Joe Biden has made millions since leaving office. How did he do it?

the Blze ^ | 11 JAN 2020 | Giancarlo Sopo

[ManHunter]

Middle-class Joe, no mo'...

Joe Biden once described himself as the poorest man in the United States Senate, but financial records now paint a very different picture. In the two years following leaving office as vice president to Barack Obama, Biden and his wife made $15 million, according to a report published this summer in the Washington Free Beacon.

[ManHunter]

I'm sure Biden, given his deep intellect and insight, is in high demand as a guest speaker. The big (not very) secret is that this crap, along with appointments to boards, multi-million-dollar book deals, highly undervalued property gifts and many other schemes, is how people who've never actually accomplished anything in their slimy lives become rich after they leave office.

In Biden's and many others' case, they have things like the Ukraine and China to keep their pockets lined while they're in office. Isn't it amazing how people whose salary is lower than many of ours suddenly become multi-millionaires? Like Hillary's cattle future deal, shrewd investing, no doubt.

[Jeff Chandler]

Public speaking. His Onion on the Belt speech is a hoot.

[OrioleFan]

Does he have an IRA? If not, he can’t blame it on Trump...

[The Sons of Liberty]

Joe Biden has made millions since leaving office. How did he do it?

He's a crooked politician and more and more from the looks of things, Idiot Joe took a HUGE pay cut when he left office; - that's why he's running again.

[allendale]

Yet he remains a viable political entity. Is there anything on the planet dumber or more delusional than Democratic primary voters especially in Iowa?

[Cautious Optimism]

A fantasy wish of mine that will never happen for obvious reasons is this. Appoint a new Special Council and hire a small army of forensic accountants. Then start with the most long serving Senators and Reps to determine how they and immediate families accumulated their wealth. Some sunshine on these people would be an eye opener for Americans. Likely a lot of them would retire or choose not to run for reelection. De Facto term limits.

[billorites]

After a career of working for the Federal Government does Joe even receive SS?

[HighSierra5]

He’s going to need that money when he is committed to a home for the addled.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Democrat, Joe Biden ...Dumbest fool, moron & buffoon in God’s Universe!!! End of Story!!! american voters all...BOYCOTT the Democrat Party 2020 POTUS candidate debate this evening.

Instead turn in to “TRUMPIE” Rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin the evening...that is where all the action, truth and excitement is folks!!!

The great state of Iowa once had a great football team at the University of Iowa.....they used to play in many Bowl games, including the Rose Bowl. No more...now they are just simply nutcase Democrat Party “SnowFlake Lunatics” that adore the Hate America, Hate Israel, hate Freedom, Hate LIberty, Democrat Party!!!

[CharlesOConnell]

This is the only article on this in the post Watergate generations. In the 1960s it was a scandal when a deceased Congressman was found to have left $3.5 million under his bed. Now the press watchdogs have given a pass to politicians who amass millions or even billions after they first assume office. It’s a press scandal.

[ManHunter]

Yes.

[certrtwngnut]

I like your idea of forensic accounting of these people. Just make sure that both sides are treated equally.

[certrtwngnut]

I like your idea of forensic accounting of these people. Just make sure that both sides are treated equally.

[wastedyears]

Does he have an IRA? If not, he can’t blame it on Trump...

He doesn't need retirement or investments, he gets bribes. They're worth far more and you get the money in full.

[vespa300]

And gave what........$6 dollars to charity. He’s the cheapest hypocrite of them all. Show me how much a guy gives to charity and that’s tells me all I need to know about character. And he’s about the worse there is. I think Dennis Prager despises Biden the most because he’s someone who will do and say anything to get elected. Perhaps the most unprincipled candidate of them all. No wonder his son is a monster too.

[Oldexpat]

Why would you ever seek elected office if it weren’t for the perks.

[Liz]

This pic is the epitome of then-VP Joe Biden's corruption. Shows exactly what he thinks of taxpaying Americans.
We exist only to serve him and his greedy family's endless get-rich-quick schemes.

REALITY CHECK: This was an official tax-paid govt trip to China. But look who then-VP Biden brought with him.
That's Hunter and daughter Finnegan ---- on a family outing paid for by taxpayers.

The moronic grand-daughter waves at Chinese dignitaries like it was old home week.......like she's some sort of diplomat.

Hunter cashed in bigtime, even had a Chinese suckup hand-deliver a diamond to his hotel room.....
......just to make sure corrupt Hunter "was bought good."

The corrupt trio did all the touristy things available in China.......sucking off the backs of US taxpayers 24/7.

