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12.10.2008 9:53 am

It’s good to be filthy rich

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Bush III & IV got rewarded with millions of dollars for mismanaging the highly successful company they INHERITED to the point where another company could swallow it up. Meanwhile a thousand people who went in every day and did their best to make the company successful are laid off right before the Christmas holidays. Hopefully they got some sort of a severance package, although I’m quite sure it nowhere near as nice as what the Bushes got. Maybe it’s the name - if you’re a Bush you always fail upwards regardless if your first name is August, or George. Maybe it’s simply the fact that the rich always take care of themselves while the rest of the world is left to fend for itself without regard to how much they contributed to the wealth of the wealthy.

It obviously has nothing to do with brains or ability, the country and the brewery are both testaments to that fact. At least the beer Busches didn’t have to act like they were ranchers in order to fool the American public into thinking they had some minimal connection to the people who made them what they were, and then go to all the trouble of moving back to their rich enclave where they are surrounded by other rich white folks and where they can live comfortably knowing that any non-whites are probably the gardeners or house servants. It’s good to be filthy rich, especially when you didn’t have to actually earn it, or even deserve it.

John A. Joseph
St. Louis

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I know many rich people and not one of them has ever been filthy.

Memo to PD: Why do you continue to run Mr. Joseph’s hate filled garbage?

— Amazedbythelunacy
9:59 am December 10th, 2008

Amazed… You really can’t read English, figuratively speaking, can you?

— EJ Rotert
11:02 am December 10th, 2008

being a “married-well”…
or a “born-well”…
certainly has it’s advantages.
looks like more decent-paying jobs are leaving our area…
and our country.
i wonder how the repuplikans will spin this…

— llbean
11:05 am December 10th, 2008

The part about not being filthy was meant as a joke, Rotert. Sorry you didn’t get it.

— Amazedbythelunacy
12:31 pm December 10th, 2008

John Joseph

1. IT’s Busch not Bush.
2. Busch IV not Busch III
3. Busch IV is still on the Board of Directors
4. Busch IV does not have controlling interest in the company.
5. One of the shareholder who has the largest percentage had the most voting power.
6. You are a racist.
7. Mr. Bean the republicans have nothing to do with it. It is you democrats who say they pander to the rich, but that is because they don’t want them to leave or send jobs overseas. IT may not be the best so;ution or even a solution at all. To blame the republicans as if they want that to happen is like saying they don’t want to be voted into office, because that is what will happen if they did that. Inbev came in on their own. If you want to blame someone. Blame the justice department. They are the ones that allowed Inbev to pruchase A-B on credit because they couldn’t afford the full purchase. Thus the cut in jobs to be able to pay for it. Not everything is political. Of course to you R haters out there I guess it alway is Bushes fault. You blame WW2 on Bush and not Hitler you are so jaded

— 100% Correct
5:10 pm December 10th, 2008

I love it when Republicans try to justify their flawed economic theories by correcting someone’s spelling.

— Garrison
10:43 am December 11th, 2008

1005 Correct….you are an idiot, so shut it.

— SPP6118
7:09 pm December 12th, 2008

100% Correct….you are an idiot, so shut it.

— SPP6118
7:10 pm December 12th, 2008