HIGH TECH - VENTURE CAPITALIST THINKS AMERICANS ARE OUT TO GET HIM!

…Mr. Perkins is in fear of the un-equal American masses!

 

V.C. Tom Perkins tells the Wall Street Journal that there’s a “War on the Rich!”

I was blown away when I read the letter that has now gone viral on the internet, that was written to the Wall Street Journal by the high profile, Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Mr. Tom Perkins. 

In the letter, Mr. Perkins portrays what he states is currently coming from the rank and file of lower middle class Americans.  According to Mr. Perkins, it’s their “progressive war on the American 1%.......namely the ‘rich’  ”.

Mr. Perkins then went totally ballistic as he dared compare this so called “war” to the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany.  He even went further as he claimed that an anti-rich people’s “Kristallnacht” may be coming.  This of course referred to the event in 1938 when the Jewish-owned stores, homes and schools in Germany & Austria were smashed up in the night by right-wing Nazi brown shirts.

Of all the organizations that Mr. Perkins used as his evidence of those Americans that are behind this attack on the rich, he selected the now somewhat defunct “Occupy Movement”.

In his case of evidence, to make it local to the SF Bay Area, he referred to how the Occupy demonstrators had protested that the workers in Silicon Valley had driven up real estate prices beyond an average worker’s access.  He also said that “Occupy” protestors complained that many of the local Apple and high-tech workers were able to ride to work in special buses, while everyone else was driving in the heavy commuter traffic.  Perkins also stated that there was a, “demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle”.

So, apparently, the SF Chronicle is now in cahoots with the Occupy protestors.

To top it all off, Mr. Perkins referred to how the SF Chronicle had called the wealthy and famous novelist, Danielle Steel, a “snob”.  He said they did this despite Ms. Steel’s vast charity work.

Of course, Mr. Perkins neglected to mention what this had to do with the Occupy protestors and to mention that Ms. Steel was his former spouse.

In this bizarre episode, Mr. Perkins has stated that even though he later apologized for the “Kristallnacht” statement, he was sticking with his other comments. He later said on a TV program, an item similar to other parroting Republican politicians, “the solution to inequality is lower taxes”, (Yeah, right.  We all know how well that's worked!) and he also stated, in trying to claim he’s one of the nation's masses, “I have members of my own family in trailer parks, not immediate relatives, but family”.

But then he just had to add, “The fact that everyone now hates me is part of the game.”  He’s probably right about that last one.

What followed was, and being that the Wall Street Journal is now owned by the FOX owner, Rupert Murdoch, it is not surprising that the WSJ followed Perkin’s statements with an editorial headlined, “Perkinsnacht”.  In that article, the WSJ totally supports Perkins’s thesis that there is, “a rising tide of hatred of the successful 1%”.  But even the Journal had to express that Perkin’s choice of language regarding his comparison to the 1930’s Nazi attack on the Jews, it was, “unfortunate, albeit provocative language”.

And that statement in my opinion was “just so nice of the WSJ"……

At this point, I have now come to totally agree with the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, Eugene Robinson, when he recently wrote about the Wall Street Journal’s comments, “Why does the national conversation we’re beginning to have about inequality make some conservatives take leave of their senses? Why does it make them spout nonsense about “personal vilification” and the “abuse of government power.”

Mr. Robinson also wrote, “The answer, I believe, is traction. I think their crazy, hair-on-fire rhetoric means that progressives are making progress in winning support for policies designed to lessen inequality.

Tax cuts and deregulation have dominated federal policy since the 1980s; during this time, inequality has spiraled out of control. If conservatives have nothing better to sell than more tax cuts and more deregulation, it’s no wonder that people are tuning in to what the other side has to say.”

I agree that the wealthy may have worked hard for their wealth.  But it’s time they understood that the less fortunate also work very hard.  Some of those today are working 2 or 3 jobs, just to make ends meet.  And sometimes, that isn’t enough.

Mr. Robinson finished his column with, “Relax, Mr. Perkins, they [the un-equal] are not coming for you. They’re waiting for non-special buses to take them to the grocery store.” 

I personally would not be so sure that the un-equal won't be coming after Mr. Perkins.

Copyright G.Ater  2014