{"id":1348,"date":"2008-08-23T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2008-08-23T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:31:11","slug":"election-2008-rich-vs-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/election-2008-rich-vs-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2008: Rich vs. Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/08\/pileofcash.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of cash\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With the selection of Joe Biden as his running mate, Barack Obama has set the stage for what many believe will be a ticket of the &#8220;haves&#8221; McCain (~$40M net worth) and Romney (~$200M) against the &#8220;have nots&#8221; Obama (~$1.3M) and Biden (~$100k.) Romney has not yet been confirmed as McCain&#8217;s running mate, but it&#8217;s widely believed he will be the choice. I can imagine the Ad now:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJohn McCain is so rich, he doesn&#8217;t even know how many houses he has and must have his staff verify the number for him. He thinks that people who earn the small sum of $4M per year are not rich. His chief economic advisor says our economic problems are all in our heads. McCain just dropped $700,000 on a home for his daughter. Not to mention his running mate Mr. Romney who is worth over $200M.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama just has managed to pay off the loans he took to get through college, in his family, daughters get an allowance of $1 per week.<\/p>\n<p>Which candidate is better equipped to understand the pain you&#8217;ve suffered over the past eight years?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nYou get the idea&#8230;this should be entertaining. For your reading pleasure, <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/democratic-contender-finances\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Democratic Candidate Net Worth<\/a> || <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/republican-contender-finances\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Republican Candidate Net Worth<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the selection of Joe Biden as his running mate, Barack Obama has set the stage for what many believe will be a ticket of the &#8220;haves&#8221; McCain (~$40M net worth) and Romney (~$200M) against the &#8220;have nots&#8221; Obama (~$1.3M) and Biden (~$100k.) Romney has not yet been confirmed as McCain&#8217;s running mate, but it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[164,151,166,152,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}