Warren Buffet: The Joke of All Buffet's

When is a Buffet like a Buffet?

Nora Nick
Warren Buffet caught my attention when he started his windmill commercials. We were treated to a field of windmills and his ominous warning of global destruction due to mankind's spoiled and frantic use of the Earth's gas and oil reserves. I found him to be a charlatan with a demigod approach to a very real and serious problem. Outside of offering us a buffet of windmills, just what did he propose?

In my estimation he used his commercials to promote himself. Did you know he's a millionaire? Don't tell me a billionaire. Did you know that he cares about energy reserves and how we get them. His buffet offered a main dish of himself and side dishes of his ridiculous windmills. Who was he playing his commercial to? I mean what monetary gift was he asking for? Who was going to buy his windmills? I don't think he had enough side dishes. After all I would have wanted a chocolate cake shaped like a windmill wearing a Santa's cap and red streamers flowing down in a cascade of magical electrical sparks generated by his copycat windmills.

Where I come from, windmills were a part of producing energy for years as far as I know before the first World War. The windmills were used on the main part of the island to use wind power to mill flour. Those windmills have since been converted into very pricey hotels. While down by one of the several harbors a huge, noisey, electrical power plant generates electricity to light up one of the islands visited by Odysseys when he was made to endure ten years of travel to find his way home.

I think that Warren Buffet was making a joke of a serious problem and that his joke might just have backfired on him. I sincerely hope that his stocks plummet and that we are permitted to know which shares he has and laugh at his joke.

Published by Nora Nick

thirty year English teacher turned mental health therapist and now retired writer.  View profile

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  • Susan Anderson12/30/2008

    Great work.. interesting article!

  • Cathy A Montville12/29/2008

    Interesting points of view!

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