"They called it the 'riches to rags story to appease the 99% who don't like the rich."

[Skidmore]

Spoken by the guy who is building this monstrosity as a private home for his family. GMA just did an item on this "extreme home" as they call it. The man and his wife were poster people for the 1%. His Thurston Howell clueless-but-entitled impression was topnotch and I swear she was auditioning for some New Housewife show concept.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-14/versailles-the-would-be-biggest-house-in-america

[ananda]

1. Rich white trash..

.. truly disgusting.

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. +1. n/t

[Dirty Socialist]

2. That Makes My Flesh Creep

Just like the original Versailles makes me wanna hurl.

[Marrah_G]

3. This sort of excess shows a real flaw in our society

[BumRushDaShow]

4. The U.S. has been there before

It goes in cycles. Many turn-of-the-century obscene mansions eventually fell into disrepair and were eventually torn down. The barons and the barons and the barons...

[knitter4democracy]

6. After reading the article, it's an appropriate name.

They must not know what happened to the original owners of Versailles.

[blueamy66]

7. after Googling these damn fools....

I found myself laughing at their total ignorance

Who the fuck needs 22 bathrooms and 10 kitchens and 4 pools?

And she ain't all that anymore and him, well, there are no appropriate words.....