POLITICO.com – Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall.
CRP says California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is the richest lawmaker on Capitol Hill, with a net worth estimated at about $251 million. Next in line: Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), worth about $244.7 million; Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), worth about $214.5 million; Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), worth about $209.7 million; and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), worth about $208.8 million.
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and if all your money goes out to pay bills, AS IT SHOULD BE, as IT HAS BEEN MADE to happen?? you would be as poor as the rest of us.
$50k per year??
-33% for tax.
$33500 per year.
-12000 for rent.
$21500
-7200 utilities
$14,300
-2400 food
$11,900
-2400 insurance(min)
$9500
Lets figure you carry $10k per year to invest.
not to bad.
And in the USA you cant survive very well with less then $18 per hour/40 hours per week.
Min wage is $7.50?? 2 persons working is $15 per hour..and STILL they cant make it.
Poor the people. Buy the people.
#31 ECA
I’m 50 years old. Never held a job that made 6 figures. Worth well over a million right now.
Some real estate profits here, some investment returns there, and 1 million real net worth after 30 years of work.
The key? Financial responsibility. Things like realizing that the stupid iPhone will cost you about $5000 just for 2 years of phone service when all is included, not buying the latest and greatest expensive fad product, buying cars as transportation and not as power symbols.
Anyone can do it…. actually if you don’t have at least 1/2 million in net worth at 50 years old, you have pretty much failed financially in your life.
Did anyone else happen to notice what party the top dogs belonged too. I’d tell you but it’s better if you go back and look for yourself.
# 5 According to the story at the time the fact that she made a lot of money in the futures market isn’t the surprise. A great many people did that. The shock is that she sold out just before the bottom dropped out of the market and got to keep it. Most people lost their investments. According to her she just lost her nerve which is all that saved her.
#21 Easy. You choose what is best for the common good.
That does not mean sucking up to religious wackos.