Buffet - A Long Story

I didn’t realize it at the time, but Warren Buffet came into my life over fifty years ago.  I was a teen-aged clothing salesman at a T Eaton Co. Department Store in Canada.  Our most expensive shirts were U.S. made beautiful specimens from a company called Berkshire Hathaway.  I wore what I sold so I knew they were the very best in every respect.

Then one day I put on an expensive Berkshire shirt that didn’t meet the mark.  It was cheaply tailored garbage.  Buffet had closed the U.S. Berkshire factories and replaced their brand with worthless trash from Chinese slave mills.  He ripped off loyal Berkshire shirt customers for decades and destroyed its U.S. mills and workers.  He and others like him have made vast fortunes at the expense of the workforce in what was once the most prosperous and successful Christian nation on earth.

It was forty years before I mentally connected the Berkshire shirt tragedy to the pompous stuffed shirt who named his Wall Street investment company after the corpses of his first victims – Berkshire Hathaway.

Buffet and his Wall Street buddies have used the Chinese shirt model to destroy many once prosperous U.S. industries.  Americans drive Chinese Chevrolets while Buffet bulldozes Detroit.  They pay U.S. prices for slave camp facsimiles.

Today the Buffet U.S. railway oligarchy is making money hand over fist by shipping dangerously explosive unit trainloads of fuel right through towns and cities all across North America.  Villages are going up in flames after huge rail accidents.  Cities are next.

Does Buffet care?  Did he care when he bulldozed Detroit?  He cares only about money.  How do I know?  It’s a long story.