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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ditchdigger who wrote (21746)	10/7/2004 1:24:00 PM
From: kodiak_bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

You know, people have little concept of the difference in wealth in certain politicians. Chatting with my neighbor this morning on my dog walk, she opined that Kerry and Bush were both "wealthy." End of discussion. No difference. I don't know how much moolah John K had without Teresa, but she has, apparently, over $3 billion, with a B. Wow. I see various levels of wealth. The middle class can't send their kids to private colleges without going through the indignities of FAFSA (and then being qualified only to borrow the entire amount). Above that you have the families with vacation homes who don't bother with FAFSA, but feel some of the pain of college tuition. Above that you have the families who have a couple of vacation homes who don't really feel the $40K per year to send their kids to private secondary and university education. This level is, to me, the Bush and "pre-Teresa" Kerry level. Able to afford a yacht and not worry about the yacht club fees and maintenance bills, but not really wealthy. Above that you have the corporate executive level, and Dick Cheney operated close to the bottom of that for just a few years. At the top of the corp. executive level you have the Eisners and the Tyco types. But, where you get into serious corporate wealth is at the founder, owner, and family corporate wealth. Duponts, Pillsbury, Heinz. Forbes 400 level stuff. Two asides: I couldn't bear to watch the VP debate--this is such inane theatre. Second, television is having so much fun with Martha going off to Alderson WVa for her jail time--CNBC actually played "Dueling Banjos", how outre. Kb