Billionaire ONLY Gets FOUR MONTHS for Sexually Assaulting 12-Year-Old Girl Call it “Affluenza”, call it whatever you want, but Samuel Curtis “S. C.” Johnson III, the 59-year-old billionaire heir to the S. C. Johnson & Sons (formerly Johnson’s Wax) fortune, is only going to do four [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the wealthy’
March 3rd, 2015 - 11:07 am § in America
Toys For The Wealthy
Fly from New York to LA in just 2.5 hours as incredible new private supersonic business jet aims to cut journey time in HALF The US forbids civilian planes from the sound barrier – about 750mph per hour – while flying overland due to noisy sonic booms, but the AS2 model will fly at sub[...]
February 5th, 2015 - 11:16 am § in Misc.
Liberal Hypocrisy: When Capital Punishment is Justified
Jordan’s eye-for-an-eye response to the Islamic State The question asked by some liberals is : What purpose did hanging these two convicts serve? Is capital punishment worse than life long imprisonment? Should life long imprisonment be made more unpleasant .. perhaps by putting the perps in cage[...]
November 25th, 2014 - 11:18 am § in America
Demonizing the poor
Demonizing the person you are pillaging is an age old trick. If she is explained as undeserving of government benefits you can justify giving the money to the rich and we get the trickle down we been waiting for since Reagan lied about it.[...]
Message to Washington state’s best students is clear .. if you can get into an elite private schools you should do so .. TO SAVE MONEY!
UNLESS YOU ARE AN ATHLETE: DO NOT APPLY TO THE UW Over at the Berkeley Blog, Robert Reich has written a disturbing essay on the effects of endowment of private, elite schools, on the US governments subsidy for education of the wealthiest Americans: “(Given the) relatively small number of stu[...]
October 9th, 2014 - 10:37 am § in Politics
The Brits Try to Ruin Their Economy Again
Same old, same old. A century ago the Tories .. focused on short term gain and classism, undermined the British economic system .. the rest is history. The US seems to be heading the same way. As the economy is booming for the fortunate, the poor are getting poorer . BY Corinne Purtill Brea[...]
September 19th, 2014 - 12:28 pm § in Misc.
Paul Allen: Yet another toy!
GEEKWIRE: Paul Allen paid $2.5M for this German tank, says seller refuses to deliver by Todd Bishop on September 12, 2014September 12, 2014 at 10:47 am6 Comments Paul Allen is finding it very difficult to acquire this tank. The 28-ton Panzerkampfwagen IV, better known as the Panzer IV, was used by [...]
April 14th, 2014 - 10:36 am § in America
Wealth
This $100+ Million Penthouse Will Be NYC’s Priciest Apartment Ever This triplex is New York’s latest contender. for affordable housing for the uber wealthy. At $100,000,000, the penthouse at the peak of this new tower, the 12,000 foot home will fit in well with other astronomic ve[...]
April 3rd, 2014 - 10:09 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: A Trillion Dollars Taken from American Economy
US companies’ overseas cash hits $947bn Funds held outside US to avoid domestic tax bills[...]