Buffett: "Some People Just Don't Fit In The Economy, We Send Them Off To Afghanistan"

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"Some People Just Don't Fit In The Economy" Buffett Explains "We Send Them Off To Afghanistan"
Tyler Durden's pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 09/08/2015 18:20 -0400

Not to be outdone by his partner Charlie Munger (who offended many with his comments that "gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939,"), Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett - having already taken on Europe, comparing Greece to a "dog peeing on the carpet" of Europe, suggesting Germany stop "rewarding behavior you want to get rid of" - takes aim at the military.

Speaking on Bloomberg TV, the octagenerian oracle of offense just unfriended every American veteran...

"You want everybody educated to their potential. You want people to reach their potential. That still won't work for some people in a highly developed market system.

I mean if this were a sports-based system, you could give me a PhD in football, and I could practice eight hours a day, and I might be able to carry the water from, not onto the field, but from the locker room to the bench. There's just some people don't fit well into a highly skilled market-based economy.

They're perfectly decent citizens. We'll send them off to Afghanistan, but they are not going to command a big price."
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Just some funny old man who is losing his marbles... or elitist oligarch who knows there are no consequences for his words, thoughts, or deeds.

On the bright side, at least he did not dare mention illegal immigrants..

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-08/some-people-just-dont-fit-economy-buffett-explains-we-send-them-afghanistan

Buffett's buddy...peas in a pod

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjkZ3ZiCUAEw2xx.jpg

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So rich he lives in his own little bubble........................of complete disconnect with basic reality...........all he invests in is growth ,dividends ect , which maybe OK for a rich guy with all his paper assets but kinda meaningless to real people.

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Billionaire Buffett praises socialist Sanders but sticks with Clinton
Thomson ReutersSep 9th 2015 6:04AM

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Tuesday praised the presidential campaign of self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders, even though Buffett said he still backs Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

"I think we all have lessons to learn from him (Sanders)," Buffett said in an interview with Reuters.

"There are very few candidates that have - not just this election but in past elections - that have campaigned like Bernie Sanders," Buffett continued.
"You know exactly what he feels on everything. He's articulate, and he doesn't go around knocking the other candidates."
Buffett, the head of sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, is known as the Oracle of Omaha for his investing acumen.

Warren Buffett speaks to the media during a press conference Monday, June 26, 2006 in New York. Buffet, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, recently announced his intention of giving 10 million shares of his company to charitable organizations, the majority going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Buffett - the world's third-richest person, according to Forbes magazine, with a personal fortune of $72.7 billion - said that while he agrees with Sanders about the need to help those left behind by the market economy, "I disagree with him very much on the production side."

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/09/billionaire-buffett-praises-socialist-sanders-but-sticks-with-cl/21233443/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D-1237079953

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Buffett is simply being honest, and it's an honesty that will hurt many who consider it.

Military Service in the US is often a jobs creation program for people who might otherwise have reduced career opportunities.

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buffett shuts down dairy queen after manager gets nigger fatigue. local niggers cheer......that they lost their dq. geniuses

http://www.complex.com/life/2017/01/dairy-queen-racist-zion-illinois-loses-business

airy Queen Owner Makes Racist Insults Against Customer, Loses Business

One Dairy Queen owner won't be making Blizzards any time soon. The Washington Post reported that James "Jim" Crichton, who owned the DQ in Zion, Illinois, hurled racist insults at customer Deianeira Ford and her two children on Wednesday and, as a result, ultimately lost his store.

Ford, 21, who is biracial, went to the store intending to give her children a treat. However, her order got messed up. When she complained to Crichton, he unleashed a stream of insults, using the N-word liberally.

"He called me and my children nigger; he said I can go back to where I came from," Ford told the Post. "He took out his flip phone and he said he would take a picture and put it on Facebook because he wants to show the world what kind of nigger he has to deal with. Then he shut the window and walked away."

Ford called 911, and the cops investigated. Crichton fessed up quickly, and continued using the slur while talking to the police. But while everyone involved found Crichton to be a terrible human being, he hadn't broken any laws.

So next stop: Facebook. Ford posted about the incident, and it was quickly shared by several thousand people. Dairy Queen eventually responded, apologizing and putting out a statement from Crichton:

​"I would like to sincerely and humbly apologize for my recent words and actions," it said. "I have let my family, friends, employees, our system and this community down with what I have done."

By Friday, it was all over. DQ said that they were shutting down the location. A protest planned for Saturday (pictured above) turned into an impromptu party to celebrate the restaurant's closing.

While Ford was happy about the outcome, she's still haunted by her three-year-old daughter's reaction to Crichton's tirade. "She kind of still brings it up—that’s just how she is," she told the Post. "She said, 'Why did that mean man say that to me?'"