Eduardo Saverin comes to the land of the free and lives the American dream, becoming a big winner as an original business partner in Facebook.

Then he effectively tells America to go fuck itself.

He would deny that, but his argument thus far seems to boil down to this: "I'm a citizen of the world. And citizens of the world don't have to follow the same rules as everyone else. Just to make it official, I'm renouncing my American citizenship. Take that, tax man! Gee, I'm so clever and cosmopolitan. Open another bottle of champagne, my favorite little lingerie model. Hey, maybe after I've invested a couple of million bucks of my mad money on some tech startups that have a shot in hell of repeating Facebook's success, we'll go party in the Big Apple."

Because rich people do silly stuff sometimes, like spending $120 million on a painting -- when they could have spent $120 on a decent frame and a replica print.

That $120 million could have been used to fund a whole bunch of mobile tech startups, add multiple production lines on a factory that actually makes stuff in the USA, or capitalize an international mining or energy firm employing thousands of executives, professionals and blue-collar workers. It could have created all kinds of profits (yes, profits. Rich people won't invest in businesses out of the goodness of their hearts) and regional spin-offs for the benefit of the society.

Instead, some rich dude is going to have a $120 million conversation-starter in his living room.

The next time a Republican tells you that we need to give tax breaks to the rich so that they can build the businesses that create jobs, throw this in their face. Rich people can be just as stupid with their money as the rest of us.

Jonathon Narvey is the Editor of The Propagandist

It's not just Warren Buffett. More and more of America's wealthiest elites are coming out and shouting, Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!

Maybe the Republicans, who do so love to dote on their wealthy constituents, ought to listen to what their people are telling them. Folks like Stephen King:

I guess some of this mad right-wing love comes from the idea that in America, anyone can become a Rich Guy if he just works hard and saves his pennies. Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn money—is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America without America. That you were fortunate enough to be born in a country where upward mobility is possible (a subject upon which Barack Obama can speak with the authority of experience), but where the channels making such upward mobility possible are being increasingly clogged. That it’s not fair to ask the middle class to assume a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. Not fair? It’s un-fucking-American is what it is.

6:00 a.m., Art Gallery lawn: meet fellow Occupiers for Mass Deploring

6:05 - 6:10 a.m., Coal Harbour: Participate in anti-coal protest with radical puppeteers

6:10 - 6:30, VAG: General Assembly brainstorm re “No Work, No School, No Housework, No Shopping.” Query: may we educate (School) passersby re Shopping, evils of?

6:30 Kabuki action against Royal Bank

6:35 Drum circle protest in CIBC lobby

6:40 Toronto Dominion face-painting sit-in

6:45, Robson Square: Occupy Philosophy Committee thinkfest re White Protest On Stolen Native Land, possible uncoolness of?

This Chinese factory worker labors 60 hours a week for low wages and was told that if she were interviewed by foreign media, she'd be criminally investigated.

I'm sure she's happy to have the job and considers it a step up from even worse work in the countryside. And I'm not suggesting that all the companies that do business in China pull up stakes (only to set them down again in Vietnam or Indonesia). But of all companies out there, you'd think Apple could afford to provide its workers with better conditions. They're still making more than 30 percent profit margin on their products, while their competitors are fighting over crummy 4 to 6 percent margins.

"I'm not fond of this government's austerity measures," says one Molotov cocktail-throwing Greek anarchist. "So I'm going to help burn this place down to the ground. Maybe if we wreck the place today, I can get a construction job tomorrow."

"It's halftime in America. And the second half is about to begin. If we don't find a way forward, we'll make one."

Yes, it's corporate propaganda appealing to patriotism. And it's awesome. Also check out the Batman-version below before it gets taken down for copyright violation.

Loved this recent bit from Colbert: "Corporations are people. You won't weigh in on whether some people are people? That seems kind of racist, George."

China doesn't play by the rules of international trade. Labor unions are illegal, workers are mistreated and underpaid and their companies run roughshod over any attempt at environmental protections. Naturally, their corrupt starvation-wages economy has allowed it to continue on as a low-cost provider, bankrupting the competition and closing factories all over the world. And now they're using that ill-gotten economic heft to buy up swathes of strategic resources as raw materials, bypassing what ought to be profitable processing operations on our end. Why do we let them do it?

Recommended reading: China has our forests. Now we're sending our oilfields, too

A Robin Hood tax on the banks? I can't say I'm entirely on board with how they'd like the revenues distributed, but the basic idea is sound. If anything, they ought to be asking for more of a slice from banks that continue to pay their financiers billions in bonuses while still benefiting from the government dole.