Senator McCain Stumbles on a Question
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It may be a question that very rich people have difficulty answering. Senator McCain stumbled when asked how many houses he and his wife own:
“WASHINGTON — Days after he cracked that being rich in the U.S. meant earning at least $5 million a year, Republican presidential candidate John McCain acknowledged that he wasn’t sure how many houses he and his wealthy wife actually own.
“I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain responded to a question posed by Politico, according to a story Thursday on the publication’s Web site. “It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.”"
link: McCain not sure how many houses he and wife own
It may be that these are investments that are handled by corporations and accounting people. Nevertheless, it shows the disparity between the political candidates and the average voter. The question that the voter may have trouble answering is ‘do I have enough cash for a full tank of gas?’.
Catherine Forsythe
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Martin Kruse
August 21st, 2008
at 3:11pm
His wife wears the money pants and she is the one that owns the property. Even now my wife and i own 5 properties, main house, 3 rental properties, a commercial piece of land as well as 2 partial interests in other properties, as well as her 2 offices and my store. I can imagine in 30 years when we are in our 70s we could own quite more and honestly not have an answer either.
On the other hand, using your example, i’m sure those folks with limited cash for gasoline could not tell you how much gasoline they could buy with the cash currently in their wallet.
On another note, Obama bought a 1.6 million dollar house with the “help” of convicted criminal Rezko.
BTW, i don’t feel rich at all, but hopefully it will all work out and we’ll be doing fine. How rich you are is all relative. I’m sure your favorite tv star, movie star, talk show host would feel 5 million a year is living in the crapper.
Test Nugget
August 21st, 2008
at 3:21pm
His wife wears the money pants and she is the one that owns the property. Even now my wife and i own 5 properties, main house, 3 rental properties, a commercial piece of land as well as 2 partial interests in other properties, as well as her 2 offices and my store. I can imagine in 30 years when we are in our 70s we could own quite more and honestly not have an answer either.
On the other hand, using your example, i’m sure those folks with limited cash for gasoline could not tell you how much gasoline they could buy with the cash currently in their wallet.
On another note, Obama bought a 1.6 million dollar house with the “help” of convicted criminal Rezko.
BTW, i don’t feel rich at all, but hopefully it will all work out and we’ll be doing fine. How rich you are is all relative. I’m sure your favorite tv star, movie star, talk show host would feel 5 million a year is living in the crapper.
**I guess my original name and/or email address is now being blocked by Lockergnome?**
forsythe
August 21st, 2008
at 3:51pm
Martin… why would one of my favourite commenters be blocked? Never!
The posting system sometimes has its oddities. - Thanks for reading and commenting.
Catherine
Martin Kruse
August 21st, 2008
at 4:26pm
LOL. Need to convince the head honcho of Lockergnome to “buy more internet”.