Posted on 09/20/2011 10:06:07 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Rep. John Fleming, a Louisiana Republican who owns a string of Subway and UPS franchises, was on MSNBC this morning to explain how earning $6.3 million a year—which he did in 2010—isn't all it's cracked up to be and to tell Barack Obama to lay off the class warfare. For instance: $200,000 of that goes to food. Being "rich" doesn't sound so great now, does it? Here's how Fleming put it:
I would say that...my net income—[t]he amount that I have to reinvest in my business and feed my family—is more like $600,000 of that $6.3 million. And so by the time I feed my family I have maybe $400,000 left over.
See? This guy's barely keeping his chin above water! He can even hold onto a lousy 600 grand without his enormous family of ravenous truffle addicts whittling it down to just $400,000. So how many kids does it take to consume four times the U.S. median household income in food each year?
None. According to his bio, Fleming is "married to his wife Cindy for 30 years and the father of four adult children." Maybe he sends them each like 12 gourmet fruit baskets a day, every day.
They can just point out this...
Inside Mayor Bloomberg’s Extravagant New York And London Townhouses
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-mayor-bloombergs-townhouses-2011-9?op=1#ixzz1YWsWzYxC
none of your business
A little space on Fantasy Island!
They who? The Congressman’s team? Again, they will be/already are playing defense — and tossing out that link would only give the media MORE ammunition in the class warfare battle. His team shouldn’t resort to “b-b-but...look at Bloomberg’s spending!” Opening up another Republican (which Bloomberg officially is even if we don’t claim him as such) to being painted with the same brush of seeming overindulgence would be misguided since again, his money, his decisions on how to spend it.
I’m not attacking this guy to spend his money any way he sees fit. I’m saying he lost control of the conversation.
That he shouldn’t HAVE to defend himself is beside the point - the media will make sure that he’s put into that corner. Now he has to spend time explaining and defending against a baseless argument. It could have easily been a slam-dunk, this-is-the-reality-of-a-millionaire-on-paper-only employer, i.e. opportunity squandered.
Seems that way. roflol
Just what I figured, NOTHING.
“$200,000 of that goes to food”
He seems to have gone on the Moochelle Obummer diet—except he’s paying for it with his own money.
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