Warren Buffett's Lucky Sperm Club

Warren Buffett is a respected, if not beloved, figure in American culture in large part because he is about the richest man in American culture. Sadly though his ego seems to have gotten away from him. He is easily forgiven for clownishly playing the ukulele before fawning fans, and obnoxiously leading them in laughter at his constant stream of very bad jokes, but worst of all, he makes plain goofy political comments.

For example, he is very proud to be for the Estate Tax. His rationale is that one should not be given the right, by Republicans, to inherit money just because one is in what he calls "the lucky sperm club", i.e., a club whose members have wealthy parents who want to give their money to their kids rather than to the Democrats. The Democrats, he feels, must circumvent the loving wishes of parents. If one expands his theory of the family you have to conclude that above average parents should not be allowed to do much, if anything, that is above average for their kids, such as let them live in their big houses, eat their good food, and attend expensive schools. In fact, wealthy kids should not be allowed to benefit in any way merely as a result of who their parents are or how much they are loved. It's a concept that makes sense to Buffett and his Democratic friends, perhaps, but certainly not to Charles Darwin. According to Buffet, in theory anyway, it simply is not fair to those with average or below average parents. The Democrats must equalize parents' desires to do for and love their children.

Separating parents from children to equalize them in a classless society is, surprise, a good old fashioned communistic idea. It brings to mind the stories of scared, lonely 3 year old kids wondering lost in the middle of the night looking for their parents in the dormitories of communist kibbutzim ,or, Democratic teacher unions in America trying to force all children into failing hip hop public schools rather than let them attend competitive and mostly better private schools of their parents' choosing, or, the heroic Stalinist children who were encouraged to turn in their parents for execution, for hoarding a few grains of wheat during the Stalinist induced famines only to become orphanage heroes. It seems parental love must sometimes be circumvented by a state that feels it can more reliably socialize children into the commonweal than parents whose love can find expression in many different ways that are not always consistent with omniscient, Democratic, bureaucratic proclamations.

Of course, Buffet is a Democrat and as such wants the money that is taken from children to be given to the gov't which in turn would grow ever more powerful and then ever more powerfully assert its' right to more and more private sector money. It brings to mind another, but related, badly thought out aspect to Buffett's fractured and tendentious thinking. He loves the state much like all good Democrats but instead of giving his estate to the state he gave it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? Foundations are, of course, tax scams that enable rich guys to keep their money and spend it largely as they see fit rather than to let it fall into