Who do the rich love?

Overview of the American press Evgeny Aronova

"You know. Ernest, how do the rich differ from us? ”, Asked his friend Scott Fitzgerald as Hemingway. “I know,” Hemingway answered, “they have money, but we don’t have.” However, one should not think that the class of rich in America is homogeneous. For example, that part of its bankers represent, does not at all look like a layer of the Internet. At least, with regard to party addictions and donations. About this on the pages "Washington Post" writes the observer Harold Meyerson.

So, in the most expensive district of the Khaitek Silicon Valley in California Obama, according to the number of votes scored in the last elections, Romny went around forty-three percent, and the Connecticut region under New York, chosen by financiers, preferred a republican with an advanced overlap. But outside this fascinated place in the same Connecticut, and in areas no less wealthy, the president’s advantage was undeniable.

If you take five most important donors of Romny’s campaign, then these are financial giants Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Jpmorgan Chase, Credit Suisse. At the same time, in the list of twenty main sponsors Romni do not find a single high -tech enterprise. In addition to the bankers, the Republican was actively supported by Las Vegas's magnates: another evidence that the difference between the casino and the exchange is nothing more than cosmetic is ironic. Garold Meyerson.

But the leaders of Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Apple donated Big funds to the Obama campaign.

The author of the article in Washington Post on the basis of this makes the following generalization: the most productive and innovative part of American entrepreneurs acted on Obama side. Romni was supported by financiers and gambling operators, whose contribution to the development of the American economy is much less obvious than the Haytecs, and whose principles of management are not based not on the creation of new ones, but on the redistribution of the available resources, while certainly in favor of the redistributors themselves.

Moreover, the rich supporters of Obama, as shown by voting statistics in California, do not at all against raising taxes on the most wealthy part of the population. Khaitekovites, in general, younger financiers; A prominent place among them belongs to immigrants from Asia; Wall Street is still mainly white.

The difference between the Haitecs and financiers is no less than between employees of the public sector and the private sector. You begin to believe in this, having familiarized yourself with the analysis of two researchers, Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwin, which they brought to the court of readers of the leading publication of the American business circles of the newspaper Wall Street Jornal. By the way, the public sector for the most part in its invariably votes for the Democrats.

Over the past four years, the number of jobs in the public sector has declined by more than half a million, primarily due to recession and budgetary troubles. Therefore, Obama sends hundreds of billions of dollars from the federal treasury to return the level of employment in this sector to the level that existed until September 2008. It would be reasonable, allowed Biggs and Richwein, if we assume that this level was initially optimal. But this, according to their calculations, is not like this: the states of civil servants are incredibly inflated, and if officials worked at least the same amount of hours as their colleagues in the private sector, then saving labor costs in a state apparatus would easily reach one hundred and thirty billion dollars annually.

This is not a stereotype based on common ideas about lazy bureaucrats, but an objective fact, the authors say. Previously, the labor load was measured according to the "length of working hours" established by the employer. This is a rough meter that did not take into account the clock that the employee spent, working extracurricularly at home, including on weekends, missed lunch breaks and not taken leave. Today, the US Department of Labor, relying on a representative sample, sends the respondents a detailed questionnaire in which they list what they did on the day preceding the filling out of the document. This is a small grid, through its holes, all the activity that was not taken into account in the scheme of the “length of working time” will not slip through. And under the line we see that if in the private sector a person works on average 42 hours a week, then in the public sector only thirty -eight. In terms of the year, this delta is already a whole month. And if it is abolished, it will turn out to be a one hundred and thirty billion saving above. From here, Briggs and Richwein bring the following morality: before demanding from the private sector to work more in order to support the state, the state is obliged to demand from its employees to work as much as the private sector.

And in conclusion - again about the rich. They are similar to ordinary fellow citizens or not, depends on how political technologists look at them. The author of the Republican Blog PjMedia, Mira Adams, recalls that back in mid-2011. The Democrats correctly predicted that Obama will be Romni and built their campaign in order to “abuse it as a person”. In the campaign materials of the Democrats, he was insincere, unprincipled and, most importantly, in the language of the presidential assistants, an absolutely alien to the average voter. The effect of an exploding bomb in this sense was the following video:

- What would I do with the children? Would they have a roof above their heads? If Obama had not come to the aid of the car industry, we would all be left without work. And Romney wanted this, saying: "Let Detroit go bankrupt, it will be right." How did his tongue turn out to say this? That beats me!

Voting is behind, and in recent days, photographs flashed in the press that testify that Romny, whatever you say, was not Mitt, who did not remember kinship. On one of them, he personally, without the help of a footman in white gloves, floods gasoline into the car; On the other, as a real hardwork, a piece of pizza, on the third and fourth -, respectively, hugs his wife at the kitchen counter and goes to the cinema with her (there are a lot of free time for the unemployed), in the fifth, despite the deuce received in the elections, goes to Disney’s children's amusement park. Why didn't we see these photos two months ago? Mizhn Adams is lamented.