News mogul and Obama voter Zuckerman completely out of touch with reality

[banned from Kos]

In the linked interview below Mort Zuckerman (frequent guest on Morning Joe) says --


1- OWS is Obama's doing because "the door to it was opened by the Obama administration, going after the 'millionaires and billionaires' as if everybody is a millionaire and a billionaire and they didn't earn it. . . . To fan that flame of populist anger I think is very divisive and very dangerous for this country."

2- Healthcare mishap "Eighty percent of the country wanted them to get costs under control, not to extend the coverage. They used all their political capital to extend the coverage. I always had the feeling the country looked at that bill and said, 'Well, he may be doing it because he wants to be a transformational president, but I want to get my costs down!'"

3- 'The only solution Mr. Zuckerman sees now to juice the economy "is to broaden the tax base and simplify and lower tax .'

4- Zuckerman also says Obama has not been bipartisan enough.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204002304576628673446417268.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

Is this guy for real? He is obviously a long-time Democrat based on donations --

http://newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Mort_Zuckerman.php

[Cassandra]

1. Best way to broaden the tax base...

is to pay the poor and middle class decent wages.

[robinlynne]

2. but I don't think that is what he meant.....

[OHdem10]

10. When Republicans say braoden the tax base, they mean

the 47% who do not pay income tax be added to tax rolls
and start paying/

Herman Cain's 999 plan calls for people earning 50K annually
and those earning under 50K to have almost 30% tax increase.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

3. I think he and kind need to take a long look

at what I call the "executive industry" and the incestuous board's of directors that continue to pay each other outrageous salaries, while depressing wages for average Americans, sending jobs overseas and eliminating benefits.

What is it this year, an average executive makes 450 x's an average worker - and the closest to that number in any other country is something like 12 to 1.

This movement isn't going away, it will get larger over the winter and explode in the spring.

What they do not understand is they can make as much money as they want, just give us the jobs and give us the live-able wages.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

4. and along those lines

some guy that worked his way up middle management to the board room certainly deserves to be well paid (depending on the performance of his company), but when the salary is in the millions, the tens of millions, you are damn right he didn't earn it. He's stealing it.

[Rectangle]

5. Zuckerman---Mr.Stand up for Wall Street greed.... n/t

[Enrique]

6. if OWS is successful

no politician will want to be seen taking the advice of people like Mort Zuckerman.

[blogslut]

7. I don't believe for a second Mort Zuckerman voted for Barack Obama

He was dissing Obama on Morning Blow way back during the primaries - coincidentally, the same length of time that Mort Zuckerman has been chapping my ass.

[Zen Democrat]

8. Mort Zuckerman has been arguing the conservative mantra on McLaughlin Group for many years.

No way he was an Obama supporter.

[FarCenter]

9. When it comes down to it, rich liberals will vote in the interest of their wallet, not the people

[OHdem10]

11. He is a 1%er.