Top One-Percenter Roger Waters Trashes … The Top One Percent
by John NolteWhat happened to the guy who asked, “Mother, should I trust the government?”
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“I pay taxes here. I’d be happy to pay more.”
Okay, Roger, no problem…
Here.
Put up or shut up, and that goes for anyone else who spouts this nonsense about wanting to pay more in taxes.
No one is stopping you but you.
Have you ever written anything off your taxes, Roger? That’s completely voluntary, you know.
Never thought I’d live to see the day where Roger Waters fronted for The Man.
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when anti-establishment types who rail against the man, become the very thing they were protesting, it ain't a pretty thing to witness.
On a similar note I still don't know how you can have any pudding if you don't eat your meat.
Roger Waters' ticket prices range from $92 to $1,400… talk about swindles!
Roger Waters just hit his own Wall. Judging by his speech, I'd say it was head first and without a helmet.
And you ask someone like Waters to cut another check, they get this stupid, dumbfounded look on their face.
Sorry Roger, "we don't need no education" to know you're full of it.
Get out of here! Are you serious? And he has the nerve to say derivatives are over-priced.
I like Roger Waters music and what he has contributed to the world of "rock", but even his most die-hard fans know that a large part of his appeal and perspectives are due to him being insane.
I seem to recall that Waters and the other members of Pink Floyd (along with a lot of other British rockers) were "tax exiles" in the 1970's and 1980's. They lived in other countries to avoid the high taxes in England. Come on Roger, pay your fair share. After all, you are one of the fortuante "rich" people who have way too much money. You did not work hard or anything to earn all that cash with Pink Floyd, right? You never signed a contract with EMI records, right? You are not out on tour RIGHT NOW charging big bucks for tickets, right? I dig your music, Roger, but you are a hypocrit of the highest order.
Roger and his "Wall" tour are coming to my neck of the woods in June. I was looking forward to it, since I have never seen any live Pink Floyd shows. I'm just glad I haven't purchased tickets yet. I'm now going to have to add Pink Floyd to the list of bands I love just a little less because the musicians chose to lecture me instead of sticking to the singing.
I checked out his tour prices. Those prices are for the San Francisco shows. Other venues were pretty much the same.
these guys are all nuts now…
'The Wall' is a testament AGAINST government oppression and the nanny state.
'No dark sarcasm in the classroom.. Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone'
All in all, it;s just another brick in Roger's head…
That list of performers, writers and actors that you Tea Party folks just cannot pay to support any longer just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
The Communist and their lackeys… turns out are were all the anti-God folk from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and on and on.
Free market capitalism
There's no logical inference from "I'd like to pay more taxes as part of a general increase in taxes" to "I alone should donate money to the government". These "one percenters" are not favoring a system where a single person is made responsible for giving money to the government. They are favoring a system where everyone is.
Nice try though. Cheers.
Roger needs some education
He already has some thought control
Plenty of dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers don't leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Don't leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
That's absolutely right. He has every right to charge whatever his idiot fans will pay. Personally, I'd only pay a hundred bucks to see Roger Waters if the rest of Pink Floyd was on stage with him.
“I pay taxes here. I’d be happy to pay more.”
Put your money where your mouth is. Do it.
Maybe they could put together one of those 'aid" concerts for the black hole of government. All the liberal 1% entertainers could lead by example and feel so good about themselves.
Yeah, who knew the entertainment industry was full of such weasels. Someone should start up a blog about it.
Roger officially now has sh!t for brains and is a hypocrite of the highest order.
The banks were all but forced to give loans to people that they knew couldn't afford them by the government and by community organizers. Banks do not want to give loans to people they know cannot pay them back as they loose money doing that, but if you sue them, or accuse them of racism or if government agencies force them to they will. This is not capitalism failing, it is government f#cking with capitalism and causing problems.
Exactly. I love Pink Floyd, saw some of their shows.
But no way would I ever think to follow Roger Waters' advice on anything.
It would appear that "Syd" was not the only mental case to be a member of Pink Floyd…….
Maybe call it "BIG Phonies"
And…?
Dispite the liberal rumor to the contrary, we know art. We just wish the artists would shut up and sing.
I went to a Jackson Brown concert in the late 80's. Love his music. for an hour and a half he sang two songs, and for the remainder of the time he touted Amnesty International. I can't hear one of his songs these days without hearing that whiny voice lecturing me about something that I never payed to hear about. Not only did it turn me off on Jackson Brown music, I may have saw some of the good AI was doing before but have no interest in seeing it now.
It happens all the time, in all walks of life, and with all sorts of products. While there is a growing list of companies and performers I refuse to support any longer, there is also a growing list of companies and performers that have gained my support. It's called "free market capitalism". I know you used that phrase in the comments above, perhaps you just don't understand it's meaning.
