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Hillary Clinton claimed that, at the moment she and her husband were signing up for $18 million in book deals, that they were dead broke.
Harry Reid (who lives in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel) said liberals are getting bullied by Republican billionaires but the Democratic Party doesnt have many billionaires behind it.
Joe Biden (family earnings: $407,000 last year plus a free house, driver, meals, etc.) claims he I dont own a single stock or bond. . . . I have no savings accounts . . . Im the poorest man in Congress. (Triple fail: Joe isnt poor, isnt in Congress and wouldnt be the poorest member of it if he were.)
Right here in New York, weve learned that City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, the daughter of a wealthy doctor who left a $6.7 million inheritance, took advantage of a no-interest loan intended for underprivileged New Yorkers to buy a Harlem townhouse. Then she forgot to declare the rental income on required city disclosure forms. The townhouse you and I helped buy her for $240,000 is today worth $1.2 million.
The more Democrats insist on their proletarian cred, the more absurd it gets. Theyre no longer just holier than thou: Now theyre prolier than thou.
Reid is worth about $3 million to $6 million and declined to release his tax returns even as he was screaming about Mitt Romneys. His statement that we dont have many billionaires was wrong too. Politifact dug up 22 billionaires who have made campaign donations to super PACs lately. Most of them 13 sent their checks to liberal and Democratic groups.
Biden may have been the poorest member of the Senate (not all of Congress) when he was there, but his net worth is still somewhere in the $39,000 to $800,000 range, reported the Center for Responsive Politics.
Why do all these exceedingly well-off people keep trying to convince us well see them at the dollar store?
Its all part of the increasingly delusional myth Democrats tell themselves that they are the tribunes of the middle class. In fact, their party is a strange two-headed beast picture a Cerberus featuring the faces of Barbra Streisand and Lois Lerner.
The Dems are a coalition of ultra-rich cultural-elite donors on the one hand and government employees and their clients on the other. In 2012, President Obama carried those earning under $50,000 by a wide margin. But Romney easily bested him among those over that threshold.
Ever wonder why the Democrats seem to want to keep people poor?
But theres another reason Democrats cant talk about their wealth. Its because they cant say, I made it big. Follow me and you can, too.
Democrats earn their money in ways that arent available to most Americans. Yet even for Democrats, the Clintons got rich in an exotic way. They accumulated something like $100 million not by building a business or inventing something or even writing some hit songs. Their entire fortune came from political celebrity. (Their daughter has even accumulated $15 million by being the offspring of political celebrities. Or did you think NBC News paid her $600,000 a year because of her obvious broadcasting ability?)
If the Clintons had gotten rich inventing Facebook, that fortune would have spawned many others. But celebrity honoraria dont work that way.
Why Democrats insist on lying about how ?poor? they are | New York Post
The left wing morons who vote for these people cause they believe their robin hood fairy tale, think they are so smart.
That is funny.
Harry Reid (who lives in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel) said liberals are getting bullied by Republican billionaires but the Democratic Party doesnt have many billionaires behind it.
Joe Biden (family earnings: $407,000 last year plus a free house, driver, meals, etc.) claims he I dont own a single stock or bond. . . . I have no savings accounts . . . Im the poorest man in Congress. (Triple fail: Joe isnt poor, isnt in Congress and wouldnt be the poorest member of it if he were.)
Right here in New York, weve learned that City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, the daughter of a wealthy doctor who left a $6.7 million inheritance, took advantage of a no-interest loan intended for underprivileged New Yorkers to buy a Harlem townhouse. Then she forgot to declare the rental income on required city disclosure forms. The townhouse you and I helped buy her for $240,000 is today worth $1.2 million.
The more Democrats insist on their proletarian cred, the more absurd it gets. Theyre no longer just holier than thou: Now theyre prolier than thou.
Reid is worth about $3 million to $6 million and declined to release his tax returns even as he was screaming about Mitt Romneys. His statement that we dont have many billionaires was wrong too. Politifact dug up 22 billionaires who have made campaign donations to super PACs lately. Most of them 13 sent their checks to liberal and Democratic groups.
Biden may have been the poorest member of the Senate (not all of Congress) when he was there, but his net worth is still somewhere in the $39,000 to $800,000 range, reported the Center for Responsive Politics.
Why do all these exceedingly well-off people keep trying to convince us well see them at the dollar store?
Its all part of the increasingly delusional myth Democrats tell themselves that they are the tribunes of the middle class. In fact, their party is a strange two-headed beast picture a Cerberus featuring the faces of Barbra Streisand and Lois Lerner.
The Dems are a coalition of ultra-rich cultural-elite donors on the one hand and government employees and their clients on the other. In 2012, President Obama carried those earning under $50,000 by a wide margin. But Romney easily bested him among those over that threshold.
Ever wonder why the Democrats seem to want to keep people poor?
But theres another reason Democrats cant talk about their wealth. Its because they cant say, I made it big. Follow me and you can, too.
Democrats earn their money in ways that arent available to most Americans. Yet even for Democrats, the Clintons got rich in an exotic way. They accumulated something like $100 million not by building a business or inventing something or even writing some hit songs. Their entire fortune came from political celebrity. (Their daughter has even accumulated $15 million by being the offspring of political celebrities. Or did you think NBC News paid her $600,000 a year because of her obvious broadcasting ability?)
If the Clintons had gotten rich inventing Facebook, that fortune would have spawned many others. But celebrity honoraria dont work that way.
Why Democrats insist on lying about how ?poor? they are | New York Post
The left wing morons who vote for these people cause they believe their robin hood fairy tale, think they are so smart.
That is funny.
