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The 90,000 Square Foot, 100 Million Dollar Home That Is A Metaphor For America
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Just like “America’s time-share king”, America just keeps on making the same mistakes over and over again. Prior to the financial collapse of 2008, time-share mogul David Siegel and his wife Jackie began construction on their “dream home” near Disney World in Orlando, Florida. This dream home would be approximately 90,000 square feet in size, would be worth $100 million when completed, and would be named “Versailles” after the French palace that inspired it. In fact, you may remember David and Jackie from an excellent 2012 documentary entitled “The Queen of Versailles”. That film documented how the Siegels almost lost everything after the financial collapse of 2008 devastated the U.S. economy because they were overleveraged and drowning in debt.
But since that time, David’s time-share company has bounced back, and the Siegels now plan to finally finish construction on their dream home and make it bigger and better than ever before.
But before you pass judgment on the Siegels, it is important to keep in mind that we are behaving exactly the same way as a nation. Instead of addressing our fundamental problems after the last financial crisis, we have just continued to make the exact same mistakes that we made before. And ultimately, things are going to end very, very badly for us.
As Americans, we like to think that we are somehow entitled to the biggest and best of everything. We have been trained to believe that we are the wealthiest and most prosperous nation on the entire planet and that it will always be that way. This generation was handed the keys to the greatest economic machine in world history, but instead of treating it with great care, we have wrecked it. Our economic infrastructure is being systematically dismantled, Wall Street has been transformed into the biggest casino in the history of the planet, we have piled up a mountain of debt unlike anything the world has ever seen, and the reckless Federal Reserve is turning our currency into Monopoly money. All of our decisions have been designed to make things better for ourselves in the short-term without any consideration about what we were doing to the future of this country.
That is why “Versailles” is such a perfect metaphor for America. The Siegels always had to have the biggest and the best of everything, and they almost lost it all when the financial markets crashed…
David Siegel (“They call me the time-share king”) and his wife, Jackie Siegel — titular star of the 2012 documentary “The Queen of Versailles” — began building their dream home near Disney World about a decade ago. Soon it became evident that the sheer size of the mansion was almost unprecedented in America; it’s thought that only Biltmore House and Oheka Castle are bigger and still standing, and both of those are now run as tourist attractions, not true single-family homes.
But when the bottom fell out of the financial markets in 2008, their fortunes were upended too. By the time the documentary ended, their dream home had gone into default and they’d put it on the market. The listing asked for $100 million finished — “based on the royal palace of Louix XIV of the 17th century or to the buyer’s specifications — or $75 million “as is with all exterior finishings in crates in the 20-car garage on site.”
But just like the U.S. economy, the Siegels have seemingly recovered, at least for the moment.
Thanks to a rebound in the time-share business, the Siegels plan to finally complete their dream home and make it bigger and better than ever…
The unfinished home sits on 10 acres of lakefront property and when completed will feature 11 kitchens, 30 bathrooms, 20-car garage, two-lane bowling alley, indoor rollerskating rink, three indoor pools, two outdoor pools, video arcade, ballroom, two-story movie theater modeled off the Paris Opera House, fitness center with 10,000-square-foot spa, yoga studios, 20,000-bottle wine cellar and an exotic fish aquarium.
Two tennis courts, a baseball diamond and formal garden will be included on the grounds.
The couple admitted that some of their plans for the house – such as children’s playrooms – will have to be modified now that their kids are older.
However, they are determined to see the project through.
‘I’m not at the ending to my story yet, but so far, it’s a happy ending, and I’m really looking forward to starting the next chapter of my life and moving into my palace, finishing it and throwing lots of parties – anxious for the world to see it,’ Mrs Siegel said.
It is easy to point fingers at the Siegels, but the truth is that they are just behaving like we have been behaving as an entire nation.
When our financial bubbles burst the last time, our leaders did not really do anything to address our fundamental economic problems. Instead, they were bound and determined to reinflate those bubbles and make them even larger than before.
Now we stand at the precipice of the greatest financial crisis in our history, and we only have ourselves to blame.
Just consider what has happened to our national debt. Just prior to the last recession, it was sitting at about 9 trillion dollars. Today, it has just crossed the 18 trillion dollar mark…
You may not think that you are to blame for this, but most of the people that will read this article voted for politicians that fully supported all of this borrowing and spending. And yes, that includes most Democrats and most Republicans.
We have stolen trillions of dollars from future generations of Americans in a desperate attempt to prop up our failing standard of living in the present. What we have done is a horrific crime, and if we lived in a just society a whole lot of people would be going to prison over this.
