{"id":3257,"date":"2014-02-03T00:14:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T07:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2014-02-03T00:14:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T07:14:03","slug":"the-poor-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3257","title":{"rendered":"The Poor Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"poorplutocrat\">Recently, billionaire venture capitalist, Tom Perkins, made headlines by <a title=\"Wealthy venture capitalist Tom Perkins says the 1% in America are treated like Jews in Nazi Germany \" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/01\/25\/wealthy_venture_capitalist_tom_perkins_says_the_1_in_america_are_treated_like_jews_in_nazi_germany\/\" target=\"_blank\">comparing the &#8216;plight&#8217; of the 1%ers to the Jews in Nazi Germany<\/a>. He says that he fears a progressive Kristallnacht is coming because the 99% resents the success of the 1%. Wow! We thought the rich were out of touch before, but this is stunning. We don&#8217;t think the 99% resents the 1% for their success, we think it&#8217;s because of the plutocracy&#8217;s unabashed, all-consuming greed. But maybe Perkins is right. If the plutocrats in this country, and all over the world, keep acting like victims maybe they will get a thumping.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3259\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3259\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3259\" title=\"poorplutocrat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poorplutocrat.jpg\" alt=\"A poor plutocrat convinces a member of the ruthless 99% that it's the 1%ers who are being persecuted.\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poorplutocrat.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poorplutocrat-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poor plutocrat convinces a member of the ruthless 99% that it&#39;s the 1%ers who are being persecuted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, billionaire venture capitalist, Tom Perkins, made headlines by comparing the &#8216;plight&#8217; of the 1%ers to the Jews in Nazi Germany. He says that he fears a progressive Kristallnacht is coming because the 99% resents the success of the 1%. Wow! We thought the rich were out of touch before, but this is stunning. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Poor Rich&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,3],"tags":[229,228,74,22,20,389,27,851,98,852,19,850],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}