Where, Oh Where Are Those Rich Democrat Patriots?
Since leaving office, Al Gore has made even more money than both Clintons combined. With his big-tent revival style and his global warming scam, Al Gore has become not just rich, but filthy rich.
With a net worth estimated at $100 million, Al can afford, I think, a bit of patriotic giving right now. I found this rich little nugget on Gore’s awesome monetary success after leaving office, and was quite shocked to see that Al gets even more for speaking than Bill Clinton, $175,000 per prophecy.
I would just hate for Al to have to sell one of his homes or — heaven forbid — conserve energy, in order to help us taxpayers out a bit with the debt, but I’m sure Al will want to be acknowledged as a fine patriot in the Biden tradition. So, let’s just ask him to step up to the plate with his fat, fat checkbook and give Uncle Sam some of those millions.
The latest Roll Call tally of congressional wealth shows that Democrats hold seven of the top 10 slots. John Kerry is the richest member, with an estimated net worth of $188 million. Democrat Jane Harman of California is third at $152 million. Democrat Jay Rockefeller comes in at $81 million. Senator Dianne Feinstein comes in at $46 million. Nancy Pelosi ranks lower at $21 million, but that’s not counting the close to $100 million in her husband’s name. I’m sure we’ll get lots and lots of patriotic donations from rich liberals in Congress.
Then, there’s Hollywood.
Hollywood is just brimming over with rich Democrats, who cannot wait, I’m sure, to demonstrate their patriotism. Well, let’s see those checkbooks.
George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Sheryl Crow, Whoopi Goldberg, and all the rest of them can take a break from spouting off about The One they helped elect and get in line to do their duty. Millions and millions and millions are sure to come forth from the Hollywood denizens of true patriotism. Instead of spreading all that wealth around in the third world, these Hollywood patriots can start putting that money towards alleviating American poverty.
New York, if I’m not mistaken, is also home to a number of very, very rich, oh-so-patriotic Democrats. We’ve already gotten the Clintons on board, but let’s make sure we don’t leave out the biggest fat-cat Democrat of all — George Soros. Good old George can start passing the hat among all his comrades and cronies. We won’t turn down a dime of that patriotic cash.
When all the patriotism of Democrat Americans is tapped out, I say we send President Obama back to Europe with a bunch of hats, so he can pass them among all his European “fellow citizens of the world.”
How could they say No to President O?
As for me, I’m sick and tired of listening to the moralizing “We’re so generous, really we are” liberal Democrat mantra. Democrats patriotic? Generous? Oh, please.
As long as they’re using other people’s money, their talk is all red, white, and blue.
When it comes to their own purses and lives, however, the only color they recognize is neon yellow.
Just imagine a Republican profiting greatly while in the Oval Office. Just imagine what the media would say about such a development. But when a Democrat leaves the presidency far richer than he was when he assumed it, the media is utterly silent. Hmmm….
In their defense…and I am no friend of “Slick Willie,” believe me…
At the time Hillary announced her run for the Senate, paperwork was filed pro forma as to their collective net worth. I happened to be working for a Trust administrator here in Boston who managed their assets. In paperwork I’d viewed (signed off on by David Kendall), it showed their entire net worth was only 2-3 Mil. This was early 2001.
So virtually all of their current worth was earned post-Presidency.
” Where are the rich democrat patriots”, the same place loyal Jesuits are to the Pope.Almost non existent.
Why don’t you disclose the Kennedy trust holed up somewhere in the Pacific away from the eyes of the IRS; Kerry’s wife’s fortune everywhere but in the States,
Liberal plutocrats who call for higher taxes never contribute to state or national government. Steven King has a fine house in Bangor, Maine but lives most of the year in Florida and pays (lower) taxes there. He has been generous in free-will donations in Maine, but knows he can allocate his money more effectively than Maine’s blundering, dropsical bureaucracy and politicians. They all know this and I assume that they don’t think the lesser breeds should be allowed to spend or donate of their own free will.
Years ago, when Melissa and Bill Gates made their showy donation of $10M to support fighting AIDS in Africa, I thought why throw that money down that rathole? I said it would have been better that he paid his share of income tax instead of making a showboat donation to a pointless cause and taking the deduction. When I pointed this out, most of the people I knew accused me of just being negative.
If the liberal rich are so gung ho about paying taxes, why don’t they fire all their accountants and take the standard deduction on their 1040 form?
I do wish people would correctly recall that the Dems have had FOUR years plus, not two, and point out that it was the election of 2006 that marked the beginning of the economic tumble. This needs to be YELLED! Everyone seems to be ignoring this, or giving it only the slightest mention, but it’s Congress that mostly sets economic policy, and it’s Congress that these loonies have controlled since January of 2007.
