Relative Paupers

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings

New Orleans        Chris Cooper in the Wall Street Journal refers to the Clinton family in their last year in the White House as “relative paupers” filing taxes on $375,000.  Let’s assume this was just “tongue-in-cheek” since the real article was about the fact that the Clintons pulled down at least $109 million in the …

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Show Me the Money

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings

New Orleans     Walking back into office this morning one of the first things I heard from one of our part-time web designers was her excitement at being accepted in graduate school in architecture (I had signed a recommendation for her), and the fact that the decision would be all about the money. Yesterday, Orell …

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