This is the face of Obama's dream for America; people's dreams crushed into the mud like Ted Turner's has been.
This is what Obamafication of America means; no new private 767s to shuttle you around, no wiping your behind with wads of hundred dollar bills and say good bye to the second yacht. People like Turner have worked hard all their lives and there dreams weren't too much; prize wife, the right to decided who the next president would be and some small third world country for a vacation get away. Now, the dream is over.
For Americans like Turner it is shut, up sit down and get to work in the board room and take your billion and like it punk. What a sad a dreary that day is for all of us. This is Russia in 1917 all over again.
Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Ted Turner, the cable television pioneer who became one of the richest Americans, recalls the pain of losing his job at Time Warner Inc., his wife, the actress Jane Fonda, and $7 billion of his fortune.
“It was like having my heart ripped out,” Turner said yesterday in an interview in New York. The founder of Turner Broadcasting System and the 24-hour cable news channel CNN, Turner said that he has “a couple billion” dollars left, including $700 million in Treasury
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Turner said he has learned to live with less, yet he still bemoans the decline in his net worth.
“To drop out of that league, that was hard to do,” Turner said. “I’ve had the experience of being on top and riding the roller coaster down again, nearly to the bottom. You know, if you economize and don’t buy new airplanes or long-range jets, or that sort of thing, you can get by on a billion or two.
“It was like having my heart ripped out,” Turner said yesterday in an interview in New York. The founder of Turner Broadcasting System and the 24-hour cable news channel CNN, Turner said that he has “a couple billion” dollars left, including $700 million in Treasury
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Turner said he has learned to live with less, yet he still bemoans the decline in his net worth.
“To drop out of that league, that was hard to do,” Turner said. “I’ve had the experience of being on top and riding the roller coaster down again, nearly to the bottom. You know, if you economize and don’t buy new airplanes or long-range jets, or that sort of thing, you can get by on a billion or two.
For Americans like Turner it is shut, up sit down and get to work in the board room and take your billion and like it punk. What a sad a dreary that day is for all of us. This is Russia in 1917 all over again.
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