Have you seen the Bernie Sanders video that’s making the rounds on Youtube and Facebook? Bernie seems to have a problem with the top 1% of this country making 23% .
I got two big issues with Bernie. First and foremost, at 9:00 minutes in the video Bernie starts talking about how he and his wife started going Christmas shopping and that everything is made in China. Bernie, why aren’t you Chanukah shopping? And here’s the problem with you poor people.. you go out and spend our hard earned money that we give to you in the form of paychecks and buy stuff made in China. That’s the problem. You’re not letting money circulate. In order for an economy to grow, money needs to ciruclate. You give money to the Chinese and the Chinese put it in their piggie banks. The Chinese don’t spend money, they save it. Connie Chung has spent $15 in the last 30 years (and only about 1/12th of it on Maury I may add).
We 1% are different. We take our money and spend it on products made in Italy and Switzerland like $1,500 cashmere sweaters or milk chocolate bars in the shape of Lady Gaga (secret’s out…that’s what I’m giving everyone for Chanukah this year). We give our money to the Swiss and Italians who then go out and buy German cars, German dishwashers, the best of Nena Hagen CDs. The money is circulating. Then, the Germans go out and buy Polish. The Germans are very into the Polish these days. Claudia Schiffer told me that every German’s got at least 25 lbs. of kielbasa in their basement freezer. The Poles go out and spend their kielbasa money on Russian vodka, and then the Russians go out and by daschas on the French Riviera. Now, the money is in the hands of the French which one would think would be bad. But the French (as a nation) only make two types of major investments: vanilla sceneted air fresheners for their cars and to buy the rights to American TV shows that nobody else watches anymore: Starsky and Hutch, Laverne and Shirley, Lost in Space. Thus, the money comes back to us. Back to America.
