Couple of buddies and I have middle-age guy cigar “B.S.” nights.
Saturday night past, political chat included tax-the-wealthy talk, concentrating on Warren Buffet’s cry for his too high taxed secretary.
One of the guys and myself—we’ll call my friend Jerry—are close in our views. The other guy—we’ll call him Larry—leans more politically left then we two, but all in all, we three lie fairly well in a lump.
I think the other two bummed out when I made a joke about our boring white guy-middle-ageness by reminding them that early in the evening we’d spent 20 minutes talking about the ‘70s rock group, Styx.
Last Monday, Jerry forwarded an article on the Warren Buffetster to Larry and me. Larry responded first, then I responded soon after, and decided it might make an ok column. What follows is my note to the fellers:
Fellers,
Yuh read both feeds. All good. Tellin’ you guys that Obama wins by a couple of percentage points–relatively big.
Buffet? He's just looking for legacy. He's closer to the end and he's finally figured out that these days you can't get real legacy just cause you're sensationally wealthy.
These days you have to have a deep and relevant media presence too. Sure, we three have always known about Warren, but many others are just getting hip to him ‘cause now he's out there, benevolently, and, just ‘cause. (I saw a video clip of him playing ukulele the other day. All old grampaish, looking cute and all sad.)
Legacy huntin’ for me explains this whole dork move with his secretary. It's embarrassing for him ‘cause:
Either he's underpaying his secretary and then complaining she's taxed more than he is (Aside: Larry, I haven't found evidence she makes $48k a year as you noted, but I did find someone said she makes between $200k and $250k, which Buffet laughed at, and I don't take the information as fact, you can find a needle in a haystack online.
Rusty DeWees tours Vermont and Northern New York with his act “The Logger.” His column appears weekly. Reach him at rustyd@pshift.com.
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