When It Comes to Money Everyone is a Jew
I've heard it all my life: Jews love money. And it must be true because my favorite comic book character and the one that most influenced my life is Scrooge McDuck, the richest duck in the world and the 4th richest fictional character (1) in history. Scrooge came to America a poor immigrant and amassed a fortune from gold and copper mining.
Accordingly, I have been in the gold business myself for the majority of my life, even operating a gold mine near Winnemucca, Nevada in the late 1970s.
So this afternoon I spent an hour or two at the Department of Consumer Affairs in New York City to register a gold buying business and you know what? The place was filled with immigrants. Arabs, Hungarians, Somalis, Russians, all the various ethnic groups of New York were there ready to start their own business and begin their own version of the American Dream. There were hundreds of them in the little time I spent there, easily thousands of future entrepreneurs starting businesses every week.
Despite the bad economy, the heavy burdens that government imposes, the unbearable taxes that Democrats love foisting on the businessman, they were here to start a business, to be their own boss, and to make money. They could all be sucking on Obama's Federal teat, but no, they want to make money through their own efforts, beholden to no one.
Even if Obama destroys our economy, brings this country to its knees, and makes a shambles of our health care system, there will always be these people I saw today, the true, real Americans, not the whining entitlement slobs that leftists have always catered to.
I see in these people the immemorial Jew, the pesky guy who always finds a way to make money despite the barriers and obstacles before him. I wish them well.
ENDNOTES
(1):
Forbes.com, The Forbes Fictional Fifteen
If fiction can be regarded as a culture's subconscious, then it's clear that we are a nation obsessed with the very rich. From avaricious caricatures like The Simpsons' Montgomery Burns to literary character studies like F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby, our culture--both high and low--is littered with images of billionaires and tycoons. Some characters are intentional riffs on real-life counterparts, most famously Orson Welles' blistering portrayal of William Randolph Hearst in Citizen Kane.
Others, like Gordon Gekko from Oliver Stone's Wall Street, came to symbolize both a man--convicted inside trader Ivan Boesky--and an era: the go-go 1980s. To be sure, many are pure products of the imagination. But given the legion of publicity men and image handlers surrounding the typical real-life billionaires, understanding these fictitious characters is as close as most of us will come to grasping the minds of the very rich.
Rank Name Net Worth 1. Santa Claus $ ??? 2. Richie Rich 24.7 billion 3. Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks 10 billion 4. Scrooge McDuck 8.2 billion 5. Thurston Howell III 8 billion 6. Willie Wonka 8 billion 7. Bruce Wayne 6.3 billion 8. Lex Luthor 4.7 billion 9. J.R. Ewing 2.8 billion 10. Auric Goldfinger 1.2 billion 11. C. Montgomery Burns 1 billion 12. Charles Foster Kane 1 billion 13. Cruella De Vil 875 million 14. Gordon Gekko 650 million 15. Jay Gatsby 600 million
