JennSH, I love your description, morbidly rich. They are obscene and their tentacles are everywhere buying up everything they possibly can and ruining things like health care clinics and vet clinics to use two examples here in Oregon. There was an article yesterday about a subsidiary of United Health (Death) buying a large Eugene medical…
JennSH, I love your description, morbidly rich. They are obscene and their tentacles are everywhere buying up everything they possibly can and ruining things like health care clinics and vet clinics to use two examples here in Oregon. There was an article yesterday about a subsidiary of United Health (Death) buying a large Eugene medical clinic. Many doctors left. Now the ones who are still there have huge patient loads and great numbers of patients have been told they no longer have a doctor. These morbidly rich are greedy to the core.
I know and agree about the vet clinics. Every sizable one is going corporate. I am on the East Coast, and I understand that the same thing is happening to marinas.
Anne, sometime ago I read that private equity firms are also buying up smaller oil producing companies—what could possibly go wrong?!!! Imagine all profits squeezed out, cautions and controls let lapse before selling off what remains….likely to let the public dollar fund any necessary remediation. IMHO they are like a plague of locusts moving from field (businesses) to field. Sad that for some “more” is never enough.
"A plague of locusts" is a great metaphor, maybe a perfect one. I've never heard it before.
Yes, what could go wrong? Letting the public dollar fund remediation - that's a new angle for me. I've heard that private equity firms hire the most aggressive workers that they can.
Knowing the veterinary business, I think it is so sad that poor people, many working very hard, I've seen it, either decide they can't afford a pet or are anxious about health expenses or go into high-cost debt to pay for emergencies. Some young people use GoFundMe, but they are people with tech awareness and some savvy and some contacts. Pets are so important for the mental health of so many.
Actually, Anne, the term I believe is from the Bible…so the phrase, in one form or another has been around a very long time! Lends even more gravitas that it is a biblical warning/punishment and it fits those profit/value vampires (another apt descriptor!) very well. I do not understand those who strive for riches, and then for even more on top of that (pretty clear by my lifestyle & circumstance that it’s not an issue I have!)….I also like the saying regarding a job/career/goal: To make a living, not a killing. Also, to me, there is a sort of benediction in telling someone “I wish for you enough”. I think MAGA true believers are enthralled by gold-plated Don….from his toilets, his fake-fancy Versailles decors, to his face & his hair…all sparkle & flash. There is a Emily Dickinson poem (from about the early 1870’s) I especially like that speaks to this:
I loved the Emily Dickinson poem! It was new to me. Thanks.
I have tried, and failed, so many times to understand Trump that I now just go to the default of mental illness, which I truly believe. And I completely agree with you that the true believers of MAGA are enthralled with the "plated wares."
All the nice, cheap (Pacific) ocean-side places to stay around here for clamdiggers and families (with sand on the floors) are being bought up and gentrified, charging astronomical prices.
It's a damn shame the "morbidly rich" cannot fund projects which enhance the lives of people, animals, our environment, rather than what they are doing; taking away, making our choices more limited, doing the exact opposite of "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" (the U.S. Declaration of Independence).
"The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect." Wikipedia
Thankfully, there are a few exceptions, like Mackenzie Scott (Jeff Bezo's ex-wife), who has made huge contributions to numerous community-based organizations. I love what she is doing.
JennSH, I love your description, morbidly rich. They are obscene and their tentacles are everywhere buying up everything they possibly can and ruining things like health care clinics and vet clinics to use two examples here in Oregon. There was an article yesterday about a subsidiary of United Health (Death) buying a large Eugene medical clinic. Many doctors left. Now the ones who are still there have huge patient loads and great numbers of patients have been told they no longer have a doctor. These morbidly rich are greedy to the core.
I know and agree about the vet clinics. Every sizable one is going corporate. I am on the East Coast, and I understand that the same thing is happening to marinas.
Anne, sometime ago I read that private equity firms are also buying up smaller oil producing companies—what could possibly go wrong?!!! Imagine all profits squeezed out, cautions and controls let lapse before selling off what remains….likely to let the public dollar fund any necessary remediation. IMHO they are like a plague of locusts moving from field (businesses) to field. Sad that for some “more” is never enough.
"A plague of locusts" is a great metaphor, maybe a perfect one. I've never heard it before.
Yes, what could go wrong? Letting the public dollar fund remediation - that's a new angle for me. I've heard that private equity firms hire the most aggressive workers that they can.
Knowing the veterinary business, I think it is so sad that poor people, many working very hard, I've seen it, either decide they can't afford a pet or are anxious about health expenses or go into high-cost debt to pay for emergencies. Some young people use GoFundMe, but they are people with tech awareness and some savvy and some contacts. Pets are so important for the mental health of so many.
Actually, Anne, the term I believe is from the Bible…so the phrase, in one form or another has been around a very long time! Lends even more gravitas that it is a biblical warning/punishment and it fits those profit/value vampires (another apt descriptor!) very well. I do not understand those who strive for riches, and then for even more on top of that (pretty clear by my lifestyle & circumstance that it’s not an issue I have!)….I also like the saying regarding a job/career/goal: To make a living, not a killing. Also, to me, there is a sort of benediction in telling someone “I wish for you enough”. I think MAGA true believers are enthralled by gold-plated Don….from his toilets, his fake-fancy Versailles decors, to his face & his hair…all sparkle & flash. There is a Emily Dickinson poem (from about the early 1870’s) I especially like that speaks to this:
It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground,
And go to pieces on the stones
At the bottom of my mind;
Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less
Than I reviled myself
For entertaining plated wares
Upon my silver shelf.
IMHO the TFFG definitely is “plated wares”!
I loved the Emily Dickinson poem! It was new to me. Thanks.
I have tried, and failed, so many times to understand Trump that I now just go to the default of mental illness, which I truly believe. And I completely agree with you that the true believers of MAGA are enthralled with the "plated wares."
All the nice, cheap (Pacific) ocean-side places to stay around here for clamdiggers and families (with sand on the floors) are being bought up and gentrified, charging astronomical prices.
Same where I am (the mountains). There is a lot of money out there that is looking to make more money.
It's a damn shame the "morbidly rich" cannot fund projects which enhance the lives of people, animals, our environment, rather than what they are doing; taking away, making our choices more limited, doing the exact opposite of "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" (the U.S. Declaration of Independence).
"The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect." Wikipedia
Thankfully, there are a few exceptions, like Mackenzie Scott (Jeff Bezo's ex-wife), who has made huge contributions to numerous community-based organizations. I love what she is doing.
I agree with you.