A similar pattern emerges when we look at the spending habits of ordinary Americans. This next chart shows one measure of consumer credit in America. During the last recession, we actually had a brief period of deleveraging (which was good), but now we are back on the exact same trajectory as before…
Even though we had a higher standard of living than all previous generations of Americans, that was never good enough for us. We always had to have more, and we have borrowed and spent ourselves into oblivion.
We have also shown absolutely no respect for our currency. Having the primary reserve currency of the world has been an incredible advantage for the U.S. economy, but we are squandering that privilege. Like I said at the top of the article, the Federal Reserve has been treating the U.S. dollar like Monopoly money in recent years in an attempt to prop up the financial system. Just look at what “quantitative easing” has done to the Fed balance sheet since the last recession…
Most of the new money that the Fed has created has been funneled into the financial markets. This has created some financial bubbles which are absolutely insane. For example, just look at how the NASDAQ has performed since the last financial crisis…
These Fed-created bubbles are inevitably going to implode, because they have no relation to economic reality whatsoever. And when they implode, millions of Americans are going to be financially wiped out.
Just like David and Jackie Siegel, we simply can’t help ourselves. We just keep on making the same old mistakes.
And in the end, we will all pay a great, great price for our utter foolishness.
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Great rant. Now what?
And who's we, paleface?
We the people in which many of the highly intelligent still don't know what the Fed is (since the Snyderman brought it up).
In my opinion, the 'hero' worship culture that pervades the entirety of the planet is one of the root causes of our miseries. Whether it be movie 'stars,' TeeVee 'stars', startups, companies, whatever - there is a blind faith and worship placed in human entities that are not as 'pure' and righteous as a real god is. If a human is indeed as pure and righteous as a god, then there should be reverence for that being, not blind worship.
'Star'... how dare you compare an unworthy human to the majesty of life's incubators!?
Blut Aus Nord - Dialogue With the Stars
Hate to see the property taxes on that. Why put all that money into something you are really renting from .gov
Just get a Miami condo and build your place down in central or south america in a country where they dont kill you with property taxes. And get a citizenship down there while you are at it.
Was gonna say;: Who's this we you speak of, Kemosabe? You got a mouse in your pocket?
We told 'em in '08 to let the big banks and their insurors fail. Instead, they listened to them who funded their campaigns and provided their perks. So now, 'the problem' is twice as big as it was 7 years ago.
Ever hear the story of the Golden Goose? It really ain't much more complicated than that.
The fuckin' goose is graveyard dead, but the so-called leaders just keep sprayin' more perfume on it, and hoping you don't notice.
Fuck the super rich.
You simplify.
Simple...
S17 (don't worry, sequence series ends soon ;-) )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrvoWEw2J8
I know if I work really really hard and play by the rules, someday I'll be able to move from living in my Datsun to a 100 million dollar home.
May God bless these fine people for so selflessly providing inspiration to people like me.
Careful Buddy, these must be the " Everyday Americans " H*llary is referring to.
And if you believe that, I have a wonderful opportunity to own this lifetime deeded piece of vacation heaven! Just $20,000 for 1 luxurious week per year and a small $2,000 maintenance fee. Yeah, it will only have a resale value of $1 on EBay, but think of the memories. *this offer expires once you leave this office motherfucker.
Yep - not sure why ANYONE would buy a timeshare, and even if you really, really wanted to, why would you not go into the resale market and save massive $$ for the same thing ...
Most of them end up costing upwards of 500 -600 (or far more) per night after you include fees, cleaning and annual payments + intial costs.
For that rate you can stay at a Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, Hyatt Regency or any other 4-5 star property in most cities around the world and not have to worry about anything.
I think Marriott has one that is like 450 per month + 1700 in annual fees which allows you a 7 night stay in a 1 bed villa in Hawaii. One of my wifes friends was thinking about doing it - what a dumbass
The payments are like 600 per month (all in)- every month. That equates to 7 days for about 7k or about 1k per night. Nice.
For 1k per night you can almost go to ANY 5 star resort of your choosing. You do not need to hand Marriott or others anything. There is absolutely no bargain at all.
The secondary market might make some sense - but again you are limiting yourself. Why not just take the timeshare payment and put it in the bank and then take your own vacation?
Ssssshhh
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm, Mr Rafter?
With 19 ups and no downs it looks like everyone does.
Wow, you two are sharp as a tack. +1
For 100 mil (even in our worth-less dollars) I would expect a bit more than an ugly dump of a bunker as house, and an ugly (ex-)trophy wife with tits bigger than her head...
The american dream, where the price tag of your house is more important than it's actual utility, where even the biggest tits need to be expanded until they look deformed.
In this glittering world everything is awesome, until it's time to pay the debt. The human race is flawed, we will never achieve peace and prosperity for everyone, even though it would be possible. We are going to get wiped out by our own illusions of grandeur.
