Obama's New Icon, the Poor Oppressed Half-Million-Dollar Secretary

Enter stage left, another fictitious character in Obama's world of make-believe and marxist campaign rhetoric. Warren Buffett’s secretary, the poe misbegotten tax slave, has purchased another home, this one in Arizona, with pool and putting green.

And Buffet? He ought to be ashamed of himself. He fully enjoyed the benefits the capitalist system afforded. Sitting up there with his secretary ... two patsies for marxism. Why doesnt he turn over his wealth to the government?

And it gets better. His fortune goes to charity upon his death. Why not to the government?

Warren Buffett’s Downtrodden, Over-Taxed Secretary Just Bought Second Home in AZ, With a Pool All American Blogger

It must be nice to be so oppressed:

Despite a heavy tax burden, Warren Buffett’s secretary last year was able to purchase a second home in Arizona, a residence complete with a swimming pool and a “professional PGA putting green,” according to real estate records.

Debra Bosanek, 55, and her husband Gerald bought the 2100-square-foot home in Surprise, a city outside Phoenix. The Bosaneks paid $144,000 for the four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath property (the purchase was financed, in part, by a $115,200 mortgage).

Imagine what she could have afforded if she wasn’t paying so much in taxes.

One last thing, turns out this woman makes between $200,000 to $500,000 a year. That’s about the same amount as the Chief of Nuclear Operations at a nuclear power plant I’m familiar with.

By the way, good for her. I’m not begrudging her success at all. I congratulate it, in fact. I wish I could make that much money a year.

I do resent the idea that she’s an every person, someone right out of the steno pool who goes home to a messy house and a stack of bills she can’t handle. That’s just not the story and it’s dishonest.

Hat Tip: Fox Nation

Comments

[Warren]

I got to admit that I am a little dissapointed in that "other Warren". Obama just hangs a medal around that guy's neck and now he is Obama's "bitch". He has the right to give away his own money if he wishes. He does not have the right to give away other people's money.

[rose]

methinks the chicago machine has something big on the buffet-man...

[Tom D]

One thing that needs to be understood is that Warren Buffett is a vulture. Our tax policy really hurts successful family businesses; when the owner dies the estate often lacks the cash to pay the huge taxes and so the business usually is put on the market in a fire sale. Warren Buffett has made his billions in large part by being right there when these families are struggling to get out from under their tax burdens; the fact that these family members often lose their employment in exchange for cash settlements that, while large, are smaller than they should be.

You can respond with "well, that's business", and to a point you would be right. But Warren Buffett has a lot of nerve to publicly lobby againt inheritance tax reform. In effect he works to ensure that government policy discriminates in his favor and against those less wealthy whom he exploits.

[MikeS]

Living in Surprise I checked. The house is modest, does have a pool... but if there's a putting green there it has to be about the size of a storage shed - there no room.

[Bohemond_1096]

Compare Buffet's secretary to Obama's brother in Kenya who was living in a cardboard box, arrested. for drugs and now running a fraudulent charity...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384925/Barack-Obamas-brother-accused-fraud-charity-set-family-name.html

[aprilnovember811]

"And Buffet? He ought to be ashamed of himself. He fully enjoyed the benefits the capitalist system afforded. Sitting up there with his secretary ... two patsies for marxism. Why doesnt he turn over his wealth to the government?"

I agree, give it all. The same with google, GE, Gates, the Hollywood useful idiots, give it all to the government. I won't even go to movies, because I won't contribute to the wealth of people promoting marxism, while profiting from capitalism.
They all think they're being noble, by giving lip service to this. They are disingenuous morons.

[juniper]

"His fortune goes to charity upon his death"..and of course charities do not pay any tax!! Total hypocrite!!

[Rightly Guided Bob]

I think that Obama and Buffet are saying that the secretary's taxes are too high.

[Richard]

$144k is only about a quarter of the cost of a starter home in my neighborhood. It's a wee bit 'spensive to live in LA.

[wiseronenow]

hat tip this: buffet admitted he pays her 60,000 per year. Even the guy who wrote this at Forbes admitted he was wrong when called on it. All it took was to actually read beyond the mere ongoing propaganda written here and from faux nation.

[wiseronenow]

Now lets see, anybody begrudging the fiscal conservative, newt login supporter and adelson PAC devotee too who did buy a half million dollar house as a failed former gov and VP candidate? Yeah, didn't think so here.

[karl anglin]

Well surprise, surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ken Watson]

Tom has it. Buffett is a carrion crow. http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2011/09/19/winning-the-future-with-the-metric-system/