[lbo-talk] tightening the belt

[John Thornton]

B. wrote:
> Yeah, I know....
>
> The Daily Beast is prone to such things, so -- this is a farcical article by "Alexandra Penney," right? The woman is "worried" she will have to live in her wealthy son's extra home in Santa Monica, had to give herself a dose from her personal stash of "tranquilizers," sounds crestfallen over the weak market for fine arts in Manhattan, and then again worries she "might have to" hire an aide for herself?
>
> This is like me "worrying" I might "have to hire a butler." If this is a joke, it's pretty good. If it's real, it's a joke.
>
> -B.
>
>
> shag carpet bomb wrote:
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> "shameless asshole"

She doesn't worry that she might have to hire an aid.
She worries now that she has no money, if she needs to hire an aid 
because of age related health decline, she won't be able to.
The article is real and yet it could be a joke. It reads like something 
from The Onion.
Poor, Poor Ms. Penny, now she has to ride the subway and won't have 
someone to maintain her closet full of 40 nice white shirts pressed for her.
Horrors, she'll have to do her own vacuuming!
She laments that she "has" to fire her maid, one she claims she loves 
"as part of [her] family", and who she acknowledges sends needed funds 
back to family in Columbia.
Unlike a real loved family member in need however the maid Yolanda is on 
her own.
Her son offers her a place to stay while she offers Yolanda the door.
Just like family my ass.
Fuck her.

John Thornton