2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumChelsea Clinton can't bring herself to care about money
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10902554/Chelsea-Clinton-interview-I-will-always-work-harder-than-anyone.html<Ive tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about money on some fundamental level, and I couldnt. That wasnt the metric of success I wanted in my life.>
Is she saying that money is the metric of success for her parents given that is where she chose to draw the contrast between herself and her parents?
The funny thing is Chelsea talking about how she just can't care about money. NBC paid her $600,000 for a little bit of work. IAC pays her $300,000 plus stock options to sit on a corporate board. She and her hedge fund husband recently moved from a $4 million New York City residence to a $10 million New York City residence.
I guess you don't need to care about money when you know it will always fall in your lap.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)her mommy and daddy are who they are?
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
erronis
(15,328 posts)I'm in the top 20% of wage earners in the US (around 60K) but have no appreciable wealth.
Wealth is what the parasites want, not wages. I haven't been asked to sit on any board or even shake a hand. The grip of the really wealthy on this planet is absolutely scary. And these people have no more intelligence than anyone else - in fact they are tainted by their golden bubbles.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)I wasn't born into royalty.
Csainvestor
(388 posts)Her hedge fund husband is worth another 15 mil
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)than she made legitimately.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)bullshit from rich people I could break something. I know someone who has four jobs to support herself and her four kids. She works TWENTY hours a day. I have two jobs besides my pension. I care about money. I care that she will always have it and the people her mom shills for will make sure I and everyone else doesn't. What a clueless contemptuous clown.
renate
(13,776 posts)I'm sure Chelsea means very well when she says that she doesn't care about money--I really believe that. Which is what makes her so utterly clueless. It's not her fault, but she's still wrong.
I think she honestly doesn't realize that not caring about money is a luxury that only those who will always be secure can have. It's probably the greatest luxury of all, and (except for monks and nuns who renounce worldly goods but at least know they'll always have a roof over their head) you need a lot of money to have it.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)bet they will be raised by a Nanny...thats too bad.
erronis
(15,328 posts)which makes her feel like she's part of US.
Money corrupts. Power corrupts.
Welcome to the world of the Caesars, Clintons.
yourout
(7,532 posts)Lets see how you feel on $35k a year.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)That is You as opposed to Me.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)and then there's working smart in a union.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)Allan Brauer @allanbrauer
Jane Sanders overstated donation amounts in loan application for Burlington College http://vtdigger.org/2015/09/13/jane-sanders-overstated-donation-amounts-in-loan-application-for-burlington-college/
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Probably under half a million, and largely the equity in their home.
Your insinuation is really poor.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...expecting working class people like myself to feel sorry for 'poor' Bernie and his wife.
You're out of touch with your own rhetoric. Do you really know how we live out here?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)a small modest apartment, supporting a disabled adult offspring. Month to month.
So now you are telling me that the Sanders are too rich to understand poor working folk?
Crazy, crazy.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...such a dishonest argument.
At any rate, none of their incomes are something we can readily relate to.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)six and a half bathrooms.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...attack his rival's family members.
It's no wonder this navel-gazing revolution is failing.
phazed0
(745 posts)Jane Sanders overstated donation amounts in loan application for Burlington College http://vtdigger.org/2015/09/13/jane-sanders-overstated-donation-amounts-in-loan-application-for-burlington-college/
So it's OK for you to attack BS family members but Hillary's family is off-limits. Gotcha.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)...but I'll be damned if her family is going to be a target without giving as good as your crew here is dishing out.
Call it what the fuck you want, but I didn't start this.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)6. Jane Sanders can't either
Allan Brauer @allanbrauer
Jane Sanders overstated donation amounts in loan application for Burlington College http://vtdigger.org/2015/09/13/jane-sanders-overstated-donation-amounts-in-loan-application-for-burlington-college/
Wow
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)She's talked about it quite a bit. Not so much anymore.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)after losing a job; wonder what she was going to eat when there was only enough money until payday to either buy food or pay bus fare to get to work; how she was going to pay unexpected medical expenses when her insurance denies coverage or even how she's going to pay for insurance when her job won't. When she's had to face these and the many money problems the average working class person has to face, then she can say that. I don't think she's ever had to worry about money. It's easy then to say you don't care.
I don't care about money either, but I don't have the luxury of not having to. Must be nice.
