Take a tour of the Clinton family's $50,000-per-week rental mansion in the Hamptons

[tecelote]

http://www.businessinsider.com/tour-hillary-clintons-50000-per-week-hamptons-rental-2015-8

[hobbit709]

1. $50k is 4 YEARS worth of Social Security checks for me.

[riversedge]

2. DU already did that last summer--several times as I recall. Boring.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Yes, I can see how "trifling" amounts of money

like $50,000 a week are boring to the fabulously wealthy.

Meanwhile, vast majority of the country struggles to make the rent.

Three weeks rent for her equals paying off my entire mortgage. A single week's rent is just under the nation's median income.

[Jarqui]

29. I missed it.

Thanks for posting.

http://moneynation.com/bernie-sanders-net-worth/
Bernie Sanders net worth of $528,000 (not tons for a 74 year old man)

Hillary Clinton's net worth of 31.3 million fits in with this group much better than Bernie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_wealth

[gwheezie]

3. Nice place

They can afford it. I can afford to rent a condo for a week when I go on vacay every coupla years. A few years ago I had some extra money and got to send my daughters' family to Disney world. I was not always able to do those things but I'm glad I can do it now.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. I can really identify with her. She just like us.

[ram2008]

5. I'll never understand why people want so much extra space

Not pointing at the Clintons, but just in general everyone is obsessed with having large spaces and big houses. Whenever I'm in a large empty space I get anxious and feel weird. Personally would prefer a small cabin overlooking the water or something.

[white_wolf]

18. I don't get it either, but then again I'm kind of weird when it comes to where I want to live.

I much prefer big cities to the country and i, hope, to one day be able to live in NYC. But even then I don't want a huge penthouse or anything. I think I'd go nuts and all that empty space just seems wasteful.

[ram2008]

20. Me too, I live on Long Island, dying to get out of here into NYC

I hate the suburbs with a passion.

[white_wolf]

24. I'm currently stuck in Tennessee. It's what I imagine hell would be like.

But I'm going to live in NYC if it kills me.. I HATE the country and the suburbs..It's just not me.

[Fawke Em]

34. Hey! I'm in Tennessee.

And I find it quite pretty.

The people outside of the cities are a bit backward, but, luckily I don't have to deal with that much.

[reformist2]

21. I agree 100%. It's too much. Nobody would buy 1000 pizzas just because they had the money.

So why on earth would you waste all that money on a house with rooms and spaces that you could never fill??? What really gets me, though, is when rich people buy multiple homes all over the country - or the world. It seems like a huge headache to me.

[brooklynite]

6. I agree...the Martha's Vineyard retreat, where I hung out with Bernie, is much nicer

Nice food at fancy hotels and private homes, open bar, boat trips....that's the life.

Bernie Sanders Courts Martha’s Vineyard Donors

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has risen in the polls thanks in part to his denunciations of the forces of concentrated wealth, drawing thousands of liberals to hear his jeremiads against corporate power in early nominating states and liberal hubs such as Madison, Wis.

But Mr. Sanders quietly stepped off the campaign trail this weekend to visit Martha’s Vineyard, a favorite summer destination of the country’s elite, in order to mix with representatives of some of the same interests he inveighs against in his stump speech.

Mr. Sanders attended the annual Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fund-raiser on the Massachusetts island, a popular gathering that draws some of the most prominent business lobbyists and fund-raisers in the Democratic Party.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/11/sanders-courts-marthas-vineyard-donors/

[Kelvin Mace]

8. Context helps...

He wasn't their fundraising for himself.

Mr. Sanders attended the annual Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fund-raiser on the Massachusetts island, a popular gathering that draws some of the most prominent business lobbyists and fund-raisers in the Democratic Party.

If he refused to attend and help the DSCC, then people would be whining about how he does nothing to help Dems raise money.

A hit piece when you read the whole thing.

One prominent attendee, a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, suggested Mr. Sanders’s appearance suggested he was more pragmatic than his rhetoric would let on.

“Bernie is attracting throngs and has a wave going preaching against the one percent,” said the attendee, requesting anonymity to speak candidly.

The criticism illustrates the rising irritation among some establishment-aligned Democrats with Mr. Sanders, an independent who caucuses as a Democrat.

Can you give me some context to HRC's $50,000 a week rental that would make explain how that kind of expenditure isn't outrageously tone deaf?

[brooklynite]

11. And Clinton wasn't fundraising at all...

...the apparent objection was to the "good life" that 1%ers enjoy. Shouldn't Bernie have suggested that the money for all that food and drink go to help the less fortunate?

[Kelvin Mace]

13. The objection is that we are supposed to trust her judgment

about issues affecting the poor and middle-class when she is clueless and divorced from the reality of what it is like to be poor or middle class.

[dsc]

16. so you would have voted for Nixon over Kennedy I assume

Goldwater over Johnson and Hoover over FDR.

[Kelvin Mace]

23. Nice try.

I am picking between Democrats, not Republicans.

[Punkingal]

39. Hoover was a millionaire.

[synergie]

30. Well, there is that whole security detail that follows around a former president and his family.

They take up a bit of room.

[Kelvin Mace]

32. Lots of places available for less

than $50K a week.

[synergie]

35. Which meet their personal and security needs? And how do you know what the requirements

were and what does it matter to you, since none of those dollars were coming out of your pocket?

[Kelvin Mace]

42. It comes out of our pockets indirectly

when these people are bought off by their high money donors so that the tax burden remains on us, not them.

I am surprised I have to explain how this works.

[whopis01]

33. Yeah - you would think they would need something more than a 6 bedroom place for that. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

9. It's supposed to shock folks that a former president would have this??

[hobbit709]

12. From "dead broke" to $200 mill in 15 years. Life is good among the 1% and their minions.

[840high]

15. She's definitely one of us and

understands our problem.

[Blue_Tires]

41. And Trump is still a billionaire

Even after filing bankruptcy a dozen times... What's the point here?

[synergie]

36. Apparently.

[elias49]

10. Nice. You'd think she could afford an email server

that wasn't spilling secrets to whoever was looking.
Jeeez.

[Fumesucker]

26. Take care of the pennies and the dollars take care of themselves

[grasswire]

14. and Chelsea just upgraded FROM a NYC apt with 6 1/2 bathrooms

Too small, it was.

[white_wolf]

19. Give me a NYC apartment with one decent bathroom and I'd be ecstatic.

[Travis_0004]

17. Looks like a nice place.

Honestly, for 50k a week, I would have expected more.

[LiberalArkie]

22. It's the Hamptons. I would guess that $10,000 of that is the street address

[marions ghost]

25. Yuk

[Lil Missy]

27. good for them! I don't have anything against rich people.

[Mike Nelson]

28. The White House is more ritzy...

...but I do like the deck.

[left on green only]

31. I Wonder How Much The Cleaning And Security Deposits Were?

[JudyM]

37. Nice, though fairly sterile-looking.

The kind of place where your shoes echo as you walk.

[flamingdem]

38. Just stop it. The Clintons earned their money and Bill Clinton lead our country

This sounds like Republican bullshit.

[Flying Squirrel]

40. Actually

"They earned their money" sounds like Republican bullshit. But whatever floats your boat...