From Story Balloon: “Chris Matthews: Why Aren’t The Rich Committing Suicide Like In The 1930′s?”That's so incredibly dumb it's hard to know how to respond. There were some suicides in the 30's, but they were rich people who suddenly weren't rich anymore. Nobody killed themselves out of shame for what they did or didn't do to the economy.
The transcript: “How come in the `30s, when we suffered a far worse economic decline, the rich were embarrassed? They were embarrassed by what they had done. People were jumping out of buildings. People were — it was horrendous. There was a real sense of shame, shame by the very rich. This time around, the response by the really better-off people is, give us more. We blew it, we screwed it up, we destroyed our markets, we killed Wall Street, we have said we`re too big to fail, now give us more. The reaction is totally different than it was. There`s no shame anymore about wealth abused.”
If somebody's going to kill themselves out of shame the MSNBC hosts will have to take a number to keep from getting in each other's way.
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I guess Mr Matthews' definition of "rich" is anyone who makes more money than he does.
BTW Matthews' supposedly makes around $5 million annually.
I call that rich.
Why aren't members of the media gulping cyanide cocktails -isn't that what morons do when they've found a two-bit Messiah?
On a side note, I'm amazed that someone who's been in media as long as Chris Matthews hasn't had that NYC accent beaten out of him yet. He speaks like someone who's afraid to venture outside of the concrete jungle.
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