But I thought they had the money. I thought they said themselves that they would like to pay more.
Don't they want to be leaders? Or do they just want to be talkers?
I thought The Wall was about a rock star's childhood demons and descent into madness.
"Tea Party folks just [will not] pay to support any longer . . ."
TFIFY. : )
This is the same guy whose last tour featured film footage juxtaposing George W Bush with Adolph Hitler.
The problem with your interpretation is that you're missing the point entirely. These "one percenters" that keep screeching about everyone paying their fair share (so much wrong with that sentiment anyway) are the same folks that gratuitously use tax loopholes, are worth a very large sum of money, and are reluctant to give what they consider their fair share.
So if they're so gung-ho about everyone paying even more taxes they should lead by example.
But none of them do. Russell Simmons, Michael Moore, and now Roger Waters are all frauds. None of them actually WANT to give up their wealth, they just want everyone else to. If they feel they're not paying their fair share, they have every opportunity to do so. So why aren't you asking them why they aren't?
You always hear rich folk saying the government should raise their tax rates, but you rarely hear them say the government should ELIMINATE THE TAX LOOPHOLES. They don't care about higher rates because they'll find a way around it — but take that away from them….
"These "one percenters" are not favoring a system where a single person is made responsible for giving money to the government. They are favoring a system where everyone is."
Yes, we know the left wants collectivism, Capt. Obvious.
Lame try, though.
that would be a mixture of 'The Wall' and 'Wish You Were Here'.
'The Wall' is about his childhood has a war child, his father's death and the repression of the state. It also harpoons fascism. His condition is the result of these oppressions; ergo 'the bricks' in the wall.
A great libertarian piece- one of the reasons for it'senduring popularity…
too much acid did in poor Syd Barrett.
Waters is a control freak, and his vision propelled them to their heights. But he is now just another overfed, long haired leaping gnome.
Oh, that's Eric Burdon…
Money
It's a crime
Share it fairly
But don't take a slice of my pie
Except that wealthy pay the lion's share of the taxes.
And people who end their comments with "cheers" oughtta shampoo my crotch.
Now THAT would be something! What a great idea! It could be like, Gov Aid or something similar.
He ain't very pretty to look at either. So much for a life on the road doing shows.
I think I paid in the neighborhood of $40 per ticket to see Pink Floyd back in '87 when Waters was on strike. Gilmour more than made up for his not being there.
I think that's his natural look.
Ironically, that song did much more damage than good.
An entire generation of South Africans used it as their anthem and dropped out of government schools. Now that generation only knows how to steal and murder to survive.
Turns out you do need an education. Too late for them.
"They are favoring a system where everyone is."
So, let me get this straight, bug wit. Guys like you and Waters want the 50% who curently don’t pay any federal income taxes should start paying more federal taxes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV-ASc0qkrM
"The problem with your interpretation is that you're missing the point entirely."
Have you ever, ever, ever seen this guy get any point that involves reasoning through a situation to come to a logical conclusion? Just messin' with ya. I know you haven't.
Pink Floyd seems to have a problem with sanity.
I've always had a love/hate relationship with Waters. He has some great songs, but he's such a jackass. If you think about "When the Tygers Broke Free", it's basically a song about how he'd rather Britain have lost WWII just so he could have his daddy alive. Kind of sums him all up right there.
I should know better….
The Wall came out when I was a Sr. in high school. I thought it was the coolest thing since bottled beer.
Over the years I've come to view it as a whiny testament to those who didn't have a picture perfect childhood.
I wish he'd get over it already. There is no such thing as a perfect childhood. I've got the scars to prove it. Physical ones.
A great libertarian piece
Don't blame this tool on us!
To hippies, God is represented by various organized religions. And they have rules, they define good and evil. And the hippies can't have that. Might mess with their karma.
Jesus said I should help those less fortunate than I am. No where in the Gospels does Jesus instruct me to use the implied threat of government force (try not paying your property taxes and see what you get.) to force others to help the less fortunate.
But I do believe that is covered under Thou Shalt Not Steal.
Time to Google-bomb the phrase "Roger Waters tax exile".
Amen bro, amen.
I'm alright, Jack.
Keep your hands off of my stack.
The benefit could be called Kool Aid because they've obviously been drinking a lot of it. Might have some copyright problems with that one, though.
it has good themes to it.
Waters used to be somewhat conservative, and an anti-Communist. Now he's just another codger…
Roger says:
“I pay taxes here. I’d be happy to pay more.”
and
"Money, get back I'm all right Jack keep your hands off my stack."
