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John Derbyshire: ‘Eat the rich?’

August 30, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Derb on the “Political Rich”:

This is where my blood starts to boil. Did you know that Hillary Clinton is worth $31 million? That’s without ever having done anything you or I would recognize as work. (Yeah, yeah, she lawyered; but she was the governor’s wife.) (…)

This is quite a new thing in the Anglosphere. After leaving office, Harry Truman had to take out a bank loan to have leisure to write his memoirs. Calvin Coolidge went back to his law practice.

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PS: I see my piece about “Sir John A, White Supremacist” is up to 60 comments. Any mention of “the Joooz” yet? Because I thought I’d finally come up with a Zion-proof topic…

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