It was - put to it plainly, disgusting. My situation requires that I also have to pay for college for my son and his Mom and I will soon be living in two separate houses. I can also say with certainty that no one will give me $10 to speak nor will I be offered a book deal just because of who I am.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/11/why-hillarys-dead-broke-claim-is-only-mostly-false/
".......“You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Clinton said. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. It was not easy. Bill has worked really hard. And it’s been amazing to me. He’s worked very hard.”
The comment immediately prompted criticism calling the unquestionably well-off Clintons out of touch, particularly the reference to plural “houses,” one of which cost $1.7 million and the other $2.85 million
It caused enough of an uproar that Clinton later clarified her statement, saying they “have a life experience that is clearly different in very dramatic ways from many Americans” but that “we also have gone through some of the same challenges many people have.”
PolitiFact evaluated the Clintons’ finances through public financial disclosure forms and news reports, reporting that “the public record shows that they possibly had more liabilities than assets, but it doesn’t show that conclusively.”
A few weeks before they left the White House, the Clintons were able to muster a cash down payment of $855,000 and secure a $1.995 million mortgage. This hardly fits the common meaning of ‘dead broke,’” the fact checker reported. Based on Hillary Clinton’s Senate financial disclosure form, after leaving the White House, “their highest possible assets totaled about $1.8 million, while their lowest possible debts were nearly $2.3 million. The most optimistic scenario left them in a hole of about $500,000.”
PolitiFact noted, “the federal disclosure form does not include homes used for personal use and the Clintons owned two.”
Before they left the White House, the Clintons purchased two homes: a $1.7 million, five-bedroom home in 1999 Chappaqua, New York, and a $2.85 million, seven-bedroom home in Washington, D.C., in December 2000.
Further, in December 2000, Citibank lent them $1.995 million to buy the Washington home. By Feb. 5, 2001, the former president was regularly earning public speaking fees of at least $125,000 per speech. Meanwhile, the former first lady and newly elected U.S. senator from New York was paid a $2.84 million by Simon and Schuster for her previous book.
By 2004, the Clintons could say they were better off than they were four years ago – at least financially. Their personal debt was erased and Hillary Clinton was ranked as the 10th-wealthiest member of the Senate, with a net worth between $10 million and $50 million, according to her Senate financial disclosure form........"
Hillary, who makes a habit of lying through her teeth, such as when she claimed that her arrival in Bosnia was met by sniper fire (* bottom), uttered yet another lie in order to claim that she and Bill have financial circumstances that are no or little different than ours:
".....On Sunday, Britain’s The Guardian posted an interview in which Clinton defended her and Bill’s wealth by saying they pay regular income taxes “unlike a lot of people who are truly well off.”........"
But news video footage of her arrival at Tuzla shows Clinton, then the first lady, calmly walking from the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force plane with her daughter, Chelsea, then 16, at her side. Both Clintons held their heads up and did not appear rushed.
The video shows Clinton spending several minutes talking with the group, including an 8-year-old Bosnian girl who presented her with a poem, and later greeting U.S. troops.
Clinton has mentioned the sniper fire at least twice earlier in the campaign, including in December in Dubuque, Iowa, before the caucuses in that state......."
Real tuff living on a million a month for sure. The terrible sacrifices her 'n Bill must have to make every month about which bills to pay on & which to let slide another month. Hard choices everyday.
ReplyDeleteThank G*d, the lovely fruit of their loins, the awesome Chelsea turned out to be very non-materialistic. Married to a multi-millionaire jew hedge fund apparatchik, living in an 11 million house, she states oh so sincerely in regard to her own personal $600K per annum "job" that the money is unimportant....Great parenting, Hill 'n Bill.....oh btw - for those inquirying minds - Chelsea's family name had nutttin', absolutely nuttin', to do with her landing that $600k a yr, part time job. She is undoubtedly worth every penny the MSM is paying her :)