Go Suck Some Eggs, Bezos!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

I have been worried about Jeff Bezos recently, I really have.  The man who some people ruefully claim is the world's second richest human, only lagging behind Tesla's Elon Muskrat, obviously has financial difficulties that us ordinary folks can't even begin to imagine.  Why, the poor guy apparently can't even afford to pay taxes - and now the largest Amazon distribution center in the state of New York has voted to unionize!  Egads!

Bezos, a US citizen, is having a big boat built for his personal use - in Holland.  True, it is a really big boat - which at 416 feet in length with masts that are 131 feet tall will be the largest sailing vessel (boat with sails) in the world.  Bezos' boat will be so darned big that the Dutch government will have to take down an historic old bridge in order for the $485 million dollar vanity vessel to make its way out to sea.

Have I mentioned that Jeff Bezos pays no US income taxes?  And if there are taxes involved in the building of his big boat, those are going to Holland.

But yachting around the world is not the only way that the owner of Amazon.com and The Washington Post gets his travel thrills.  Jeff Bezos also owns a space flight company, Blue Origin, which last July rocketed the tax-avoiding billionaire, his brother, and a couple of other lucky travelers into space for a ten-minute frolic in weightlessness.   It was a joyride for the ages!

Now Bezos is talking about a mission to Mars, though it is doubtful that he, himself, would leave the creature comforts of Sodom and Gomorrah for an interplanetary voyage that would last for months and months.  Why he might return to Earth and find his whole damned business empire unionized!

But all of that joyriding, whether on the sea or in outer space, comes with a cost, and Jeff Bezos is moving quickly to insure that he has enough cash-on-hand to meet the needs of his opulent lifestyle.  In February of this year he raised the subscription price of Amazon Prime from $119 per year to $139 per year, and increase of over 16.8%, and just yesterday subscribers to Amazon's Music Unlimited, the main source for Alexa's tunes, were notified that the monthly fee for that service was going up from $3.99 to $4.99, or just over a 25% increase.

And have I mentioned that the fun-loving Mr. Bezos, a man who joyrides at the direct expense of most working Americans, pays no taxes?

I guess maybe I shouldn't waste time worrying about how Jeff Bezos will pay his bills, and instead worry about my own.   Perhaps I will organize a yard sale to help cover the increased fees that I will be sending to Amazon.   It's the least I can do to support the joyriding of a spoiled child who can't even be bothered to support the country that has given him so much.

Go suck some eggs, Bezos, and may they all be rotten!