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Message Subject U.S. Secretary of Education's $40 Million Yacht Set Adrift by Vandals
Poster Handle Midwest Skeptic
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I see nothing wrong with her and her husband having a nice boat. The DeVoss family made their money LEGALLY and without milking the government till.

Ms. DeVoss's father in law and his brother started AMWAY from scratch, with very little money, and turned it into the huge company that it is today. In the process they also made a bunch of other people rich to very well off also.

Once they made their family money ... LEGALLY ... and actually with a good moral character, what is wrong with spending a bit of it? NOTHING!! That is exactly why people slave to start a company and build it up from NOTHING!!

Money Envy by those who never tried to start and build up a business from scratch for those who did work their tails off to do that is repulsive to me.

Why should it be wrong to spend some of your monetary rewards IF you do happen to make it good? fwiw Steve Job's new yacht - which wasn't finished before he died but which his widow now uses, could have paid for 10 to 15 yachts of this size and cost (his cost for his new yacht was reported to be $450 to $650 million dollars). Of those complaining here who is taking HER, Job's widow, to task for having and using such an expensive luxury? Obviously she deserves 10 times the grief that Ms. DeVoss is getting since Job's yacht cost 10 times ++ as much!!

Sheesh ....

Either you believe in the Free Market, or you believe in Socialism.

If you believe in Socialism you need to rally around Bernie and Ms. Alexandria Cortez who want to eliminate the ability of hard working Americans to start and build new companies and be rewarded for doing that if they manage to succeed.


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edited to add:

If it is WRONG for the DeVoss's to spend part of their BILLIONS on a nice boat then it is ALSO WRONG for an American to spend a ridiculous $50,000 on just a pickup truck or a car ... since a $25,000 one will get them where they are going just as fast and just as safely. Ditto on houses ... nobody NEEDS a house that is 2500 sf, a 1100 sf house is all any family NEEDS (and is the size of most houses built for families just after WW2). Think of all the good for society people could do if they bought the smaller house or the cheaper vehicle and used the "extra" money for doing good and not being SELFISH about using it for themselves!!
 
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