Bernard Goldberg Attacks Senator Sanders and Calls for 'Big Bronze and Granite Monument' to Honor the Rich
Apparently Bernie Sanders speaking out today about the terrible deal being struck to make sure that the rich in America get to keep their tax cuts hit a nerve with flame thrower Bernard Goldberg. He appeared on Fox with Megyn Kelly to promote his lastest op-ed where he said we should be building monuments to rich people and pissed and moaned about what percentage of the taxes they pay. Those poor downtrodden rich people that own most of the wealth in the country. How will they ever get by without the Bernard Goldbergs of the world looking out for them?
It looks like his server is crashed but another site had a good portion of his screed posted here -- Thank God for Rich People:
I have an idea for a monument in our nation’s capital. I envision a big bronze and granite statue that would honor an entire group of Americans who are true heroes, and unsung heroes at that.
It is time — no, make that long past time — to pay tribute to those this nation of ours owes a great debt; to those who give and give and give and in return get anything but our gratitude.
This is an idea whose time has finally come.
Right there, amongst the sacred national structures that honor great Americans, we need to build a shiny monument to … (this is where the drum roll would come in) The Rich – otherwise known in liberal circles as the filthy, no good, greedy, heartless rich.
The statue could be simple and elegant: a smiling rich guy in a business suit holding hundred dollar bills in both hands, extended toward the blue sky.
President Obama compromises with Republicans and gives the wealthiest two percent of Americans a temporary respite from a tax hike and listening to the yelps of the “progressives” you’d think he just tried to shut down WikiLeaks or something.
The Left is bawling about how “we can’t afford” to give people “who don’t need it” a tax break. This argument makes perfect sense, of course – as long as income re-distribution is a central tenet in your theology. Never mind that liberals weren’t all that concerned about what we could afford when they passed a nearly trillion dollar stimulus package that didn’t stimulate very much or when they poured in billions of our tax dollars to bail out General Motors. It’s only now that they’re concerned about budgets because those nasty rich folks are getting a break. But I don’t want to pick a fight with my liberal friends over whether the wealthiest Americans “deserve” a tax break or not. I have come simply to praise The Rich, not to bury them.
I offer a few numbers to make my case:
Did you know that the top one percent of American wage earners (adjusted gross income) pay about 38 percent of all our federal personal taxes (according to the National Taxpayer Union)? The top one percent, by the way, account for 23.5 percent of all income — a substantial amount, yes, but considerably less than 38 percent.
Or that the top five percent pay just under 60 percent?
Or that the top ten percent pay about 70 percent of all the personal income taxes collected in this great land of ours?
h/t Media Matters
... because they redistributed our jobs to Asia.
I want this as a bumper sticker; because seriously that's absolutely perfect.
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I agree!
NOBODY 2012
Even baggers could understand it.
Bernard Goldberg, once a liberal and CBS reporter, like too many, discovered on 9/11/01, that he was really a craven coward at heart. That's his problem; and, he is not fit to shine Sen. Sanders' shoes.
I believe we know whose heart is in the right place and that counts for everything w/me.
The majority of taxes the government collects come from payroll taxes; NOT income taxes.
And the rich don't pay payroll taxes on their trust funds, or more than 15% on their million dollar Hedge Fund incomes.
Whenever I bring this FACT up to wingnuts, they shut the he** up, and look like they soiled themselves.
These bast**ds should be guillotined just for having the nerve to mention class warfare or wealth redistribution. 26 cents on every dollar being transferred to the richest 5% over the last 30 years is absolutely disgusting.
They are just daring the rest of us to do something about their sick evil greed now. They are in pure narcissistic "lets f**k em' over for fun" mode at this point.
Well, when the damn finally does break, their teabagging moron dupes will be outnumbered 5 to 1. They won't be so smug then.
And Obama, resign you DLC SOB republican wannabee POS. You took a rare moment in history, when the people were ready to take back their country, and DLC'ed our mandate into fascist oblivion. You are the worst president in history! You are the most clueless, tone-deaf prick I have ever seen. History will bare this out.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
comes from the poor and the middle class. It is not from the rich. They have more but they pay less. The funny thing is that they cannot spend the money in a way that will give them any more pleasure. Humans have a limited capacity to enjoy life and because of this any more money than a certain amount is totally useless. Although this money could save the lives of hundreds of millions of children yearly it cannot add one iota of enjoyment to the life of the rich.
I really expected this story to be from the Onion.
Really.
But this is just one more example of why it is safe to say that Christianity (at least one based on the teachings and commands of Jesus) is totally incompatible with American Conservatism.
‘The worst evils in the world are not done by evil people, but by good people who do not know they are not doing good’ – Reinhold Niebuhr
I thought for sure it was a parody of some sort... but you really cannot satirise these people. They are already absurd.
to erect a monument to the "LATE" Bernard Goldterd
I'd pay a dollar to see that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cL1HisrNc
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
There might not be a lot else left to eat.
