One day I was in a parking lot, reading a book, and across from me a SUV pulled in and three guys got out and I looked up it was Schumer, I thought "gees, I could go and meet this guy, first hand". I didn't. I said " Fk it, what's the point".
I guess, to be fair, the incumbent president's party needs to paint the economy rosier than it actually is in an effort to get people doing things to improve economic conditions and to help prevent further weakening. But, they also need to take actions to solve our crisis's such as getting entitlement growth under control and putting us on a sustained path to get the debt under control. As it is, neither are being accomplished.
These regular folk had so far contributed 19 mil... . http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2012&cid=n00001093&type=I&newmem=N 1 1 Securities & Investment $2,731,064 $2,586,764 $144,300 2 3 Lawyers/Law Firms $2,180,160 $1,927,147 $253,013 3 5 Real Estate $1,252,490 $1,162,990 $89,500 4 47 Lobbyists $574,963 $565,193 $9,770 5 6 Misc Finance $551,100 $534,100 $17,000 6 10 TV/Movies/Music $494,325 $376,325 $118,000 7 9 Insurance $466,600 $260,700 $205,900 8 8 Business Services $390,715 $353,915 $36,800 9 4 Retired $352,050 $352,050 $0 10 12 Health Professionals $349,400 $143,550 $205,850 11 11 Misc Manufacturing & Distributing $293,335 $248,500 $44,835 12 21 Computers/Internet $292,384 $195,450 $96,934 13 34 Hospitals/Nursing Homes $288,800 $184,100 $104,700 14 42 Accountants $280,400 $225,400 $55,000 15 44 Pro-Israel $254,099 $225,849 $28,250 16 46 Health Services/HMOs $232,050 $108,850 $123,200 17 13 Commercial Banks $185,800 $130,800 $55,000 18 14 Education $184,225 $178,425 $5,800 19 19 Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $156,550 $46,550 $110,000 20 35 Beer, Wine & Liquor $155,600 $89,600 $66,000 and his top 10 regular folks... 1 Paul, Weiss et al $145,550 $145,550 $0 2 Paulson & Co $137,300 $137,300 $0 3 Weitz & Luxenberg $86,200 $86,200 $0 4 Schulte, Roth & Zabel $80,600 $80,600 $0 5 Lazard Ltd $78,150 $78,150 $0 6 Fragomen, Del Rey et al $72,700 $66,900 $5,800 7 Credit Suisse Group $69,450 $59,450 $10,000 8 Blackstone Group $68,000 $51,000 $17,000 9 Renaissance Technologies $67,200 $67,200 $0