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sheshe2

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4. Oh poor babies
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 12:11 AM
Jan 2014

And so the rich are lashing out.

In the latest example, Thomas Perkins, co-founder of legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, wrote a letter to The Wall Street Journal over the weekend comparing Nazi Germany’s persecution and mass murder of Jews to “the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the ‘rich.’”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/wealthy-top-one-percent-economy-finance-102833.html#ixzz2rwhrslkE



Thanks Joe, great article!

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