LOL!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
:-D
NOBODY 2012
The rich in America have always been more than able and willing to build fricking monuments to THEMSELVES.
Bernie's such a goddamned cheap piker. That statue should, of course, be made of Gold and Diamonds. Bernie lacks vision.
me-oww!
Great Whore of Babylon?
(Frankly I think she was overrated).
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It'll give you and your ilk something to bow down and worship.
Horus?
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Poor Bernie, still constipated after all these years! You'd think he'd be smart enough to realize it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbDiujuv6rQ
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Yeah, 'cause the rest of us are now left living somewhere between the Stone and Bronze Ages...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
By making a golden calf idol--didn't turn out so well for them, you know. Of course, my guess is that schmucks like you think you are above reproach anyway so by all means, keep praying to your false god.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
outrageous crap you could ever expect to hear from a conservapuke, they double-down and say something even more outrageous.
This reinforces my belief that these people are pond scum and the most heartless and selfish bastards on the planet.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
With comments like he made how could one assume anything else. They keep telling me they are misunderstood and I say they need to act differently then because they are giving off a hateful,selfish impression to millions.
Becky's Goldline can't give 'em a good enough deal on the stuff?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The poor don't pay sales taxes or gas taxes? Go build a statue to Bush and Darth,
http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/0/a/bus...
Or property taxes, and dependent on the state, state and local taxes?
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I don't know what imaginary universe you live in, but they certainly pay property taxes, vehicle registration, etc., where I live. (We don't have a state tax).
And by the way, your avatar of "Bob" from the Church Of The Sub-Genius, is misplaced. It was created specifically to make fun of people with world-views just like yours.
So I can piss on it!
and stick HIM in the park! With plenty of pidgeon food readily available nearby.
. . . that the late Robert Novak was the douchebag of liberty, then Bernie is obviously Lady Liberty's colostomy bag.
I got yer statue right heah.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
They'll get their statue when they quit screwing every possible payroll dollar out of us, cease taking out dead-peasant insurance on us, retool for American production instead of making profits gambling at the Wall Street casinos, and remember where those dollars are coming from--the pockets of the productive, purchasing, working public.
The best of these don't give a rat's rear for monuments--the monuments they created and continue to produce are in our lives every day.
I never cease to be amazed at the cognitive dissonance puked forth by Goldberg and his ilk, on behalf of his richfilth masters. The mere thought that the richfilth might be required to help tote the load, by way of giving up some of their ill-gotten billion$, is sacrilege I tell ya, sacrilege!
These lying fuckers should be frog-marched to the 50 yard line during halftime at the Super Bowl, and stoned to death by formerly middle-class, now homeless families. How's that for entertainment? Throw in some Wall St. execs for bonus points, pay-per-view the whole thing, and use the proceeds to fund unemployment for a couple of years.
Who says the richfilth can't make a positive contribution?
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
Goldbergs comments that worship the rich and demean the poor are the perfect example of what the spawn of satan would say to lead you astray.....seriously.
for Mr. Goldberg. We'll erect that monument in all it's glory in exchange for you rich guys not getting that extension.
... all of his rich friends agree to stand around the base of that monument, and promise to catch Goldbug when he jumps from the top.
Go ahead Bernie, they'll catch you.
They promised.
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used of course.
They are rich enough, enough is enough. It's time to spread and share the wealth with the country that provided the opportunity to become rich.
Either that, or they choose to ignore how rich people become rich. Even if they have a great idea, or work hard, or do things which help others, the rich make their money from others. It doesn't just magically appear in their account (unless you're a banker that is!).
We are all consumers and customers. Our spending drives the economy. Our spending provides the monetary velocity which fuels the profit making. Without us, the wealthy wouild have NOTHING.
A decent and fair society would insure that these profits are not out of balance, that a fair redistribution of wealth is healthy asnd keeps spending and consuming, saving and profit, in check.
Now it's certainly true that the wealthy have the power, politically and every other way, but when income and wealth overwhelmngly go to a select few, some day they'll real;ize they are putting themselves and their class in grave danger. Millions of hungry, cold, and sick people will not die quietly, or sit back and watch their children and their neighbors suffer. No, we will rise up and revolt, just as we've done since mankind first appeared on the earth, and there won't be an army big enough to stop us.
This guy is a joke? If he isn't then this is the stupidist damn thing I've ever heard of. Who is going to pay for the monument?You the taxpayer of the "greatest nation on earth"(rotflmao)Why are ppl in your country such suckers?
pete townsend?
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are dropped on our heads. It's so gratifying to receive such noble splendor.
