Ken Langone (Right Wing Piece of Shit) on CNBC - "OWS are babies in adult bodies"

[HughBeaumont]

Quote.

The co-founder of Home Depot (with Bernie Marcus, another piece of shit 1%er) is barfing out the usualy right wing talking points, promoting charter schools, unions are all at fault, "When I was your age, if I didn't do my homework I got whacked on the hand with a ruler . . . she'd go to jail today!" . . .

Here's the thing:

For all of the supposed hard, hard, HARD . .. harder than apparently ANY of us :eyes: . . . "WORK" these guys supposedly do and have done to get to where they are, they sure do spend a lot of time on CNBC and elsewhere promoting the status quo right-wing economic talking points and not a whole hell of a lot of time thinking up feasible solutions that would benefit anyone except their already massively-stuffed pockets.

"But what of his philanthropy?" Who cares? Jack Welch and the Kochs are philanthropic too . . . does that NOT make them hypocritical pieces of shit like this guy?

[JHB]

1. Projectshuuuuuuunn, projection, proJECTion!

(to the tune of "Tradition", Fiddler on the Roof)

[GoCubsGo]

2. Never heard of him.

Looks like I will be doing all of my shopping at Lowes from now on.

[formercia]

8. The Lowes here is closing

Sad to see it go, but the bargains are to be had for the time being.

[fasttense]

3. I wonder what would we hear from buffoons like these if

the right wing forgot to give out their talking points?

[elehhhhna]

4. Two kinds of people in the world: The ones who tell you how much/hard they work,

then go out to receptions and galas four nights a week...

and the ones who come home, take a shower, and go to bed.

once had a boss who told everyone,everywhere, that she worked 80 hours a week. as her VP I knew she wasn't even AWAKE 80 hours per week.

[HughBeaumont]

7. "When a man tells you he got where he was through hard work, ask him 'whose?'" - Don Marquis.

[FiveGoodMen]

11. THAT'S a good one!

I'll have to remember and use it.

[DBoon]

5. tells you something about how his employees are treated

and how he'd like the rest of his "minions" to be treated.

We are all slaves to him, who deserve to be treated like children

[Octafish]

6. You hit the nail on the head, HB.

For all of the supposed hard, hard, HARD . .. harder than apparently ANY of us . . . "WORK" these guys supposedly do and have done to get to where they are, they sure do spend a lot of time on CNBC and elsewhere promoting the status quo right-wing economic talking points and not a whole hell of a lot of time thinking up feasible solutions that would benefit anyone except their already massively-stuffed pockets.

KBR

[HughBeaumont]

10. These guys are harkening back to a day when entrepreneurship was a possibility.

What they don't get (or don't care about, more likely) is that this was a period before corporations (such as Home Depot) and the wealthy that ran them got so big, there was nothing left for them to buy but the government. Once they bought the government, they went after the little guy, via policy or distribution advantage. Now entrepreneurship, like higher education, is more expensive, is harder to attain & sustain and has an even smaller ROI than ever.

Not so coincidentally, this "winner take everything" means of steroid-injected laissez-fail corpora-governance started after GE puppetperson Rea-gone got elected.

[brentspeak]

9. By "working hard", Langone means the Chinese near-slaves who make Home Depot's crap for 25 cents/day

While he makes out like a bandit.