The Rich Heading Off To Davos Again....Wish Them Luck.

This week the rich and powerful are heading off to Davos Switzerland to discuss how much money they all have….. and how little money you have.

It is a yearly ritual and everyone who is anyone will be there. You can go check your mailbox and see if you received an invite. Please don’t be upset when there is nothing there but your electric bill.

It is not your fault that you are an irrelevant nobody. You should rest assured that the super-rich will be dining on the finest food all while laughing at how incredibly poor you are. That subject cracks them up each and every year.

During the day they will be hard at work solving the worlds problems. The #1 problem they need to solve is why they have all the money…..and you have none. It is a real brain tease but I am confident they will be able to solve it.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/…/oxfam-war…/article22529109/

“International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development have repeatedly warned that inequality threatens not just the poor, but social cohesion (Social Cohesion = People lighting torches and grabbing pitch folks….The thought really scares the hell out of the rich people.)

“The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering,” (Good word) Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International, said in a statement. “Despite the issue shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast.” (Thanks to Obama)
The chorus of concern over disparities may be growing, but there’s little consensus on just what to do about it. (Invite me…..I will tell them exactly what to do about it. Won’t take me more then 10 minutes either. Then I am off to the shrimp bar.)

Oxfam, an anti-poverty charity, is calling for greater disclosure of lobbying activities (Yes) , minimum wage hikes (Irrelevant), the end of tax havens (Yes) and more taxes on the wealthy (good deal).

(Also how about No more closed door meetings in Congress. Democracy is supposed to be open for all to see. There should be no closed door meetings of any kind in the US Capital. If you are too embarrassed to say what you have to say in front of everyone then you probably shouldn’t be saying it at all.

Everything our Congress does should be open for all to see. Period!)

Look at the graphs in this article……Notice the year the rich really got richer (and everyone else got poorer). Notice it was the year after Obama became president. Yeah I notice that too. Mr. Hope and Change doing a bang up job.

In 2010, it took 388 billionaires to equal the wealth of the bottom half of the world’s population; now it’s just 80 billionaires. (What an accomplishment. That fact is going to really stand out in Obamas presidential library.)

There are 1,645 Billionaires. There are 7,000,000,000 people on the planet. That is 1 billionaire for every 4.2 million people. The billionaires tell us that becoming one of them is possible. They insist you can achieve it too if only you tried harder. Your laziness is your problem. Don’t let those long odds discourage you because you are almost there.

Who are these 1,645 billionaires?

The world’s billionaires tend to be “male and greying,” (of course) with about nine in 10 of them male and over the age of 50. (Zuckerberg snuck in under 50. That could have been you…..Not really.)

A third have inherited some or all of their fortunes (Inherited means they didn’t work for it at all….. it was just handed to them. Nice deal if you can get it. So while they tell you to work harder the fact is 33% of them don’t even know what that means. It does crack them up to say it though)

Almost 30 per cent are citizens of the United States. (God Bless America….Best government Billionaires can buy.)

Many have gotten rich from interests in either the financial (You remember the financial industry…..That was the industry your tax dollars bailed out. They screwed it up. You bailed them out. They took the money and put it in their pockets. It was a great deal for them.) and insurance sector or the pharmaceutical and health-care industry.

(You remember the insurance and Heathcare industries…..Those are the industries that Obama promised to fix but didn’t. A lot of people got rich on that whole con job. Thanks Obama.)