Why is it.................

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Strange how the Dems in Congress are far richer than the Reps, huh?

Must be all those poor folks they're helping

Statistics, please.

NPR isn't left? Then I suppose Gwen Eiffel and Tavis Smiley are centrists

Pete

Smiley perhaps.

John

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Smiley perhaps.

John

Smiley a centrist??! Along with Hillary and GWB perhaps

I'm working on the stats.

Pete

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Smiley a centrist??! Along with Hillary and GWB perhaps

I'm working on the stats.

Pete

I worded that poorly. Smiley may be to the left but Ifill isn't.

As I've said before, Hillary is center left and bush is just an oligarch.

John

[piece-itpete]

Ifill, when she talks about people on the right she looks like she's eating, well, crap

Wealth. Tough one, we need someone who knows excel:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/over...pe=W&year=2008

I was going to delete all in the White house, note the total average, then delete all the Reps, total, and there we'd have it.

But while I was deleting I noticed to my horror that I was getting copies of the non-deleted. Anyone?

Pete

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Ifill, when she talks about people on the right she looks like she's eating, well, crap

Wealth. Tough one, we need someone who knows excel:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/over...pe=W&year=2008

I was going to delete all in the White house, note the total average, then delete all the Reps, total, and there we'd have it.

But while I was deleting I noticed to my horror that I was getting copies of the non-deleted. Anyone?

Pete

Pete, you're gonna get stripped of your pocket protector.

Regards,

D-ray

[merrylander]

Yeah Pete, you really need to take off those blue glasses, makes you think everyone is a liberal.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Wealth. Tough one, we need someone who knows excel:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/over...pe=W&year=2008

Thanks, I'll see if I can make any sense of this.

I should have said this before but I was just waking up. Simply put, having wealth isn't the same as serving wealth. Nobody could claim that the Kennedys and the Roosevelts ever served the wealthy or ignored the interests of the poor and disenfranchised. Conversely, nobody could honestly deny that Reagan did just that.

John

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/over...pe=W&year=2008

I wonder how they calculated these numbers. I'm having a little trouble accepting that the richest guy in Congress has a net worth of less than $400,000.

That being said, it looks to me like the Rs and the Ds are pretty evenly distributes down the list so, if these figures are to be believed, it's probably pretty close to even between the two parties. You do see somewhat more Ds as you scan the list but that's because they're the majority party.

John

[merrylander]

Uh John, that's a comma not a decimal point - $332 million, hell I'm worth more than $400 grand.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Uh John, that's a comma not a decimal point - $332 million, hell I'm worth more than $400 grand.

Shit! My brain doesn't go that high!

Now I'm amazed for the opposite reasons. I mean, I knew that the Congress was a "millionaires' club" but I had no idea of the extent to which that was true. Alcee Hastings is the "poorest" at around a half a mil.

John