The thoughts and social commentary of an unnamed ex-socialist as told to the Assorted Press......(not all parody)

Posted by: Fritz ^Ž

07/12/2004, 14:54:11

A Study in Class Envy: American Workers are 'Bleeding the Wealthy Dry'

The thoughts and social commentary of an unnamed ex-socialist as told to the Assorted Press

By The ASSORTED PRESS

July 12, 2004--"When I was still a young Socialist growing up in Brooklyn, one of my favorite excursions was a trip to see the great Gilded Age mansions in Manhattan. Those mansions weren't just pieces of architectural history. They were monuments to a bygone social era, one in which wealth was flaunted and workingmen like my father groveled for scraps.

And now the tables seemed to have turned; the past several decades have seen a massive transfer of money in America out of the pockets of the working rich, and into the hands of those who produce goods and services for the rich.

A new study by the Sitzfleisch Institute shows that middle-class Americans are sucking the wealth right out of some of the richest citizens, and leaving them with nothing but baubles and meaningless status symbols to show for it.

One wealthy businessman complained to me , 'It's worse than when we took Manhattan from the Indians and give them worthless trinkets in exchange. Last year alone I lost $75,000 on a luxury automobile that's really no more useful to me than a $20,000 Chevy. And where did that money go? Into the pockets of common autoworkers.'

I have heard such painful stories of the rich from my old home town of New York to Atlanta.
Tens of thousands of dollars wasted on jewelry and glittering gold. Millions squandered on oversized homes, and underused private airplanes. And almost all of that money is going to middle and lower class workers.

A well to do retired millionaire friend of mine in the Buckhead section of Atlanta tells me, 'Laundry services, gardeners, cleaning staff and personal assistants all function like bloodsucking leeches on the soft underbelly of the so-called privileged class, they are getting all our money. Where is the compassion for me? Where is the justice he asks?'

I suppose I should feel sorry for the suffering rich but I'm glad it's not my problem."

The unnamed ex-socialist was interviewed by Assorted Press financial reporter, Klaus Straphobia.

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