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  Wilbur Ross said the can of soup cost $1.99.
context: Says the man with a personal vanity project to make college students live in a windowless shoebox. >
  
  That's where I know that name from >
  
  damn look at this smarmy doughy face. it's been around since the early days of american political cartoons, totally unchanged lol >
  
  "Charles Thomas Munger (born January 1, 1924) is an American billionaire investor, businessman, and former real estate attorney. He is vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett; Buffett has described Munger as his closest partner and right-hand man."
  I'm beginning to think that even the great philanthropist Warren Buffett is a touch removed from reality. ^(/s) >
  
  Colbert had this beautiful joke in his monologue when Wilbur Ross made a huge out of touch comment when government employees were visiting food banks during a shut down - "What ? I don't understand?  Can you not buy a hamburger sandwich for a nickel and still have a ha'penny left over for the talkies?"  Immediately thought of it when i saw the picture of Munger. >
  
  His unintentional comment makes it even worse than it already is.
  The fact that he thought a hamburger is a nickel ($0.05 for those not in the US) makes his fortune (est. $600 million) even more obscene, because he's off by a factor of approximately 60. And this guy was the US Secretary of Commerce, who really should know the price of tea in the US (to mangle a common saying).
  Our government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. Instead, it's mostly of billionaire puppets, by billionaires, for billionaires. >
  
  I think you misunderstood his comment, as out of touch as Wilbur Ross is, he never made a comment thinking you could buy a burger for a nickel, that was Colbert making a joke about something Ross said about the cost of a can of soup, which was still outrageously out of touch.