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Marxists - Socialists
Ok, How many of you are members?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...latimes/millionairesflockingtoyellowstoneclub
Sometimes you have to pay to play," says the Yellowstone Club's website, which explains that in exchange for an initiation fee of $250,000, a required property purchase of $1 million to $10 million and annual dues of $16,000, members enjoy a gated wonderland that offers 40 hiking and biking trails, rivers perfect for fly-fishing and an 18-hole course designed by former pro Tom Weiskopf, who is a member.
Just being loaded does not guarantee entry. Members must also heed the personal motto of Yellowstone Club founder and timber magnate Timothy Blixseth: Check your ego at the door.
.....more than a few aspiring members have been turned away.
Blixseth is too polite to name names, but his employees say one prospect was asked not to return after he chewed out the club's concierge in public because of a scheduling mix-up that was his own fault.
Another was shown the door after he treated the help "like slaves" and let his kids run wild, said one of the club's 300 employees.
Sources say Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison wanted to join, but was rebuffed because Blixseth didn't think he would fit in. The 10th richest person in the U.S., Ellison is known for being the kind of strutting peacock who, not long ago, redesigned a yacht he was building to ensure it would be bigger than the world's largest private vessel, owned by billionaire Paul Allen.
That kind of behavior is antithetical to Blixseth's genteel vision of his resort, where there are no cash registers or lift tickets and where cash tipping is discouraged.
"I'm not impressed by a person's money," said Blixseth, who with his wife, Edra, is beginning to turn a profit on their $200-million investment in the resort. He plans to cap membership at 864, but is in no hurry to reach capacity. "I don't want [members] here because they feel entitled or want to show off."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...latimes/millionairesflockingtoyellowstoneclub
Sometimes you have to pay to play," says the Yellowstone Club's website, which explains that in exchange for an initiation fee of $250,000, a required property purchase of $1 million to $10 million and annual dues of $16,000, members enjoy a gated wonderland that offers 40 hiking and biking trails, rivers perfect for fly-fishing and an 18-hole course designed by former pro Tom Weiskopf, who is a member.
Just being loaded does not guarantee entry. Members must also heed the personal motto of Yellowstone Club founder and timber magnate Timothy Blixseth: Check your ego at the door.
.....more than a few aspiring members have been turned away.
Blixseth is too polite to name names, but his employees say one prospect was asked not to return after he chewed out the club's concierge in public because of a scheduling mix-up that was his own fault.
Another was shown the door after he treated the help "like slaves" and let his kids run wild, said one of the club's 300 employees.
Sources say Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison wanted to join, but was rebuffed because Blixseth didn't think he would fit in. The 10th richest person in the U.S., Ellison is known for being the kind of strutting peacock who, not long ago, redesigned a yacht he was building to ensure it would be bigger than the world's largest private vessel, owned by billionaire Paul Allen.
That kind of behavior is antithetical to Blixseth's genteel vision of his resort, where there are no cash registers or lift tickets and where cash tipping is discouraged.
"I'm not impressed by a person's money," said Blixseth, who with his wife, Edra, is beginning to turn a profit on their $200-million investment in the resort. He plans to cap membership at 864, but is in no hurry to reach capacity. "I don't want [members] here because they feel entitled or want to show off."
