THE RICH'S HYPOCRITICAL OATH

Warren Buffet, George Kaiser, George Soros, George Lucas, (Star Wars) David Geffen, (DreamWorks) Steven Spielberg, (ET) Eric Schmidt (Google) Bill Gates, (Microsoft) Mark Zuckerberg, (Face book) Terry Semel (Yahoo) have given money to Obama and or the Democratic Party.

Check out the list below and then read my commentary on why this is hypocritical;

Chris Albrecht, HBO chairman
Big Kenny Alphin, recording artist
Marc Andreessen, Internet pioneer
Jennifer Aniston, actress
Rosanna Arquette, actress
Tyra Banks model, talk show host
Lawrence Bender, producer
Halle Berry, actress
Valerie Bertinelli, actress
Arthur Blank, Falcons owner
Judy Blume, author
Steven Bochco, producer, writer
Andy Borowitz, satirist, writer
Zach Braff, actor
Steve Brill, Court TV founder
Christie Brinkley, model
James L Brooks, producer, director
Jackson Browne, musician
Warren Buffett, billionaire
Mark Burnett, game show producer
Ken Burns, independent filmmaker
Peter Buttenwieser, political fundraiser
Kate Capshaw, actress
Michael Chabon, author
Jay Chandrasekhar, director, writer
Peter Chernin, News Corporation president
Richard A Clarke, security expert
George Clooney, actor
Cindy Crawford, model
Drew Curtis, fark.com founder
Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
Larry David, comedian, writer
Laurie David writer, activist
Barry Diller, media mogul
Paul Dooley, actor
Michael Douglas, actor, director
Michael Eisner, Disney CEO
Kenneth Feinberg, attorney
Tom Ford, fashion designer
Jodie Foster, actress
Jamie Foxx actor, comedian
Morgan Freeman, actor
David Geffen, Dreamworks co-founder
Jami Gertz, actress
Charles Gifford, Bank of America chairman
Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
Berry Gordy, record producer, entrepreneur
Lou Gossett Jr., actor
Brian Grazer, producer
Jasmine Guy, actress
Herbie Hancock, musician
Tom Hanks, actor
Tom Hayden, activist, author
Dennis Haysbert, actor
Christie Hefner, Playboy CEO
Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder
Cheryl Hines, actress
Bruce Hornsby, recording artist
Ron Howard, director, producer
Phil Jackson, NBA coach, player
Samuel Jackson, actor
Scarlett Johansson, actress
Michael Jordan, basketball star
Vernon Jordan, Washington power broker
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dreamworks co-founder
Gayle King, editor, Oprah’s BFF
David Koepp, screenwriter
Cedric ‘the Entertainer’ Kyle, comedian
Christine Lahti, actress
Sherry Lansing, Paramount Studios CEO
Sharon Lawrence, actress
Norman Lear, television producer
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
Seth MacFarlane, animator, screenwriter
Tobey Maguire, actor
Norman Mailer, author
Natalie Maines, recording artist
Barry Manilow, singer/songwriter
Stephon Marbury, pro basketball player
Branford Marsalis, musician
Greg Mathis, TV judge
Bette Midler, singer, actress
John Morgridge, Cisco chairman
Rob Morrow, actor
Alonzo Mourning, NBA star
Eddie Murphy, actor, comedian
Paul Newman, actor, philanthropist
Craig Newmark, craigslist.org founder
Leonard Nimoy, actor
Edward Norton, actor
Rosie O’Donnell, actress, comedian
Stan O’Neal, Merrill Lynch CEO
Adrian Pasdar, actor
Holly Robinson Peete, actress
Sidney Poitier, actor
Ellen Pompeo, actress
Maury Povich, talkshow host
Penny Pritzker, hotel heiress
Harold Ramis, director, actor
Phylicia Rashad, actress
Jerry Reinsdorf, Chicago White Sox owner
Paul Reiser, comedian, actor
Chris Rock, comedian, actor
Robert Rubin, US Treasury Secretary
Edward Rust, State Farm CEO
Susan Sarandon, actress
Thomas Schlamme, producer, director
Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO
Terry Semel, Yahoo CEO
Ben Silverman, NBC Universal chairman
James Sinegal, Costco CEO
Tom Skerritt, actor
Emmitt Smith, pro football player
Jada Pinkett Smith, actress
Will Smith, actor, recording artist
George Soros, financier
Steven Spielberg, filmmaker
Leigh Steinberg, sports agent
Fisher Stevens, actor
Ben Stiller, actor
Oliver Stone, director
Christine Taylor, actress
Richard Thalheimer, The Sharper Image CEO
Heather Thomas, actress
Garry Trudeau, cartoonist
Denzel Washington, actor
Isaiah Washington, actor
John Wells, television producer
Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone CEO
Tom Werner, Boston Red Sox co-owner
Forest Whitaker, actor, director
Paula White, megachurch “life coach”
Bradley Whitford, actor
Gene Wilder, actor
Rita Wilson, actress
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, actress
Joanne Woodward, actress
Jeffrey Wright, actor
Robert Wright, NBC Universal head
Andrew Young, civil rights activist
Edward Zander, Motorola chairman
George Zimmer, Men’s Wearhouse CEO

The list of famous billionaires and multi-millionaires in business and entertainment that have contributed to the Obama socialist re-distribution of wealth vision making the hard working average American that believes in our capitalistic system apoplectic.

Why are these rich and famous tycoons who benefitted from our capitalistic economic system contributing to its demise? Why would wealthy successful upstarts want to change the rules and for the many want-a-be rich and famous dreamers awaiting their chance at success?

