Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounces U.S. citizenship in order to make a few hundred million more on the social network's IPO -- by avoiding taxes, because that's what rich people do best -- in which case we say good riddance and we're glad Mark Zuckerberg fucked you over all those years ago. »

inothernews:

Maybe you can endorse Mitt Romney now.

The Romney approves:

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Hello one percent! More power to ya!

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Sarah Palin today at a hedge fund conference in Las Vegas.

CLASSIC

She’s #3 on my top 10 people that should get a Swiss passport and GTFO. ~Joost

We may well be unwilling to raise the revenue we need to fight poverty, invest in poor kids, fix up our infrastructure, push back on climate change, and ensure secure retirements for our elderly. But it won’t be because we’re broke.

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— Inequality, Poverty, and Why We’re Definitely Not Broke (via azspot)

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U.S. Justice Department indicts Swiss bank Wegelin »

The United States indicted Wegelin, the oldest Swiss private bank, on charges that it enabled wealthy Americans to evade taxes on at least $1.2 billion hidden in offshore bank accounts, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

The announcement, by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, represents the first time an overseas bank has been indicted by the United States for enabling tax fraud by U.S. taxpayers.

About time we settle the score with these enablers of anti-American, unpatriotic and treasonous weasels. My kids need to canvas the neighborhood to raise funds for supplies for their school while Thurston Howell III’s only concern is how best to trick out his vacation villa with gold leaf and Brazilian rainforest teak.

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Reddit -- My Encounter with a Homeless Marine, His Wife and 4 Year Old »

abaldwin360:

by reddit user danmaddox

Just experienced something that shook me to the core and I can’t explain why but it did as I’m known to the people that know me for being a semi life hardened kind of guy . I’ve seen homeless people before many times in my life, but never a couple with a child. Most…

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60 Minutes: “Hard Times Generation: Families Living in Cars”

Where are our priorities in this country when we can fund infrastructure and schools for countries we have overthrown and provide welfare for corporations but can’t get a homeless family back on its feet here. WTF America?

(Source: 3nfp, via chrismenning)