From my viewpoint, the slide began the day after the 2007 election. I’m an employment lawyer, and on the day after that election I received calls in the dozens from businesses who wanted help in preparing severance plans to reduce their work forces. The next year was the best my practice has ever seen, but that was the flash before the darkness. Business owners recognized that having Democrats in control of Congress was a disaster for them, and they acted accordingly. Whether that was a matter or perception becoming reality is irrelevant – that’s the way of all economics. During that election, Democrat candidates were clearly proclaiming that they intended to do pretty much what they’ve done and worse, and the people who drive the economy reacted as anyone with half a brain should have expected. You cannot tell the people whose activities create jobs that you’re going to punish them for those activities, and expect anything else to happen. But we have a huge part of our population now living in a dream world where they think they can have anything they want just by wanting it enough.
I’ve been saying this for ages. All of this billionaires and rich celebrities on the Left are very free with their advice and opinions. I am particularly tired of Warren Buffet (of all people) telling us that he is “undertaxed” and that we should all be contributing more to the government for the “general good.” (Meanwhile he plans on putting half of his vast wealth into untaxable charitalbe trusts so that money is lost to the economy.) They are all a little slower off the mark when it comes to actually doing something about it.
Nothing that I can think of is stopping the Buffets, Gores, Immeldts, Streisands, Winfreys etc. from taking out their checkbooks and voluntarily writing a check for, say, three-quarters of their net wealth and giving it to Uncle Sam. They can even specify that said contribution go to something they really believe in like propping up Medicare or providing grants to support transvestite dinner theater in Seattle. They can all then pledge to live on $250,000 per year and not one penny more.
They not only owe this to the nation but they owe it to me. As the commercial says – “It’s my money and I want it now!”
What has it got to do with wealth? You are a lib, you have an extra $20, send it in to the government you love, $50, $100, better yet. The U.S. Treasury, Bureau of Public Debt, a cover letter with your SS # and you’re in business. Don’t wait for me, get it out today libs, the government you worship needs you.
And regards to Barack, the men who laughs while he destroys.
You realize you’re asking them to, gasp, give up their lattes (or a couple a week at least), and their latest yoga pants! And the quinoa at whole foods! (maybe the chileans could afford to eat it again) How dare you ask them to sacrifice like that!?! Give up their gluten free vegan tofu dogs, their $10/mo unlimited texting and data packages. Evil, evil Johnt. We’re you beaten as a child to be so mean? (sorry, I work retail, I’m having a little fun with this).
hell, I’d be satisfied if they didn’t take itemized deductions and instead took the standard one.
The funny thing about Buffet is that he is taxed low because his “salary” draw is kept low. His wealth is on paper. If he took a salary commensurate with what his investments generate (like, I don’t know, a bank president), he’d pay a butt-load more.
Soros can just move back to europe and stay there.
But, how can we be SURE that picture is NOT of Stanley Anne and consort?
And what about it is “racist”? Was Stanley Anne a negro female american?
“Monkey” often is used to describe one whose conduct is irresponsible, unrealistic, inadequate, wrong. Certainly Obama fits within those parameters.
This world is filled with ignorant people who feel; but do not think logically. Are we aware of Figures of Speech? Howard Cosell was ruined when he referred to a negro football player as “that little monkey”. There was, given Cosells’ track record, certainly no racial animosity in his remark. Hypersensitive hypocrisy was the factor at hand. The Guilt Trip at work. Silly stuff.
I once once asked the head guy of a local semi-pro football team how I could try out and make the team. He said, “Make a monkey out of my best guy”. Was he implying that I must magically transform a white player into a negro player?
I have no problem with people getting rich, as long as it is done honestly. (Parenthetically, it boggles my mind that anyone would pay one cent to listen to Al Gore spout his nonsense, but that is a separate topic….) The thing about Democrats is that they don’t want to contribute to the well being of their fellow Americans unless EVERYBODY else is compelled to do it first. This is why conservatives donate far more to charity than liberals. (I don’t have the stats at my finger tips but you can surely find it under Google, or whatever.) In Europe, where tax rates are confiscatory, people do not even think of donating to charity. As far as they are concerned, the government does it for them via their taxes. American individuals are hugely more generous than other nationalities. The thing is–I don’t know about you, but at least this is what I do–before donating to charities, Americans can look and see how the money they give is spent. I go for the ones with 90%+ of every $ given going to the “cause” as opposed to “administrative expenses”. Also, I like being able to pick the causes that appeal to me personally, that I care about, instead of some made-up, stupid, bleeding-heart liberal cause that makes no sense. Others maybe like made-up, stupid…..causes. God bless ‘em, that’s their choice. But in America, we get to choose. And via taxes is not the way to support charity!! Every person of his or her own free will writing a check to the charity of his or her own choosing when he or she choses to is the way to support charity. Charity is charity. Taxes are taxes. I think some people are confused about this…. What do other people think?? Love to hear some thoughts….