This is also a good illustration of the 1% bubble. Everything is great up there, why change anything?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)to a third-story walkup apartment in the Bronx and given $25K a year to support herself and her child, she'd be caring about money tout suite. Somebody who could sit by the pool clipping bond coupons while sipping a Mai Tai and having her toenails painted ought not to pronounce that she doesn't care about money.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)I'm eagerly looking forward to the hundreds of responses this will get. Again.
Where's my dead horse being flogged smilie when I need it.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)many millions she gets for that? I imagine sharpening pencils pays well if you're a clinton.
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)It doesn't do anything to draw anyone to Bernie's side in the slightest.
phazed0
(745 posts)Pot calling the kettle black?
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)"...money can't buy me love. For everything else, I have a damn-near unlimited supply of it."
Whoop-de-fucking-doo.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I looked at that for a bit, trying to figure out how to get it to scan right...then thought of the ellipsis.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)Let me go on record as already stating that I will never vote for Chelsea either.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)I'm sorry, Chelsea, but try not having enough!
Fairgo
(1,571 posts)Fantasy salaries build the myth that they are somehow gifted in other ways. She doesn't care about money because she truly believes she earned her position.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)unapatriciated
(5,390 posts)hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Jenny_92808
(1,342 posts)Clintons!
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)Don't want the Sexual Harasser in Chief to return to the White House as First Gent, don't want a Hedge Fund Shark as first son-in-law, don't want a former Hedge Fund Shark as First Daughter.
Not a good family for America's White House.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)As first father-in-law.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)giving advice on foreign policy.
Svafa
(594 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)it's not a numerical amount that income adds to and expenses subtract from
Vinca
(50,303 posts)I've just spent an hour tracking down a mistake in my checkbook because I have no choice but to care about money.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)when you've always had plenty of it.
McGovernGirl
(8 posts)"Is she saying that money is the metric of success for her parents given that is where she chose to draw the contrast between herself and her parents?"
No, she's saying that money is NOT her parent's metric of success, therefore she tried to care about it to be different. While certainly tone deaf, the truly inane part of her comments is trying to suggest that her parents don't care about money...Laughable and inane.
And, hello DU. I've lurked here for years and never felt a need to join since usually, someone says what I'm thinking anyway. This time, I had to speak up. Let's not miss an important point here: In ostensibly talking about herself, Chelsea is promoting yet more Clinton mythology: Bill and Hillary are just plain folk to whom money means nothing. Anybody want to buy a bridge?
renate
(13,776 posts)I hope you keep writing now that you've started! You're good!
McGovernGirl
(8 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)McGovernGirl
(8 posts)Just have to try to not get thrown out within my first 10 posts
valerief
(53,235 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)the rest of us have to scrape for that which she blows off.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)she'd care about money. No empathy at all.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)never had a kid with the same prospects. And she can lecture on the unimportance of money.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)She's doing the House of Clinton no favors.
Duval
(4,280 posts)monicaangela
(1,508 posts)when you know you are never going to be without while you are still alive. Why care about it, that's something the little people do. Sounds like she has Leona Helmsley syndrome.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)One that requires some reflection.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)We were poor, but always well fed and taken care of. Mom worked hard every day doing laundry to support us. That was her motivation, and it took money (however meager) to do it.
She demeans my mother and all like her by her "let them eat cake" comment.
ananda
(28,876 posts)How callow.
You don't have to care about money if you have it.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Fling a dart at a map of the United States to get a state. Fling another dart to select a city. Take three thousand dollars and move there to live under an assumed identity. Claim no more than an undergrad degree and get a blue collar job and document your life.
Now imagine having to do that without the three thousand dollars, the AAS, and white skin.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Let her lose her money, she'll sing a different tune.
braddy
(3,585 posts)BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)With 20% down and a 4% mortgage, that is a monthly mortgage payment of about $52,000. My guess is that they probably had banks standing in line to make an interest only loan with a rate closer to 2%.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293195/Chelsea-Clinton-buys-new-10-5-million-apartment-street-husbands-4-million-starter-pad-bought-just-married.html
phazed0
(745 posts)Which will never happen... which means our voices will never be heard by her... which means I'm not voting for her.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)silenttigersong
(957 posts)Move in with a poor family,tell her buddy Ivanka Trump-she does not roll with people like her,have her baby in a new york cab.Just saying