Surely, the most outrageous poverty snob is former senator and first lady Hillary Clinton. Hillary loudly and incredulously claimed that Bill and she were “dead broke” upon leaving the White House. She yammered along about having “…the same challenges many people have.” Among them were mortgages for houses and college expenses for poor little Chelsea.
Actually, she knew very well what the future would hold. In 1999 she and Bill bought a 5-bedroom home in Chappaqua, New York for $1.7 million; and in 2000 the couple, needing more room obviously, bought a 7-bedroom Embassy Road home in Washington, D.C. for a whopping $2.85 million. “Dead broke” indeed!
In 2001, while the White House lint was still fresh in Bill’s cuffs, he was making $125,000 per speech and Hillary’s book bought in a cool $2.84 million. Their assets, at this time, were listed at between $6 and $30 million.
Page claims that when it comes to “poverty snobbery” in 2016, Mike Huckabee leads the pack. Well, I don’t think he ever claimed to be “dead broke” while swimming in outrageous sums of cash and living in obscene luxury.
Clarence, it's "Billary" who are the champion poverty snobs and we have not heard the last of it. — BILL BORDEN, OAKWOOD
Concerns about Cornerstone development
The Centerville city administration continues to solidify its position as the one government entity in the area consistently unwilling to deal honestly and forthrightly with neighboring communities. It’s insistence that Sugarcreek Twp. provide fire protection for the Cornerstone development and it’s persistent pursuit of legal loopholes to accomplish its shady goals is consistent with the manner in which they accomplished the “land grab” of the Dille property in the first place, all the while knowing that they would be unable to provide basic services.
The actions of the Centerville administrators continue to "poison the well" in terms of alienating neighboring communities making any future needed cooperative ventures between Centerville and Sugarcreek very difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish. — ROBERT MEYER, SUGARCREEK TWP.
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Doesn't having the Pope address Congress violate the church-state stance of our government?
The Super Bowl ended with a fight. Baseball will have one occasionally and hockey all the time. No one seems to mind. But if a fight breaks out on a basketball court, the reaction is very different. I wonder why that is.
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