The One Percent's Annual Party

Kevin Roose wrote a piece in 'New York Magazine' which came out today (02/18/2014) entitled, "One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society". Kevin was a former reporter at the 'New York Times' at the time.. Some of the things he writes are... "It was January 2012, and Ross, wearing a tuxedo and purple velvet moccasins embroidered with the fraternity’s Greek letters, was standing at the dais of the St. Regis Hotel ballroom, welcoming a crowd of two hundred wealthy and famous Wall Street figures to the Kappa Beta Phi dinner...

... It was a secret fraternity, founded at the beginning of the Great Depression, that functioned as a sort of one-percenter’s Friars Club. Each year, the group’s dinner features comedy skits, musical acts in drag, and off-color jokes...

...The jokes ranged from unfunny and sexist (Q: “What’s the biggest difference between Hillary Clinton and a catfish?” A: “One has whiskers and stinks, and the other is a fish”)

... The neophytes – who had changed from their drag outfits into Mormon missionary costumes — broke into their musical finale: a parody version of “I Believe,” the hit ballad from The Book of Mormon, with customized lyrics like “I believe that God has a plan for all of us. I believe my plan involves a seven-figure bonus.” He also posted a few audio tracks of what he recorded before he got tossed out. I'm not sure a bunch of rich folks getting drunk and raising hell is a threat to the middle class. However one thing we can most definitely take away from this is they are no fans of Democrats such as Hillary or Barney Frank. Most certainly it doesn't speak well of their concern for those of lesser wealth then they outside of their circle.

I could understand a bunch of uneducated blue collar rednecks hacking down drinks and talking like this in a local bar after work. However when a bunch of these so called well educated and successful overgrown kids do something like this it shows me money hasn't bought them a nickel's worth of class.

So what have we learned kids?
There's no difference in the animosity between those who are rich and those who are not.
     Except for a coupla's million buck$ between the two :-)