The .1%~Thursday Thoughts, Pelosi

Sometimes I just laugh out loud, whilst working by myself in the wee hours of the morning. This week’s entertainment is brought you by Congress woman Nancy Pelosi.

Congresswoman Pelosi was speaking at a Phoenix Arizona Townhall, against the Trump tax cuts. She was saying how it does not reflect American values and how Martin Luther King was against income inequality. Google the video, its all over the internet.(1) (2)

She said, “…most people have to struggle to make ends meet...," when a woman in the audience shouts, “How much are you worth Nancy, are you in abject poverty?”

Nancy responds, “We are not talking about that.”

(I’m thinking, but you are speaking about income inequality, right?)

In a recent speech she said that the $1,000 bonuses that some companies would be able to award their employees were “crumbs.”

Why would someone say that? 

Pelosi is a Representative for the State of California, but she does not actually represent the typical Californian or any American from any state for that matter. The average median income of the American Family is $58,000 a year. (4)

In 2014, she ranked 15^th out of 50 of Congress’s most wealthy public “servants”

In 2014 her net worth was $101,273,023.(3) Ah I get it, that’s why $1,000 would not mean squat to her.

She was elected to Congress 30 years ago, and has never left. (Excellent case for term limits)

She is not in the “2%” that we often hear about, she is actually in “.1%” (That means she is SUPER RICH)

I’m guessing she has not offered to take a pay cut to help balance a budget, so those numbers are probably on the low side now.

I am not a person that speaks out about income inequality. I don’t hate on people that have a higher net worth then I. Nor do I think that the rich should be punished for doing well. After all, a high percentage of the wealthy actually employ us blue collars. Because of them, we have a reason to get up in the morning, leave the cave, slay some meat and drag it home for our families to feast upon.

That being said, when someone is opening up a conversation about income inequality, they must be able to hold a conversation. Not shut down the conversation when it gets uncomfortable or does not meet the canned and memorized mantra.

Especially when you make a living off the backs of working class Americans at approximately $200,000 a year, have a primo healthcare package, run around the country in jets fueled by taxpayers, and of course pass laws associated with tax increases and fines before reading them. 

*note to self. When you know that a Pelosi news bite is coming up, put down the coffee. It's not meant to come out your nose.

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(1)https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2018/02/21/grijalva-pelosi-complain-of-crumbs-heckled-in-phoenix/

(2)http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/02/20/pelosi-heckled-town-hall-about-trump-tax-law-how-much-you-worth

(3)https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/net-worth?
(4)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States