[DoodleDawg]

Same way the other past Presidents will do it, and how Trump will do it once he’s out of office. Speaking and publishing.

[Liz]

One of the all-time bodacious federal scams was Obama’s “stimulus program.” All the Democrats got filthy rich.
Obama appointed Biden to “oversee “stimulus money distribution.” To date, still no full accounting as to
where it all went (not to worry, Joe and Hunter know where it is).

Missing in Action: Stimulus Sheriff Joe Biden
By Michelle Malkin - Oct 10, 2012
Copyright 2012, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Remember when President Obama bragged about Joe Biden’s fiscal discipline creds in 2009? “To you, he’s Mr. Vice President, but around the White House, we call him the Sheriff,” Obama warned government employees. “Because if you’re misusing taxpayer money, you’ll have to answer to him.” Fast-forward to 2012. Call in the search teams. Since being appointed the nation’s stimulus spending cop, Sheriff Joe has taken a permanent donut break.

He’s AWOL on oversight. In fact, he’s been bubble-wrapped, boxed and kept completely out of sight. The garrulous gaffe machine hasn’t sat down for a national media interview in five months.

The Democrats’ trillion-dollar “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” however, keeps piling up waste, failure, fraud and debt. Who benefited most? Big government cronies. According to Investor’s Business Daily, a new analysis by Ohio State economics professor Bill Dupor reported that “(m)ore than three-quarters of the jobs created or saved by Pres Obama’s economic stimulus in the first year were in government.”

Dupor and another colleague had earlier concluded that the porkulus was a predictable jobs-killer that crowded out non-government jobs with make-work public jobs and programs. Indeed, the massive wealth redistribution scheme “destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs” by siphoning tax dollars “to offset state revenue shortfalls and Medicaid increases rather than boost private sector employment.”

Will this Keynesian wreckage come up during Biden's debates? It should be a centerpiece of domestic policy discussion. Nowhere is the gulf between Obama/Biden rhetoric and reality on jobs wider. Remember: Obama’s Ivy League eggheads behind the stimulus promised that “(m)ore than 90 percent of the jobs created are likely to be in the private sector.” These are the same feckless economic advisers who infamously vowed that the stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent — and that unemployment would drop below 6 percent sometime this year. Sheriff Joe rebuked the “naysayers” who decried the behemoth stimulus program’s waste, fraud and abuse. “You know what? They were wrong,” he crowed.

Sheriff Biden was radio silent about the nearly 4,000 stimulus recipients who received $24 billion in Recovery Act funds — while owing more than $750 million in unpaid corporate, payroll and other taxes. (Cash for Tax Cheats, anyone?)

He had nothing to say about:
<><> $6B in Homeowners' stimulus energy credits showered on nearly 1/3 of credit-claimers who had no record of homeownership, including minors and prisoners.
<><> $530 million dumped into profligate Detroit public schools for laptops and other electronics that had little, if any, measurable academic benefits.
<><> the whopping $6.7 million cost per job under the $50 billion stimulus-funded green energy loan program
<><> politically connected Green companies are now bankrupt---they took the money then went belly-up
<><> remember? Solyndra ($535M), Abound Solar ($400M), Beacon Power ($43M), A123 ($250M) and Ener1 ($119M).
<><> $1 million stimulus went to Big Bird and Sesame Street “to promote healthy eating,” for a theoretical 1.47 jobs ($726,000 per job.)
<><> hundreds of stim millions to govt GSA junkets in Las Vegas and Hawaii,
<><> hundreds of millions to ghost congressional districts, dead people,
<><> hundreds of millions for infrastructures to nowhere
<><> 100's of millions for Obama propaganda---road signs stamped with the shovel-ready logo.

Of course, there’s no example of unfettered stimulus squandering more fitting than the one named after Keystone Fiscal Kop Joe Biden himself. Government-funded Amtrak’s Wilmington, Del., station raked in $20 million in “recovery” money after heavy personal lobbying by the state’s most prominent customer and cheerleader. In return, the station (which came in $6 million over budget, according to The Washington Times) renamed its facility after Biden.

Bloated costs. Crony political narcissism. Glaring conflicts of interest. Monumental waste.

This is the Obama/Biden stimulus legacy bequeathed to our children and their grandchildren. Sheriff Joe and his plundering boss need to be run out of town on a rail.

SOURCE http://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/topic/v/Vice_President_/

[ml/nj]

Why would you ever seek elected office if it weren’t for the perks.

I hope you don't think Donald Trump did it for the perqs.

ML/NJ