I can only think there are two answers. One they did not know before they contributed to Obama’s campaign that he was a socialists and like all people influenced in a small insular circle of like-minded friends they went along with “Hope and Change” assuming the best at its inference. Some might refer to this as ignorance lives as well with the rich as it does with the poor.

Or two they really begrudge the way they earned their riches in America and look down their noses at the rest of us that contributed to their fame and fortune. This self-rich loathing tends to shift from hand-out charity for the poor to looking to find the panacea answer to cure poverty.

The rich suffer from what I will call the “What’s next” syndrome after they arrive at the apex of their wealth and fame. They are freed from the ardors of the climb to success but their ambition still hungers to achieve the next venture. Giving away money or being a patron for others to follow in their footsteps is not as ambition lustful as changing the world.

I believe that when the charity of the rich extends beyond reseeding the field in apreciation of where its wealth bloomed but instead decides to reengineer the soil from others by experimenting with a new crop it shows a miserly ego that reaps a cynical harvest of ingratitude.

The notion that money buys you the power to change the rules for everyone else is what is wrong with the corruption of money and politics. No one waiting to be the next successful owner of wealth and fame begrudges those who won before them by achievement. For that merely proves that success lives hopeful for their dreams but if winners then re-write the rules; the game is for patsies.

Celebrities have a right to believe in whatever whimsical thought crosses their mind and equally they have the right to throw money at their personal causes.
However, I am hard pressed to call any celebrities or titans of industry who donate to causes that change the rules for America’s capitalist system that they advantaged truly generous and charitable Americans.

Moreover, when we all paid to see your movies, read your books or bought your products we did not know we were supporting the liberal success story that would then crush our American dreams.

You must remember you earned your fame and wealth as much out of the hard working conservative wallet as the liberal left portion of the little guy’s paycheck! Or did you forget that fact!

I don't buy the argument that an equal dole out to both political sides makes you neutral against being charged with hypocrisy and criticism.

Leave my country alone and stop supporting anti-American policies in your quest to save the United States with your own ego-maniacal vision of what America should be.

 If you want to truly pay back the country and people who allowed you to acquire your wealth and fame then stop giving to politicians supporting socialist big government intrusion over our Republic of individual liberty.

We the poor struggling nameless faceless rift raft beseech you to buy a library and immerse your mind and soul in the many books available to help you understand why you were successful in America. You have no right to use your wealth against the many Americans that are left standing in line waiting their turn at the chance for what you enjoy.

How can you want to lock the barn door to me and my children’s capitalistic dreams when you enjoy your notoriety and comfort from no other than its rage to riches promise?

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.” (Socrates 469 BC – 399)

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We have been hearing the president talk about his focus on jobs since he took office. There has been little change in his speeches or political solutions that sounds straight out of the “tax the rich more, spend for the poor more” Democratic Party idea book.

Not only is nothing new in Obama’s latest JOBS proposal except that the word “stimulus” is purposely avoided, his Jobs Plan is being used as a political talking point for Obama’s re-election bus tour and is blatantly cynical.

Yet he and his party have the cheek to suggest that the Republicans are the party of NO and just wishing to keep the economy weak in order to defeat Obama in 2012.

If the Democrats and Obama want to say that the Republicans are blocking real growth and job creation then okay call the bluff.

Why not call the Republicans and see if they join you Mr. President in allowing oil drilling production to proceed by loosening regulations? Why not call them out by suspending all EPA regulations? Why not call them out by giving the Republicans all the cuts, and proposals they have asked for to see if they say NO?

Why not? I think all Americans know why not. The reason is that Republicans would pass those reforms and the country would start to see the economy grow. You don’t want Republican ideas to succeed where you and the Democrats Keynesian policies proved abysmally unsuccessful.

Solyndra the bankrupt poster child solar panel company for stimulus back green job energy alternatives reflects three truths about socialist’s policies, failure, incompetency and corruption.

Whether we call it socialism or crony capitalism the objective and the results mirror the same truth of why government run or backed private industry is an oxymoron. The simple fact that if a company was either successful or had the potential to be successful to private sector investors then the company would not need government financing nor want it.

What company wants to have the government peering over its books or making edicts about how to run its business? The fact that Solyndra could not find private investors until it secured a half billion dollars in federal loan money shows it was a risky venture. The capitalist system has a cure for risky business it is called failure, collapsing as a company and selling off assets or bankruptcy.

Solyndra was begging for government funds to keep it afloat and not only was it awarded half a billion dollars of taxpayer money but also received investment from the Kaiser Foundation that co-incidentally is connected to the President by George Kaiser a big donor to his campaign. This impropriety reeks of corruption well beyond cronyism.

Lastly, we turn to incompetency which must first start with the premise that the only companies standing in a government line for a government handout are already suspect as to their risk. Then you add a bureaucratic cadre of civil servants making determinations as to whom should be favored with taxpayer money and expect them to due diligence with the same vigor as if their own money was on the line.

Moreover, beyond number crunching most private investors know that having or utilizing the brain trust of people knowledgeable about the different industries is vital in the ultimate determination of risk return investment decisions.

 The bureaucrats in government have a vast ignorance of practical application relying more heavily on theoretical business models.

Yes, like Keynesian economics which works great as a college theoretical discussion but has proven time and time again in the practical world to be a huge flop!

Solyndra was Obama’s poster child of success until it went bankrupt. Many questions will be asked of this administration as to whether there was corruption in the form of bribes, pressure applied to regulators or quid pro quo proof of buying White House influence.

One thing is certain; this administration continues to extol capital cronyism and socialists policies in its never-ending bullying of America's capitalists that want the opposite economic policies returned to Washington.

The President may have stopped a personal habit of blowing smoke but when it comes to his desire to ruin this country’s capitalism and turn her into a socialist’s Republic he continues to blow smoke into American faces that just want to have a job.