Sirotablog: Billionaire Scion Tom Friedman
As the July edition of the Washingtonian Magazine notes, Friedman lives in "a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million, on a 7½-acre parcel just blocks from I-495 and Bethesda Country Club." He "married into one of the 100 richest families in the country" - the Bucksbaums, whose real-estate Empire is valued at $2.7 billion.
Is there any better evidence that this country's Fourth Estate, and it's government as a whole, has descended into some great redux of the intrigues that plagued the court of Louis XIV? Are Friedman and his compatriots not the very definition of the term bourgeosie that Marx put to such accurate use? The pity is that most of middle class America believes it belongs to Friedman's and Katie Couric's and Matt Lauer's and Rush Limbaugh's and, bestest of all, George Bush's socio-economic milieu. It's so Weimar, it's scary.
Anybody who pays ANY attention to 99% of the corporate "news" in this country is merely reading the Style section of their local newspaper. Anybody who believes one iota of the "free trade globalism" this guy spouts is certifiable. There will one day be a very nasty surprise for the majority of Americans. We wait to see what their response will be.
