And here is today’s biggest asshole (although I could probably write this every day about this jackass):
Unreal.
What is up with multimillionaire oligarchs who love to play dress up and pretend to “act” poor? Yet while the nation is currently focused on the embarrassing spectacle of “reality” show morons who make their living doing this kind of stuff, this smirking bastard is doing some real damage and has so far escaped notice.
His name is Peter Schiff.
Quick background: He amassed a huge fortune by moving/hiding wealthy people’s money overseas and naturally fancies himself a patriot. He funds his own radio show and his own personal channel he calls “Schiff TV”. Its so grating to watch because he actually thinks he’s very clever and I suppose really thinks he would somehow be a media personality if he wasn’t funding it himself. He is such a Burns/Peweterschmidt stereotype of the 1% he decided to literally represent the 1% at the OWS rally in New York two years ago. According to his wikipedia page, he credits his dad for his views on the economy… who by the way is currently serving a 13-year sentence for tax evasion in Federal prison.
So this idiot claimed on his show that Walmart is paying not only fair wages, but GOOD wages and the workers should be grateful. This even though more than half of their employees are paid below the Federal poverty level (with taxpayers being forced to subsidize Walmart’s greed through public assistance).
So Schiff pulled a John Stossel and decided to dress down and, along with his smirking wife, literally follow and harass shoppers right outside a Connecticut Walmart (I have no idea which one, but its probably either the one in Norwalk or Stratford since he works in Westport.) His spiel was that he was a Walmart employee/protester and told everyone they should donate 15% of whatever they paid at Walmart directly to him. He kept screaming “higher prices for higher wages” as the protester’s “motto”. When people said they were broke, he mocked them and said they just bought “all this stuff” and they didn’t care about the workers. He kept yelling “We are counting on you to pay higher prices!” When someone told him that they were poor workers who couldn’t afford to pay, he actually said “But the Walmart workers are more important!” Even when people tried to give what they could, he would get irate and demand 15% of their purchases!
In other words, he was a colossal ass and did it all on purpose.
This is the jackass who has been predicting hyperinflation for the past six years, driving Kthug insane.
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