Presidential wannabe Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered a blistering stump speech at the University of Denver this weekend condemning rich folks and businesses.
It always strikes us as a bit hypocritical when wealthy politicians who make $167,000 a year and raise millions of dollars from rich people for a living pretend to hate the upper class in order to keep making their six-figure salary.
However, Bernie openly admits his socialist politics, so it’s probably okay for him to earn a big paycheck so long as taxpayers, and not private industry pay it.
We checked his personal finance disclosure report and it turns out Sanders does not hide corporate investments through mutual funds, because these belong to his wife.
That’s a nice chunk of change they have invested in large capitol funds.
Sanders’s own personal wealth jumped dramatically after he was elected to the Senate in 2004 when his average net worth was $140,000. Now it’s just under $500,000.
That’s an annual growth rate of 29 percent, compared to average Americans who have seen a one percent decline in their yearly net worth in the same time period.
As for his campaign contributions, Sanders raised $7 million for his 2012 Senate campaign. Before he announced his presidential bid, he had $4 million in the bank.
Here are the top industries that donate to Sanders:
During his speech here, Bernie vowed to replace all of this messy campaign fundraising with public election financing, meaning taxpayers should pay for politicians to run for office so they don’t have to do the work themselves.
Sanders danced the line on our hypocrite scale. With the exception of barely mentioned stints as a carpenter, filmmaker, and journalist, he has spent a career in politics that began in the ‘70s so he has lived on the government teat for decades.
That he thinks everyone else should is not surprising. His plans to get rid of Obamacare in favor of all government-paid health care, sounds about right. Breaking the banking system, that figures.
His calls for income equality – let’s be honest, if we could only be equal to Bernie’s wealthy political career finances, that would be awesome. But we suspect that in Bernie’s perfect socialist world of equal wealth distribution, some animals on the farm would still be more equal than others.
So the article wants campaign contributions to be as strong as ever and uses Sanders as their scapegoat. Is there something wrong with not having businesses interests in the minds of politicians?
Tina Morphis What facts are we talking about. Bernie Sanders takes donations, and they showed what "Industries" they came from. These aren't even businesses, it's a categorical list of peoples interests in donating to him. Wow you mean the elderly, teachers and those concerned about the environment are giving him money? The article is a joke. The biggest hold back on this country is us sitting here waiting for people to decide they finally have enough personal nuclear submarines and underaged virgins and maybe their lives would be completely fine and still elite if they had half what they take for themselves. There's no requirement for their wealth and lifestyle, when you're at the top you're simply deciding how much you want to slice off for yourself before anyone else.
So let's see. Sanders net worth is now $700,000. He pays his interns $12/hr but pushed for $15/hr minimum wage. And makes $174,000 a year and wants income equality. Ok. Sanders either makes sure everybody makes $174,000 a year screw the minimum wage because he makes $84/hr idiots believe he cares about them.
What's "shinny" mean?
The facts are acutally facts, though Sanderistas, don't much like facts. Facts get in the way of that shinny penny feeling they have and man, reality just makes things tarnish a little.
You know what I always love? When people can't debate the issue they try to debate grammar. 🙂
Is Bernie Saunders related to Meryl?
Lol look its still in the URL…
Hey, you corrected the misspelling in your headline! {DOH!}
Saunders? I guess your editors are as competent as your fact checkers, huh?