The Hypocrats Protesting Down At Wall Street
The Hypocrats Protesting Down At Wall Street
There are indeed legitimate gripes against those ‘fat cats’ at Wall Street who breached our laws and walked away with their lucrative golden parachutes instead of shackles, but the growing vocal calls, which are tantamount to casting aside Capitalism and replacing it with some benign form of Socialism, is fraught with danger, and, moreover, hypocrisy. The Hypocrats label is assigned to those celebrities who are simpatico with the marchers/protesters, and, I for one would be more impressed with the protesters if they were to do some protesting down at the Broadway theatres and Hollywood. This morning alone, I saw two celebrities of note - Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon - partaking and opining why the bankers on Wall Street are monsters; and, so, just for giggles, I googled Mr. Baldwin and found out that he makes some $300,000.00 an episode for his television show, 30 Rock, and that Miss Sarandon’s net-worth is estimated at $50 Million.
How could celebrities, whose salaries are so astronomical, with straight faces, speak forcefully on this issue about the greed of Wall Street and its bankers? Two months ago, I wrote about Steven Spielberg, of ET’s fame, relaxing on his new yacht worth over $200 Million. Why is it that the denizens of Hollywood are allowed to make a mint at their given craft, but not those who work on Wall Street. Case in point, Charlie Sheen, who was recently replaced on his show, Two and A Half Men, was getting over a million dollars an episode… Leonardo Dicaprio, Will Smith, Toby McGuire, and Johnny Depp, all of whom are thespians and are very outspoken on various Liberal causes… make over $20 million per picture. Right here in New York, there are Super Models walking the cat-walks making over $10,000.00 a day, yet, I do not hear those down on Wall Street bemoaning such lucrative pay and perks.
I will venture to guess that some of those very young people protesting have family members working down at the Wall Street area and that said family members probably have much of their investments tied up in equities managed by some of those same ogres working at Wall Street. General Electric (GE) was recently Mr. Baldwin’s employer because it owned NBC(Before Comcast's purchased of NBC) – where was Mr. Baldwin when it was reported that GE paid no taxes for a substantial period of time, while pocketing billions of dollars and presumably paying Mr. Baldwin his $300,000.00 an episode for his show, 30 Rock? I am not even going to address Brian Williams of NBC News, who is a college drop-out, yet makes over $10 Million to read the news or the many athletes who reside in New York and who make millions – among them, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and Amare Stoudemire.
It is the tried and true tactic of some Liberals to pick and choose who is worthy to make a lucrative living – it is what they did with Governor Sarah Palin. The running narrative posited by many of those in the elite media was that Governor Palin abandoned Alaska to make money; yet every time these media personalities, respective contracts expired… they would show up with their powerful lawyers to negotiate their respective multi-million-dollar contracts. Incidentally, I just saw Keith Olbermann marching in solidarity with the Wall Street protesters… this is the same Olbermann, who used to spew his vitriol on MSNBC, and who used to make some $7 million annually – Hypocrats, I tell you!
