Mitt’s wife doesn’t think she’s wealthy. I hope she knows that the presidency doesn’t pay very well. It sounds like Mitt needs to give up this political hobby of his and get back to work.
I remind you that the Romneys made over $20 million last year just on the interest from their fortune.
“the presidency doesn’t pay very well.”
Hi, can I have some of whatever you’re smokin’ up there? Wikipedia:
maybe compared to what the Romneys make on the interest to their fortune, maybe compared to the lloyd blankfeins and jamie dimons, but compared to ordinary people the presidency pays very well.
Sorry man, but that is “the presidency doesn’t pay very well” is a very very silly statement.
I don’t think it pays very well given the job description. Even if I were qualified you couldn’t get me to take that job if it was handed to me for only $400k…
$400,000 for 4-8 years of intense work (well, not if you’re GWB, but I digress), and then close to $120K eah year, franking privileges and health care for life?
one term, you get paid $1.6 million. Again, compared to Blankfein et al, it’s pennies. But to say “it doesn’t pay well” is hogwash on it’s face.
Obama is 50 years old. He leaves the presidency let’s say $1 million richer (assuming he spends $600,000 K a year, and I can’t see that considering he has an entertainment budget with which to take out the wife and kids, etc). And then, by virtue of doing nothing at all, he gets nearly $120K every year. Figure even with smoking he lives to be 75, he brings in a little under $9 million. Sorry, you can say “i wouldn’t do it for that amount of money”, and it’s defensible. But to say it’s not a well-paid position is malarkey.
I’m pretty sure it was meant to be one of those joke things I’ve heard about – like we know very well the job does pay pretty handsomely, but to Romney it’s peanuts. It involves some irony or something, not exactly sure how it all works but all the kids are into it these days.
dude. you think Ann can get the dog groomed on that salary? Pleaze.
After the last vacation the dog’s fur just sticks straight up in the air, all the time. It’s so unsightly, and nothing they’ve tried has worked.
Actually, that dog he strapped to the roof of the car ran away, to never be seen again, once they arrived at their destination in Canada. That part of the story doesn’t get remarked about much.
really? do you have a source for that?
All the mentions I’ve found of the Canadian asylum-seeking seem to run back to this:
http://www.politicker.com/2012/01/31/did-mitt-romneys-dog-seek-asylum-in-canada/
Of course she doesn’t consider herself wealthy. Members of the leech class like the Romneys never, ever think they have enough.
Hey now, cut Ann a little slack, 20 million doesn’t go as far as it used to!
I think what she means is that they’re “poor in spirit.”
Willard and his wife need to go somewhere, sit down and S-T-F-U
This is begging for a David Chapelle remix…
This is the same Ann Romney that had $3 million in a Swiss bank account (in her name only) through 2010 that they conveniently left off of their federal financial disclosure forms last time hubby ran for president.
Just a little personal stash kept on the side. Mad money, if you will.
She thinks her husband could manage to lose $250 million by tomorrow? Let’s not put him in charge of our economy! I wondered why we had heard so little from her, and now I know.
Note to Ann. It’s not what you think of yourself dear, it’s how the people think of you. She makes the same oversight here as Mitt by choosing her own view over the people they would represent.