Absolutely spot-on picture and article.
They have to pretend to be “poor”, not just to seem to be in line with the “regular people” so they can get elected, but also because their basic pitch is “rich and powerful is bad”. They believe it even though they are rich and powerful, it’s a part of their creed.
Via NY Post:
Hillary Clinton claimed that, at the moment she and her husband were signing up for $18 million in book deals, that they were “dead broke.”
Harry Reid (who lives in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel) said liberals are getting bullied by Republican billionaires but the Democratic Party “doesn’t have many billionaires” behind it.
Joe Biden (family earnings: $407,000 last year plus a free house, driver, meals, etc.) claims he “I don’t own a single stock or bond. . . . I have no savings accounts . . . I’m the poorest man in Congress.” (Triple fail: Joe isn’t poor, isn’t in Congress and wouldn’t be the poorest member of it if he were.)[ed.- and Joe was lying about that-he has stocks, bonds and a savings account]