I freelance over th? internet and earn about 80-85$ an hour. I was without a job for 7 months but last month my paycheck with big fat bonus was $15000 just working on my computer from my home for 5-6 hours. Here's what i have been doing... www.jobs-review.com
Proud of you for supporting your family during these hard times, Mrs. Siegel!
Members of the J-mafia do not get wiped out in financial downturns anymore. Not while AIPAC runs the Fed and Wall Street. The effendi will always get bailed out by the goy taxpayer.
"You may not think that you are to blame for this, but most of the people that will read this article voted for politicians that fully supported all of this borrowing and spending. And yes, that includes most Democrats and most Republicans."
You summed it up nicely there. I have no mirrors in my house, they're all broken.
Correction. The Democrats voted for moar Gov spending and got it. The Republicans voted for less Gov spending but got moar anyway.
And when the Repubican Regan was in power, he took a surplus and turned it into the biggest deficit in history. Bush fought two wrs of choice and cut taxes, making it worse. Its not a democrat or republican problem. Politicians are not the solution. Grow up, your daddy is not going to bail you out of this one.
Fuck Reagan. And fuck all the assholes who think unicorns are going to run a country. Even if the current system falls apart, it will quickly be taken over by a new political movement. That's how life works in realville.
I think we'd be better off with unicorns running the country.
Unicorns can't be worse than the MIC/Intel Cthulhu we have now.
sorry guys Monsatan has the trademark to the word "corn" and anything written in front of or behind it.
so even the Unicorns are Monsanto GMO'd,
p.s. don't eat the skittles, they'll eat you back.
its the fucking BANKSTERS that want PERMANENT WELFARE/WARFARE.........some people have a hard time understanding that......
Governments will never take responsibility for their spending, as the suckers who vote for their empty promises will never take responsibility.
Lie, disregard anything else you ever have to say.
The national debt did increase by 284% under Reagan. That means that under his presidency, he took on more public debt than all other presidents before him combined. Sound familiar? Nothing changes until we roll the motherfucking guillotines.
Don't confuse him with facts E L.
" some minds are like cement, all mixed up and permanently set"
Come with some facts. No one has posted anything to support the original premise,
The total federal debt of the U.S. government has now increased more than $8 trillion during the dictatorship of Barack Obama.
That is more than the debt increased under all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Bill Clinton combined, and it is more debt than was accumulated in the first 227 years of this nation's existence--from 1776 through 2003.
http://www.usadebtclock.com/
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/706025967449751-fe...
Yes but Regan did something besides transfer tax dollars to his cronies. You suck Obama's dick cowboy?
THe closest number to your 284% claim is 190%
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/12/08/does-obam...
Double Tap.
So what do we do after the Guillotines? If you don't have a plan then you will be going along with someone who does.
Quite the conundrom, isn't it? I dispise government, but I believe that we're going to get government, whether we want it or not. The options are to either take part in setting a new one up, which is not very palatable, or to let others do it, which is not very palatable either.
Maybe we could just torch K Street and see what happens.
Here are the ratios of deficit to GDP for the past five presidents:
Ronald Reagan
1981-88 4.2 %
1982-89 4.2
Average 4.2
George H. W. Bush
1989-92 4.0
1990-93 4.3
Average 4.2
Bill Clinton
1993-2000 0.8
1994-2001 0.1
Average 0.5
George W. Bush
2001-08 2.0
2002-09 3.4
Average 2.7
Barack Obama
2009-12* 9.1
2010-12 8.7
Average 8.9
*fiscal 2012 ends Sept. 30, 2012, so this figure is estimated
Source: Economic Report of the President, February 2012
The results for President Bush are skewed by the 10.1 percent deficit/GDP ratio in fiscal 2009. A large chunk of spending in that year went to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. In fiscal 2009, TARP contributed $151 billion to the budget deficit, but in 2010 and 2011, $147 billion of that amount was recouped and thus reduced the size of the deficit during President Obama’s watch. (These calculations are complicated and are laid out by the Office of Management and Budget. See http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/s..., p. 49.)
As for spending itself, during the George W. Bush years (2001-08), federal outlays averaged 19.6 percent of GDP, a little less than during the Clinton years (1993-2000), at 19.8% and far below Reagan, whose outlays never dropped below 21 percent of GDP in any year and averaged 22.4%. Even factoring in the TARP year (2009), Bush’s average outlays as a proportion of the economy was 20.3 percent – far below Reagan and only a half-point below Clinton. As for Obama, even excluding 2009, his spending has averaged 24.1 percent of GDP – the highest level for any three years since World War II.
Americans can judge for themselves whether deficits are “enormous”– but only if they have the facts. In this case, there is no denying the order in which the last five presidents rank on the basis of deficits: Clinton, Bush 43, Bush 41 and Reagan in a virtual tie, and Obama.
http://www.nber.org/erp/ERP_2012_Complete.pdf
And that mythical surplus??? I can't find any surplus. Let us revisit the quote I originally took.
