This article fascinates me. Some my richest friends are actually democrat.
Before I met them, I always assumed there was a earnings difference between us. Phew, I was right, but not like I thought (which happens often.)
There's just something wrong with a huge group of folks that have that much money and want to take more. We agree on this, yes?
http://times-news.com/opinion/x19230...ed-rich-people
That’s right let’s all hate the rich. Who are those one percenters, anyway?
Twelve of the 20 richest Americans are Democrats. Gates, Buffet, Ellison the richest are Democrats and gave exclusively to the Democratic Party last election.
In fact, the top three on the list: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett & Larry Ellison are all Democrats. Together, they are worth $126 billion.
An analysis of the Top 20 Richest People in America (from Forbes Top 100) reveals that a full 60 percent are actually Democrats. The top 1000 are comprised of 65 percent Democrats.
Furthermore, if you look at it from a “family” point of view and not as individuals, thereby eliminating duplication caused by people from the same family being included in that Top 20 list (Wal-Mart & Koch) that ratio widens even further to: 25 percent Republican / 75 percent Democrat. Wow, how’s that for myth busting?
The next you hear Michael Moore, a millionaire who likes to condemn the rich, remember these words of his: “I’m a millionaire, I’m a multi-millionaire. I’m filthy rich. You know why I’m a multi-millionaire? ‘Cause multi-millions like what I do. That’s pretty good, isn’t it?”
He lives in a million-dollar apartment, and boasts of that as well: “I walk among them. I live on the island of Manhattan, a three-mile-wide strip of land that is luxury home and corporate suite to America’s elite..... Those who run your life live in my neighborhood. I walk in the streets with them each day” (Michael Moore, Stupid White Men, p. 51).
For vacations, he keeps another million-dollar beachfront house in Michigan. Moore has quite an investment portfolio as well, yet he visits the “occupiers” and incites them to hate the rich and conservative.
Amazingly, a copy of Moore’s schedule D from one of his tax filings shows that the concerned humanitarian owned almost 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 shares of Sonoco, more than 4,000 shares of Best Foods, more than 3,000 shares of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 shares of Bank One, and more than 2,000 shares of Halliburton.
Actually, Moore owns many baseball caps, of which his butler gets one dirty for him before his TV appearances. “Sicko?” Mike you’re the top of the heap!
Analyzing the Forbes data takes us even further. Democrats outweigh Republicans.
Not just because of Michael Moore, but in terms of the number of uber-millionaires, but also with their net worth.
In this Top 20 group, Democrats have a combined net worth of $263.1 billion while the Republicans have a combined net worth of only $143.9 billion — almost half that of Democrats.
Out of the Top 15 Richest Politicians in America, not counting Michael Bloomburg, who claims to be independent, nine of them are Democrats.
John Corazine, and John Kerry, both far richer than Romney and have never been condemned by the media or rank and file Democrats for their immense wealth.
With regard to the famed “richest 400 Americans,” according to the compiler, Forbes magazine, more than half, 233, affiliate themselves with the Democratic Party.
So the next time you hear a liberal whine about the “Evil Rich People,” remember it is a form of self loathing. Remind them and everyone around you that it is the Democrats who comprise the largest percentage of those “Evil Rich People.”
You might add that if the top 400 own fifty percent of Americas’ wealth, it is Democrats who own 65 percent of the 50 percent of the nation’s wealth.
Actually, Democrats are the 65 percenters or are more than half of the one percenters. So the rest of us are part of the 99.35 percenters!. Frightening isn’t it?
Arthur Squires Jr.
Flintstone