When did Romney get rich?

[hedgehog]

At some point, he loads the kids into the station wagon, puts the dog on the roof and drives to a family camp in Canada. Today he is a billionaire. So, how rich was he at point A, and how did he get from point A to point B?

[Turbineguy]

1. When he won

the sperm lottery.

[izquierdista]

2. He's always been rich

Daddy was an auto-exec/politician, he has never had to do without. I suppose he is a cheapskate too, for now we know that he didn't just go out and buy a bigger station wagon so all could sit inside.

[hedgehog]

7. So somewhere along the way, he went from being the cheapskate

with the station wagon to the guy with multiple homes. How did that happen?

[MADem]

3. Well, he was always "privileged."

He went to private schools, his father was the Big Auto Dude and Governor....it's not like he was ever really poor. Or even "average." He was always rich-- I think he started making the obscene money at Bain....it was just when he started buying up struggling businesses, breaking them to shit, firing the employees, raiding the pension funds, and selling off the parts for more than was paid for the whole...oh, and taking "stock" in the entities that were sold off, so that when someone ELSE did the hard work to bring the company back, his profit would continue to grow even though he did nothing but destroy lives....well, that's how he did it, I think.

He's just a shit, isn't he?

[onehandle]

4. He's not a billionaire. He's only worth several hundred million.

A pittance.

[librechik]

5. Born Rich and Privileged--you know, "That Way"

fairly easy to use capitol and connections to make the pie higher.

[Tom Ripley]

6. According to his blather...at conception

[BlueDemKev]

8. When he was born.

The Romneys and the Kennedys have a lot in common when it comes to money and name-recognition.

[white_wolf]

9. I don't think the Romneys are as well known as the Kennedys.

I've always viewed the Bushs as the right's version of the Kennedy.

[BlueDemKev]

11. Maybe, but Romney is still a highly-recognized generational name

[B Calm]

10. When he started closing down

factories, laying off workers, and off shoring American manufacturing jobs for foreign cheap labor, investing his millions in the Cayman Islands and Swiss bank accounts to avoid paying United States taxes.

Oh yeah, I can see where working people have a lot in common with this prick.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Birth