Warren Buffett is a
perfect example of front door and back door politics. In his front door proclamations Buffett
invites American citizens to fawn over Barack Obama, to support Obama's redistribution polices of
take from the rich and give to the poor.
Buffett even says the rich should pay more. Of course,
he actively skips paying taxes because he doesn't generally sell his holdings and take capital gains, for
which he would have to pay taxes.
That is Buffett's
front door politics, His true "back
door" politics is completely different.
Buffett is counting on Obama being re-elected and is therefore making the
assessment that consumer companies, Johnson and Johnson, Procter and Gamble
etc. stock values will collapse in the coming turn down in the Obama's second
term. So Buffett and a gaggle of other
billionaires are dumping consumer stocks betting that consumer confidence and
the stock market will plunge after January 1, 2013 because of the looming fiscal cliff.
So what Buffett is
doing is telling everybody to vote Obama while he is taking his money and
running for the hills. Berkshire
Hathaway has to report major stock transactions. Take a look and see how Buffett is using the back door to get out while he can.
Buffett's bluff has
been called, though, by the House when it just passed a bill that allows American to
voluntarily pay more taxes to reduce the national debt. I would bet Warren dinner at the Northwood
Inn in San Gabriel, CA that he won't pay more taxes than is required. He will continue to take as many deductions
as is legal.
The crux of the
matter, though, is that Buffett is getting out the backdoor as illustrated by
his stock transactions while telling the rest of us to blithely step off the
fiscal cliff January 1st.
Newsmax points out that not only Buffett is fleeing stocks. John Paulson and George
Soros are fleeing. Soros recently just
upped his Gold position by a ton. What
do these Billionaires know that we don't.
Actually, nothing. We Americans
know this situation too. It's painfully
obvious. If Obama is re-elected, he will
finish the job of destroying America's economy.
But it is completely
disingenuous of Buffett to preach lies
from his rich man's front door and then escaping out the back door with
billions taken from everyday Americans who believed his front door lies. The most dire of predictions say that the
stock market could drop by 90%. Soros is
doing everything he can to make that happen, along with Buffett.
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