And those percentages, for the most part, were baked into the cake before Obama ever took office. Perhaps he's making it worse than it otherwise would be, but the monetary system must grow exponentially, or it will collapse. In order for this to work where everybody gets a fair shake, the economy must grow exponentially with it. This hasn't and won't happen from about 15 years back on into the forseeable future. It's what happens when your currency is backed by debt and usury. The debt keeps on building up and building up until it exceeds the real economy's capacity to cope with it. ~$58 trillion in total debt in an economy with a mark-to-unicorn GDP of what? ~$17 trillion? And this doesn't get into things like unfunded liabilities either. The percentages as a ratio of the GDP are going to continue to increase until something breaks because that's how the system is designed.
Agreed, we are "whistling past the graveyard."
This is true. It's also true that they're too fucking stupid for the truff.
"Deficits Don't Matter." ––Richard "The DIck" Cheney
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/28/jake-tapper-busts-dick-cheney-def...
They sure had little problem finding 700 billion in pocket change for their banker buddies. Open your eyes asshole!
Pay attention crackhead. I was referring to what the VOTERS, voted for. Not what the Politicians do.
And yet all of the talk of fiscal responsibility and balancing the budget during elections is kabuki theater. If the government stopped deficit spending, the monetary system would collapse. So it is deficit spending until the dollar goes to its intrinsic value.
That's why they removed the debt ceiling. Banking on the USD going to zero however is a fools game. In the next few years you will see currencies popping like ballons everywhere, this is why their central banks are buying US stocks.
Short term, yes,the USD is going to be king. Medium to long term, however, it will meet the same fate as all other fiat currencies. Nothing lasts forever.
That's obvious, but that does nothing for me right now as the USD may outlive us all. You say the USD is going to be king in the short term. Yes, I knew that when the Gold pimps were selling $1800 Gold. Without timing predictions are useless.
Barring WWIII, I doubt the dollar will outlive most of us. Anytime between Monday and the next 7 or 8 years is what I'd predict. When we get another major financial crisis, I don't see how they're going to be able to save it this time around, but if I'm wrong, expect another 7 or 8 years of bullshit. Eventually, they'll blow their last bubble. They almost did in 2001-2008.
I was listening to Stockman's "The Great Deformation" for a while - some very interesting historical details in there. He said that Milton Friedman's paper that gave the academic approval of floating exchange rates was sold for the paltry sum of $7K. Mind boggling (if true).
"Keep you damn government hands off my Medicare!"
Putting the whole country on Medicare would have been cheaper than Obamacare.
It would have taken them more effort to reduce the commoner's week to 29.5 hours without benefits and turn doctors into wards of State (and much more wack shit) if they did that. Obiecare is a brilliant[ly evil] piece of legislation in that sense.
So, if you vote Democrat you are to blame. If you vote Republican you are to blame. If you vote 3d party you are to blame. If you don't vote at all you are to blame. Got it.
Yes, the article above was a double dose of Hanlon's Razor, which presumes that somehow the established systems got to be the way that they are due to "foolishness," even when it generically recognized that:
That article continues to present the same double whammy of relatively superficial analysis, which therefore indicates that there could be relatively superficial "solutions." Unless and until enough people understood how and why governments are necessarily the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, then there will continue to be too much implicit reliance upon Hanlon's Razor, and the corresponding refusal to be more realistic about the political economy, and even less realistic about the human ecology.
"You" were born into social pyramid systems, that were based upon being able to back up lies with violence, for thousands of years, that have been developing at an average exponential rate during all that time, because those had a fresh planet available to be strip-mined. Throughout that time, the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories have dominated everything, including their controlled opposition. At the current time, the international bankers are the biggest bullies, or the best organized gangsters, and therefore, the banksters' bullshit almost totally dominates a political economy based upon ENFORCED FRAUDS.
That bullshit world view has been built into the dominant natural languages and philosophy of science, to degrees that the overwhelming vast majority of people completely take for granted, and therefore, the opposition to the banksters is almost totally controlled by the ways that they think and communicate having been dominated by bullshit for generation after generation. There is barely any deeper understanding regarding how and why the USA necessarily developed integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, through which the paradoxical developments transpired that governments are necessarily the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized criminals.
Since the foundation of the entire system is the ways that the governmental powers to rob, and to kill to back up that robbery, have been effectively privatized, the transference of "wealth" to the pyramidion people has reached an awesome, astronomically amplified level, which is still automatically becoming worse, faster, due to the paradoxical ways that governments are necessarily the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, which is too little understood by to many people, so that there is practically no effective opposite to better balance that.
