The average net worth of Congress is about $1 million, the senate, $14 million. Of course, this is the same lady who said of the federal budget, “the cupboards are bare; there’s not a nickel left to cut”, so she obviously has a different view of money than the rest of us.
For What It's Worth 
It’s easy to live paycheck to paycheck; Save nothing.
something that makes no sense for someone who makes no sense:
You are too kind. I find this barnyard video a little closer to revealing her true inner beauty:
Congressman have been crying about this for so long that my late grandmother, who died in 1979, had this to say: “If they’re so badly paid, why do so many people want to get in?” My thought is, if things are so tough for ’em, why do so many leave as millionaires, no matter how modest their circumstances when they arrive? Of course, Dame Nancy made her money the old fashioned way – she married it.
Some real estate news. One hundred million in state tax credits used. I am not sure it helped us.
http://www.greenwichtime.com/business/article/RBS-CEO-concedes-little-future-in-Stamford-6104099.php
She is the anti-christ
Link is sort of misleading. Medians are more representative than averages.
The link isn’t misleading because when you go to the story it indicates that the median (middle) net worth of Congress is $1,008,767. If that is your argument than you must then either be a government employee or a big fan of government, because arguing over a statistical function when both are large for “public servants” is a distraction from the issue and misses the point.
Creepy woman! Makes my skin crawl!
AJ. This is for you.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/us/washington-police-shooting/index.html
Odd, but cops see the internet and people with cameras, not their own criminal behavior as the problem.
‘Cop Who Illegally Kidnapped and Beat Down Syndrome Man Says He Would Do It Again if He Could’
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/deputy-pepper-sprayed-assaulted-kidnapped-man-syndrome-i-act-same/
Despite this incident and a long record of assaulting civilians, this dirt bag still has his job.
All pigs are equal, but some are more equal than others… keep forking over those tax revenues, little people!
it’s really for the best, isn’t it?
http://commonsensewonder.blogspot.com/2014/08/nancy-pelosi-and-crony-capitalism-its.html
And yet There are people on this blog who will tell you that the $975 million spent was more than made up for by the taxes generated by this abuse of the people’s money.
It never ends: here’s the latest mind f*ck from MSN —
“Truth is subjective. One plus one equals three, the sky is green and the grass is blue, there are five lights.
The dress is white and gold.
The dress is blue and black.
The dress in question was posted on Tumblr earlier today by user swiked, who noted that her friends were unable to agree from a picture whether the frilly number was white and gold, or blue and black. They were, in swiked’s words, “freaking the f*** out.” Discussion quickly leapt to Twitter. Some users quickly made up their minds, their reality locked in place by their first viewing.
“it’s blue and black bye,” — Elizabeth Lopatto (@mslopatto) February 27, 2015
Others saw the dress change in front of their eyes, from blue with black bands, to white with bands of gold. And some users, angry and confused by a world in which colors could change at will, invented elaborate explanations to cushion their mental falls [fails?]. . . .”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/this-dress-color-war-is-the-perfect-way-to-end-a-wonderful-day-on-the-internet/ar-BBi1yMp?ocid=AARDHP
The article then links to another that tells us that it’s all in your mind as to what colors you see. Bullshit! But at least that article shows us the dress in three different colors and it’s easy to see that the color shift — from looking at the photo’s background — is due to brightness, color saturation, contrast, etc., and even presents us with a Photoshop pixel analysis.
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/
Dittos Weakley Hollow, Babylon Sister, Crocodile tears from a real crocodile! This woman’s connections have enriched her husband of millions+!
Reverend Al was back at the Whitehouse this week.
http://nypost.com/2015/02/27/sharpton-heads-to-white-house-for-civil-rights-leaders-powwow/
Wait a minute – I think I’m calling bs on this one. Although I don’t like her one bit, she was talking about people who work at DHS not getting paid. She used a bad reference, but having a net worth of $1million is no great shakes Do you go to work for free? Then why would you think that people at DHS should? These people aren’t working in traditional “civil service” jobs. How long can you go without receiving a paycheck before it hurts?
Include real estate, and so many people are worth $1 million, even after the recession (not I, of course).
Who can afford to be a member of congress? Only people who are well off! Let’s not look down upon senators who have had successful careers, and then want to serve their country. It’s more than most of you are doing!
Go back and listen to what she says about her fellow congressman struggling from paycheck to paycheck. As for the DHS, the sooner it’s broken up and every new employee added since 2001, the better.
There are, to my knowledge, almost no senators or representatives who leave congress poorer than when they came in (Chris Shays was one, but the Democrats tossed him out). To the contrary, even those who come in with modest means retire as multi-millionaires, an astonishing result, considering their (reported) pay. Harry Reid, for instance, who has never worked in the private sector in his life, has seen his net worth increase during his “service” to the country from zero to $7 million. Nice work, if you can get it.
” I don’t know about you, but I think just about everybody I know can not live without having their paycheck on time – members of Congress, even – and yet they’re asking this DHS people to do that.”
That’s the entire quote – nothing about anyone “struggling paycheck to paycheck”, not a single word. I think you’re hearing what you want to hear.
I agree that Harry Reid is a snake oil salesman who has violated the rules on various occasions. That doesn’t mean that everyone has. Regardless, they deserve to be paid if they do the work they are hired to do. I understand your dislike of the DHS, but a deal’s a deal, no?
Bad deals enacted by edict as the result of false flag attacks, as in a deal is a deal? Karma in action?
“I think just about everybody I know can not live without having their paycheck on time – members of Congress, even”
What part of that don’t you understand?
I’ll tell you what part you don’t understand, CF, the left wing brain as described in this little gem of an excerpt of a piece of common core mind fuck from MSN that I posted above: Truth is subjective. One plus one equals three, the sky is green and the grass is blue . . .
Once you buy that, you’ll buy anything — that is the goal.
According the the US Census Bureau the median net worth of the US Household was $68,828 in 2011 (last year reported). I am not sure it has risen a lot from there unless you owned equities, home prices have not skyrocketed. I was not a math major, but I would posit that $1mm + is > $68,828 by a fairly wide margin.
Here is the link. The excel spreadsheet is very good… What say you Artie?
http://www.census.gov/people/wealth/
I won’t check your math on that one! Lol. My point is that you need to be well off to run for office – I looked at the list of the top 50 wealthiest members of congress, and there were three categories of success (primarily) 1. the member inherited the money, 2. the member married into wealth 3. the member was successful in business prior to running for office. What do they all have in common? They are wealthy, of course.
Chris, I’ll stand by my statement – you want to hear it how you hear it. Can most people live with short-term cash-flow interruptions in Congress? Yes. Can most people in the US? No. These people in the DHS are regular Joe’s – they need their pay to pay their mortgages, taxes, pay for their kids braces – just like everyone else.
I’ve lived through a recent cash-flow problem and I don’t wish it on anyone. BTW – is there a good lawyer out there who’ll take an employment problem on via a contingency basis?