Multimillionaire Leftist Elizabeth Warren Says She’s Not Wealthy (Video)

Far left multimillionaire and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren — the standard-bearer for a combative new progressivism — told MSNBC this week that she is not rich. Warren considers herself the intellectual leader of the #occupy criminal movement.
Via Buzzfeed:

Buzzfeed added:

Hard to see how Warren wouldn’t be, by most standards, wealthy, according to the Personal Financial Disclosure form she filed to run for Senate shows that she’s worth as much as $14.5 million. She earned more than $429,000 from Harvard last year alone for a total of about $700,000, and lives in a house worth $5 million.

What a hypocrite.

#1 January 28, 2012 at 9:14 am
dba...vagabond trader commented:

The government helped her make all that money, therefore she isn’t wealthy. Or somethin’
#2 January 28, 2012 at 9:21 am
Remco Kimber commented:

This race is really going to be interesting to watch. We’re voters here in Mass., so we’ll be getting all the ads. If Brown doesn’t make an issue of her considerable wealth then he doesn’t deserve the re-election.

This loony woman is mega-wealthy on both scores, high income, high net worth.

And she claims she’s part of the 99%. We’ve come to expect lies from the Democrats and Warren will not be disappointing us. She’s a liar of the first order.
#3 January 28, 2012 at 9:52 am
Greg commented:

All these rich people run to their Blind Trusts when questioned about their relationship between governance and enrichment. The blind trust may be the perfect hide out. Complete transparency may improve the Not ethics but Thieving. These folks should have to publicly announce every time they make an investment change just like every CEO and corporate executive.
#5 January 28, 2012 at 10:09 am
Blackbird commented:

Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer-except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. For example, Squealer told them that the pigs had to expend enormous labours every day upon mysterious things called “files,” “reports,” “minutes,” and “memoranda.” These were large sheets of paper which had to be closely covered with writing, and as soon as they were so covered, they were burnt in the furnace. This was of the highest importance for the welfare of the farm, Squealer said. But still, neither pigs nor dogs produced any food by their own labour; and there were very many of them, and their appetites were always good.

As for the others, their life, so far as they knew, was as it had always been. They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields; in winter they were troubled by the cold, and in summer by the flies. Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones’s expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now. They could not remember. There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer’s lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better. The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case, they had little time for speculating on such things now. Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse-hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

…

Yes, it was Squealer. A little awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk in that position, but with perfect balance, he was strolling across the yard. And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs. Some did it better than others, one or two were even a trifle unsteady and looked as though they would have liked the support of a stick, but every one of them made his way right round the yard successfully. And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.

He carried a whip in his trotter.

There was a deadly silence. Amazed, terrified, huddling together, the animals watched the long line of pigs march slowly round the yard. It was as though the world had turned upside-down. Then there came a moment when the first shock had worn off and when, in spite of everything-in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never criticising, no matter what happened-they might have uttered some word of protest. But just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of-

“Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!”

It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse.

Benjamin felt a nose nuzzling at his shoulder. He looked round. It was Clover. Her old eyes looked dimmer than ever. Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written. For a minute or two they stood gazing at the tatted wall with its white lettering.

“My sight is failing,” she said finally. “Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?”

For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters.
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I wonder if they even let children read Orwell in school anymore, or do they consider his warnings poison to everything they hold dear.
#6 January 28, 2012 at 10:12 am
vityas commented:

I want to be not wealthy like that too
#7 January 28, 2012 at 10:44 am
Who authorized Fast & Furious? commented:

Well, Harvard clearly overpays professors.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
#8 January 28, 2012 at 11:02 am
midusdew commented:

Exactly!

Who authorized Fast & Furious !!!!! ?

Come on Issa your dragging you feet on this…..
#9 January 28, 2012 at 11:07 am
Neo commented:

Based on 2009 tax data, an income (AGI) of $343,927.00 or more places you in the top 1%.
Based solely on her income from Harvard, Elizabeth Warren is a 1%-er.
#10 January 28, 2012 at 11:11 am
jennifer commented:

If she is not part of the rich, then I am but a bug on a windshield.