It saddens me that one of the heroes from my youth turned out to be a whack job. One that apparently is in full support of the whole mob of whack jobs. Though, a close look at the fascist and anarchist undertones of The Wall, and what appears to be a Roger's nihilist view of the world, and it shouldn't surprise.
YES! YES! Finally, someone has said it. They don't care by how much the tax rates increase because of all the tax loopholes! If these hypocrites had any guts, the next time they did their taxes, they would do away with their army of CPAs and tax attorneys, repatriate all their off-shore holdings, completely ignore the many and varied methods of sheltering their earnings, and simply fill out a 1040-EZ. Until those who constantly insist that we must "raise taxes on the wealthy" are willing to do at least that much, they really need to stop bellowing & bi$@&!ng because the only ones to get shafted will be the middle class (again).
There was no oppression of the state in post-war Great Britain. The fascist imagery was all in Pink's imagination, a manifestation of his hatred for the Nazi regime that killed his father. In other words, just another brick in the Wall.
Our popular culture has been in a perpetual state of adolescent "revolution" for nearly half a century. (Longer if you want to go back to Elvis.) It has always bored me to tears. Roger Waters is, what?, 200 years old and he still wants to be perceived as the fist-shaken-under-the-nose-of-authority rocker. He's got a right to his opinion but they are increasingly bizarre when coming frm a RICH geriatric hipster desperately trying to cling to relevance. You would think that someone would call him on it but nobody does.
I love the Kool Aid tag! So funny.
Yep, trying desperately to remain relevant. Too bad, he can write some pretty good music.These days I seem to listen mostly to Polkas. A local show that runs Sunday mornings and spills over to the Bill's NFL network at 1:00 p.m.
I'm a lifetime Pink Floyd fan but Waters has always been a socialist. His first wife was known as "Judy the Red" and his mother was a hard Leftist. In the mid-70s when all the other Floyds were buying mansions, Waters kept living in London to show that he was down with the proletariat.
Generally I won't spend my money on Commie entertainers, but I make an exception for the Floyd because they've given me a lifetime of entertainment pleasure. David Gilmour is a capitalist though, which helps.
Not quite true. Say what you will about Waters (and he deserves it) but to set the record straight, Waters was the only Floyd member who was not a tax exile.
Syd Barrett lived on the moon though, the dark side of the moon. As Whoopie might say, Barrett was Insane-Insane. Waters is just a commie tool.
not true.
They got rid of Churchill and went left. This took the fascist iconography of Hitler and married it to the statist education system. Remember, Orwell, a former leftist wrote 1984 in 1948 as a warning about the UK's leftward slide…
If someone really wants to aid those less fortunate than they are what would Jesus have them do, give money to the government or money to a decent charity where maybe 98% or the money actually gets to the poor or maybe go out and not only give money to the poor but help educate them? Somehow I don't think Jesus would want the money to go to the government.
He wasn't a tax exile. The other members of the Floyd were, but not Waters. At least he stood by his (wrong-headed) convictions, you gotta give him that.
showing your age, slick.
Wouldn't cop to polkas even if we WERE Polish. But then again, if enough beer flows…
I absolutely LOVE that you managed to find a link to a "Donate money to the Federal Govt" page. Bloody awesome – and I tweeted that myself.
Vic
If government is the goal then exactly as you say they should be doing aid concerts for the government.
No one who truly wants to help the poor gives money to the government, they give it to a legitimate charity. That's why there aren't any aid concerts for the government. No one is stupid enough to think that they are the real answer to aiding the poor.
Aid concerts are ego driven scams anyway. The performers get to be seen as charitable and perform without any expense to themselves while less of the money usually ends up with the poor than if the stupid performers had just donated themselves.
Free Market Capitalism for me (Mr. Waters)
Socialism for you…..
The lunatic is on the grass….
You owe me $7 for "Animals".
"Too bad, he can write some pretty good music."
He USED TO write some pretty good stuff.
Can anyone explain, "I don't like fish…"
But trying to suggest that since HE is willing, the rest of us shouldn't be coerced into going along. Never mind that I don't make a fraction of what Roger "former tax exile" Waters does.
Whon the F&*($ is Roger Waters, or yohjyu, to demand that the government steal from me?
"They are favoring a system where everyone is."
Sick, evil bastards.
Gilmour and his wife have also taken a hard left turn. Check out his website.
Still the best voice and guitar in rock history, for my money. And he drives the loathsome Waters mad, which is always a plus.
Wrong again. They don't want other people to give up their wealth. I know that's the TP favorite talking point, but that's all it is. The CEO of Bank of America can have 4 houses….I don't care. I just don't want him to decide to charge me $5 a month to use my debit card just so he can get a bigger bonus and buy a 5th house. Yup…..I'm putting a limit on the number of houses the CEO can have when it means taking more money from those who can ill afford it.
