But to a person living in public housing, EVERY homeowner is rich beyond their imagination.
What you say and the poster you quoted said, are lessons in relative meanings of words. In KC where I live, 600k will buy 95% of the homes in town, if not more. So, there is likely a lot of ignorance floating around on what a 600k house means where he bought it. But, the point of the article is: tee hee.
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Interesting there are homes in the 1.5-2m range in that area and Bernie bought a $600,000 home
http://lakechamplainrealestate.com/c...islands_homes/
I bought my own home for $650,000 and the wife and I make a little more than Bernie's $200,000/year salary as a Senator. It's not as uncommon as this thread seems to be making it.
He came out of the election a rich man.
Makes you wonder what sort of deal was struck to have him step aside without incident after being made into such a joke by the whole DNC corruption thing.
I'm guessing they've set him up on a few high paying boards, couple of book deals, a nice lecture tour at the Hillary rate.
He'll live out the rest of his days as one of those 1%ers he spoke so viciously against.'
The default line in this forum and a few others I've seen is that "oh $600k isn't that much" but that's just a weak excuse.
The point isn't how much his house cost, its the fact that he went in with a very modest net worth and came out a multi-millionaire while spending the whole time in between ranting and raving against wealth.
MAGA
When all you do is WIN WIN WIN
He's got to spend all that "heres some money so you dont have to be found dead of a gunshot wound on top of the nearest mountain by "suicide" money" for not challenging Hillary to hard.
Actually it does. The cost of living is different in many areas. An acceptable amount of income to put towards housing varies, based on what you can get for your money in that area. Therefore, while the actual value of the currency vs other currency is the same, what can be bought with the amount of currency in different areas varies wildly. Therefore, posting the most extreme scenario imaginable (cali real estate), as a means of making a point that the home was not expensive (that was 3,000 miles from cali), is just intellectually dishonest. /shrug
Are you actually bashing him for dedicating his life to public office? And what public office have you been voted into, again? You seem to have such extensive knowledge of how easy it is, that it is inferior in your eyes to working a "real job." I'll bet my doctor's never worked any other job than being a doctor, too. Must mean he's a worthless bum then, according to your logic.
There's good politicians out there, and there's bad politicians. There's a whole lot that are somewhere in between. That doesn't make the job of "politician" suddenly worthless. The good ones are some of the hardest working people on this planet, that will do 500x more in their lifetime than you could ever dream of accomplishing.
That's the problem with conflating the wealthy with the mega-wealthy. Bernie Sanders is wealthy. Hillary Clinton is mega-wealthy. Bernie Sanders buys a $600,000 summer home. Hillary Clinton throws a $600,000 birthday party. Bernie Sanders buys a $1,000 suit. Hillary Clinton buys $1,000 workout outfits.
Starting to see the distinction? Everyone thinks when Bernie Sanders talks about the rich having too much money, that they're referring to the $100k a year professional who has a decent house and golf club membership. Bernie Sanders is talking about the $100 million a year magnate who owns a zip code and the golf course that goes with it.
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You missed a key word there: until. I said he never had a real job UNTIL he ran for office, imply politics is in fact a real job. Trigger much?
Also, if you read what I said, I was repeating the tired mantra of others, not putting forth an original idea. If you have never heard that knock on Bernie, maybe you should not live your life in a positive feedback loop, and expand your media intake a bit.
The AVERAGE house price in Greater London is $780,000.
Man has enough money to buy below average house. Top story.
This is clearly a thread that's talking about whether or not the house is of a reasonable price.
The only one here that seems to be confusing this as another topic is you based on other responses, which seems to just assure that you don't have to much actually debate or discuss.
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Well yeh she does. The Clintons are in the hundreds of millions in net worth. Clinton could buy Bernie's house after 2 speeches. Bernie was talking about those in the billions/hundreds of millions that make absurd amount of cash. Not those who have accumulated some money by being financially responsible with a regular salary of 200k over a period of his entire life. I really don't get what the issue is. Clinton made more than Bernie in a whole year with one 1 hour speech.