The old white haired man ran to the front porch and yelling repeatedly,
“Eureka! I’m a millionaire. I’m a millionaire.” Sorry old man, you are not a millionaire for
several reasons.
The first you added up the price
of your house, your car, your Social Security account, your IRA account and it
was before George W. Bush’s, following the lead of Reagan voodoo economics,
crashed the economy. The second reason is that the definition of
being a millionaire has changed. In the past, the word had always applied to
total worth, which is what this “poor” fellow did. How can being a millionaire be something
special if everyone is the same? Being a
millionaire is old hat, not important, gives you no special notoriety.
The new definition sheds all that
baggage and restores the word back to what it should mean, of course, what it
should mean is what the rich want it to mean. You are only a millionaire if you
earn
$1,000,000 or more a year.
All I can say to the white haired old
man, who worked all of his life for what he owns, go back as set in your porcelain
bathtub. You may have been a millionaire, but not anymore.
No comments:
Post a Comment