"...Money Trumps Peace..." G.W. Bush, 2007
This idiot butt boy didn't watch any of Bernie Sanders' "speech". What a heartless piece of shit. What exactly does he contribute to society. Not many would miss him, that is for sure.
I would think he was being ironic.
http://educatedrants.com
Yes, this would perfectly fit an ironic, sarcastic skit that John Oliver would perform on the Daily Show.
I would like to think so too but he's not. This is common philosophy among the modern right.
How unbearable. He all but said "Yeah, they are your superiors. You thought you lived in a democracy, but these 2% have way more influence than you'll ever have. They are the lords, and you are the rabble. Know your role, and shut your mouth."
What kind of Republican PUSSY agrees to this? Driftglass has a term for people like that. "The House Negro."
That's not a racial thing, it's a term used for a slave who actually loves their master, and is eager to please them, hoping that their prosperity will one day trickle down.
Have to ask if you plan on making statues in his honor. Seriously, what is the difference between worshiping Mammon and worshiping the wealth of the rich?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73j4jXVxKiY&fe...
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Hey Bernie, How about you GFY asshole?
If one person earned 99% of the money, then they should pay 99% of the taxes.
Bernie Sanders is absolutely right, for a large number of reasons, but one of which is our crumbling infrastructure in this country that we need to start focusing on and fixing
http://sherrytalksback.wordpress.com/2010/11/...
I don't have too much sympathy for suffering millionaires, but this asshole killed himself and left his two-year-old son alone in the apartment where he hanged himself. Because he might one day be indicted, and because people said mean things about his awful, thieving father who stole $50 million.
The rich are not like you and me.
was, he had no idea. I don't believe it for a moment. How was he able to make tens of millions of dollars in income, he wasn't curious how his father was able to return rediculous profits (up to a point of course) - that no other firm on Wall Street could match?
I'm not sure, but he might have still been under investigation.
to escape the inheritance tax and not a moment to soon for my liking.
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
There is the possibility that he was murdered. Madoff stole a lot of money from European mafias.
if Mark had pinned a note to himself stating "I killed myself because my father is a douchebag", but apparently this scumball did it because he feared the consequences of his own actions, and the fear of losing everything he stole.
I agree - this is a great idea; that way when we take the capital we'll have something to pull down.
Another class act from the Reich and on Fox of course , where else ? Greedy pigs who have no conscience whatsoever . Is pretty bad when these assholes can come out on National TV and say stuff like this , that they are not shamed , disgraced and run out of the country , oh no , Fox is number one in Television , millions and millions of poor and middle class viewers eat this stuff up and agree with it ! Collectively we in this country are so dumbed down that I do believe we have become too stupid to govern ourselves , in fact more than anything else the collective stupidity of the American people will be the root cause of our down fall . Not so many years ago this guy would not have dared to come on television and give this line of bullshit , people would have come unglued ! We have come a long ways haven't we ?
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
What's the response from their viewers? "Those poor rich people are paying to much taxes. We should pay more because they give us so much."
That's what boggles my mind. This stuff plays well to the base?
of the american populace need instructions on how to open a door, what are we suppossed to do when our educated elite run the country into the ground?
I go to a mechanic because he knows how to fix my car. A doctor because he knows what to do when I'm sick (that's hypothetical of course). And so on.
Why do we vote for people who's main goal is to take trillions of dollars out of the economy and funnel it to the mega-wealthy? Which begs the question, are those the only people who run for office (minus an extraordinary few)?
And as for Obama, we were majoryly scammed.
I agree 100%. You literally can't make this s**t up.
I can just imagine Goldberg if he won one of the big lotteries , he'd call all his family and friends , invite them to some expensive joint to celebrate , at the end of the night he would break out his pocket calculator to figure out his part of the tab minus the tax of course .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
That is patently untrue. The top one percent do not earn wages. THEIR wealth merely accumulates on its own. As you open the "rich" net to include the top ten percent, much of their wealth IS wages--earned by "poor" people. Ms. Kelly says, "The odds are you're employed by a rich person." Likewise, if you're a rich employer, the odds are your wealth is derived from the labor of many poor persons.
we should do this right away! we build a giant granite falice and anyone who makes over a million dollars a year - if you want to keep your tax cuts you need fit this thing up your wazzu so that at least you will know how the rest of America feels.
Goldberg doesn't mention that the richest 1% owned 34.4% of the nations wealth in 2004, or that income taxes made up only 43% of US federal receipts in 2009, while Social Security taxes made up 42%.
If you can follow- the richest 1% thirty eight percent of the 43% income tax portion of federal receipts equals 16% of the total federal receipts according to Goldberg's own numbers.
So those who control 34.4% of the wealth, and receive according to Goldberg 23.5% of the income pay just 16% of the nation's taxes! (the rich SS contributions would just add a few % at most)
For this tax skinflinting scam they deserve a monument? Only in Fox News World!
