Bush and Palin are stupid millionaires
 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=5931551 $1,200,000+
http://www.slate.com/id/2084356 $10,000,000+

What about you? Smart and poor? Let me guess, your IQ is so high, it can't even be measured. I didn't know I also joined MENSA when I registered on GFY.

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http://www.jackbook.com/wp-content/u...ah-palin-4.jpg

that is one huge slap-on-da-face

For Bush here is a small clue from the article:

Parents' jobs: Father was president of the United States. Mother was first lady and author.

It makes it easier to sign drilling contracts with Bahrain or get tax credits when building ballparks in Texas.

The Palin's assets just top $1000000. As a couple, not Sarah alone. Not hugely impressive for a couple in their forty's. :2 cents:

How exactly are assets linked to IQ?

I would like to know which America you are living in toots? Must be the out of touch McAmerica :disgust

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Househo..._United_States
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/...th/002484.html
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/...th/007419.html

She is just a " hockey mom " , like all others ..... :)

Not as rare as you might think:

1 In 125 In 2004:
http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/15/pf/millionaires/

6-8 Million Americans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire#United_States

too much rich people :)

I want to be a millionaire!!

Mike Tyson is richer than both of them put together.

Mike Tyson for VP NOW!!!!!!!!

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Ok, maybe Tyson is broke but P-Diddy can still run for VP based on this post.

1M isn't THAT impressive, one just needs to for example
a. make 100k per year (16% of households in the US make that, so very achievable if you have your shit together)
b. save+invest 10% of what you make (very achievable too)

and in 15 years or so you will have around 1M

I was going to say - Tyson is no longer rich :winkwink:

Bush was born into a wealthy family. That takes zero talent. As for Palin, I really don't understand how she could of made so much money. Mayor and Governer aren't exactly high paying jobs. Todd apparently ran a fishing company and now works in oil but isn't high up there. It doesn't add up at all.

I met plenty of Millionairs that are dumb as fucking nails.
Money does not mean smart.

How did that bimbo get elected as governor of Alaska?

Sarah Palin's salary as governor was $125,000; Todd Palin took in $46,790 as a part-time oil production operator for BP Alaska in Prudhoe Bay, plus $46,265 in commercial fishing income and $10,500 in Iron Dog snowmachine race winnings. These figures do not include nearly $17,000 in per diem payments Palin received for 312 nights spent in her own home since she was elected governor; she also has received $43,490 to cover travel costs for her husband and children.

In addition, each member of the Palin family received $1,654 in state oil royalties paid to all Alaskans.

The Palins' assets seem enviable: a half-million-dollar home on a lake with a float-plane at the dock, two vacation retreats, commercial-fishing rights worth an estimated $50,000 or more and an income last year of at least $230,000. That compares to a median income of $64,333 for Alaskans and $50,740 for Americans in 2007, according to the Census Bureau

Other family assets include Todd Palin's shoreside lease and commercial fishing permit to harvest salmon from Bristol Bay each season. Last year, the Palins took in $46,265 commercial fishing for sockeye salmon over about a month.

So they own a 500,000 K home but it doesn't say how much they owe on it ?

Yes, there are a lot of stupid people who are really rich. Unfortunately there are also many very intelligent people, intellectuals, brilliant people who are poor. Life is not fair.