The 1% want us to feel their pain - not gonna happen!

[orangemike]

Bonus Drop Means Trading Aspen for Coupons

Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country’s top 1 percent by income, doesn’t cover his family’s private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square-foot Brooklyn duplex.... His 10-year- old daughter

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[supergee]

As they say, it makes a tear run down my leg.

[capplor]

C'mon man. Let your feelings show!

[seawasp]

I weep for him.

That he could apparently mention these things in a public forum, that is.

[suibhne_geilt]

Right up there with good, ol' State Representative, Sean Duffy, who can't make ends meet on his $174,000 congressional salary?

[orangemike]

Duffy's more embarassing to me because he's a semi-celebrity (for Survivor-contestant values of "celebrity") who is from Wisconsin, and is pretending to represent us in Washington. I assure, most citizens in his district would be delighted to make $174k a year; many of us here in Wisconsin would be delighted to make half that figure!

[capplor]

I bet that my daughter is learning more of value for the real world in a public school than his is in that private citadel. In fact, it sounds as though he never learned how to budget.

[kip_w]

I feel his pain.

No, wait. Just gas.