Bronze monument eh? Why stop there? What about...oh, I don't know, we build them a big pyramid? Oh, oh! They can get the unemployed to drag the stones up one by one! And the honor of being asked to participate in the construction would be so great, they wouldn't even need payment. And maybe, just to make sure it gets done correctly, we could have people with whips at the ready to encourage the workers and keep morale up! Of course, if anyone tried to quit, well, that would just show how ungrateful they are to our Wise and Benevolent Equestrian Overlords who have given them the privilege of working on their giant monument, and...well, measures would have to be taken.
Let's all thank the rich for giving us this wonderful opportunity folks!
Let's just give the rich ALL we own and then beg for their kind benevolence to toss us a few crumbs and scraps to survive, at their whim of course. It's much simpler that way. I can't wait until America becomes just like Argentina in the 70's.
He admitted that the rich don't need a tax break.
of a giant fickle finger of fate in tin for this (__o__)
It appears that our dogs have erected multiple statues in our backyard in honor of the Rich Men of America!
Interesting way to start off his suggestion:
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
... because we just haven't done enough to make the rich feel special in this country.
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That he'll stop whining about how the Oscars is nothing more than a gathering of millionaires to give themselves awards?
FUCK OFF ASSHOLE!!!
They sure as fuck don't read it, do they? The last couple of times they built monuments to the rich, there were ten plagues and a tower collapsed. And by tower, I mean Babel, not the Twin Towers. =p
We should do it! Here's what it should look like,
At least 10 feet tall and consisting of a couple pairs of hip boots and a huge pile of BS. Dedicated to all the big wigs on Wall Street and this piece of garbage over on the side on his knees.
Absolute Whore
NOBODY 2012
You summed Goldberg up nicely , is really all that need be said .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Cancer, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes, you name it, the true scourge in America is the explosion in undiagnosed mental illness occurring among the reactionary population of this nation! Persecution and superiority complexes and delusions of grandeur along with baseless fears of loss of sustenance have grown to epidemic proportions among this group. Pray that their health care insurance programs don't deny them treatment for what may be a preexisting condition. Oh, and if this Goldberg character is related to that other lunatic, Jonah, it may prove that there is a genetic predisposition to such conditions among the greedy and self-possessed.
Can the poor at least crap on them?
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Given that in 2001 10% of the population owned 71% of the US wealth then they should be paying 70% of personal income taxes. Today the spread is even greater - probably closer to 90% of the wealth - ergo they should be paying 90% of income taxes. And of that the top 1% control something like 42% of the wealth so that 1% should be paying a minimum of 42% of the personal income taxes - I'm betting that most of them have so many deductions that few only the very wealthy can make use of that they actually pay a lot less.
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Just call me Dazed & Confused
spewed forth by hacks, charlatans and shills, why do we have to suffer the sorry-ass, arrogant know-it-all face of Megyn Kelly as an added aggravation?
I couldn't watch more than 2 minutes of this garbage.
... that my Socialist sorry Murika hatin' hide can agree wholeheartedly with. His ideal of building and erecting stone monuments to the rich is utterly freakin' brilliant ..... provided they are installed on either side of the flag poles of ever single public school in this country. You know, in order to compete with the Roy Moore stone busts of the Ten Commandments crowd.
It will be absolutely fantastic! Why?!? Because the moment the Roy Moore stone busts of the Ten Commandments fedayeen accuses the Bernie Goldberg stone busts of Chainsaw Al Dunlap fedayeen of serving Mammon instead of the Christian Lord, it's all over. Within the confines of 3 days and 3 nights, they will be start slicing, shiving, and Nick Berging each other in homage to their false gods, spilling each others blood on their respective stone idols. And all underneath the flag poles of every public school ... within just a few yards of the parking lot. A parking lot so damned full of Mustangs, Escalades, and Dualie-Trucks that you'd swear it was a used luxury car dealership instead of a freakin' public school and, of course, it's not the section reserved for the teachers and faculty. The state certainly doesn't pay 'em a salary worthy enough to be that damned stupid as opposed to the parents of the average 16 year old snot-nose whose self-esteem is contingent on having the shiniest hoopty-assed most expensive gas-guzzling landbarge on wheels to take to High School Show-And-Tell even if Mommy and Daddy has to put it on the Mastercard.
It's absolutely brilliant.
Any child that witnesses this gory spectacle is guaranteed to walk away with something that no public school has been able to deliver to our children in over 30 years of centrist fence-straddling failsauce: an education worthy of the term "education" ... and it'll be enough to make the greedy religious Capitalists and Tali-Born Again fundies spew no shortage of froth, foam, and fatwahs for generations because they'll never be elected by 'em when they turn into adults. That means the DLC Blue Dogs will have no choice but to join 'em. They'll never get elected, either.
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