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Fox"s Forbes Whines About President Obama Being Mean to Republicans

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Better call the waambulance! The talking heads over at Fox are terribly upset that President Obama was being mean to them after refusing to give in on their hostage taking with the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling.

Fox regular Steve Forbes joined Cavuto guest host Stuart Varney to complain about President Obama’s comments this Thursday, where he told Republicans that they should go out there and “win an election” if they want to overturn the Affordable Care Act.

Of course, they failed to play the second half of his statement where he mentioned not burning the place down to the ground to get your way:

In a statement hailing the deal that re-opened the government and raised the debt ceiling, Obama said that the Republican-led movement to halt the health care law — an effort that led to the shutdown and brought the United States close to default — was unfaithful “to what this country’s about.”

“You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it,” Obama said. “But don’t break it. Don’t break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That’s not being faithful to what this country’s about.”

Varney opened up the segment by asking Forbes, “After a bruising battle, is this the way to bring the two parties together?” Here we go again with them trying to pretend that if President Obama just acted a little bit nicer to the Republicans, they might be willing to work with him.

FORBES: He can’t help himself. He always loves to rub us when he wins a victory, rub his opponents’ faces in the dirt. That’s fine in a football game, doing a spike or something like that, but when you are President of the United States trying to get something done, especially on a tight schecule, this is not the way you go about it.

I think this underscores, this president does not want big things to be done, unless it’s his own big things. He wants to set up for the 2014 congressional election, and that means conflict and hoping to put the Republicans back on their backs again as he did yesterday.

Cry me a freaking river. After the damage they just did to our economy, the mild chiding by President Obama is the least they deserve. I want to know how they plan to pay us back for the $ 25 billion they just flushed down the toilet with their hostage taking?

Republicans don’t care one iota about actually governing, but they do have the feigned victimhood act down pat.

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Fox"s Forbes Whines About President Obama Being Mean to Republicans

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Women Gain Ground in Forbes "Richest People on Earth"

Since Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched the Giving Pledge, promising to give away at least half their wealth, 105 billionaires have signed the pledge.

Steve Forbes, the magazine’s editor in chief, weighed in with his ritual hosanna in the richest by headlining “THEY SUCCEED” followed in red ink “By Meeting Your Needs.” And they almost all have one or several of the 3,500 private jets in the United States.

The top 20 are worth $ 714 billion, up $ 80 billion in a year.

Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu is the world’s wealthiest man for the fourth consecutive year, with $ 73 big ones, up $ 4 billion in a year. Spain’s Amancio Ortega displaced Buffett in the No. 3 slot by providing women with low-priced fashion clothes.

The youngest is Dustin Moskovitz, 28, “beating fellow Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg by a week.”

Four decades after Communist Vietnam declared victory it produced its first billionaire. Pham Nhat Vuong studied in Moscow and made $ 1.5 billion selling condos and luxury resorts — presumably to non-Vietnamese.

Thailand’s Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, 68, takes longer than most to sign his name but his Thai beer empire gave him $ 11.7 billion.

Forbes sees a link between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and “the abandonment of Communism in China” and “the astonishing rises in the global standard of living.”

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, opines Forbes, “should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics” and “revoke the one awarded to the New York Times’ Paul Krugman in 2008.”

Forbes recognized Stewart because last January “he spooked the idea of the trillion-dollar platinum coin, which had been floated as a way of getting around the ceiling on the national debt.”

Perhaps Stewart should be drafted, suggested Forbes, “to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, whose monetary policies are doing immense harm to the U.S. and global economies.”

Forbes lists the top three as Ortega with $ 19.5 billion (net worth $ 57 billion), Buffett with $ 9.5 billion (net worth $ 53.5 billion), and Charles Koch with $ 9 billion in rising refining and chemical profits (net $ 34 billion).

Almost all the world’s 1,426 billionaires are married (“many multiple times”), but Forbes publishes the list of the most eligible — five multibillionaires in their 30′s and 40′s who have never tied the knot.

“From Oligarch to President?” is a Forbes story on Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov who stays in a $ 35,000-a-night penthouse suite at the top of the Four Seasons hotel in midtown Manhattan, and whose full-time job is his ambition to succeed Vladimir Putin.

Prokhorov bought the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets for $ 200 million and frequently flies over to watch them play.

In 1995, the wild days of anything-goes-capitalism in Russia, Prokhorov bought control of Norilsk Nickel — and never looked back.

Forbes’ “Prince of Insecurity” article challenged Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal who says he’s one of the 10 richest people in the world with $ 20 billion.

“Forbes doesn’t buy it,” said the headline. But the Saudi Prince has a palace in Riyadh with 420 rooms and a country weekend hideaway carved out of the desert with five artificial lakes and mini Grand Canyon, five other homes, and his own 747.

Saudi royals don’t advertise their wealth and they go to great lengths to operate below Forbes’ radar screen. Talal is an exception. He courts publicity and tries to maintain the fiction he’s the richest man in the kingdom, the gulf, the Arab world.

Forbes is a welcome change of pace from the depressing daily articles in the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal about the latest rip-offs on Wall Street, London, Zurich, and other global financial centers.

There isn’t a day without a major financial scandal in the world of democratic capitalism. 

This week, a U.S. Senate investigation issued an angry assessment of JPMorgan’s $ 6.2 billion trading loss in 2012 as bank officials concealed losses from investors and federal regulators.

The U.S. Treasury says its financial institutions file more than 15 million “suspicious activity reports” every year. 

Switzerland was the long-time paradise for the world’s gazillionaires — at one stage tax cheats were willing to fork over a negative interest rate in return for Swiss protection — but the Swiss gravy train has just been flagged down by a national referendum that spells big trouble.

The Swiss have voted to give shareholders the right to veto the salaries, bonuses, and overall pay packages of senior corporate executives and board directors.

Adding insult to injury, no more signing bonuses, golden parachutes, or special compensation payouts to executives when their companies are taken over in buyouts,

Violations earn prison for three years and fines of six times yearly compensation.

With the U.S. borrowing 46 cents of every dollar it spends, warn today’s Internet doomsayers, there are plenty of Cassandras, scaremongers, and Chicken Littles with fancy logos and voiceovers to tell us the end is near.

Breathing from his diaphragm, an authoritative voice told us “we are trapped” and “there is no way out.” Or “life as we have lived it for the past 40 years is about to die” and “martial law is coming” because “the savings of millions and retirement funds will soon be wiped out.”

There is no law against crying fire in a crowded theater on the Internet.

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Women Gain Ground in Forbes "Richest People on Earth"