Really? This cannot be real...... Everyone knows Bernie drives a maroon 1985 Toyota Corolla with 1.2 million miles on it. In all seriousness, if that really is his car, that is a little sad.
Not much, just that Bernie and his family are also the 1%, maybe not the .01% like trump or Hillary. If he want to he could afford luxury cars etc. The picture was just to show that he is one of the rich people in this country, which he is by almost any definition. Some people think Bernie is this working class grandpa, which he is not. I have no problem with Bernie being rich at all, this country and every other country has been is and will be run by the rich, no working class will ever run any country, that is just the way how things works.
I don't think Bernie and his wife actually earned any significant income until he joined Congress in 91. Prior to that they were probably, sadly, like most Americans and not saving much if any of their earnings. Bernie has close to $3 million in Congressional salary alone since 1991. His wife was president of a private college that apparently had bad finances. She made about $160k a year for 8 years and got $200k when they fired her, so that's another $1.5 million in earnings for the family since 2004. It's certainly believable that they don't have $1 million or more in assets held. Maintaining a residence in Washington and Vermont on what amounts to $400k a year is likely going to prevent them from amassing significant wealth. If he isn't willing to play the game where he dabbles in real estate trusts and stuff as a member of Congress, he isn't going to build a huge pile of cash.
Does it really matter how much money Bernie has? Before he was mayor, he made just enough to eat and pay rent doing odd jobs, writing in newspapers, making films, and doing random activist-type stuff. He never cared about the money. The dude lost like 3 senate elections in a row by crazy margins. Politics found him, he didn't look for it. The money has come along with the position. Is there any doubt that Bernie would still want to be a senator even if he was earning just say $30,000 a year? (that is significant sum of money from my perspective, not anywhere close to what a senator earns rn tho, $174,000) He follows causes not cash, end of story.
He clearly has too much/ too little money depending on your perspective. How could a high earning couple, working into their seventies not amass $1m. Is that the guy you want running the economy? Or how could he possibly relate to the everyday man or woman since he's already so wealthy and has a locked in generous pension (like all the others running for high office).
I can understand he does not need to save. His senator pension will be over 100k a year, isn't it nice to be a politician? Actually this is pretty low compared to many other countries.
I could care less about how much wealth Senator Sanders has. I feel the same way about Hillary Clinton. What possible difference does it make? Jack Kennedy was "rich," and it didn't affect my opinion of him, or the opinions of millions of Americans, as well as millions of people overseas who so admired the man.
$30k a year is not a significant salary even if it is more than what you make. For an adult in his/her prime earning years, $30k isn't going to get you very far. I think they are probably actually caught between both worlds. They are definitely well off. However, like I said, maintaining two residences is going to drain that income significantly. Most politicians who get rich don't do it off of their Congressional salary. They are out there doing speeches, writing books, getting in on real estate deals that are brought to them because of their power, making friends with people who will help them get rich, cozying up to corporate execs who will put them or their family members on boards, etc. That said, until he was like 50 years old, Bernie was not making "wealthy people" type wages. The statement is misleading. They didn't become a high earning couple until the 90s at the earliest, and more likely not until 2004 when she got a high paying job. I don't know for sure how much she made prior to becoming the president of a college, but my guess is that it was less than she made at the college. So for most of his Congressional career they were probably making less than 200K in combined salary while maintaining two residences.
Is he stashing money in Panama? You guys are hilarious thinking you are going to indict Bernie with that weak bull****. He has integrity you can't even imagine on the red side. The concept is totally foreign to you. They are the real actual Christian values! As of 2012, Osteen's net worth is reportedly $56,508,500.[27] He lives with his family in a $10,500,000 home.[28] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Osteen#Personal_life
It's too hilarious what the Hillary crowd is trying to do here. They don't care about his money like they don't care about Hillary's. >> lol Bernie has made - what - a million after exhausting himself for 30 years representing the American people? That's 1/30th of Hillary's net worth in more than double the number of years. If you put a cap on wealth equivalent to Bernie's net worth for every representative, corruption would be orders of magnitude lower in the United States and your representatives might actually listen to you more often. Don't put Hillary and Bernie in the same box to make yourself feel better. Just admit that you don't care about Hillary (and Bill's) extravagant "incidental" wealth accumulation during their time in power, or the fact that they will perpetuate that opportunity for fresh representatives in the future. Bernie would fight against that happening, because most Americans want it, even if he wasn't favored to win that fight. He is not going to take money from super pacs and then claim to want to close that loophole. That's the difference. Bernie Sanders would be dangerous to the future of people like Hillary Clinton. He would actually go after them and make noise about it and if the corporate media won't report on it sufficiently he would push them to do so. That's the difference. It isn't just a little bit different between Hillary and Bernie. Between Bernie and Hillary there is Obama and Warren and an ocean of moral progress. Bernie follows a different set of morals. It's not all the same, and it's apparent in the incessant drivel about how Bernie can't be as succesful as Hillary playing corrupt, bought party politics. Of course stupid, that's the whole point. That's why he has almost as many delegates as Hillary. That's why he's broken the record for donors, smashing Obama's record. That's why the people who want progress - young people - overwhelmingly side with Bernie. That's why the people who want stability in this mess - old people - overwhelmingly support Hillary. It's why lower turnouts favor Hillary. It's why voter suppression favors Hillary. It's why independents having to register in advance favors Hillary. It's why the mainstream media favors and donates to Hillary. It's why Fox News is so much more afraid of a Bernie presidency. Please stop this non-sense and just admit to yourself at least that you picked Hillary for who she is. It's sad enough she has temporarily bent her words to be more Bernie-ish so that you can satisfy your guilt, all the while knowing she is going to backtrack on those things in a few months. Bernie is not like Hillary and he's not like Trump. He doesn't hang out with these people at weddings, parties, events. He doesn't drive the same cars. He doesn't have a selection of mansions. He doesn't chuckle it up with Wall Street criminals in the making. He doesn't wear the same clothes. He doesn't have 16 technicians working on his hair. Why the whining continues even after Hillary has essentially secured the nomination - that's a spiritual question you need to ask your soul.
That's not Bernie. It's Les Alexander. Bernie drives a VW bus, he doesn't need an an Audi to impress people. He's too old for that pretentious ****.
That's wealthy but not "I just won the powerball lottery" wealthy that people are up in arms over. It's pretty realistic for a lot of middle class people to get that far if they save and invest like a raving 70+ year old Jewish man.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/...-meets-news-editorial-board-article-1.2588306 How is it possible that you make yourself a one issue candidate and are still this clueless on your ONE issue? Yikes.
