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Bob Lefsetz’s Original Post – “Costco”

There you go again, Bob!

You can’t even talk about Costco without pandering to the “hate the rich” liberals on the Left Coast.

“That’s one of the main problems in America today, the classes don’t interact, therefore the wealthy have no idea of the life of those working with their hands, counting pennies. And we live in a country of haves and have-nots.”

So do you live in the ghetto with all the homeless people you have so much compassion for? Or are you surrounded by the California upper class you continue to deride?

“And when I’m driving I’m surrounded by these monstrosities, forget the RAV4 and CRVs, there are giant Suburbans, and Navigators, and BMW X7s and Audi Q8s and Land Cruisers and G-Wagons, all brand new, how do people pay for the gas, never mind the lease payments?”

You’re obviously are not poor-

“Yes, I buy top of the line Michelins, Pilot Sports, and they’re warranted for 40,000 miles…”

Those tires average around $250 each and $1,000 for a full set. I wish I could afford those “top of the line Michelins, Pilot Sports”. I’m definitely not homeless, but I cannot afford those kinds of wheels! You are SO worried about the poor, the have-nots and the homeless and you constantly virtue signal about your compassion for the less fortunate.

And yet Chat GPT tells us that:

“As of June 1, 2023, Bob Lefsetz has an estimated net worth of approximately $5 Million according to various sources.”

Besides, you reassure us that in spite of:

 “by time this is done, I’m going to be out double-digit thousands”

you’ve got plenty of money for skiing and computers:

“There are a few areas where I don’t cheap out. Health, my ski equipment and my computer equipment. Oh, and my car too. I feel good that I got two new pairs of skis last year. Because it made me happy! Skiing is number one, that’s why I went to Middlebury, and that’s what I still do, 57 days last year…”

I wonder how many of those poor homeless people can afford to go to Beverly Hills dentists, periodontists, shrinks, physical therapists and then travel around the country to ski 57 times a year?

“Great, but I’ve got a shrink appointment at that time, what about the afternoon? No availability. So I said I’d take it, worrying that the shrink would charge me for the canceled appointment.” 

Is this something the poor and homeless really have to worry about? You should set-up a GoFundMe account so your fans can help pay for all of your medical bills and ski trips. Maybe then you wouldn’t have to slum it by shopping at Costco alongside the lower class and “the worker bees”:

“But how much money could he make? I’ve had those jobs, they’re intolerable, you’re constantly watching the clock, counting down the hours and adding up the dollars in your wallet.”

And yet, you remind us:

“Now theoretically you’ve got to be a member to go into Costco, but I am not.  I’d love to tell you the new all-beef hot dog is as good as the Hebrew National ones they used to sell, but that would be untrue. It’s edible, but not delectable. But I’d be lying if I said it did not hit the spot.

I mean the line to check out… There were many registers open, but they all had lines, and nobody was buying just one or two items.”

You’ve got to be a member, but you go in anyway and buy a hot dog and cry crocodile tears for the underprivileged who shop there. I went to CostCo once, but they wouldn’t let me in the door without a membership. So I bought one – but not Bob Lefsetz. And you don’t like long lines at the checkout? Go to Sam’s club where you can scan purchases as you shop, it goes on your credit card, and you just walk out the door! 

Then you get back on your “eat the rich” diatribe:

“If people saw how the rich truly lived, there’d be revolution in the streets. Never mind the fact that they don’t pay their fair share of taxes. Oh, don’t bother me with that hogwash about the rich paying the lion’s share of taxes. The more you make, the more you pay. But the percentage may be less. Leaving you with more, much more.”

And yet according to the IRS:

“The top 10 percent of earners paid 74 percent of all income taxes and the top 25 percent paid 89 percent. Altogether, the top fifty percent of filers earned 89 percent of all income and were responsible for 97.7 percent of all income taxes paid in 2020.”

And local governments, states, and the federal government transfer more than one TRILLION dollars every year to help those in need, and I’m fine with that. From the New York Times:

“Each year, American taxpayers spend nearly $1 trillion trying to help the poor. It’s easy to miss that headline number, though, because the money flows into and out of scores of federal, state and local government programs. In April, Michael D. Tanner, a senior fellow at Cato, a libertarian research group, compiled a list of 126 federal programs for low-income Americans, which together spend $668 billion of taxpayer money annually. State and local governments allocate an additional $284 billion, he estimated.”

Trillion Poor Poverty

Are you suggesting that the rich should be taxed even more, so they live on a par with equity alongside the “worker bees” and the homeless in America? Is that your definition of fairness?

And you sure love Amazon!

“The same way I trust Amazon. Ever have a problem with Amazon? The customer service is amazing. You got the wrong product? They take the charge off your bill and tell you to keep it.”

And you have Jeff Bezos to thank for that, and yet he’s worth at least $162.7 billion dollars. How much of his money should the IRS confiscate to satisfy your idea of “fairness”?

You’re a multi-millionaire yourself, but your advice to the moneyless peasants who are forced to shop at Costco is:

“Which is why you have to have a nest egg, which is another reason to not buy stuff on credit. I mean what do you really NEED! Credit card interest is insane, unless you absolutely need it, don’t charge it. 

But I’m going to get one hell of a credit card bill next month.”

With a net worth of at least $5,000,000, you still need to charge your dental bills on a credit card, even though you tell us that “Credit card interest is insane” and“don’t charge it”.

Do as you say, not as you do, right? The hypocrisy is blatant and mind-blowing.

“Everybody’s on social security, they don’t want to work.”

I doubt that this is true. Could you please verify that claim with any documentation? I’m on Social Security, but I still work as a musician and enjoy doing so. I performed at more than 122 shows this summer.

You need to do your homework and stop proselytizing on behalf of your radical left wing comrades. Stay in your wheelhouse – you are an intelligent, creative, and talented blogger in the field you actually know a lot about. And that field includes music, rock & roll, entertainment and the arts.

You are ignorant and uninformed when it comes to politics. Remember what YOU told us not long ago:

“Being a politician is a profession. Michael Jordan proved that being the best basketball player of all time didn’t make him a world class baseball player.” 

You are NOT a politician. Stop pretending to be one.