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Obama's White House dream team virtually all Chicago millionaires
When President Barack Obama moved into the White House earlier this year, he took several of his fellow Chicago millionaires with him.
Newly released disclosure reports show virtually all of the top Chicagoans serving in the West Wing have assets valued at a million dollars or more at the end of 2008.
In several cases, the reports provide the first detailed look at the finances of some of the president's top aides and friends from Chicago who have risen with him. They also show the financial haircut many have taken to be in the White House, at least until they return to the private sector.
Some of the wealth can be attributed to the fact that the top aides surrounding Obama – such as the Chicago Trinity of Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett – are from a big city where salaries tend to be higher. Comparable senior staffers with the previous two presidents came from Austin, Texas, and Little Rock, Ark., where salaries for top professionals tend to be the lower than in Chicago.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-whit...
(I'm glad to see that President Obama's staff is in line with his predecessors staff. One less thing that the MSM can spin)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8330260&mesg_id=8330260
Oh, the outrage!! This is something that, when Bush did it, they went bonkers, and surely they'll be consistent in ther outrage at B. Hussein doing the same thing.
OK, maybe not.
MADem
1. Good. They'll be less inclined to want to steal from the taxpayers.
God bless the child that's got his own, and all that.
Thrill
3. Politicians and top aides who are rich? What a surprise.
Would we want them running the Government if they weren't successful in their own careers?
960
6. I am absolutely stunned.
I would have assumed he would have picked poor, homeless people he had never met from all around the country.
You mean he actually assembled a team of successful people from his home city? BIZARRE!
Uzybone
9. Middle class folks who worked thier way up
how disgusting.
firedupdem
10. Was this article supposed to start the next outrage?
"Thou shalt not be outraged at BHO and what he does. Instead, rationalize it away because he's different."
Bicoastal
13. OMG--Obama's cabinet is full of SUCCESS STORIES?!
How DARE he pick such people!
By the way, if you think liberals disliked Bush's cabinet merely cuz it was full of wealthy people, you're missing the point entirely--and are furthermore succumbing to the faux-populist anger that's all the rage these days. Way to go--Glenn Beck would be PROUD.
Top lie of the day.
"if you think liberals disliked Bush's cabinet merely cuz it was full of wealthy people, you're missing the point entirely.."FrenchieCat
Response to Reply #13
14. Plus, it looks like they got rich on their own merits, via education and such....
and didn't simply just gained wealth by being who there were....or because of who they know.
Not an oil baron in the bunch, I see.
blitzen
17. Go back to Freeperville if U want sum LUV
stray cat
22. Nothing against millionaires as long as they had to perform competently to get there
after all Obama is a millionaire
The lies they have to tell themselves.......
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