That's MY idea of morality. I know the TP's idea of morality is not letting gay people get married, but there you go….different strokes.
Alice Cooper and pizza come to mind.
The key word here is "logical," and that's not a term that can be applied to some of the posters here.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2006/09/im-in-middle...
Personally, I think Jesus would simply take care of it himself. Being not only the son of God, but God, comes with benefits.
So now they're Pinko Floyd, right?
I have never liked The Wall. Except for Comfortably Numb, the album is a gigantic waste of vinyl.
Comfortably Numb was rescued by Gilmour. As usual, his guitar work lifted that song from the black hole that is Roger's world, and made something beautiful.
My favorite lines…
"When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look, but it was gone.
I can not put my finger on it now
The child is grown
the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb."
I will say, when Roger gets it right, he's one of the best.
Now the Animals album is just plain great from the first needle drop to the final lift.
I absolutely love Pink Floyd, even the Syd Barrett years. I find no personal gripes with Roger Waters and the rest of the Band. It's their politics that make me sick. Dark Side is the greatest LP ever made by far.
Roger, I love you, but your politics are rancid.
To illustrate your utter confusion I'll quote you:
"The CEO of Bank of America can have 4 houses….I don't care."
Followed by this gem:
"Yup…..I'm putting a limit on the number of houses the CEO can have when it means taking more money from those who can ill afford it."
If you don't want to pay what the credit card companies charge, then guess what? Don't use their credit cards. Oh I know freedom of choice isn't popular with you lot, you'd rather put limits on everything just so you can feel better. You'd rather put a gun to peoples' heads to get what you think is "moral". Could you be more misguided??
Speaking of strawmen:
"I know the TP's idea of morality is not letting gay people get married" Ridiculous….
But your idea of morality is not allowing Americans to make as much money as they want? Seriously? How old are you, 14??
Think of it as Polish rock and roll.I grew up listening. My dad still does every Sunday. And since it was gay week on NPR, I flipped the dial and it reminded me of being a kid.
I remember about a dozen years or so ago. An interview with Dave Gilmour.
The reporter kept asking him about The Wall, and he kept replying that was Water's project, ask him about it. After about the 10th time I thought he'd walk out of the interview.
Comfortably numb, in sort of the same way Michael Jackson did.
Gilmour sure loves his money though.
It's difficult NOT to use credit cards. Booking flights on the 'Net require credit cards. Many things do. Saying "just don't use credit cards then" is a typical Conservative simplistic answer.
Yup, it is the morality issue. Having millions of dollars, having more money than you or your kids can ever spend in 5 lifetimes, yet trying to get more by charging people that can ill-afford it, IS immoral in my worldview. I know that's a difficult concept for someone who believes that a person should be allowed to make as much money as they want on the backs of the less fortunate, but there it is.
And that IS the fundamental difference between you and me. For example, Steve Jobs could have kept the jobs in the US instead of outsourcing them. Does it matter that Apple might only be worth $400 billion instead of $600 billion (hypothetical numbers since I don't have the data).
Simple: If you don't eat your meat, you CAN'T have any pudding
There is no dark side to moon, really. Matter if fact, it's all dark.
Jesus and the Bible say a great number of things that conservatives ignore when it suits their purposes.
And "The Final Cut" was the worst Floyd album ever, btw
"It's difficult NOT to use credit cards. Booking flights on the 'Net require credit cards. Many things do."
Bullsh!t. It's called a "check card". You're just too lazy and want everything your way. That's the typical leftist way.
"yet trying to get more by charging people that can ill-afford it"
More leftist rubbish. No one is forcing anyone to use credit cards. But since you keep harping on this idiocy, let me ask your opinion on Russell Simmons and his Rush card.
As for your last paragraph. You want to force companies to bend to your will? If you had a company, and you could make more money by sending part of your business overseas, why wouldn't you do it? Better question, What is too much in your opinion, and who the hell are you to tell anyone how much they should be allowed to make? It's your total ignorance of freedom and your arrogance to believe that you or anyone else has the right to limit how much anyone else makes.
THAT'S the difference between you and me. I believe in freedom, you believe in bondage.
"I
have become
comfortably dumb."
Easy. If I have a company that's worth $300 billion and I had the choice between sending jobs overseas and making $100 billion more or leaving the jobs here so and creating good paying jobs for some of my fellow Americans, I'd choose the latter. My company has $300 billion…why do I need another $100 billion? After a certain point, it's not about the actual money; it's about power….you know that.
We have a different definition of freedom. For me, it's not all about making as much money as I PERSONALLY can off the backs of those less fortunate than me.
Since I know nothing about Simmons and his Rush card, I have no opinion.
Word. That turd of an album proved once and for all that Waters was nothing without Gilmour.
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