Since "you were born into social pyramid systems" it is "your fault" to the degree that you were born into those systems. "You are to blame" for living inside of society almost totally dominated by the biggest bullies' bullshit, which manifests as runaway absurdities, based on the social successfulness of a political economy built on the foundation of enforced frauds. The public response to that is mostly to continue to believe in the same old bullshit, as originally developed by the biggest bullies, and which is also agreed to by their controlled opposition.
Indeed:
However, the article above also is still doing that! Deeper analysis reveals that the same old mistakes were actually do to the ways that civilization necessarily operated according to the principles and methods of organized crime. The apparent utter foolishness of the vast majority of people was due to them never being able to prevent the development of governments as the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. Hanlon's Razor is the presumption that because the vast majority of "We the People" have been reduced to being incompetent political idiots, or Zombie Sheeple, that somehow that was an accident or a mistake, when actually it was the result of the runaway triumphs of debt slavery systems driving the development of its numbers to become debt insanities, because that was what that system was inherently designed to do!
Moreover, the same old mistakes are to continue to rely upon false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals, that there could be "solutions" which stopped civilization from being controlled by fractal patterns of the methods of organized crime. The relative social success of the best organized gangs of criminals has been able to promote their bullshit that they are not merely the best organized gangs of criminals, which are controlling the civilization that was based on the history of warfare, as the history of organized crime manifested on larger and larger scales.
By and large, the double whammy that we are faced with is that we collectively refuse to face the facts. There were always natural selection pressures, and those drove the development of the currently established artificial selection systems, to be based on the maximum possible deceits and frauds. Furthermore, along with that developed the controlled opposition groups to that organized crime, which promoted the same old mistakes, because they were utterly foolish, due to having only survived by agreeing to compromise with the biggest bullies, and thus, promote the basic biggest bullies' bullshit world view.
If one is consistent, the deeper analyses reveal that the real world manifests as the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies. If one is consistent, then the genuine, realistic solutions that follow from those deeper analyses are that the only things which are possible are to change those dynamic equilibria. However, at the present time, not only do most people still believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit, but also, almost all the publicly significant opposition also operates within the same old mistakes of that basically bullshit frame of reference, which is how and why we collectively appear to continue to manifest utter foolishness.
Paradoxically, the article above is another "metaphor" for how the opposition is controlled, and therefore, does not provide any better death controls to back up better debt controls, despite that money is necessarily measurement backed by murder. The existing political economy is necessarily based upon enforced frauds. Changing the social rates of robbery are the only possible solutions, but those can not be implemented as long as the vast majority of people act like Zombie Sheeple, who are exhorted by the Black Sheeple that the "solutions" are for everyone to go back to becoming better Sheeple.
Everyone has some power to rob, and power to kill to back that up. Governments assembled and channeled those powers, while those who were the best at doing that captured control over those governments, and then, effectively privatized those powers, to operate as runaway systems of enforced frauds. Meanwhile, those systems of organized crime surrounded themselves with controlled opposition groups, who would promote impossible ideals that would continue to actually cause the opposite to continue to happen in the real world.
While the article above was correct about how ostentatious displays of "wealth" is a metaphor for America today, that that "wealth" was based upon systems whereby privately controlled banks were allowed to make the public "money" supply out of nothing is not sufficiently addressed as the root cause for the ability to manifest social polarization to that degree. Furthermore, that then is not followed by addressing the deeper reasons for how and why money must necessarily be measurement backed by murder, because all private property is based upon backing up claims with coercions.
The deeper manifestations of the same old mistakes are to continue to rely upon presuming DUALITIES, when there actually exist UNITARY MECHANISMS. Since human beings and civilizations necessarily operate as entropic pumps of energy flows, they necessarily operate according to the principles and methods of organized crime. Furthermore, the paradoxes necessarily developed that the biggest bullies developed bullshit social stories which presented everything as being as backwards as possible, including that even the concept of entropy itself was inverted.
We continue to overall manifest "utter foolishness" because most of us want to continue to believe in the same old bullshit, that used to be the most socially successful strategy. The established systems are the expression of the relative runaway social successfulness of the best organized gangs of criminals being able to make and maintain governments which would serve their interests. That kind of social successfulness requires that they continue to be able to control their opposition, and the article above was another metaphor for those phenomena.
Why European leaders were absent at the Moscow Victory Day Parade on May 9th 2015?
http://thesaker.is/todays-victory-day-celebrations-in-moscow-mark-a-turning-point-in-russian-history/
Maybe banksters said no-go.
They are stupid and angry that their former bear pet got a mind of its own...
Not all of us!!
Giant egos build giant caves. Maybe it's just me, but this place is ugly and gaudy.
Rosebud!
"Just like David and Jackie Siegel, we simply can’t help ourselves. We just keep on making the same old mistakes."
