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Saturday 6 September 2008

Of vice and men

Taki lives the High Life

Poor fools that we are. Bush was elected twice, and Blair three times, which means the only good thing Brown has going for him is that he’s unelected. And he is, needless to say, doing a fantastic job. Along with those morons in Parliament. But I’m being a bit rough on morons. The freeloaders in the House of Commons seem not to have paid attention to what’s happening in the money markets — much too busy getting free furniture and taking free trips to exotic places, I suppose. They want more public spending. They remind me of the fat crook Robert Maxwell during his last days. He went throwing money away in a cheap casino. They see belt-tightening the way Heather Mills views a chastity belt. And it gets better. While snarling youths attack an Anglican rector and scream that his church should be a mosque, a liberal research group demands that Britons must do more to help Muslims feel at home. Why not turn the country over to them and be done with it, says poor little me.

These Labour and Liberal MP clowns who insist on more public spending are the equivalent of the Steve Schwarzmans and Henry Kravises of this world. Schwarzman managed to take out close to 8 billion last year, now worth only four billion, but it’s his numerous investors who have been left holding the bag. I once went to his house for dinner, twice, in fact, and noticed not a single book anywhere, and the house is the biggest triplex in the Bagel.

Schwarzman may be illiterate but he can count up to one hundred billion. Hence it is ironic that he pledged $100 million to the New York Library, a place he has not spent much time in except at gala fundraisers. His friend George W. Bush has managed to deracinate 1.5 million Iraqis to Syria, 2 million to Jordan, 3.5 million desperately poor people who could use 100 million greenbacks. Instead, they go to a library which none of Schwarzman’s friends, family or acquaintances ever uses. Go figure. I have. The library will name a wing after this greedy slob, so the next time you’re in the Bagel, make sure you go to the Schwarzman wing and look at some DVDs.

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