From the Financial Gazette (Harare) we learn just what it is that brings the Sage of Omaha together with the President of Zimbabwe.
Warren Buffet is some terribly rich white guy who lives in some place called Omaha in the United States. Robert Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe.
The two are poles apart. One is an avowed capitalist who has made his fortune on the stock market, that great pillar of capitalism. The other hankers for a return to the glory days of socialism; you know, you have two cows, the government takes both, and gives you the milk, sort of thing?
Africa 2007
But one thing that ties them together is…
Oh, we won’t spoil it. But take a guess and leave it as a comment before you click through the link.
Zimbabwe: If Mugabe Was CEO [AllAfrica.com]
Neither one of them have ever been in my kitchen.
Lis Claman?
Liz Claman?
They both consider derivatives “financial weapons of mass destruction” and have disinherited their cute granddaughter?
cannibalism?
I was gonna say that neither of them can buy their way into heaven.
Poor Zimbabwe! Mugabe should hang. As much as it may infuriate the liberals to say so, Zimbabwe was better off under white rule when it was Rhodesia. In fact, all of Africa was better off under white rule.
Both of them are using Windows Vista. Maybe they are both long on the US Dollar. Maybe the both own shares in coke.
Both of them are two-time silver medalists in the uneven parallel bars.
Both are descendants of slaves of Strom Thurmond’s family.
John Carney is pathologically jealous of both of them?
They both believe in Scientology?
same father?
both think CEOs are overpaid.
Carney,
You’re a twat.
Skru Yu.