[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
My views are largely informed by the community I live in: extremely affluent and empty-hearted souls. Elitist, entitled women who don’t work and pay people to do all their bidding: housecleaners, nannies, nail technicians, personal trainers. And then send emails out about the inequity of their taxes potentially being raised. Really annoys the hell outta me. Seems like something is lost when hard work is removed from the equation.
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Ah, but “those who marry for money, earn every penny.”*
It sounds like you resent trophy-type wives, which I understand. In fact, if I was guessing, I would suspect you are a personal trainer for more than a few, or at least know their personal trainers well.
And I really do understand your dislike.
I’ve often heard “your Jooooo lawyer is on the phone” over a muffled phone as such a woman calls to her husband, who is typicaly a VERY hard working guy, often geeky, that was insnared by the wiles of a good-looking, silicone enhanced, but seriously bitchy, social climber who thinks her poop does not stink.
I swallow my pride, do my work, and smile at the bitch charmingly when she comes in and abuses my office staff.
Getting back at these women by taking their money (let’s face it: probably their husband’s hard-earned money) because, well, they suck, however, is not good ecomomics.
If you want to help the gardners and maids of the world, you want these ladies to have lots of disposable income, buy lots of stupid crap, and employ lots of poor folk so that said poor folk’s sons and daughters can have a future.
And I say this as a guy who knows how this work.
All of my grandparents, and all my wives’ grandparents, had EVERYTHING but their lives taken away from them by the Nazis or their allies. Successful businesses, just stolen. We were the literal “wretched refuse teeming to be free” that washed up on the shores. No speaky English. Beards. Funny religion. Foreign. Some skinny and traumatized by living through death camps. Families all dead.
In two different countries, the United States and Israel, we just started over.
My grandmother (dad’s mom), was a maid for a newly-rich lady in Syracuse, NY, who hated her, said bitch’s husband who repeatedly grabbed my gandma’s ass — and worse. Both of them repeatedly told my grandma she was going to Hell because she was not a Christian and berated her for her religion. Fired her abruptly after 10 years for taking Rosh Hashana off to pray.
Well, I am happy those people were rich and crappy people.
This meant they couldn’t get any help but a Yiddish-speaking Jewess with an infant boy that no one else would hire.
But for those people being rich and crappy, my grandparents could not have earned money to make Aliyah to Israel and start a little restaurant on a beach in Gush Katiff; that infant boy, my dad, couldn’t have gone to MIT (and then IBM — indeed, run a division of IBM back before home computers), and I couldn’t have gone to MIT, in turn.
I am now far more successful than those nasty folks were, as are all my siblings. My four elder daughters are proud IDF veterans and two going to be medical doctors. I can support my new wife (I was widowed) because she, a doctor, choses to work for little or no money — she works in arab-occupied Gaza reversing “female circumcisions” and other barbarities, and probably does more to bring peace in the area than one could suspect.
All impossible, but for such horrid folk.
So don’t resent them. Pray for them to be richer than Soloman, so they can give the next grandma her start.
- “Rabbi” Ben Stein[/quote]
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Great post, indeed.
I got my start by taking care of ski houses for absentee rich people, teaching people how to ride horses, teaching people how to ski, and serving in the Army. Happy to have rich people.
Didn’t resent them, a bit. I did have sex with their daughters and even the occassional wife, but I did that because they were hot and bored, not becaue I resented them.
. Tongue in cheek obviously–because clearly the only people who could ever disagree with the increased taxing of the rich are the evil rich…not middle class and poor folks. Noooo.