tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561631984395061740.post4591726042681809690..comments2023-10-22T06:15:30.760-04:00Comments on Boomer Musings: I like the 1%Douglashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09752593286034877538noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561631984395061740.post-72143681637034657022012-05-23T19:50:11.208-04:002012-05-23T19:50:11.208-04:00 Why would you expect the rich to understand what ... Why would you expect the rich to understand what it is like to not be rich? Do you understand what it is like to be that lady you wrote about the other day? The one who refused the hot dog and the money? You can imagine but you cannot know. You no more understood his life or his daughter's life than he understood yours.<br /><br />I'm sorry, Pearl, I have never been "ruled" by anyone, not even when I was in the Navy. I obeyed orders because I chose to, because I had committed myself (taken an oath) to do so. You can be sure the brass had no idea what it was like to be one of the enlisted men. Not that I had any idea what it was like to be a high ranking officer. I figured that made us even.Douglas4517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561631984395061740.post-18833562758101712122012-05-23T18:13:17.916-04:002012-05-23T18:13:17.916-04:00I begrudge the rich nothing. But I do not enjoy b...I begrudge the rich nothing. But I do not enjoy being ruled by them, when they've no concept of the working class.<br /><br />I once worked as an assistant to the CEO of a large company who asked me, in all seriousness, to help him with a budget for his daughter, a straight-C student, for her first year at a very good college. He wanted to give her $400 a month for groceries, $300 for her hair. He was utterly shocked when I told him that my 12 year-old son and I spent $40 a week on groceries and that, in my opinion, an 18 year-old did not need to have her hair done every month and certainly not at those prices.<br /><br />I didn't last long there. ;-)<br /><br />PearlPearlhttp://pearl-whyyoulittle.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com