Anonymous (not verified) says:

Amen to your comment! Was there a racial prejudice against the WASPs at the end of the first Gilded Age? There may have been resentment, but not with the racial prejudice the Jews always get when an economy starts to weaken. Also, since Renco took over the failing factories that produce some of the essential ores that make our economy go (oh, just minor things like electricity to our homes!), and got those companies working more efficiently, Renco, according, at least, to Wikipedia, has made some very serious strides in cleaning up the emissions. Also, the Rennert palazzo on Long Island appears to me to be a beautiful piece of architecture, a grand play on the villa at Herculaneum owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, the latter villa which the Getty Museum replicates, if I remember correctly. Inevitably the Rennert will become a museum or resort, open to many and having provided jobs in its building and obviously in the continuous required jobs for its upkeep. Cheers.

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