Don’t Rain On Their Parade
by digby
Alex Pareene reports that the aristocrats have decided that they’ve just about had enough of all this whining from the lower order:
At the Atlantic Magazine’s “Aspen Ideas Festival,” the idle rich go to a ski resort town and pay the Atlantic Media Co. a great deal of money to listen to rich people with intellectual credentials of some kind talk at each other for a while. It may surprise you to learn that these wealthy elites think the biggest problem facing America today is that the wealthy elite have to pay taxes, while the poor and unemployed sit around collecting “Social Security” and “food stamps” and “unemployment benefits.” Real estate tycoon Mort Zuckerman — an intellectual nonentity