I'd me Mad at Madoff too...  

So this Madoff fellow has been in the news a lot recently for ripping off many people and coming away with at least 50 billion dollars... I definitely call that a steal... (cue drums for lame joke). So what exactly did this man do? I wasn't exactly up on this financial news seeing as how I never invested with him and this isn't the first time a wealthy old white man has tried to make more money than anyone ever needs through illegal scams and schemes. Well to answer this very plainly, he had a Ponzi scheme that ripped off people not only here in the United States, but worldwide. Maybe if he wasn't such a scumbag, I would give him a high five and ask him for some tidbit secrets.

Anyway, it's not really him that interests me. The story I recently read on cnn.com
involves one of the women he scammed; an author who lost her entire life savings. Now If I were her, I would be extremely pissed off. I mean to work so hard to save money so that once I retire that would be what I use and then have it be taken away by some man who was already ridiculously rich, and that I would have to start over at an advanced age...

Except that this writer, Alexandra Penney, is still pretty filthy rich. A part of the article explains now that Penny has lost her life savings, which is still a horrible thing, "She's gone back to work and may sell homes and jewelry to pay expenses."

Hold on. Homes? with an S? If she has multiple homes, one of which being an apartment in SOHO, then I really think this author and her life savings will be just fine. Leave it up to CNN to find another rich person who just happened to have a good chunk of her money taken from her, but that it really doesn't matter. All Penney has to do is sell a "few homes" and she'll probably be back to normal. The other comment about having to go back to work, well how inconceivable! People having to work to earn money? Now that is really outrageous. Oh and what's worse! Furthermore, Penney will now have to take "her first subway ride in 30 years." How TERRIBLE!

The most ridiculous part of this whole article is the fact that after all of this blubbering about subways and selling cottages and jewelry and *gasp* going back to work, Penney says that she doesn't want people to feel sorry for her. And yet she "jokes" about how she's going to entertain her friends at Taco Bell, or how she writes a blog entitled "The Bag Lady Papers". I think this author needs to go to a writing workshop dedicated to learning real irony, or maybe how to tone down the dramatics.

I think the more heart-wrenching stories are the ones where the big fat old rich white men are ripping off poor helpless people who are already working for a living and might one one home if they are lucky. That is a much better story, and that always can lead to a follow-up story about revenge and taking the old white fart out, if you know what I mean.