By Wayne Allyn Root
Have you ever noticed how almost all the leftist politicians who hate and want to punish the rich with draconian tax increases…are filthy rich themselves? Confusing isnt it?
Actually once you know the truth its really quite easy to understand.
Take Frances new Socialist President Francois Holland. He never stops talking about his dislike and disgust for the rich. He is almost more obsessed with hate for the rich than Obama is. Yet it turns out Holland is…drumroll please…filthy rich himself.
Thats right. Socialist Holland owns not one not two but three homes in Cannes on the French Riviera. Unbelievable.
In America lets think of the biggest haters of the rich. Obama is now filthy rich. He has been since selling his autobiography after getting elected to the U.S. Senate and buying a $2000000 Chicago home (with help from a convicted felon). Once Obama leaves the White House (hopefully soon) hell spend the rest of his life getting paid millions for books and $200000 a pop for speeches to the business groups he hates so much.
Bill and Hillary Clinton hate the rich. They left the White House broke and owing millions in legal fees. After quickly capitalizing with books speeches and foundations they turned zero into an $80000000 fortune in a few short years. Ive never heard of a job like that. Im not referring to being President. Im referring to hating the rich. It seems to magically make you…filthy rich.
Al Gore is far richer than his old boss Bill Clinton. Gore the bore is worth about one billion dollars from his TV network documentaries and stock options. All of that wealth is based on disliking the rich and trying to tax them to death in order to save the world from global warming. But Gore uses more energy on one trip in his private jet than all of us do in a decade of driving. And Als 20000 square foot mansion uses more electricity in a year than most of us pay for rent in a decade. And dont forget Gore started out the privileged son of a U.S. Senator.
Or take New Yorks disgraced ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer. The great anti-business anti-Wall Street crusader never bothered to disclose that his daddy owns half the buildings on Manhattans Fifth Ave. Ive never owned one building in my life yet I fight for capitalism every day. I am a capitalist evangelist. Yet someone whose daddy practically owns the worlds most exclusive avenue takes great pleasure in putting self-made rich men in prison. Do you see the irony there? Do you see the pattern?
These people are hypocrites of the highest order. They are angry and guilty for having never earned a dime of their own fortunes. By dumb luck they were dropped down the right chimney lucky sperm club members who had everything handed to them.
So they hate self-made rich people. Self-made men and women remind them of what they are not. They remind them of the wealth they never earned. Remind them of the deep-seated guilt they feel every day of their lives. Remind them but for the grace of God they could (and probably would) be riding a bus in the Bronx headed to a blue collar job.
Thats why leftist politicians (and lawyers media and the Hollywood elite) hate the self-made rich so much. Because they never earned their own money- and they know it.
I figured it out 30 years ago in college. I was Obamas classmate at Columbia University Class of 83 a blue-collar middle class S.O.B. (son of a butcher) surrounded by filthy-rich spoiled brats. Almost all my classmates were sons and daughters of privilege. They went to the fanciest prep schools vacationed in Europe lived in mansions on leafy streets in legendary towns from Great Neck to Sutton Place to Beverly Hills. Yet they all hated the rich. They wanted to bring down capitalism.
Woe is me." They were pitiful and pathetic in their white guilt. Their act to make believe they werent the luckiest most spoiled and privileged bunch in the world made me ill.
Nothing has changed in 30 years. The rich kids I met at Columbia hated the rich because they were embarrassed by the tens or hundreds of millions they had without deserving or earning it. Today they are the mainstream media the leftist D.C politicians and the donors that support them.
They still hate the rich. They just never disclose to anyone how rich they were on the day they were born how every door has been opened how everything has been handed to them their entire lives and how every failure has been papered over with mommy and daddys money.
Thats the secret. Show me a self-made man or woman and Ill show you a fiscal conservative. Ill show you someone that is proud of their success and feels they deserve to keep more of their own money.
But show me a leftist politician who hates the rich and 95 of the time Ill show you spoiled brats who inherited their wealth power and connections.
And the other 5 of leftists (like the Obamas and Clintons) got filthy rich by attacking the rich. That turns out to be a very lucrative business.
Wayne Allyn Root (W.A.R) is a former Presidential candidate the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee and a Tea Party favorite.