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I can't figure out why people resent the rich people of the world. Someone like John Travolta will buy a $20 million dollar plane, and my liberal friends will talk about how many homeless people he can feed. If the homeless person could've danced, they could've starred in Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Well, I guess they'd need the hair and all the rest.
Why shouldn't rich people be allowed to buy a yacht or an airplane?
Recently, people are giving John McCain crap because he owns seven houses. Who cares. I didn't hear those liberal Democrats complain when Hillary Clinton got $10 million for her book, and then bought an $8 million dollar home in the Hamptons. Oh wait...Democrats are allowed to buy nice things. Just not the big, bad, rich Republicans. In some ways, you can say it's worse what the Democratic politicians do. They try to get votes, and GET RICH, by using the poor and the working class.
And now, my liberal friend is saying how horrible it is for McCain to respond with "When I was a prisoner of war, I didn't even have a table, let alone a house."
Hey...those guys play whatever card they have in the deck.
The only time I ever gripe about rich people and their money, is when something like this happens.
Donald Trump was saying he would buy Ed McMahons house. If you hadn't heard, Ed has run into hard times. He got injured, couldn't work. Wasn't keeping up with his house payment, it had to be re-done because of mold or something like that. He was being sued by debt collectors. So, since Ed couldn't sell his house, Trump stepped up and said he'd purchase it, and let McMahon live there for free. A nice gesture, but it kind of bothered me. Not because Trump obviously did it for the publicity. They all do those sorts of things.
But, if you're going to help someone out Donald, why not find a guy making $40,000 a year, with a wife and kids, that might lose his house (and not someone that got a loan he shouldn't have, or did things like re-finance to take a nice vacation). Find a person like that, and buy their home for them. Because, at the end of the day, McMahon could've always sold his house for $2 million, instead of the $8 mil he was asking for. And...I guarantee with his name, could've done commercials here and there, and still bought himself a nice little condo. So, he doesn't live the way he's accustomed to living. He's 85, and had a good run. An entire life in mansions and eating at the finest restaurants. He can live in a small condo now, although I doubt it would've even come to that.
Today, I heard the second story that bothered me, along these lines.
The movie Heath Ledger was doing, called "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," (which sounds like an album the group Spirit did in the 60s)....actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell all played different parts of Ledger's character. And, they donated their paychecks to Matilda, his daugther, who for some bizarre reason, wasn't named in his will.
Director Terry Gilliam (who did the amazing 12 Monkees) has been saying in interviews how wonderful this is.
Really? Why?
Because actors that all have over $20 million dollars, donated a million to Matilda? She is still the daughter of Michelle Williams (the former Solana Beach resident). Last I checked, Williams is still doing movies (she now gets to be labeled as an Oscar nominee, too). I seriously doubt Matilda would've ever been hurting for money. Not to mention Ledgers family, that was named in the will, said they'd take care of her financially.
I would rather actors do things like...oh, I dunno...I read about a stuntman that died during the filming of Spiderman. I'm betting his family isn't rich. He might have a widow. Let's buy her a house, or give her financial security.
People die on the sets of movies often. And, it's not usually the big name actor that dies (last time I remember that happening was Vic Morrow in the Twilight Zone movie in the mid-80s).
I would love it if Michelle Williams thanks the actors, and says she's donating that money, under Matilda's name, or Heath's, to a college fund for underprivileged kids. Or anybody else that needs it. She can pick the charity. Or the people to give it to.
But to keep these millions, when she already has millions and will continue to make more, is just bizarre.
I can't figure out why people resent the rich people of the world. Someone like John Travolta will buy a $20 million dollar plane, and my liberal friends will talk about how many homeless people he can feed. If the homeless person could've danced, they could've starred in Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Well, I guess they'd need the hair and all the rest.
Why shouldn't rich people be allowed to buy a yacht or an airplane?
Recently, people are giving John McCain crap because he owns seven houses. Who cares. I didn't hear those liberal Democrats complain when Hillary Clinton got $10 million for her book, and then bought an $8 million dollar home in the Hamptons. Oh wait...Democrats are allowed to buy nice things. Just not the big, bad, rich Republicans. In some ways, you can say it's worse what the Democratic politicians do. They try to get votes, and GET RICH, by using the poor and the working class.
And now, my liberal friend is saying how horrible it is for McCain to respond with "When I was a prisoner of war, I didn't even have a table, let alone a house."
Hey...those guys play whatever card they have in the deck.
The only time I ever gripe about rich people and their money, is when something like this happens.
Donald Trump was saying he would buy Ed McMahons house. If you hadn't heard, Ed has run into hard times. He got injured, couldn't work. Wasn't keeping up with his house payment, it had to be re-done because of mold or something like that. He was being sued by debt collectors. So, since Ed couldn't sell his house, Trump stepped up and said he'd purchase it, and let McMahon live there for free. A nice gesture, but it kind of bothered me. Not because Trump obviously did it for the publicity. They all do those sorts of things.
But, if you're going to help someone out Donald, why not find a guy making $40,000 a year, with a wife and kids, that might lose his house (and not someone that got a loan he shouldn't have, or did things like re-finance to take a nice vacation). Find a person like that, and buy their home for them. Because, at the end of the day, McMahon could've always sold his house for $2 million, instead of the $8 mil he was asking for. And...I guarantee with his name, could've done commercials here and there, and still bought himself a nice little condo. So, he doesn't live the way he's accustomed to living. He's 85, and had a good run. An entire life in mansions and eating at the finest restaurants. He can live in a small condo now, although I doubt it would've even come to that.
Today, I heard the second story that bothered me, along these lines.
The movie Heath Ledger was doing, called "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," (which sounds like an album the group Spirit did in the 60s)....actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell all played different parts of Ledger's character. And, they donated their paychecks to Matilda, his daugther, who for some bizarre reason, wasn't named in his will.
Director Terry Gilliam (who did the amazing 12 Monkees) has been saying in interviews how wonderful this is.
Really? Why?
Because actors that all have over $20 million dollars, donated a million to Matilda? She is still the daughter of Michelle Williams (the former Solana Beach resident). Last I checked, Williams is still doing movies (she now gets to be labeled as an Oscar nominee, too). I seriously doubt Matilda would've ever been hurting for money. Not to mention Ledgers family, that was named in the will, said they'd take care of her financially.
I would rather actors do things like...oh, I dunno...I read about a stuntman that died during the filming of Spiderman. I'm betting his family isn't rich. He might have a widow. Let's buy her a house, or give her financial security.
People die on the sets of movies often. And, it's not usually the big name actor that dies (last time I remember that happening was Vic Morrow in the Twilight Zone movie in the mid-80s).
I would love it if Michelle Williams thanks the actors, and says she's donating that money, under Matilda's name, or Heath's, to a college fund for underprivileged kids. Or anybody else that needs it. She can pick the charity. Or the people to give it to.
But to keep these millions, when she already has millions and will continue to make more, is just bizarre.