This year for Christmas we are getting great tips on how to absolve ourselves from the guilt of another year of spending money on ourselves and buying oodles of merchandise we don't need. Moreover, there are more and more great adverts from companies donating goods and services during the last weeks of the year not only to feel good about things like toilet paper, but to make sure you can exploit as many of those tax loopholes as possible. what's better than a win-win situation?
But what about all of those affluent people who lost money in their trust fund portfolios? What about those people who had to give up their time-shares, those plans to buy a yacht, the weekend cruising car, the trip to the Hamptons this summer, or the art classes on Saturday mornings? what about the caviar they usually get flown in from Paris that they are now canceling in these hard times? That will cost them their annual picture in the New York Times Style page this year! This – is – devastating… For everyone.
I am a little tired of hearing about all of those "people" who sleep on air vents in 10 degree temperatures, who are withdrawing from their drug addictions, lost their homes to foreclosure, can't pay the medical bills, are alone or rejected from family this Christmas, those on suicide watch, or are being politically oppressed in some little African nation not part of the G8. I want to hear what we are going to do for the affluent beyond those government bailouts. Sure, it's right up around a trillion dollars. But if you divide that among, say, 200 executives, it's only five billion dollars – each! Now how can we expect them to retire on that after paying off bribes and making good on back room deals? Not fair people. Just not fair.
So the friends at Pitchforkmedia TV have started a campaign to help out these desperate souls who have the responsibility of keeping our economy afloat. Without keeping the top 1% of the wealthy happy and comfortable, the world is surely at an end. I urge you to watch this video, meditate over the lyrics, and lend a hand today. Make this a merry Christmas for those who need to go to Aspen, Morocco, and especially those looking forward to bringing in the new year in Tokyo. For helping them to stay happy, means that the dregs the rest of us can suck off the floor will be that much sweeter this year!
you got a million dollar loft
now the markets gone all soft
and the world has gone all hard
that’s why this year in their Christmas cards…
we’re giving cash to all the trust fund children
we’ll give ‘em cash cause all their stocks are soiled
we’ll give em cash and maybe gold and oil
So they will not have to face
loosing their costly practice space
this year…
we’re giving cash to all the trust fund children
we’ll give ‘em cash cause all their stocks are soiled
we’ll give em cash and maybe gold and oil
They need a spring Tuscany
to study wine photography
this year…
we’re giving cash to all the trust fund children
we’ll give ‘em cash cause all their stocks are soiled
we’ll give em cash and maybe gold and oil
Let’s send them on a mission
to shop for limited editions
this year…
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