As been said before, Socialism is about spreading the misery. No liberal will step one foot in the water unless everyone steps in the water.
A high percentage of businesses fail, and many aspiring businessmen end up as lunchbox Joe’s or even paupers.
How many pauper politicians are there?
If you want to make REAL money in the United States in 2011, the easiest path is to get into the confiscation business. The ONLY requirement is the willingness and ability to lie without shame.
I don’t mind anybody getting rich, as long as they return value for their wealth. What I do mind… a whole lot… is somebody getting rich because they’ve got their hands in the taxpayer’s pocket, without returning any value (and please, let’s not try to say that the current trend of over-regulation and nanny meddling is “value”).
The Democrats don’t mean what they say, and they don’t say what they mean. The whole point of government now is to hold the citizens up by their heels and steal their last dime for the benefit of a class of political robber-barons. The problem with that is, they’ve got all the dimes and nothing’s left but the pocket lint.
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a SCOUNDREL” and the Republican Party is awash in SCOUNDRELS who wrap themselves in the American FLAG but NEVER wrapped themselves in an American UNIFORM.
ALL the “neo-CONS”, ROVE, Krautheimer, Kristol, Beck, LIEberman, Hagee, Limbaugh, ALL those big mouths with NO DD-214′s should be rounded up and sent to the war they claim they LOVE. Let them get a good taste of WAR …..
Bush, Rove, AND Cheney are now all free to PROVE they really believe in the wars they started, and just how “PATRIOTIC” they really ARE. They surrounded themselves with flags and LOUDLY proclaimed their “love” of America….. Now they are free to pick up rifles and LEAD the Troops that they ordered into combat.
I am sure those “HEROS” will be on the next plane to Afghanistan ………………
Bush with his National Guard training (NG was just DRAFT DODGING in those days)
and Cheney …….
1) FIVE DEFERMENTS to dodge SERVING the Nation during Viet Nam, too busy advancing HIS career.
2) HIDES in a secret Bunker during and long into the night on 9/11.
By the way ,,,, WHAT did “The WAR President” Bush ever do about the HUNDREDS of POWs left in Viet Nam?
Bush(National Guard), Cheney (with 5 deferrments) and ALL those TROTSKYITE “neocons” completely ignored those left to rot,
so the USA would not have to pay $3 BILLION in reparations.
Those POW/MIA flags are a cruel joke, with their original meaning FORGOTTEN and deliberately ignored.
Whoa there pal! Little off-topic aren’t we? Better check wtih your doctor and renew that prescription for Valium. Just remember – “Deep calming breaths and let’s try to get into our happy place.”
Shorter Milton:
“Look! Over there! A red herring!”
Milton and Stanislaw: “Possessed”
I’m willing to bet he/she/it is a liberal, progressive and open-minded individual. Note the typical name-calling and overt attempt to change the subject.
AFAIK, there is no law which prevents one from donating funds directly into any federal agency; to top it off, they could probably write their donation off when filing their taxes. Our government is undoubtedly the largest Not-for-Profit charity in existence. Is there anyone that disagrees?… If so, please stand up.
That is pretty funny considering what the current inhabitant of the White House has just done in Libya. Cute.
The sad part is I agree to an extent. The radicals of both parties need to be tried for treason. However before throwing any of your stones, be certain your house is not made of breakable material.
Every time Mike Pence opens his mouth (and inserts foot) I send another check to Planned Parenthood.
And please explain how parading around with tea bags equates to laying down ones life for freedom.
Perhaps those chicken hawk Republicans (such as Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz etc.) should grab their guns and go off and fight in a real war (Iraq, Afghnaistan) instead of shooting their friends in the face while hunting and saddling all Americans with the cost of their idiotic wars.
you lost all credit when you said Corporations are the Job creators….look up statistics
with major tax cuts and STILL the highest unemployment….stop drinking the GOP kool-aid kids
Fun stuff! Too bad there is a lack of cogent argument in so many of the posts. Anyway, here is another opinion with some data: Assumption: Keynesian approach is better for getting us out of a depression then austerity strategies as European countries are finding out. So, government spending is not wasted since it goes back into the economy in the form of capital improvements and wages thus stimulating demand. Running a deficit in the short term, unless it crowds out private capital and jacks up interest rates, is not harmful. And on the debt issue: out of some 15 trillion, China owns only a trillion or so and other countries that are generally friendly own another 3 and 1/2 trillion leaving some 10 trillion here at home. I own part of this debt and the interest and principle will go to “my children and grandchildren.” So, conservatives should not bellyache about deficits especially since Dick Cheney once remarked that deficits don’t matter and the right wing conservatives are using deficits complaints to bully the government into starving itself to death.