Obama's White House dream team virtually all Chicago millionaires

[Top Cat]

When President Barack Obama moved into the White House earlier this year, he took several of his fellow Chicago millionaires with him.

Newly released disclosure reports show virtually all of the top Chicagoans serving in the West Wing have assets valued at a million dollars or more at the end of 2008.

In several cases, the reports provide the first detailed look at the finances of some of the president's top aides and friends from Chicago who have risen with him. They also show the financial haircut many have taken to be in the White House, at least until they return to the private sector.

Some of the wealth can be attributed to the fact that the top aides surrounding Obama – such as the Chicago Trinity of Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett – are from a big city where salaries tend to be higher. Comparable senior staffers with the previous two presidents came from Austin, Texas, and Little Rock, Ark., where salaries for top professionals tend to be the lower than in Chicago.


Edited to 4 paragraphs to conform to DU's fair use policy for copyrighted material. Lithos, DU Moderator

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-white-house-wealthapr09,0,3609518.story

(I'm glad to see that President Obama's staff is in line with his predecessors staff. One less thing that the MSM can spin)

[MADem]

1. Good. They'll be less inclined to want to steal from the taxpayers.

God bless the child that's got his own, and all that.

[Top Cat]

2. Amen

[Thrill]

3. Politicians and top aides who are rich? What a surprise.

Would we want them running the Government if they weren't successful in their own careers?

[Top Cat]

4. I certainly would not......

[FrenchieCat]

5. Wonder what the Bush White House Dream team from Texas was worth?

Them only listing Andy Card as a contrast is quite Telling!

[960]

6. I am absolutely stunned.

I would have assumed he would have picked poor, homeless people he had never met from all around the country.

You mean he actually assembled a team of successful people from his home city? BIZARRE!

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Alerted

4 paragraph rule violated by this post.

Have a nice day.

[JimGinPA]

8. unrecommended

The author of this trash has been writing hit pieces on Obama since the primaries.



:thumbsdown:

[stevenleser]

12. Unrecommended x2 and Alerted x2

:thumbsdown:

[Uzybone]

9. Middle class folks who worked thier way up

how disgusting.

[firedupdem]

10. Was this article supposed to start the next outrage? n/t

[Occam Bandage]

11. zomg.

[Bicoastal]

13. OMG--Obama's cabinet is full of SUCCESS STORIES?!

How DARE he pick such people! x(

By the way, if you think liberals disliked Bush's cabinet merely cuz it was full of wealthy people, you're missing the point entirely--and are furthermore succumbing to the faux-populist anger that's all the rage these days. Way to go--Glenn Beck would be PROUD.

[FrenchieCat]

14. Plus, it looks like they got rich on their own merits, via education and such....

and didn't simply just gained wealth by being who there were....or because of who they know.

Not an oil baron in the bunch, I see. :)

[Norquist Nemesis]

15. Wow! Who knew ACORN would be so lucrative!

:sarcasm:

[Number23]

16. lol :o)

Either that or they're part of the vast team of lawyers Freepers are always talking who's sole purpose is protecting his birth certificate and keeping it out of enemy (re: the American public) hands!!

[Norquist Nemesis]

18. *snort* They're really all illegal aliens who are relatives from Kenya.

;)

[NatBurner]

25. hmm. i wonder if they know that nice nigerian i'm going into business with?

i haven't met him yet, but he seems very nice from his emails

[blitzen]

17. Go back to Freeperville if U want sum LUV

[EmilyAnne]

19. I love the bullshit title. "Virtually all" could also be replaced with "not all."

So, "Obama's White House dream team NOT all Chicago millionaires."

And these are mostly self made people who achieved their version of the American dream through hard work and education.
Like Barack and Michelle Obama.
So....who cares?
He hired successful people?

[Trajan]

20. Why are you entitled to exceed the 4 paragraph limit ?

[lamp_shade]

21. Remember when a million dollars was a lot of money?

[stray cat]

22. Nothing against millionaires as long as they had to perform competently to get there

after all Obama is a millionaire

[Blue_Tires]

23. yeah, we got that memo way back in 2000 and 2004

only conservatives are allowed to have money without anyone questioning them....

[ItNerd4life]

24. They were all public servants. Did they get their money by stealing

it from the public? Considering Chicago politics, that's how most
of them probably made their money.

[Ganja Ninja]

26. What no Texas millionaires?

Somebody must feel left out.