Comments on: Presidential Candidates Net Worth

By: Simlock verwijderen

Simlock verwijderen — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:22:59 +0000

After reading a lot of them they will participate in the world wide web of inapprioately unfortunately aspecting visions.

By: Ty Brown

Ty Brown — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:24:18 +0000

Every charity or organization or fund or cause pays those who bring in the donations. How else are you going to get donations? It takes work to bring in the funding and work aint free.

By: johnsn

johnsn — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:55:14 +0000

Please tell me what you mean by that comment?

By: TIM

TIM — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:05:43 +0000

Many of these candidates have increased their wealth tremendously since our wars began,Dems and Repubs.Guiliani supposedly didn’t have any assets in 2002,then he was paid 1.7 million per speech for 20 consecutive speeches.That was his 6/11 payday.McCain was sopposed to be worth less than 2 million in 2003,now 40.4 million.I couldn’t even find Hillary listed in the senate millionaires in 2003,but now 35 million.Ever wonder why they voted for war and why they let it continue.I wish i could find a list of all congresspersons before the war and what it is now.War has been veeeeeeeeery good to the a**holes who voted for it.Anyway,Obama is only worth about a million and a half.That makes him closest to being your average man.There should be a law saying these elected officials cannot leave office with more than they started,except adjustments for inflation..

By: I like Obama’s lack of personal net worth. « The Talking Monkey

I like Obama’s lack of personal net worth. « The Talking Monkey — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:21:04 +0000

[…] has a personal net worth of $1.3 million. You may think this is a lot but when you click on this link and see what the other candidates are making, it’s nothing. Every single candidate that […]

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:43:18 +0000

hmm how unsuprising how every single one of the candidates is actually a millionaire, (ok Obama is only just) so do they want the job as they are financially secure and think they can make a big difference to the lives of others or do they just see it as the worlds best money making franchise like the Bush family have done having milked it in outstanding style to say one of the clan has the IQ of microwave meal.

RE your thoughts on “I think it’s quite shady to take commissions from any donations, even if they are political…”

Zac.. being in the whitehouse is a business.. if you get in.. you get to make BILLIONS of dollars one way or another, there’s cash coming from all directions.. why else would someone spend all those millions trying to get in there.. to make a difference !??! yeah maybe if it was Oprah or perhaps maybe one of the candidates at most up there..

Politicians the world over are just in it for themselves apart from the most minniscule of percentage of them, and not enough to make a difference, the mere process of getting to be a candidate usually weeds out those who won’t tow the party line and be a good lap dog to big industry where the money flows from as many have interests in far more than one or two companies too.

Even Bush Junior was “bright” enough to make billions whilst in “power” .. imagine how much a real businessman could make so heck yeah they’d pay 30% of the cash out just to ensure they can burn millions getting in .. 70% of something is better than 100% of nothing !!

And regarding all the cash not going where it’s supposed to, Most charities actually have far higher administration costs than you would think so why should political donations be any different, some charities are so managment heavy and self serving they bleed the funds down to an insance percentage of the donations, in teh UK we’ve heard of some running at 80% of the cost of donations in administration.. you can see more on the US charities here http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=48

They have a marketing budget so why shouldn’t candidate campaigns.. at least some affiliates would benefit from the gravy train instead of just the already wealthy few

ok I’m a natural born cynic and I know it but I’m usually more on the money than off it

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:27:30 +0000

Ron Paul Anyone???? This is exactly why he has my vote.Of course we could just vote, for the same rich bureaucrats over and over till there isnt a middle class.

By: Terri

Terri — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:35:30 +0000

I wouldn’t mind being as “poor” as Obama~!

By: custom golf hat

custom golf hat — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:53:56 +0000

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By: Dolores O'Connell

Dolores O'Connell — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:34:38 +0000

Don’t see how you can say the Republicans aren’t any richer. Between the candidates above, they have over $300,000,000 and the Democrats above only have around $90,000,000. AND, this doesn’t take into account ALL the Republican and Democrat candidates. I’m sure if you had an accounting of ALL of both parties net worth, the Republicans would be well over $1 billion dollars. Not so for the democrats.

Sorry - Republicans are for the big businessman and the rich, and the Democrats still are more concerned about the middle class and the poor.