Gothamist: Ultrarich Wash Down Recession with 35K Champagne

Spiritof76

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:57:43 -0500

Isn't this all part of Bush's "economic stimulus plan"? Spend, spend, spend! It's the only way out of a recession.

ihateallbrokers

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:50:24 -0500

ULTRA RICH = ultra assholes! these people will actually seriously give great thought and dedicate their last dying moments as to why the unwashed masses have strung them up on lightpoles when the food riots start. instead of food riots, insert class war, race war, zombie war, nuclear war, etc.

dkim2015

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:42:23 -0500

$50g for 4 days in miami for 4 people? seems like they don't know how to spend money well.

fortyver

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:13:38 -0500

Ah, got to love the nouveau riche. They spoil there kids rotten. Tell them that noone is better than them. Why do you think you get the problems that a school like Horace Mann has? Spoiled kids who treat the teachers like servants. Another generation of Paris and Brandons on the way. I could care less about there money. It is the useless, idle rich, shitheads that they are. Ah, the gene pool is tainted irreparably.

JacqueMehoff

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:45:53 -0500

why hollywood? don't these people get the same perks and salaries as in that industry?

Steven

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:37:27 -0500

They spend their money like it's no tomorrow because money is no object to ultrarich people. Just have to take a look at Hollywood.

cucarachita

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:00:52 -0500

Yo, I'll tell you about "trickle down." My previous employers are ultra rich. One throws out her duvets every winter because "they don't smell the same after they've been washed." But she leaves them on the curb so the homeless can find them. Nice, right? Other employers went through furniture and technology so quickly that I could just pick their garbage for whatever I needed. I'm not sure, though, that this is what is truly meant by the "trickle down" concept. But this is the only way the poor benefit from the ultrarich continuing to spend their money like they don't care what's happening around them.

WesleySnipesAlot

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:27:46 -0500

Damn! beat me to it. But seriously, do these people want French Revolution: Part Deux?

Snoopy

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:26:10 -0500

Do they get to keep the champagne bottle so they can put their change in it?

thenamesdave

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:19:25 -0500

You can't take it with you.