Drop the "We"...
I'm not a 'Siegel'. Nor a 'Yellen'. Nor a 'Blankfein'. Nor a 'Made-Off'. Nor any other number Shylocks who can't control their greed.
OHD: Obsessive Hate Disorder.
Jackie is allegedly [rumor has it] auditioning for a roll in the next Freddie Kruger film ... as Mrs Freddie:
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1107802/thumbs/h-JACKIE-SIEGEL-960x540.jpg
" The Bride of Nightmare on Elm Street " ... [just down the road from Versailles]
OSAD = Obsessive Sychophant Apologist Disorder
LOL... except you've never seen me apologize for thugs of any flavor.
Not that you obsession needs any proof.
This is a good game. How about
ISIS = Incredibly Stupid Israeli Shill
@CH1
Yeah, color me 'obsessed' if that's what you prefer...
- color me 'obsessed' by the mind boggling mathematical/statistical impossibility that the 'crew' who is in charge of fractional reserve money counterfeitting (since Bretton Woods ended in 1971) all belong to the same tribe (& that thousands of their tribemembers have gotten filthy stinkin rich, 'albeit in joobux', during that time period)... & 90+ percent of all the fucking ills that people bitch about day after day on ZH all have their roots in that EXACT problem.
- color me obsessed that the same tribe controls 75%+ of the, now down to, 6 major media outlets, as well as 100% capture on Reuters & AP
- color me obsessed that the only political activist funding committees worth noting for the past 40 years all are in favor of the same tribe
- color me obsessed that I pay taxes, and chunks of that go to the Apartheid State of Israel so that their soldiers can "Shoot innocent civilians when they're bored"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-05/israeli-soldiers-describe-how-t...
- color me obsessed that ZERO jew bankers are in jail, but others get 15 year sentences for having sex
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-05/florida-man-faces-15-year-sente...
YOU???
What are you obsessed about?
From the looks of it, you're obsessed with nothing more than the fact that persons like myself have an issue with all of the above bullet points...
http://www.zerohedge.com/search/user_comments?username=CH1
You're part of the PROBLEM bitch...
IOW ~
- End the FED
- Break up the MSM monopolies
- End political activism & fundraising
- gut the legal system
All that combined would make a great beginning as to making things 'better'...
Yet?
ALL of that would essentially make a bunch of jews disenfranchised & render their money counterfeitting SYSTEM powerless, so, despite all the bullshit you write in the comment section everyday here... You'd consider that an 'anti-senitic' undertaking...
FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK!
LOL... and the Rockefellers, who run the thing?
<crickets>
The Morgans?
<more crickets>
Pierponts, Buffets, Mungers?
<still more crickets>
No crickets here bitch... ALL fucking jew flunkies... Rockefeller is a fucking Rothschild sychophant flunkie (like you).
Rockefeller & Morgan were WASP 'faces' (like CH1 & his gorilla), because the jew bankers (Kuhn, Loeb, Schiff... All Rothschilds colonels), who wanted THE FED franchise in America [after Andrew Jackson kicked their motherfucking asses out], knew they needed a different tactic because NOBODY was gonna trust another jew carpetbagger at the franchise mezzanine, but FFS NEVER at the money printing mezzanine (which is what Jefferson, et. al warned about a century before).
Buffett & Munger? ~ You gotta fucking be kidding me! I guess next you're gonna have me explain.
HILLARY
http://ifamericansknew.org/images/hilclintonww.jpg
BUBBA
http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Bill%2Bat%2Bthe%2BWailing%2BWall%2BGx...
OBAMA
http://fgcp.org/system/files/images/ObamaWailingWall.jpg
FFS ROMNEY
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Mitt-Romney-at...
The thing about you dude is that I could prolly forgive you if I thought that you were just another one of the braindead morons who walk around every day because they've been fed a steady diet of Steven Spielberg movies all their lives and have been conditioned to accept the notion that jews have been mistreated...
Instead, you've been on ZH quite awhile... Yet ~ I've NEVER heard you question, for example, the Larry Silverstein phenomenon with regards to 9/11... Hey ~ Why don't we start with that??? What's your opinion on that 'MIRACLE' of actuarial aptitude... Am I just a jew hater because I find it hard to believe that somebody got paid DOUBLE INDEMNITY on a policy that was taken out only a month before 9/11 on a specific pair of targets that he obtained the leases on for the price of 'a song' because they were scheduled for a multi billion dollar overhaul anyway to remove asbestos?...
Or?
Should I wait for you to tell me that there are NO SUCH THING as 'jews' being complicit with the BUSH or CLINTON families [vis-a-vis- Rockefeller, Morgan, Buffet, etc], & that BUSH & CLINTON were/are not, in fact, lower mezzanine players in this field?
