Broke After Winning $20 Million Through Jackpot Justice
Since Obama has decreed that “when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” why not drop the incremental approach and cut to the chase? We could pool all the wealth in the world, divide it by the number of humans, and everybody gets that amount of money — no more, no less. Fairness at last.
Assuming liberal ideology could be taken to this logical conclusion without civilization completely collapsing, within a few years, we would once again find ourselves divided between the rich and the poor. For example, here’s what happened after our dysfunctional jackpot justice legal system gave a pair of looters $20,000,000:
A Missouri couple has filed for bankruptcy just eight years after winning a $20 million lawsuit against the makers of a butter popcorn flavoring that gave one of them lung disease.
Eric Peoples of Carthage and his wife, Cassandra, sued International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. and Bush Boake Allen Inc. in 2004 after Mr Peoples developed bronchiolitis obliterans while working at a popcorn plant in Jasper.
But just eight years later, the two are being forced to sell the home they built for $3.9 million to pay off creditors, after their financial situation went spectacularly downhill.
Wealth is like water. No matter how you pump or drain it, in the end it will return to its natural level. The industrious will have it, the irresponsible will not.
I wonder how many jobs were lost at International Flavors and Fragrances in the aftermath of the $20 million hit.
On a tip from AC.
If we took every dollar that exists in this country and evenly distributed it to every man, woman, and child; in a very short time period, that money would once again be concentrated in the hands of a few. The reason?
The rich to things that make and keep them rich.
The poor to things that make and keep them poor.
Always have. Always will!
“Wealth is like water. No matter how you pump or drain it, in the end it will return to its natural level. The industrious will have it, the irresponsible will not.
Well said Dave. Can I use that?
Looking at Mrs Tubbo, doing a great imitation of a beached whale, I suspect most of the 20 million bones went into her belly.
Thanks jazbo. Be my guest.
So he claimed to get some strange illness.. Then took 20 million from a company.
40% went to the john edwards imitator they hired, 40% went to obama and his goons…
The best they got was 20%…. Then they blew it on a big house and impressing their friends.
See… Liberalism really does work…. They began with nothing but a lie and ended up in debt.
She doesn’t appear to be a big fan of eating popcorn.
Man she’s not just fat… she’s ORCA FAT!
Bob Roberts says:
October 16, 2012 at 1:32 pm Man she’s not just fat… she’s ORCA FAT!
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Bob, if I may, in the words of R. Lee Ermey, “she is a disgusting fatbody.”
I’d pay to see zombies chase and catch the tub o’ lard.
I once had a client who was broke and couldn’t finance the steam off a hot dog… yet he had won a few mill in the lotto just a few years earlier, thought he was Elvis, bought everybody Cadillacs, etc
It was kind of fun to be there at the right moment to watch reality hit him, tho lol
She looks like living proof that maybe you can’t eat gold but you can eat $20 million!
Michelle says:
I doubt they gave 40% to Obama.
Music to my ears!!!!! I worked at IFF, from 1998 to 2010 & this clown (and few others) made my company & the whole flavor industry swim across a pool full of shark lawyers.
Diacetyl, which was used to impart a distinctive butter aroma to popcorn was known to be harmful in high concentrations, but in end-product in was found on ppb bases (parts per billion). I heard from well-connected source, this clown refused to wear breathing apparatus while dosing diacetyl to the mix. 20M was a price of him going away (IFF does around 1.2B of business a year & while it hurt us, it was cheaper to pay him off).
This is why they are broke. He squandered the money to get An Oompalooma.
The dictators will have it, the industrious will be in prison.
My farmer buddy told me about a local guy who won $5 mill, tried to become a farmer, and lost everything in bankruptcy inside of five years.
Next step: apply for disability.
Clarification:
The rich do things that make and keep them rich.
The poor do things that make and keep them feeding off the labors of the rich, with help from lawyers and politicians.
Looks like the local Dunkin Donuts is doing well.
Gezz… when she sits around the house she sits AROUND the house…when she wears a black sequen dress she looks like outter space…shes so big she keeps pesos in one hip pocket and canadian dollars in the other…shes so big, if you get too close you’ll be sucked in by her gravity…we’re talking BIG
She’s so big, when she gets in an elevator, it’s going down.
Bob Roberts,
Man she’s not just fat… she’s ORCA FAT!
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Nice Usual Suspects reference.
Does anyone else think the two of them look like a set of Matryoshka (Russian nesting) dolls? I mean, did he pop out from inside her?
Winston Smith says:
October 16, 2012 at 11:26 am
Looking at Mrs Tubbo, doing a great imitation of a beached whale, I suspect most of the 20 million bones went into her belly.
I was thinking the same thing. And it was all in ones.
Looks like the lady won’t need meal expenses for a couple of years.
Social networking sites also indicate she helps run PJ’s Country Bakery in Joplin, Missouri.
Bakery had better check their inventory.