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Jinx Beers Deborah Bergman Founder and Publisher Publisher 1975-1989 1989-1994 Lesbian News Magazine | April 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com Abundance 7 Politically speaking Leotards, glittered skirts, and vulgarity! Oh, my! | By Donna Wade he financial alchemists of Wall narcissistic sense of entitlement held by many For all my ranting about the cluelessness of Street, with their legions of of the one percent, especially found among the plutocrats, it never occurred to me that lobbyists and paid-for politicians the 85 people who hold more wealth than 3.5 Wall Street might have a secret fraternity. are out to keep you broke, billion people on the planet combined. They’ve got the US Chamber of Commerce Tuninformed, and hungry, yet expect you and the Business Roundtable wrapped up, to be grateful for any low-paying, soul- The looting and pillaging on Kristallnacht that’s not enough? sucking job you can get. comes closer to describing what the greedy and unethical have done to our economy, Thanks to a report by Kevin Roose in New We’ve been treated recently to op-ed columns off-shoring our jobs, gutting our retirement York Magazine, we get a look inside the in major US newspapers authored by the poor, plans, our home values, our planet and, most Kappa Beta Phi. Founded at the beginning poor put-upon rich white guys, like billionaire importantly, our democracy. But even all those of the Depression in 1929 by scions of the venture capitalist and fat cat Republican donor deeds pale in comparison to the state-initiated 1% , it had met in secrecy for eight decades Tom Perkins. He and others of the off-shore genocide that resulted in the gruesome deaths without infiltration by outsiders until Roose tax haven/mega yacht class, who have rigged of six million innocents. snuck into their black tie induction ceremony every aspect of global finance and politics after he learned it was being held at New in their favor, contend public expressions of I have nothing against wealthy people, unless York’s St. Regis Hotel in 2012. anger at all they have wrought upon the rest they got rich by cheating or stealing. The one of us are just like what befell Jews during percenters I know are delightful folks, but theirs Roose describes it as a “Friar’s Club for the Kristallnacht. Seriously? is a different world. One that doesn’t involve one percent” headed by the aptly-named living paycheck to paycheck or stressing over “Grand Swipe.” The annual gathering features In case history isn’t your bag, let’s review. On paying the rent. They’ve forgotten. Even if a drag show by new inductees performing November 9-10, 1938, German storm troopers they weren’t born into money but later earned song parodies making light of Wall Street and non-Jewish civilians launched a series of it, married it or won the lottery, as people gain skullduggery (“Bailout King” to the tune of attacks on the Jewish populations of Germany the higher social status that increasing wealth Abba’s “Dancing Queen,” for one) and vulgar and Austria.