Wonder if these folks have any idea about real Americans, that desire no handouts and wish only to raise their families, to work hard and NOT have the government in every aspect of our lives.
#11 January 28, 2012 at 11:11 am
Neo commented:

Top 1% $343,927.00 or more with an average tax rate of 24.01%
Top 5% $154,643.00 or more with an average tax rate of 20.46%
Top 10% $112,124.00 or more with an average tax rate of 18.05%
Top 25% $ 66,193.00 or more with an average tax rate of 14.68%
Top 50% $ 32,396.00 or more with an average tax rate of 12.50%
#12 January 28, 2012 at 11:24 am
Kissmygrits commented:

That would be not as rich as she’d like to be.
#13 January 28, 2012 at 11:38 am
wanumba commented:

The #OWS are whining with their iPODs and iPAds and $5000 laptops that they need help with their $150,000 college bills.

At those prices, they attended the most expensive colleges in the entire WORLD. Their “donated” camp rations are gourmet repasts. No peanut butter and jelly for them.

Of the two towns we’ve lived in the USA, since coming back from overseas, about 1% of the high graduates actually went to college, and those colleges were community college and the smaller local branches of the state universities, and even fewer of that 1% actually graduated.

We’ve seen some pretty abject things, but this was shocking. After 12 years of public school, entire towns of Americans not prepared for upper level study or having the means in any way to attend.
WHat HAPPENED to this country in the past thirty years??? 99% of the school admin and staff vote DEMOCRAT. THEY took the money and didn’t TEACH useable skills to people who needed it the most to get ahead.

#OWS is a vicious tantrum of the rich. Just like they’ve said, the 2% against the 1%, screw the actual 99%.

This woman is a greedy, selfish slug.
#14 January 28, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Eddie Willers commented:

What Chutzpah
#15 January 28, 2012 at 2:21 pm
BurmaShave commented:

“Multimillionaire Leftist Elizabeth Warren Says She’s Not Wealthy”

What she means is “not wealthy enough”

Please send $$$ to “Elizabeth Warren 4 Senator” and get lots of free Kool-aid in return.
#16 January 28, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Adi commented:

Please send your fair share to E. Warren, she knows better than you what to do with it.

And no, living in a $5 mil mansion is not “rich”; it is common sense. We are talking after all about *the* Elisabeth Warren and we all know she *deserves* it.

It she who did her fair share for the greater good, while the rest of us didn’t.
#18 January 28, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Ed Y. commented:

The reason why she doesn’t think she’s wealthy is because her friends and colleagues make 10 times what she does. No, Lizzie, you are not middle-class. You don’t have to worry about how you’re going to pay your mortgage or provide health care for your family. You get to sit in your ivory tower and drink exotic coffee with your elitist friends while the rest of us “rabble” have to deal with the real world. You, madam, are a fraud and if there’s any justice all those Occupiers you’ve been praising will hurl that crap right back in your face.
#19 January 28, 2012 at 5:26 pm
tioedong commented:

She has a five million dollar house? Well, let’s have a photo. In Boston, where houses are overpriced, this might not be as bad as a five million dollar house in (for example) Oklahoma City. Is it a farm or business? (Our house here is huge because 90 percent of it is actually business related uses).

On the other hand: Compare and contrast: Kim Kardashian’s 4.5 million dollar house in Beverly Hills where housing is also pretty high.link.
#20 January 28, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Claire commented:

I heard it as her saying she isn’t one of them that has stock portfolios, not that she’s not wealthy.

“There are wealthy people (I’m not one of them) who have stock portfolios.”

If she’s wealthy and doesn’t own stock, how else would she have phrased it?
#22 January 29, 2012 at 6:23 am
RoveBot commented:

Your just all really poor and arguing not to tax her though right ? lmaooooo
#23 January 29, 2012 at 6:24 am
RoveBot commented:

This is not real news either. It’s propaganda to get oyu to vote against your own wallets. It’s working btw !!!
#24 January 29, 2012 at 7:32 am
Deborah commented:

Guess if you tell a lie often enough it will become the truth.
#25 January 29, 2012 at 8:15 am
Shawn commented:

All the leftys are hypocrites. do as i say not as i do.