Yeah, but anyway...rewind...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN
Indulge us all with your thoughts about that one, & it'll tell everyone everything they need to know about your pitiful sychophant ass...
Meanwhile...
Fuck the fuck off!... Or ~ If you're tired of my comments, there's always the REPORT OFFENSIVE COMMENTS link (that you have used several times in the past to get anyone, on ZH, banned because they dared to challenge your sychophant POV)...
& there's no question in ANYONE's mind that it was your stinky poo flingin' fingers that were the ones that were proactive in getting francis_sawyer (& dozens of others) banned from ZH in the past
More like the joker for the next Batman movie
Oy
If Truth = 'Hate', then stamp it brand it Big, Bold and red Hot right on my forehead -
Then we get we get down to the business of who is going to outlast who.
"But before you pass judgment on the Siegels, it is important to keep in mind that we are behaving exactly the same way as a nation. "
NOT....DEATH TO THE MONEYCHANGERS.....
And look what happened to the occupants of the original Versailles!
Well, what happened?! I went to public school so I've no idea.
well...Jeremiah was a bullfrog...oh...joy to the world...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf-d-Ka30EY
I guess other folks be poor because ... " they're not ambitious enough " ... according to Jack Ma.
Fits into the fat n lazy American meme.
Jesus .. if a wife like that is the price for success, I'll stay poor ...
Yes. A great metaphor for what's wrong with America, and why.
A big reason? Entitled women who don't know the value of money and are never held accountable when they succeed in completely ruining their men just so they can have a bigger dollhouse than the bitches they call friends.
I hope I live to see the day when feminism, banksterism's ugly daughter, is thrown alive on her evil father's funeral pyre. When that day comes women will have to return to making a living the only way they can make one honestly---on their knees. In 2015, everything else a woman can do can be automated.
When a civilization collapses its usually at the hight of the decadence of the civilization.
When rome was burning everyone was a rich feminized feminist socialist.
When Germany was burning to ash and the entire population was being reduced to dust from flying fortresses, Hitler was dining on caviar and wine in his mansion bunker.
The story repeats over and over.
While America burns Obama and Hillary will be playing golf under cheyenne mountain while Bernanke and his banker friends use the stargate to go off-world to continue their exploits with the Goa'uld
Bad break-up?
"And in the end, we will all pay a great, great price for our utter foolishness."
In the end...yeah, I see what you did there.
Hard to blame the lemmings for doing what they are told. The populace has been purposely dumbed down and numbed by the media, education system, etc. This generation coming up is the most entitled of them all. The wave of reality ahead will hopefully wake everyone up for good. But I'm not holding my breath.
"Versailles"? Really? LMFAO! Are they going to build a garden to rival the one in France? Will it be completed in time for "Islam" to sign a Treaty ending the "Clash of Cultures" there?
The original "Queen of Versailles" lost her head. "Let them eat Cake"...
That house is the tits
I wonder if someone was juiced up on crack when they were asked by the plastic surgeon, "And madam, what size tits would you like? "
I think they look udderly gross.
OK - I Can't help myself - am I the only one seeing her as a perfect Metaphor for massive inflated bubbles?
They are distroying their own childrrens future. Is it tribal? Or is it fate? I do not know.....
I wouldn't consider living in anything that costs less than $300 million...$100 million? - that's a shack...
I was planning to drive over to the mall and see if I could find an "On Sale" cardigan sweater today in the"Winter Discounts" section for $4 or $5.
Somehow this article made me a little depressed.
Depressed? Don't be, you've got more class than the bimbo in the article.
There were reports about a year ago that another party acquired this monstrous white elephant for around $20 million. Did the buyer flip it back to the Siegels for $30 million?
This is what the wealth effect is really all about; mal-investment to the power of ten. Like Disney World just wasn't enough, they had to build their own version right next to it. Brilliant!
No amount of money can buy good taste, and these gaudy people are a shining example.
That place (not palace) is an eyesore, on unattractive property.
But to each his own.
The place looks like a mausoleum.
Maybe they could follow the time-share idiom and sell crypts, niches, and vaults.
It looks like a mausoleum...
but built from mis-measured styrofoam(the house not the wife) and intended for a miniature golf course, at least before I clicked the enlargements. And it sort of still does. Either that, or a new Best Western franchise somewhere in the southwest. LMAO.
"Nope folks, the ruins we leave may not be Roman in quality, but they will have created jobs here at home." - Barack Hoebama
I saw at least a couple of photos where she didn't showcase her tits.
(After all the money they cost).
My heart sank the moment I saw that these creatures had bred.
Future Business Leaders of America, bitchez!
it's amazing all she is is white trash with money!
Upped you one for that statement! Takes all kinds man. Real sad situation there. The sheeple will eat it up. That's what scares me.
