nature of my work imposes some pretty strict weight limits at times). No, I don't do selfies, I don't take photos of food and I don't use FB. I have in the past taken photos of work issues to save the boss the time taken to have a decent look at something himself, but a lot of sites ban cell phones ( I don't blame them - I've seen "one-armed workers" before, but then some sites are remote and it's funny how bosses expect you to communicate but then don't give you a radio ...)
In the beginning, I was never interested at looking at the internet on a tiny little phone screen. But it was there. So it became handy. (It mainly feeds my ZH addiction, so in reality, losing the net from my phone would be no great loss.)
Sometimes I work in remote locations and I use the phone for the net connection for my computer. Again, no great loss when 90% of my net use these days is ZH. But a significant portion of the remaining 10% is looking for the next job.
So yes, until I find an alternative way of creating an income, I will be chained to the cell phone and the internet.
I once took a 400+ kilometre (that's over 250 miles for you heathens out there) journey to visit a friend. Given that I was passing a few mines on the way, I thought I'd drop off a few CVs as well. Turns out these places no longer value face-to-face meetings, initiative or physically handing over a CV. First point of contact HAS to be through their website. Some of their websites are very poorly designed - no contact telephone numbers, can't get past the first application page, have to account for every single job you've done and every single day spent not working - including the time between ending a job on Friday and applying for a new job on Sunday. Some of these people will never get experienced workers on their jobs - it is too much hassle / impossible to fill in the application form. Err, but now I have drifted off topic.
what topic?
/
+adaptation and may you prosper!
Thats a very annoying problem ZH has. Sometimes clicking back makes them go away. If I had just stumbled upon ZH and this happened I wouldn't be back. Like you say, I'd assume its spam.
Ditto that. Phone ads are annoying bullshit.
Oh yes, I just hate it when them billionaires do that. Shame shame.
Sometimes it's a good show when one group of overpaid privileged characters beat the crap out of another group of overpaid privileged characters.
Go Giants!
His money is worth the wheelbarrow he carts it in .
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2009/05/rome-vs-carthage.html
Millionaires worry about their money .
Billionaires and paupers worry about their souls
See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/10/topos-update-i_20.html
BMW
Billionaire , Millionaire , Want .
Bugger , Mugger , Wanker
Hunt with the hounds , run with the fox's wife .
The Rich Ragamuffins .
https://www.academia.edu/8899526/How_to_run_faster_and_why_