Much like the rest of her, the tits are fake.
So the Siegels are printing money? I don't get this one from Snyder AT ALL. Stick to the lists Michael.
Bauble-on will fall as Babylon did.
Simple proof that for sociopaths, they're just like space's black holes. They consume everything without conscience nor empathy, then act like that's respectable and worthwhile. Money and fools are soon separated.
What’s particularly sinister about this construction revival is that it couldn’t have happened without the Fed’s ZIRP. That’s another way of saying that savers are all indirectly paying for it, just like they paid for the Wall Street bail out.
I would love to see 100 middle class savers around Orlando storm this place once it’s finished and demand to spend some time in their home. After that, they can do the rest of us who also helped pay for it a favor and torch the place.
If the house went into default, how did they get it back?
Bubbles allow many to become fantastically wealthy. Why? Because the Fed and Banks work together to flood the economy with money at zero cost. BUT, only a select few may access this ocean of money at Zero interest rates, the others, the 99% must access money at market rates, depnding on your credit score and assets, you can get 3.5% on up to 35% depending on how you borrow.
It stands to reason, the first person to get Fed cash at Zero, have a money printing machine! Any fool can play the spreads out there and turn zero cost money into a steady stream of profit.
It all depends on WHO is first to handle this ocean of money. And I know it is not me allowed to and most of you are not allowed to. But a certain select group can and does get to borrow trillions at zero cost.
a cow like that belongs in a barn.
I sure wouldn't want anyone to know I am a hypocrite.
wonder if hes got the funds to hire an army to keep out the proles when shit hits the fan
the pitch forks are coming
30 baths...probably 30 BRs too------sounds like a wonderful spot for an orphanage....you could have 75 people live there.
Or possibly a jail for Wall Street crooks. Although to make it a tad uncomfortable there would be no water in the swimming pool and toilets would flush only once a day.
I see that you have read Gov. Brown's plan to end the drought in Caifornia.
Or, you could always put that $100 Million in the bank where it's safe. Did you say that house comes with a squash court? Oh my.
"In The bank where it's safe". Hahahahaha
what a botox monster !
This crisis will not end until it has taught all of us something.
As I see it, there is still much learning at all levels of society that is required to reverse the destructive downward trend.
No doubt, that will one day be the fate of this monstrosity too. When people go to Disney World to see The Magic Kingdom, they will also be able to visit The Tragic Kingdom.
Let me see if I can make you feel a little better.
The monthly electric bill for Versailles will be enough to pay the salaries of one entire shift at the electric company.
The house will eventually bring more tourists to Florida than Disney World.
And somewhere in Florida, there is at least one very happy contractor.
somehow, I just can't see a house like this being a luxury.
Too excessive for comfort, for a home that is. No matter how easily its owners will be able to afford the costs, i have pity for them. I would not be surprised if the people in the Siegels' group of friends thought the same.
I'd love to see the Eyes Wide Shut parties the place will no-doubt feature, tho. The space available for debauchery is the only real value houses like this have, in my experience.
From what I could tell from the documentary, they have no friends. Theirs is a very pedestrian existence. Look at how the wife dresses.
Old grandpa Siegel stays holed up in his conservatively decorated private den reading newspapers and magazines, and doesn't even come down for dinner let alone make eye contact with his family when they pop their heads in.
But then again, as horrible as he must be, you can't blame him.
I remember there being scarce, obviously stressed staff. Their main job being dog poop duty/dead pet removal.
Really Florida is a de facto third-world service economy. It's all MIC - which Siegel is a huge part of, make no mistake. He brags about helping to swing the election for Bush in '01 even. His "timeshare" business is sort of a cover for what he really gets up to with the profits, imo.
The silver lining is that when TSHTF it will be Zombie Versailles, with little to none of the formerly ubiquitous dog poop.
I give it a 10 for most wanted zombie nest after the crash.
Gross, vulgar, nasty, obscene, repugnant.
A white Michael Jackson clan.
This is really sick. These people are crazy. If the old man gets Alzheimer's, he'll get lost in the place trying to find his shitter. Before any of you guys listen to your wife and build something like this, get a divorce or tell her to STFU! All for love no doubt. Love is cheaper than that elsewhere for sure! Crazy people with money. Man.
Time share business, really? LOL! good one..
"These Fed-created bubbles are inevitably going to implode, because they have no relation to economic reality whatsoever. And when they implode, millions of Americans are going to be financially wiped out."
No truthier statement has been made about the giant Fed-created debacle in process today. An analysis of the credit bubble about to implode makes this point crystal clear...
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/anatomy-of-a-bubble-how-the-federal-r...
At 100 Million its probably just about big enough for a Chinese oligarch and his extended family of spoilt children.